Theme: Change

TEDxIIITA strives to bring to the audience, ideas that can captivate your imagination, and give you something to think about on your way back home. We hope that the ideas presented through our stage would inspire our community and become the basis of another idea, another story..... another Change.

Main Auditorium
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
Jhalwa, Deoghat
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, 211012
India

Abhishek Acharya

A young illusionist and mind reader who will gave valuable insight into the world of deceptions and illusions.

Raul Villamarin Rodriguez

Criminal Intelligence Officer, Interpol; Co-CEO, IRIANS Research Institute.

Raul Villamarin Rodriguez, Criminal Intelligence Officer at Interpol, rated Asia's Top Expert in the Science of Detecting Deception and among the Top 25 Globally (source: LinkedIn, 2016) is a recognized authority on Deception Detection, Fraud Examination, Business Communication, Fraud Analysis, Emotional Foot-printing, Criminal Profiling and Analytical interviewing. He provides training and consulting services for national law enforcement, Interpol, government agencies, large corporations and firms throughout Europe and Asia. He has relevant experience in several cases regarding renowned criminal and terrorist organisations such as D-Company -South Asia, Boko Haram and ISIS. Alongside, he holds an ample list of clients among corporations and high profile individuals. In addition, he is involved in various international organisations such as Rotaract Club, Rotary International, UN Youth, the European Union and BNI (Business Networking International).

Ritam Banerjee

Based out of Mumbai, Ritam has never quite understood the need to create a niche. Shooting extensively across categories—travel, photojournalism, advertising, interiors, portraits, automobiles, fashion, food—he has always sought inspiration and challenge in variety. Ritam has framed things as disparate as spas and slums, ketchup and cars. Over the last decade, Ritam has worked with corporates and publications across continents. He is also associated with the global agency, Getty Images. Apart from stills, Ritam has been awarded in several International Film Festivals for his cinematography in feature films. He has also been in the news for his theme-based calendars and his exhibitions across the globe.

Subin Balakrishnan

Head, Events at Global Corporate Security at Reliance

Col Subin Balakrishnan has had a distinguished career in the Indian Army. Graduating from the National Defence Academy (NDA) and the Indian Military Academy (IMA), he started out as a commissioned officer in the Maratha Light Infantry Regiment. Subsequently, he volunteered for the Special Forces, (formerly known as the Para Commandos), and after a gruelling selection process, transitioned into this elite outfit. Only 0.3 % of India’s 1.3 million army make it into the Special Forces. Through the early years, he was responsible for planning and leading high risk, intelligence-led combat special operations in diverse theaters such as the jungles of the North East and along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The teams he led and trained have gone on to lead classic surgical strikes across the border. After hanging up his combat boots in 2012, Subin joined the leadership team at Reliance Industries Ltd in a strategic role and and is conducting special operations in the corporate world.

Vikram Sridhar

Performance Storyteller, Story Researcher and Theater Practitioner

He is the co-founder of Tahatto, a Bangalore based award winning theatre group. Tahatto performs regularly in Bangalore and in festivals across India.  He has volunteered and worked with different organizations in the Animal welfare and conservation space from his childhood days .He also consults and works with organizations in the social sector.  He combines the three in his Storytelling to make a difference. An engineer and Management graduate by qualification from premier institutes of India like the IIT , he performs his stories across various spaces and cities in India. "Around the Story Tree" is his initiative to reach out to children and adults from different backgrounds through storytelling, using stories and folktales in a contemporary form as a strong medium for conservation and human relationships to connect listeners to their environment. He is the co-Founder of India’s first Storytelling Society the "Bangalore Storytelling Society".

Vikram Sridhar

An engineering graduate set to revive the Oral storytelling tradition in the contemporary times. He aims to bring the oldest indigenous form of Oral Storytelling in a new and contemporary way to Story lovers and Story listeners within us.