Theme: Breaking the Mould

TEDxNITW is the independently organized event operated under the license obtained from TED, but is based on guidelines laid down by TED. It is conducted and hosted by NITW. At TEDxNITW, we hope to integrate this to deluge our neighbouring ring with notions it had never been exposed to before, so as to facilitate dialogue and deliberations.

Our mission is to revolutionize the way people converse and broadcast ideas by speakers from various walks of life. We aim to inspire, motivate, and above all, instigate conversation which add to everyday life.

New Conference Hall
National Institute of Technology Warangal
WARANGAL, Andhra Pradesh, 506004
India

Ajit Babu

Ajit is the founder and CEO of a company called 'Karwahn Concepts', a handicrafts company that trains people with disabilities to make wood and steel art, which adds the little extra every houses' interior needs. He also had three other start-ups to his credit. Ajit was diagnosed with cerebral palsy – a condition that leads to movement disorder. Ajit, however, never let this disability define him. From being a curious child to a successful entrepreneur, he had a very eventful life. He built a power bank that would run on an efficient solar panel, which is affordable and can be charged quickly for a longer time to help earthquake victims. He is an eloquent speaker and has broken the mould throughout his life, and continues to be an inspiration.

Archana Karry

An epitome of Grace and Élan, Archana truly lives up to the brigade of ‘New Age’ Dancers, having rendered performances to Best of Both Worlds – Art Connoisseurs and Corporate Crème de la Crème in India and abroad. Her credentials of being a Post Graduate in Bharatanatyam from the renowned institute of Kalakshetra (Rukmini Arundale’s Kalakshetra College of Fine Arts, Chennai) led her to believe that Dance is not only an eloquent art form but is also an effective tool to explain corporate doctrines. A pioneer in conceptualizing ‘Leadership in Dance’, she runs her own Academy – ‘Manjeeram’ in Sainikpuri where she works on ‘Personality Development through Dance’ and delivering traditional concepts with a new dimension of content whilst keeping the technique intact.

Nandita Mukand

Nandita Mukand is a Singapore-based Indian born artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, installation and painting. Her works deal with Nature and Materiality, exploring themes of connection and spirituality from in an urban context. It is the concatenation of city-dwellers and the natural world. Nandita’s spectacular work was most recently exhibited at OpenArt 2017, Orebro Biennale in Sweden and Imaginarium: To the ends of the Earth at 8Q Singapore Art Museum.

Partha Pratim Talukdar

Partha Pratim Talukdar is a man who has immense experience with Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Integration among various other things. He has worked in several big shot companies such as Google and Hewlett Packard. He has won various prestigious awards such as the IBM Faculty Award and the Google Focused Faculty Research Award. If his achievements aren't enough to lure you, we hope his experience is. In the age of exploration, he goes beyond what humans thought was capable and makes it possible. If Breaking The Mould had a human embodiment, this would be it.

Pratap Sriram Sundar

Pratap Sriram Sundar is the CEO and Chief Consultant at Natura Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd. After working as Director of Manufacturing in Innovation Sports, USA for six years, teaching Industrial Engineering for nine years, and receiving training from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, he has gathered immense knowledge and experience in field of Industrial Engineering. He visited more than 300 companies and offered his training and consulting services to about 50 companies in the last 30 years. Nevertheless, he is also a fervent explorer of nature and loves to give talks on them.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga

Arjun Reddy has gained a cult following among youth in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and we thought that our list of speakers would be incomplete without the mastermind behind this critically acclaimed movie - Writer and Director Sandeep Reddy Vanga. From choosing to portray a brilliant medico student with anger management issues, to the rawness that his script contained - all in a directorial debut, surely he has ticked all the boxes of 'Breaking the Mould!

Shikha Pandey

Shikha Pandey was a part of the Indian Women's Cricket team that made the entire nation proud. She was in the team that went to the final of the ICC Women's World Cup 2017. Along with this, she holds a degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Goa College of Engineering. She's the first cricketer to have played both state level and international level whilst hailing from Goa. For her stellar performance in the World Cup, she was felicitated by the Indian Air Force, and is a flight lieutenant. She gave up chances to work in multi-national companies to follow her dreams. In a nation which is obsessed with Men’s Cricket, her effort to bring light to gender equality is the true manifestation of breaking the mould.