Theme: For the future...

We are advancing very fast, progressing day and night by leaps and bounds. But have we tried to ensure it as a sustainable one? Have we thought that maybe it wasn’t setting the right example for the people following? How can the story reach right audiences for a more compounded impact in the society?
The best way to share such thought provoking ideas is a platform which aims to spread these for making a difference. TEDxIBABangalore is one such initiative under the TED umbrella which believes that for a brighter future, advancement & progression with a sustainable approach has to reach the masses.

So come and share, Experiences & stories…
That set a better example, FOR THE FUTURE…

Indus Business Academy
Indus Business Academy, Lakshmipura
Thataguni Post, Kanakapura Main Road
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560062
India

Apoorva B V

Engineer and Professional Beekeeper/Entrepreneur

Apoorva found his passion in Bee-Keeping while studying Mechanical Engineering at Chitradurga and there on became a professional beekeeper & entrepreneur 8 years ago. He travels often across the country to create a network of Bee-Keepers with best practices, facilitating technology transfer to the communities belonging to grass root level. His on-field technical proficiency about bees and beekeeping is recognised by many Agricultural and Horticutural Universities, NGOs, Tribal communities and Farming communities across the country. He has worked with Dept. of Horticulture, Govt.of Karnataka, as a consultant to implement Bee-Keeping programs in the state. Through "The Hive Trust" (NGO, Incepted in 2010), Apoorva conducts various training programs in Bee-Keeping & has also presented white papers in seminars, emphasising on initiation of more research projects involving Bees & Honey and other Bee-Hive products.

Dilip Jain

Professional - Entrepreneur - Educationist

A professional turned entrepreneur turned educationist, Dilip interned at SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh) during his MBA from SP Jain Institute (SPJIMR) in 2004. Since last 3 years, he has worked closely with Mr. Sonam Wangchuk (inspiration behind character of Phunsukh Wangdu in 3 idiots) from the start of Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier project and conceptualization of Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL). At the age of 37, Dilip is the youngest founding member of HIAL. Also a certified CA, Dilip worked in corporate sector for 7 years in senior management roles before he joined his family business and was instrumental in its 5 fold growth to no.1 position in the industry. Parallely, he co-founded a real estate company in JV with a PE fund and has completed 150 acres of projects. With adventure sports & trekking as his hobbies, Dilip launched Me Too Kids Adventure Club, that provides experiential learning to kids by taking them closer to nature

Dr. Sripriya Venkiteswaran

Nutritionist

Dr. Sripriya is a follower of all things nutritious for the last two decades. What started off as a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition was followed up by a PG Diploma in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics and then a PhD in Nutritional Sciences. Her interest and passion for the molecular aspects of nutrition were ignited during her PhD from Rutgers University. Dr. Sripriya’s core strength comprises of an in-depth understanding of nutrition at the molecular and genome level. Over the years, she has a diverse work experience and has worked in the fields of enteral and parenteral feeding, hospital nutrition, cancer research, systems biology, drug discovery, nutrition education and nutritional marketing. She has also been instrumental in the design and creation of a global post-graduate certificate program in pediatric nutrition for pediatricians and other medical personnel that is currently live in about 20+ countries.

Harit Soni

Director - Ecolibrium energy

Entrepreneur at heart and an Energy technologist by passion, Harit is the Director of Ecolibrium Energy - one of the fastest growing Industrial IOT Company in the developing world, with a focus on improving energy efficiency in the Industrial and Utility sector using Big data analytics. Ecolibrium is a pioneer of the field with headquarters in India. Its investors include IFC (World Bank), and Infuse Ventures. Harit has nearly a decade of experience in Operations, Consulting, Clean energy, Energy Efficiency and Industrial IOT, and has previously worked at various organizations in the area of strategy consulting. Known as an innovator who has played a significant leadership role in India's Smart Grid and Energy Management Sector, Harit is also awarded by MIT under the TR 35 Award recognizing key innovators under the age of 35. Harit is passionate about starting, building, and leading ventures with a fundamental commitment to using technology for Impact.

Mohammed Shammas Oliyath

Software Engineer - Singer - Social Media Hoax Slayer

Professionally, Shammas is a software engineer working as India Team Lead of IBM’s Mainframe Architecture Assurance System. Born in a musical family, music was his passion so he joined an online forum of old Hindi song lovers called Bhoole Bisre Geet (BBG, http://bhoolebisregeet.in) and performs with them as a singer for Mukesh and Talat Mahmood songs. An avid user of social media, Shammas also co-founded Check4spam (http://check4spam.com) in 2015, an online service to fact check posts circulating on social media. Donning different hats with ease, Shammas believes that finding time to do all this is all about priorities and within everyone’s capability.

Natasha Singh

New Media Artist & Co-Founder - Timeblur

Natasha is a new-media artist and co-founder of Timeblur. Her work explores the Human-computer interaction and New-Media technologies, inspired from the natural processes and dynamic systems. Nadi, is one such work produced by her team that explores the kinetics of the body involved in Yoga using motion tracking techniques. She is working for conserving the practices of India's ancient practices like Yoga by digital means. Finding unique patterns in data form and creating signature styles with digital footprint is her and her team’s motivation. Another work the team is thrilled about is Sound and Structure, an interactive tool to generate audio-visual experiences. Tiniest change in the shape creates a huge impact on the soundscape it generates. Her work is a new perspective towards future and an innovation in technology to create platform for storytelling data. Her work has been featured in the Discovery Channel and the Creators project, and as a part of Future Homes by Vice China.

Patruni Chidananda Sastry

Analyst - Classical Dancer

Patruni is a Classical dancer who loves to perform in boardrooms and business meetings. He believes in channeling his dancing urges in order to produce unique footsteps. His inspiration for work resides in the miracle of life and interest to learn more. Working as an Analyst in Deloitte, Hyderabad, his work makes him relate business with dance, which allows his perspective as an artist to remain contemporary yet traditional. Dance is the means with which he battles against the complexity of numbers and offers new ways to visualize the data to his clients. He is also an activist for LGBTQQIA rights and equality.

Preethi Srinivasan

Inspirational speaker & Founder of Soulfree

Preethi was a state champion in swimming & cricket, from the age of 8 until 18 until a freak accident left her quadriplegic. Exceptional in academics as well, she was one of the top 2% of American students in 1996, but was denied admission in a long-distance learning program in India after the accident. It took another decade, in which Preethi transformed into a spiritually awakened being and reached a state of equipoise that now allows her to smile even in heart wrenching circumstances. Having completely embraced her role as an instrument of the divine, Preethi now seeks to spread love, light and laughter in the world, as she sees this as her purpose in life. After learning about other women with spinal cord injury who are forced to commit suicide by their own families, she began Soulfree, an organisation that is working to spread awareness about spinal cord injury and to help reintegrate affected people into mainstream society.

Subhashish Panigrahi

Founder - OpenSpeaks

Subhashish is an Openness advocate, educator & public speaker, and the founder of OpenSpeaks, an open and collaborative project to grow openly-licensed resources and digital documentation of marginalized languages. The project won him the MJ Bear Fellowship in 2017 and is partly supported by the National Geographic Society. He currently leads the Chapter Development of Internet Society in Asia-Pacific prior to which he spent a decade growing the Wikimedia and Mozilla communities across Asia both as a volunteer and a community manager. Subhashish is also an advisor to the Digital Language Diversity Project (DLDP), an Erasmus+ project; former Community Moderator of Opensource.com; Lingua Editor of Global Voices Odia; Ambassador for India at OpenGLAM Local; apart from being a long time Wikipedia and Mozilla contributor. Subhashish is the author of the Chapter “Rising Voices: Indigenous language Digital Activism” in Digital Activism” in Digital Activism in Asia Reader.

Sudhanshu Kaushik

Founder - Young India Foundation

Sudhanshu is a graduate student at the University of Oxford. As a passionate advocate for youth rights, he started Young India Foundation, India’s first youth-oriented consulting and advocacy group, which works to align India's policy towards sustaining India's young demographic. He is the author of The Forgotten State: Haryana’s Dichotomy in the 21st Century (releasing in 2018). He has worked for India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations under the guidance of First Secretary Mr. Abhishek Singh and Permanent Representative Mr. Asoke Mukerji. Working for CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, his pitches were accepted and aired for the show and for CNN's South Asia bureau. Sudhanshu was named for two consecutive years on International Literary Association's 30 Under 30 list and Washington Square Park's 2016 Up and Comers. He also received a fellowship from the South Asian Journalist Association; a 2016 fellow at the Gallatin Human Rights Fellowship and has delivered a talk at TEDxNYU in 2015.