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PSIT Auditorium
NH-2, DELHI-AGRA NATIONAL HIGHWAY, BHAUTI
KANPUR, Uttar Pradesh, 209305
India

Baljinder Singh

Flutist

Baljinder Singh (Ballu) has graduated in Civil Engineering (B.E-Civil) from S.G.S.I.T.S-Indore, he began his career as a Civil Engineer, later he realized that he is not able to satisfy his hardcore musician inside him. The deep seated musician in the 'The melodious Sikh' was restless & struggling hard to surface prominently. During his career as a Civil Engineer his favorite relaxing companion was 'Flute' which facilitated him in releasing all the stress. Baljinder Singh groomed his inner musician under the guidance & inspiration of Shri Gouri Shanker Yadav, a blind Music tutor, within a short span of time Baljinder Singh (Ballu) started proving his metal. Baljinder has been a few Indian flutist who has made a conscious effort to reach out & expand the audience of the ‘Flute’ & aroused interest of the common man in ‘Flute’.

Kaushik Mukherjee

Entreprenuer

An IIM Ahmedabad/BITS Pilani alumnus, Kaushik Mukherjee runs a venture-funded company that owns and operates the popular beauty/grooming brands FAB BAG and SUGAR Cosmetics. At TEDxPSITKanpur 2017, Kaushik will speak about his career that included working in the world's best consulting and investment banking firms and why he gave it all up to start something of his own. More importantly, what he learnt from the highs and lows of his journey so far. Apart from work, he is an amateur endurance athlete and is one of the few Indians to complete the IRONMAN triathlon - a 4km swim + 180 km cycle + 42.2 km run event that is largely regarded as the toughest single-day endurance sporting event. Kaushik resides in Mumbai with his wife Vineeta and son Ranveer.

Madan Mohan Pant

Educationist

Prof. M.M. Pant is promoting the ideation, development, and delivery of educational products, processes, and services for the next generation learning space in the post-Internet post-WTO world. In tune with the emerging Knowledge Economy, he is exploring the creation of quality Knowledge products and ways of enhancing the productivity of Knowledge workers. Drawing on his varied experience over 40 years, in research, teaching, administration and managing Government and private enterprises, he is now on designing and building systems that can meet the challenges of an inclusive education of high quality. Professor Pant has been associated with many educational organizations as a member of committees or working groups, such as the — AICTE, AIMA, CBSE, CEC, EDCIL, EISA, MEDIA LAB ASIA, NCERT, NCTE, NIOS, NUEPA, UGC and several Universities. He has been closely linked with the IIT system, acquiring his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee & has been a faculty member at IIT Kanpur.

Meenakshi Lekhi

Lawyer, Supreme Court of India

Meenakshi Lekhi is a lawyer of Supreme court & socio -political activist. Also an Indian Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from New Delhi constituency.Lekhi has been a part of the Drafting Committees for Bills like 'Women's Reservation Bill' and 'Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill'. The latter was passed by the Parliament as an Act in 2013.Meenakshi Lekhi has been a member of the National Commission for Women's special committee, Chairperson of the Special Task Force on Women Empowerment, Vice Chairperson of JPM, Blind School (New Delhi) and Joint Secretary of the Blind Relief Association, Delhi.

Sameer Gupta

Corporate Professional

Sameer Gupta is the Chairman and Managing Director of Jakson Group, one of the country’s leading and most diversified power companies. Sameer’s leadership and technology insight have strengthened Jakson’s culture of innovation and expanded the company into new markets with a customer inspired product portfolio, value-added services, and global reach. He also led the company to embrace the tenets of sustainable development and environmental protection. Sameer also serves as the Chairman for IGBC Lucknow Chapter.

Shweta Shalini

Entreprenuer

Shweta Shalini is an entrepreneur, an Indian market expert, speaker, philanthropist, youth icon and a thought leader in politics, marketing, technology, design and learning industry. Shweta leads a diverse business portfolio across digital design, training, consulting, business development and defence equipment industry. She has had two successful entrepreneurial ventures - Fortune Cookie Marketing Solutions and Real Time Wave before her foray into politics. An inspiring leader Shweta has always motivated people around her to pursue their dreams and to achieve more than they thought possible. She had been the inspiration of many young women to become founders and respected leaders in their own fields.

Sukant Khurana

Scientist

Dr. Sukant Khurana is a polymath, a neuroscientist and a data scientist who enjoys studying complexity and nuances, whether of brain functioning, drug discovery, development of new statistical tools, or analysing large data sets. He works on drug discovery for various neurological disorders, including alcohol addiction, using plant extracts, peptides, and epigenetic agents. He is both experimentally, theoretically and computationally exploring mechanisms of Parkinson's disease, activity-dependent brain development, sub-millisecond timing computation in the brain, and mechanisms of neuronal plasticity. His data-science work is on two streams: developing novel statistical tools and utilizing data science for biomedical research. Through data science, he works on causes of sustainable development, where he is exploring issues of mental health, addiction, and AIDS epidemic. Instead of restricting himself to basic sciences, Dr. Khurana has been opening startups and working with various comp

Vibhuti Rajyalaxmi Jandev

Social Entreprenuer

She is the founder of THE WINNING EDGE SOCIETY in order to bring together, students, associates and members of the society who sincerely wished to serve the nation and believed in the vision of THE WINNING EDGE. Dedicated 15 years of service to the society through Total personality Development, tutorials, Play School, Soft Skill Trainings, Attitude Creations Pvt. Ltd.(Attitude Group).

Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar

Comedian

Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar, better known as VIP, has been doing stand-up comedy and other shows since the last 14 years. His forte is mimicking people and voice modulation. The biggest dream in his life is to enter the Guinness Book of Records for his penchant to imitate animal voices. In 2008, VIP won the second season of the comedy reality contest show Comedy Circus on Sony TV with his partner Juhi Parmar. As of 2010, he is a contestant in the fourth season of the show along with his partner Swapnil Joshi.The same duo were finalists in the first season of the show in 2007. VIP is well known for his mimicry. He can do instant mimicry of more than 50 actors of Bollywood. The duo of VIP and Swapnil Joshi were finalists in the first season of the show in 2007. VIP is well known for his mimicry. He can do instant mimicry of more than 150 actors of Bollywood.