Theme: Trailblazers

The city of gates gracefully blends the essence and beauty of Ajanta-Ellora with the Mughal architecture standing strong to its witness. From town to Industrial Megacity lie trails of valor and never-ending innovations.

MGM's JNEC is woven with silver threads of harmony in the golden hearts of people. It has been an incubator and abode of trailblazing experiences where exceptions are cultivated and ideas are decorated.

We are trailblazers.

We are TEDxJNEC.

Rukhmini Auditorium .
Aryabhatta Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College ,N-6 Cidco
Training and placement cell ,Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, N-6 Cidco
Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 431003
India

Aditya Kulkarni

Aditya Kulkarni is developing mobile health solutions to help reduce maternal and child mortality in areas with limited health resources. He is the co-creator of CareMother, a mobile and online platform that connects health workers to gynecologists and empowers them to carry out regular doorstep antenatal check-ups to pregnant women in any setting. The app enables women to monitor their pregnancy, health workers to early identify any potential or emerging high-risk complications and gynecologists to schedule timely interventions or follow ups. Within the last two years, Aditya and his team have worked with more than 15 organisations and provided affordable care to more than 30,000 pregnant women in over 800 villages in India, Bangladesh and Kenya. CareMother has also created more than 100 jobs for health workers and has led to significant improvements in how antenatal care is delivered at a grassroots level. He has been honoured with Queen’s Young Leaders award 2018 for his contribution in bringing about social change within communities.

Ameya Bondre

Ameya Bondre is a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) graduate from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, with medical training (MBBS) from Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai. He is a Global Health Field Placement fellow at Hopkins, with more than seven years of research experience, with trials, cross-sectional studies, surveys and qualitative research in diverse urban and rural regions of India, and sub-Saharan Africa (Rwanda). One of his projects, involved creation of a counselling tool for 45 health workers to improve infant nutrition and care practices in 60 villages of Haryana. He specializes in quantitative (Stata& SPSS) and qualitative data analysis (Nvivo), as well as training and supervision of community health workers. He has co-authored several papers, published in peer-reviewed journals in maternal and child health, nutrition, and neurodevelopment. He has been instrumental in drafting the national consensus guidelines on the management of childhood developmental disorders, published in 2017 by the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, which are the first such guidelines in Asia. Currently, he works as Head of Clinical R&D, with CareNX (IIT-Bombay), where he is creating a prediction tool for anticipating preterm labour and low birth weight, in more than 30,000 pregnant women, so that women at-risk receive focused and timely antenatal care.

Jagannath Patil

Dr. Jagannath Patil is the immediate Past President of Asia Pacific Quality Network [APQN], the largest regional network of QA bodies from over 50 countries. An internationally recognized quality assurance professional, Dr. Patil serves as Advisor at National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India. As the longest serving President and elected Board member of APQN for over 3 terms, JP has made stellar contribution in building APQN as one of the world’s most respected QA organisation in higher education. Besides being the first Indian national to head APQN, he was also an elected president of global quality network - INQAAHE in 2015-2016, being the first Asian expert to become INQAAHE President. He is also the founder Chairperson of Asia Pacific Quality Register [APQR]. As the Convenor of first Global Summit on Quality higher education with 16 international partners organised by NAAC and APQN which culminated in historic Bengaluru Statement 2016 on Next- generation Quality assurance in Higher education, Dr JP has played key role in placing NAAC and India prominently on global quality scenario.

Nipun Vinayak

Dr NipunVinayak believes that good governance is about the 3Ps – Passion, Participation and Partnership. Calling himself a ‘participative and facilitative development learner’, he cherishes engagement of people in various development projects. He joined the IAS in 2001 after an MBBS with gold medals from Government Medical College. During his training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, he got many awards including the ‘Director’s Best All Round Trainee Award’. His professional achievements include the recommendation of his work as CEO Zilla Parishad, Jalna for ‘Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration’ by Government of Maharashtra and first prize in the State in ‘Rajiv Gandhi Abhiyaan for administrative reforms’. The Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) led by him in Nanded emerged as the only city in India to have carried out sanitation using the CLTS approach. During his tenure as CEO Zilla Parishad, Jalna, the district moved up in education status from amongst the lowest in the State to the top. His initiatives were carried out in the public health sector, which reduced the infant mortality rate by close to 50 per cent in two years. Dr NipunVinayak is recognized as a sanitation champion, both nationally and internationally and has promoted community approaches in sanitation in his various roles in the rural areas (as CEO, Zilla Parishad, Jalna) and in urban areas (as Municipal Commissioner, Nanded). He has authored two books titled ‘Gramodaya’, published by UNICEF India and ‘Beyond Sanitation’, on innovations in education and health, and sanitation respectively.

Parwati Dutta

There are artists who travel the world, win laurels, bring glory to their art form, produce innovative choreography, build a community of competent students and then there are those who do all of the above and also create institutions with a purpose and Parwati Dutta is one such gem. An intuitive dancer, choreographer and arts administrator, she underwent rigorous training in Kathak and Odissi under the aegis of foremost proponents such as Pt. Birju Maharaj, Pt. Kelucharan Mohapatra and Guru Madhavi Mudgal. She excels in Kathak as well as Odissi and performs to promote the dance forms and also to enrich the lives of the less fortunate. Based in Aurangabad, she is a mixed bag of cultures, studies and art forms. Her journey has been strewn with numerous challenges, some constructive while the rest very bitter, to create Mahagami, regarded as one of the premier dance gurukuls in the country also recognized by UNESCO. Over the past twenty years, Mahagami has shaped into a nurturing performing arts space which trains talent from various parts of Marathwada and successfully birthed a culture of dialogue and critical enquiry around the performing arts through workshops, performances, artist-in-residence programmes, summer camps and specially curated dance events. Her passion for teaching and academic research further strengthened her understanding of form and evolved newer insights into the vocabulary of dance. Her work ever since has reverberated with fresh ideas unravelled through painstaking research into some of the most definitive musicological treatise such as SangitaRatnakara. From Tagore to Odiya poetry to the sculptures of Ellora caves, her choreographic universe is eclectic.

Sameer Kelkar

Sameer Kelkar, CEO and R&D head of Grindmaster company, is one of the most dynamic personality of this city. He likes to take audacious challenges, putting in anything that is required to complete it, thus making it a surprising, thrilling and knowledgeable one. Spontaneity, Innovation, Dedication and Focus drive him to excel in various projects and assignments that he works on. He has learnt many lessons from different places, from exposures in high-tech industries in Switzerland to the ice-capped nirvana of the Himalayas. His chosen field is a highly advanced technical field with a far reaching vision to build an organization of excellence. There is a very broad canvas of locales and adventure activities that Sameer has for sharing, to show that ambitions should never be small.

Shreya Rao

Crowns aren’t made of rhinestones, they are made of discipline, determination and a hard to find alloy called courage. Shreya Rao Kamvarapu stood as the second runner-up in Miss India 2018. Her family was initially scared to send her into the beauty pageant competition, but last year when a friend insisted she auditioned. Shreya did not think she would make it, but breaking all the stereotypes she went ahead to gain an experience, auditioned for the title and eventually made it. An architect by profession she aspires to bring a change in the education system to engrave the right basics in the generations to come because poverty is not being without money, but being without hope. At least 70 million individuals worldwide have Autism, 10 million in India itself. It is a serious, incurable mental disorder that hampers one's ability to interact and communicate. She believes that people with autism are colourful- often very beautiful, and like the rainbow, they stand out. She wishes to set up autism centres after seeing the lack of knowledge & awareness in the country, making her the perfect epitome of beauty with brains.