Theme: Catalyst

A human mind is known to have emotions, thoughts and ideas which upon exposure to external stimuli set people on the path towards becoming a change maker. All stimuli have a different impact on each individual. Catalyst; an element, a motivation, an instance, a situation that harbours a drive to innovate and elevate. In spite of people’s status in society, everyone wants to contribute to the betterment of society and induce change. TEDxHindujaCollege aims to give these change makers a platform. After withstanding shortcomings one faces, there comes a tipping point that drives an individual to take action. It's about the spark that inspires and electrifies an individual to ideate, innovate and impact the society for good.

12 Speakers and 1 Performer will take you to a roller coaster ride of breathtaking ideas, innovation, thoughts, stories and experiences throughout the entire day. Come and be a part of our journey to bring a change in this world. Because - Change is necessary. Change is pervasive.

Sheth Gokuldas Tejpal Auditorium
Tejpal Rd, Near August Kranti Maidan, Babulnath, Gowalia Tank, Tardeo, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400007
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400007
India

Antoine Lewis

Food and Wine writer

Antoine Lewis has been an independent food and wine writer for the past 20 years. Throughout his career he has eaten at, and written about, most of Mumbai’s restaurants. His ideas of food and cooking varies from others. Unlike most people who become engrossed in origins, he believes it's taste that matters and not authenticity.

Arav Hak

Child Prodigy

12 year old, Arav Hak has been successful in raising 25 lakhs for children suffering from cancer. He was 13 when he took up the challenge of helping others. Some run for fitness, some run to fit into a pair of jeans and some for varied reasons, but have you met someone who runs to raise funds?aravhak@gmail.com

Aseem Trivedi

Indian political cartoonist| activist| poet

Aseem Trivedi is a cartoonist, activist, poet and public speaker. He is known for his anti corruption campaigns. He’s the founder member of Save Your Voice, a movement against Internet censorship in India.

Devesh Chawla

Innovator|Mentor|Investor|Strategist and founder of Chatur Ideas

Devesh Chawla, Founder of Chatur ideas and an incubator. He created a startup to help startups. It takes a lot of money, power and motivation to start something of your own. But having the right lead towards executing your plans and ideas is what one should be very careful about. A small idea has the power to run miles but what fuels this race is what Mr. Chawla is going to shed light upon.

Dr. Hemlata Pandey

Forensic Odontologist

Dr. Hemlata Pandey is a well-established active practitioner in the field of Forensic Odontology. She has trained extensively with renowned experts in United Kingdom (Wales, UK) during her MSc. in Forensic Odontology. She has brought justice to rape victims through her expert testimonies in the court and, has also helped in CBI investigations.

Dr. Hozefa Bhinderwala

Psychiatrist

Dr. Hozefa Bhinderwala is a leading Psychiatrist from Mumbai with an illustrious career spanned over two decades. He is also the only Indian Author to have written two fully illustrated books on Speed Reading namely, Speed Read, Shloka Publication (2006) and Small Steps to Big Reading, Bloomsbury Publication (2016). Dr. Bhinderwala’s professional motto is to make the layman aware of the abilities of the human brain so that they can harness them to lead fruitful and productive lives.

Dr. Rahul Marathe

Entomologist

An entomologist (branch of zoology which focuses more on insects) by profession. Dr Rahul Marathe a former zoology lecturer, has been a senior manager and head of entomology at ROSS life science. Have you ever wondered how we can eradicate plastic from our system or how insects can actually be useful? Mr. Marathe is here to educate us about the same.

Fahad Ahmad

Student at TISS

Mr Ahmad along with other members of the union led a protest inside the TISS campus over the withdrawal of financial aid for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students, drawing nation wide attention to the cause. He hopes he can challenge the educational system, which he feels is de-stablilizing democracy with it’s policies of saffronisation and privatisation.

Harsh Kedia

A Diabetic Chef

Harsh Kedia, the 22 year old popularly known as the “Diabetic Chef”, who has broken all chains of a diabetic patient and discovered the beauty of FOOD in a new way! Harsh Kedia fell in love with cooking since 3rd grade. Kitchen was his ‘play-ground’. Well his heart was broken when at the age of 15 doctors discovered that he had diabetes hence “do not eat this do not eat that” and so on. That is when he decided he had to change this.

Nash Naubert

American born classical music artist

American born artist Mr. Nash has learnt Indian classical music under an Indian maestro for more than a decade and intends to take Indian classical music to the west at a grand scale. Music has no language and culture has no boundaries.

Rahul Singh

Actor and writer

Regarded among India’s versatile actors, Mr. Rahul Singh has been listed thrice for the national award nominations & twice for TV academy award. He dabbles in both commercial & parallel cinema. Some prominent performances are Karan Johar’s Ghazi Attack, Akshay Kumar's Khiladi 786, Shyam Benegal's Zubeida, Anil Kapoor's 24, Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail, Abhishek Sharma’s Tere Bin Laden.

Rizwan Shaikh

India's renowned Ethical Hacker, Information Security and Cyber Crime Consultant

Rizwan Shaikh is one of the India's renowned Ethical Hacker, Information Security Researcher and Cyber Crime Consultant actively involved in providing Ethical Hacking and Information Security training and services. He is a well recognized security professional with numerous successful engagements to his credit. Rizwan's exceptional ethical hacking expertise is widely recognized in India and abroad, which is reflected in deliverables of numerous workshops, seminars, talks and trainings among a variety of different audiences including colleges, companies, industry meets and government conferences. At Present, Rizwan Shaikh is the Founder of Pristine InfoSolutions, a Cyber Security company based in India specializing in Cyber Crime Investigations, Cyber Law Consulting, Ethical Hacking and Information Security.

Sushil Chaudhary

Founder and CEO - Picturetime Digiplex Pvt. Ltd

An engineer by qualification and a serial tech entrepreneur Mr.Chaudhary is among the pioneers who has played an integral role in making India’s IT capability presence felt in Latin America. He created the first mobile and portable e-cinema which he also used to spread awareness campaigns.