Theme: The Small Picture

Welcome to the third edition of TEDxMahindraÉcoleCentrale! With our theme, The Small Picture, get ready to look at details and intricacies that might often be overlooked. Get ready for our amazing speaker lineup and exciting merch!

Mahindra École Centrale
Survey No. 62/1A , Bahadurpalli , Jeedimetla
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500043
India

Arun Daniel Yellamaty

Arun Daniel’s philosophy is about giving back to society. He's the founder of the Youngistaan Foundation, a voluntary NGO that organises and engages with youngsters and socially-aware individuals on the streets of Hyderabad. They spearhead multiple social programmes to make empathetic interventions in areas of homelessness, poverty and hunger. They've also set up programmes to support rural education, and raise gender awareness.

Giridhar Rao

After a childhood of reading science fiction, A. Giridhar Rao did a PhD on SF at University of Hyderabad. This led him to the planned language Esperanto, and later to study multilingualism in society. At Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, he teaches courses on literature in school education, language policy and pedagogy, linguistic human rights, Esperanto and linguistic democracy, and science fiction.

Harish Iyer

Harish Iyer, also known as "Aham", hiyer and "Harrish Iyer" is an Indian equal rights activist. Iyer engages in advocacy for a number of causes, including promoting the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, children, women, animals, and survivors of child sexual abuse.

Kalyani Priyadarshan

Kalyani Priyadarshan is an Indian film actress who appears in the Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil films. After taking bachelor's degree in architecture designing from Parsons School of Design, New York City, she worked as an assistant in the production design of Krrish 3 (2013) and Iru Mugan (2016). She made her acting debut in the 2017 Telugu film Hello for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South and 7th South Indian International Movie Awards.

Mirchi Shezzi

A Chartered Accountant & Company Secretary by qualification, Mirchi Shezzi found her calling as a radio presenter and is one of the most popular RJs of Hyderabad. On her show 'Good Morning Good Morning', she's been entertaining her listeners and talking about issues both major and minor for years.

Rama Mishra

Dr. Rama Mishra, Associate Professor of Mathematics at IISER Pune, specializes in topology, especially knot theory. She is also a visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Boise State University, USA.

Sandeep Jain

Sandeep Jain is the founder and CEO of GeeksforGeeks, a wildly popular blog used by students, professionals and hobbyists alike. A post graduate from IIT Roorkee, he has worked at D.E Shaw and Co. and held a teaching post at JIIT Noida before his latest venture. The blog itself was motivated by a need to help college students with their programming woes, and is now maintained by a core team alongside him.