Theme: Vision 2020: Looking Ahead

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Media Center, Siddaganga Institute of Technology
Siddaganga Institute of Technology, B.H Road
Tumkur, Karnataka, 572103
India

Archana | Shivani | Sushma | Sannidhi

Dance Troupe

Studying engineering, four girls joined together to perform a dance on women empowerment.

Ardhra Sajan

Flute Beat Boxer

Ardhra is a beat boxer with the ability to produce beats simultaneously from her vocal cords and instruments like flute and harmonica.

Avelo Roy

Tech Entrepreneur and Investor

Avelo Roy started his first startup at 19 while still a student at Illinois Institute of technology and scaled it to a million dollar valuation by the time he was 22. He has won more than 14 business plan competitions in the US and Canada. He as been honoured by the California state, Senate being invited to speak at a White House Panel for entrepreneurship education. Avelo's latest company is Kolkata Ventures promoting entrepreneurship in eastern India. He owns his accomplishments to strong spiritual foundation and strength of meaningful relationships.

Binay Kumar

Permaculturist

Binay Kumar Singh is the Head of Permaculture at the Art of Living, Bangalore. Permaculture is an agricultural practice in which the method of farming is inspired by the nature. It is a nature-centric system in which observations made by natural occurrences is utilized to develop the agricultural ecosystem. Binay Kumar, also called as the Man on the Bus has devoted himself to practice and spread the art of Permaculture which in his words is " Mimicking the Nature".

Dhanush Devang

Youth Influencer

Dhanush Devang is an engineering student who started Super Youth, an organisation which aims to deepen true values and ethics in the roots of young school children. He majorly speaks to motivate the young minds to bring the best out of them, which makes them self dependent from a young age. The motto behind founding Super Youth is to bring in a cleaner society with ethics and morals. It is a platform for every individual young student to dig deep into the quest of self and be successful in the future and resourceful to the society they live in.

Dr. Shyam Vasudeva Rao

Healthcare Innovator

Dr Shyam Vasudeva Rao, a leading entrepreneur and healthcare innovator holds a doctorate in Real Time Embedded Systems, specialising in Parallel Computer Architecture from Indian Institute of Science and has secured a gold medal in it. He was instrumental in devising one of the first hardware based antivirus solution - KNOX CARD, in the 90s. He is serving as the director of FORUS, an health technology delivering care with a goal of eradicating avoidable blindness. They develop and manufacture highly advanced medical devices, designed for the effective management of visual health in 26 countries with around 2200 installations and 2.5 million lives touched. He works to make healthcare affordable.

Dr. Y S Rajan

Scientist, Professor and Administrator

Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan is an Indian professor, scientist and administrator. He is Honorary Distinguished Professor in ISRO.He has made major contributions to various aspects of management of Science, Technology and Innovation. In 2012, he was awarded with Padma Shri for his contribution in Science and Engineering.He is one of the well known scientists, who has closely worked with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He is the Author of India 2020 and Beyond 2020, a well known book co-authored by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India

Karthik ( Mercy)

Rapper and Vocalist

Know as Mercy, Karthik founded his own music production. He is a vocalist, lyricist and a rapper. He raps in local language and has become a YouTube Sensation.

Meghana and Gunamrit

Music Band

Two people, one from South India and other from North India met at college and stated performing on stage. Meghana and Gunamrit have performed in many university events.

Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh

Para Swimmer

Mohammed Shams Aalam Shaikh para-athletic model who proudly holds "Limca book of world record" of longest open swim by a paraplegic person despite of the failure of his lower back . He not only concentrated on his achievements but also has encouraged many para swimmers to achieve their goals. Shams was selected for Global sports Mentor-ship 2018. He was among the 18 delegates selected all round the world to stay and get training in USA. He has won 15 International Medals, 4 gold medals, 2 records and 1 Asian Ranking. "Accessibility through sports " is his main motive. Presently he is focused to participate in the 2020 Paralympics.

Piali Bopanna

Debater

Piali Boppana is a well known debater who has been a part of Parliamentary Debate Tournaments at National and International level. She is one half of the first all female team to qualify for an International tournament .Piali qualified for the Asian British Parliamentary Debate, Hanoi 2018. She has been elected to core the Asian championship in Malaysia next year (ABP 2020). She won several National debate tournaments including the Ramaiah Round Robin, 2018 and the Justice Tarkunde Debate 2019 and has been the best speaker at tournaments at PES, Christ and Ramaiah. She has been a core adjudicator at tournaments all over India (from Chennai, to Kolkata, to Delhi to Gujarat). She currently works at Bosch Limited and mentors students to develop their skills.

Shweta Kothari

News Presenter and Journalist

Shweta Kothari is a broadcast turned Digital Journalist, currently the Managing editor at The Logical Indian. She started her career about 6 years back with the BBC in Scotland, after finishing her post-graduation in multimedia journalism from the University of Sussex. She was previously a news anchor and senior correspondent with NewsX. At NewsX, she hosted the morning prime time show ‘8 Straight’ and also launched the business show, ‘BusinessX’. She is currently managing the Newsroom operations at India’s most trusted digital media organisation which is public-spirited media platform that selectively chooses stories that are worthy of public attention and in the interest of the nation.

Shweta Ratanpura

Graphics Designer

A recent graduate from the National Institute of Design, Shweta is a 22 year old Graphics Designer who became the first ever Indian Woman to win a medal at the World Skills International Competition. She believes this will inspire more people to explore unconventional career options and help spread awareness about the importance of skill based roles in India. Right from school days, she has been actively involved in group activities, sports and various competitions. She has also studied abroad under a student exchange program during college and competed in several different countries which gave her an opportunity to interact with various people from across the world. She is an avid traveler and enjoys learning about different cultures,traditions and crafts. She believes this reflects and helps her in her work as a designer.

Swami Veereshananda Saraswati

Monk

Swami Sri Veereshananda Saraswati of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashrama, Tumkur is a monk who believes that "We can achieve anything if our faith is strong".

Visalini K

Indian Prodigy

K Visalini is an enthusiast and passionate researcher currently working in the field Artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience Virtual reality and Autonomous Navigation. She has achieved 5 world records, 13 International certificates. She was honored by Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, twice honoured by the former President of India late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. She was the "Youngest" Google and TEDx speaker. Addressed as Keynote speaker for 14 international conferences in the domain of Artificial intelligence , computer networking and cloud computing including Google India Summit and 3 three ted conferences. Upon the invitation from director of ISRO she delivered a lecture to 700+ scientists on the topic " Big Data and AI.