Theme: TEDxVersovaSalon - The Age of Innocence

At #TEDxVersovaSalon we are building a community that comes together to discuss important topics in a safe space. A salon format is an intimate event where a couple of speakers share their ideas and we have an interaction on the theme.

Due to Covid-19 and all of us being at home, we thought this would be the best time to get some phenomenal speakers to your laptop screens for a conversation that might help you feel motivated. The theme for June is THE GREAT RESET. Our speakers will share a moment in their lives when they made a pivot or a reset and changed their trajectory personally or professionally.

Online
Mumbai
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400053
India

Dr Swati Popat Vats

President, Early Childhood Association

Dr Swati Popat Vats is a changemaker and educational activist. A teacher and a fierce administrator, she has worked hard to weave innovative methods of learning and teaching, while obliterating stress in the preprimary education system. She has been assiduous in making sweeping changes in pre-primary education in India, as well as in trying to get all preprimary schools in urban and rural India under the organized umbrella of the Early Childhood Association. The founder director of Podar Jumbo Kids, Swati also heads the Teacher training wing of the company, is a Lead Assurer for the CACHE programme called the Podar Institute of Education, is President of Podar Education and President of Early Childhood Association (India) and the National representative for the World Forum Foundation. As the leader for Asia of the Nature Action Collaborative for Children (NACC) she works tirelessly to ensure that children in India grow up learning to respect nature right from the start.

Pathik Vats

Film Writer and Director

Filmfare Award Winner Pathik Vats was born in Patauda. This Haryanvi village kindled in him the love for nature. Though circumstances forced his family to leave Patauda, he still misses that vastness and the freedom of sailing with the wind. Graduated from Ramjas College, University of Delhi, it was a place that shaped him in every sense- politically, culturally and socially. Participating and winning awards in drama, poetry, debate, radio and television not only earned him pocket money but they ignited in him a burning passion to become a filmmaker. Driven by his desire to see his poetry on celluloid, his sheer grit and effortsbrought him to Mumbai with seven hundred rupees and a pocket full of dreams.