Theme: Ideas for Tomorrow

TEDxIIMBangalore is a confluence of bright minds who are exploring the frontiers of groundbreaking ideas that could reshape India's future. Here, experts and path-makers from diverse backgrounds will inspire us to explore, learn and shape tomorrow's landscape. Ideas for Tomorrow, already in action.

IIMB Auditorium, Academic Area
IIM Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560076
India

Trupthi Shetty and Ankita Shah

Trupthi Shetty is a spoken word poet. She is also a chartered accountant and a consultant at EY. When not crunching numbers, she is weaving words. Ankita Shah, is a spoken word poet, a student of Indian Classical Music and well, a chartered accountant. She is the co – founder of The Poetry Club, Mumbai with Trupthi Shetty, an outfit that encourages poets with everyday jobs to share their poetry with other strangers and poets. Ankita and Trupthi want to create an accessible space for poets in India for them to connect and learn from each other’s writings and experiences, so art gets to venture out of middle class homes and reluctant diaries, into the wide world for all of us to see.

Gerry Martin

Gerry Martin began his career in 1995 at the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, under the inadvertent mentorship of Rom Whitaker. As a young assistant curator, Gerry’s duties covered the care of all the reptiles at the park including the breeding group of king cobras. In 2000, Gerry became National Geographic Channel’s first Indian ‘Adventurer’- a face for the channel in Asia. Just three years later, Gerry gave up television to work in the field of education, helping to build relevant curriculum and enabling children to learn from experiences in the outdoors with an organization called iDiscoveri Education. Today, he combines his various experiences and spearheads work that has conservation focus and implication. He runs projects ranging from community-based, sustainable conservation to snakebite mitigation. To showcase conservation, he began The Gerry Martin Project as a for-profit, responsible, conservation entrepreneurial venture.

M J Akbar

M.J.Akbar is the author of seven internationally acclaimed books on the history of South Asia, the volatile interplay of faith and nationalism on the Indian subcontinent, and conflicts between the Muslim world and the Christian realms. They include India: The Siege Within, an analysis of secessionist threats to India which appeared in 1984 and Nehru: The Making of India, a substantive biography of India's first Prime Minister. Born in 1951, Akbar began his career as a journalist in Times of India, in 1971, and moved quickly to become editor of Onlooker and Sunday in his early Twenties, before launching The Telegraph in 1982, widely recognized as India's first modern newspaper. He launched India's first international newspaper, The Asian Age, in 1994. He has served as member of the committee set up by King Abdullah to draft a ten year charter for Muslim nations on behalf of the OIC, in 2005. He was also a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington.

Ramakrishna N K

Ram is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rang De. He was chosen for the Ashoka Fellowship in 2012 in recognition of Rang De's game-changing efforts to lower the cost of credit. A firm believer in the social business model, he started Rang De in 2008 as a platform to raise social investments for individuals. His conviction that there is a need to lower the cost of micro-credit has been instrumental in shaping Rang De's values and beliefs. Prior to starting Rang De, Ram worked as Principal Consultant for Vignette Europe Limited and has consulted for some of the world's best companies.

Ramya Ranganathan

Dr. Ramya Ranganathan is an Electronics engineer from IIT Madras and holds a PGDM (MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad. Ramya worked in the corporate world with blue chip companies like ICICI, Infosys and Citibank, before she embarked on a quest to learn how she could help people (and herself) flourish better at work. As part of understanding the person-work relationship, Ramya studied organisational behaviour, philosophy and psychology and she has a Masters of Research as well as a Doctorate in Management from London Business School. Ramya is currently a faculty of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at IIM Bangalore and her personal passion is to help people find joy and meaning through their work. For the last 4 years she has designed and taught courses, programs and workshops with this objective to both MBA students as well as working executives. Ramya is also a poetess and you can read her poems online at www.sharingmypoems.blogspot.in

S Anand

Anand is the Chief Data Scientist at Gramener.com. Anand and his team explore insights from data and communicate these as visual stories. He has advised and designed IT systems for organizations such as the Citigroup, Honda, ICICI, IBM, Oracle, RBS, SAP, Tesco, etc. Anand also builds the Gramener Visualisation Server -- Gramener's flagship product. He has an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a B.Tech from IIT Madras. He has worked at IBM, Lehman Brothers, The Boston Consulting Group and Infosys Consulting.