Theme: Touché - Admiring Excellence

TEDxManipalUniversityJaipur is a one-day event featuring multiple speakers from various domains spanning across Technology, Entertainment, and Design. The event is designed to inspire and get inspired from various stalwarts. TEDxManipalUniversityJaipur remains true to the theme of TED and celebrates ideas worth spreading.
11speakers
11 themes
1 reaction - Touché

Manipal University Jaipur
Manipal University Jaipur
Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007
India

Aabid Surti

Author, Conservationist, Painter

National Award-winning author Aabid Surti has won critical acclaim for multiple creative talents. The list of his creative accomplishments befits half a dozen people rather than one individual.As a screenwriter, he has been associated with directors like Raj Khosla and Raj Kapoor on film projects.As an author his output has been prolific, his oeuvre spanning fiction as well as non-fiction, travelogue as well as children’s literature. He has written 80 books till date, which have been translated into almost every Indian language.As a cartoonist, he created the lovable simpleton ‘Dabbuji’. The highly original and popular cartoon strip has been one of the longest-running comic strips in India, running without a break for over 30 years. He has started the drop dead foundation which is committed to saving water because every drop counts

Chander S Sibal

Healthcare Buisness Expert

Mr. Sibal has been working in health care industry in India since 25 years . Started his career as Service Engineer at Instromedix way back in 1991 then Joined L&T in 1993 , joined GE Healthcare in 1997 worked in various roles for 14 years plus , Joined Samsung Medison as Health and Medical Equipment Business Sales Director for one year and done integration of business with Samsung Electronics. Now he is the Executive Vice President( HOD Medical Division ) at FUJIFILM India since January 2013 . He has a for customer problem solving , making Organizational Structures to get best out of Teams and making long term business relationships. He has built up teams and transformed business from red to green. Mr. Sibal is an alumini of IIM Lucknow( Noida Campus ) , Working Managers Program from 2010-2013 . Integrity, Honesty and Hard work are cornerstones of his success.

Dhiren Kanwar

Chef, CEO, Entrepreneur

An entrepreneurial manager with 27 years of experience in the F&B industry. He has worked with brands like ITC hotel, Taj hotels, Mcdonalds, Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin Donuts, Subway, Barista, Café Coffee Day and Inox to contribute to their market entry strategy. In the past, as an entrepreneur, he has founded and successfully exited a venture and later was in investment advisory as Head of F&B strategy with Future Capital, now Everstone Capital. As President of the All India Ingredient Manufacturers association, he has led several delegations to represent the industry with the India government and contributes in policy making for food regulatory affairs. Currently, with Puratos NV, Belgium, the 2nd largest manufacturer of Bakery ingredients worldwide, to set up their operations in India and South Asia with full P&L responsibility. His forte in building strong relationships across large customers adds a dimension to the swift establishment of entities

Karl Katgara

Producer, creator

Karl Katgara, Creative Director at Culture Machine a digital initiative of which is the overtly famous youtube channel "Being Indian", oversees Content Development and Brand Partnership on the channel. Prior to Culture Machine, he worked as a Director & Creator at some of the most established channels in the country and is the man who created Simi Girebaal and ‘mainduck’ that had an early day digital success with series like Sahi Rishta, Kamini Sutra and Mainduck shorts.

Khurshid Batliwala

Mathematician,Teacher, Speaker, Author, Meditator

With a post-graduate in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Khurshed Batliwala, or "Bawa" as he is fondly called, says that he decided to teach meditation over mathematics. "It was better to teach people meditation and make them happy rather teach mathematics and make them miserable,” he quips.One of the designers of the youth workshop, YES!+ (Youth Empowerment and Skills), he inspires young people the world over, empowering them to lead the lives they want to lead rather than getting stuck with the lives they have to lead!. Khurshed Batliwala conducts interesting workshops such as the Mathemagic, the financial literacy workshop, an introductory workshop on western classical music appreciation. He has recently even put together

Lalit Kundu, Karan Aggarwal

Coder, Software Engineer

Karan Aggarwal,is one of the most highly cited sport programmers in the world, with a red rating in many online competitive grounds.

Pranjal Awasthi

Pranjal was the convener for TEDxManipalUniversityJaipur.

Punit Pania

Stand-up comic, writer, producer

Punit Pania is the single man behind Chalta Hai Comedy – an NGO without foreign funding. He used to have a job, kinda. But he is now coming out of the closet as an artist. Having produced over 200 shows over the past year, Punit is making himself believe that comedy is the answer to a midlife crisis that is waiting to happen. Punit describes himself as a marketing professional by day, a compulsive writer by night and somewhat of a comedian on weekends. Having traveled across 20 states of our great country, Punit peddles suburban philosophy disguised as observational comedy. Fluent in 5 languages, Punit’s ethnic background is a matter of debate that may be settled during his audience interactions. He denies having low self-esteem issues and thinks he is pretty good at writing artist bios in the third person. Punit organizes and hosts all of Chalta Hai’s shows across Mumbai, Pune, Surat and Baroda and has also performed in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Vizag and Goa giving him

Suyash Gabriel

Drummer, Musician

Tarana Marwah

Composer, Songwriter, Keyboardist, Drummer, Komorebi