Theme: Eclectic

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

The theme for the TEDxGLIMChennai 2017 conference was "Eclectics", where speakers from diverse backgrounds discussed on groundbreaking ideas that could reshape tomorrow's landscape. For more details on TEDxGLIMChennai 2018, visit https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/26364

Lake Manasorvar
Great Lakes Institute of Management, East Coast Road, Manamai Village
Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, 603102
India

Bosskey

Film Actor

Bosskey is an Indian film actor, Radio Jockey, Television anchor, stand-up comedian and film critic working in the Tamil film and media industry. He has anchored TV shows such as Hari Giri Assembly and Siri Giri Station.

Abhishek Anand

Animation Dancer

Abhishek has been winner at BOUNCE 5 and Bounce 6 consecutively as a solo contestant in Open competition, Bangalore 2015 & 2016,one of the Top 5 dancers from Karnataka get selected for ABCD2 movie promotion (BCD event),Judged by Prabhu deva,varun dhawan and shradha kapoor Also got selected for all India dance championship from Bangalore. He also got Award On my very first performance in that show (Man of the series award in solo category, and Spicy performance of the day award). He was one of the top 9 Contestant in D3 D4DANCE Reality show.

Amitesh Pandey

Student Speaker

Amitesh Pandey, a 27-year-old Engineer is a firm believer in the power of nature and the strength of human emotions. He is an avid sports enthusiast and a voracious reader. He believes that books are the best teachers, second to Life.Some of his achievements include presenting a Research paper at a IETE conference, He was also chosen as one among 1000 Young Leaders at Tech Mahindra – an organisation he worked for previously. He has a passion for public speaking and hopes to bring a change in people’s minds with path-breaking ideas.

Marta Vanduzer – Snow

PhD (Philosophy) Student + Social Worker

Marta Vanduzer – Snow is a PhD student from the US working in villages in Uttar Pradesh, India for the last four years in the areas of education, health care, and infrastructure - organic farming, water, power, transport. She is currently exploring the ways in which these three areas overlap, their connections and how collaboration can be leveraged up on - for the greater good. She has been involved in building more than 100 evapotranspiration toilets, one of the area's first permeable roads, solar powered homes, as well as many other projects. These projects have a way of completely changing the whole idea behind thinking and working for social change from a desk.

Mehak Sagar

Entrepreneur

Mehak Sagar is the Cofounder of WedMeGood - India's most popular wedding planning portal. She leads online content, social media and digital marketing of WedMeGood. She has worked for five years in the financial services space with American Express and ICICI as part of their analytics and risk prediction unit.

Mudit Dani

Table Tennis Player

Mudit Dani is an International Table Tennis Player. He has won rich accolades for his country. He has represented India 19 times and won 22 medals for the country (5 Gold, 5 Silver and 12 Bronze). This has led to his all time of number 10 on the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federations) Global Junior Circuit Boys’ Standings. He has represented India twice at the ITTF World Junior Circuit Grand Finals (Invitational tournament for the top 16 players in the world at the end of the year). He finished in the 13th position at both occasions (Asuncion, Paraguay 2015 and Indore, India 2016). He dreams of representing India at the Olympic Games.

R L Shankar

Professor, Great Lakes Institute of Management

Shankar is a full-time Professor of Finance and Analytics at Great Lakes Institute of Management. He offers Masters and Doctoral courses on Risk management, Financial derivatives, Algorithmic Trading, Fixed income and credit markets, Financial Risk Analytics, Financial engineering, Financial modeling etc. He is also a visiting faculty at IIMs such as IIM Kozhikode, IIM Trichy, and IIM Ranchi. Shankar has rich experience in offering customized programs for working executives. He has designed and delivered programs for Bank of America, Genpact, Barclays, Standard Chartered Scope International (India and China), World Bank, ICICI Bank (Treasury), Reserve Bank of India, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited, Sundaram Fasteners etc.