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).

TBD
Lavelle Road, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lavelle Road
Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560001
India

Abhiram Natarajan

Abhiram is a new age village Champion & rural community influencer. A Senior Fellow at 1M1B Foundation, he is a former Teach for India fellow and an Electronics and Instrumentation Engineer. He is been working in the development sector for 5 years and is passionate about bringing a change in the rural communities working with farmers, artisans, weavers, self-help groups and the youth from different villages and has worked on creating various models that would help them get jobs, enhance their income and eventually create a social impact in their community. He was selected as the top fellow to represent his work and the impact he had created in the communities at the Activate Impact Summit held at United Nations Headquarters in New York. He strongly believes in the power of education to bring social change and how staying committed to a cause can bring you wonderful outcome

Balaraman Ravindran

Balaraman Ravindran is the head of one of the largest academic centres on AI, the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, and a professor in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. He is passionate about advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and eventually build complete artificial agents that can co-habit the world with humans. He has worked for more than 20 years on reinforcement learning a paradigm for learning from trial-and-error and continues to be amazed by its potential.

Desmond Nazareth

Desmond Nazareth is the principal founder and MD of Agave India, India’s first and only ruraly based ‘greenfield’ small batch ‘field-to-bottle’ and ‘forest-to-bottle’ craft distillery, using Indian know-how and raw materials. Desmond has been instrumental in formulating the 2018 pot-still based alcohol manufacturing standards in India.

Dr. Bindu Hari

Dr. Bindu Hari, is the Director of The International School Bangalore (TISB), National Academy For Learning (NAFL) and the NPS group of institutions. She is an enthusiastic and dynamic leader, passionate about a modernistic approach to education. Believing in the dictum, ‘Change is the only Constant’, she has metamorphosed the group of NPS schools into a student-centered learning environment, spreading cheer always.

Durgesh Nandhini

Durgesh Nandhini is a zero waste practitioner, minimalist and travel schooling mother of 2 daughters.

Joyeeta Das

Joyeeta Das, leads the Education & Skill development initiatives in IBM Corporate Citizenship in India/South Asia. She is passionate about skilling youth and teachers who she thinks will make a better place for us in future. She has worked extensively in the field of education transformation primarily on strategy, policy, operational excellence, program design with multiple stakeholders for large scale education models in science and technology. She has made significant contribution by creating social-impact with technology in both corporate and public-sector fields. She is particularly skilled in secondary and post secondary education, higher education, environment, entrepreneurship and start up ecosystem in skill building; and governance within federal and state government partners in India, across the geos and multi lateral agencies. Prior to joining IBM, she was with development sectors, a CSR consultant and worked with a large corporation on education transformation.

Lakshya Subodh

Lakshya Subodh is a student of Delhi Public Schools (DPS), Bangalore East. This 15 year old teenager is the youngest speaker at the World Bank IMF conference, held in October 2018 at Bali. Lakshya is the founder of Igniting Dreams, an out of the classroom initiative inspired from sports to support youth find their passion and choose happy careers. He is a youth advocate for the UN Sustainable Development Goals and has delivered a talk at the United Nations headquarters in New York. This young impacter is also a budding footballer & was the goalkeeper of the Karnataka State Football team in 2017!

Nikita Nambiar

Nikita Nambiar is a 15-year-old 10th Grader at The International School Bangalore. She is a 1M1B future leader whose work with incarcerated women has given her the opportunity to speak at the United Nations headquarters and at the 2018 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group held at Bali, Indonesia. She aspires to create a social change and redefine the way the incarcerated around the globe are perceived through her project - “The Project Fresh Start ”, a Non-profit Organization which uses art as a platform to bridge the gap between punishment and parole for incarcerated women. She believes that resiliency and wellness can eliminate recidivism and aims to transform the incarcerated through Tanjore art.

Prakriti Srivastava

Prakriti Srivastava, is the country director of Wildlife Conservation Society-India. With a Master’s Degree in Zoology from Delhi University and close to 30 years of experience in the field, Prakriti is an expert in policy matters relating to forests, wildlife and biodiversity conservation in India.

Rakesh Tiwari

Rakesh Tiwari, describes himself as a BPO professional who Rhymes as well, works to pay monthly rent & has stories to tell! A regular at UnErase Poetry, his poetry videos have gathered more than 500K views! Rakesh has been in to writing since 2008 and performing on stage from the past 4 years. He is fond of presenting stories in the form of rhymes and has authored a book "Udhaar ka lifafa" which is one of the top 5 bestsellers in Kindle Paid Hindi Short Stories. He has been featured on the TV show - " Kaviyon ka swag " aired on all digital platforms and has spoken at "Times Literature 2018" festival. rakesh was awarded poet of the year 2017-2018 at MAP festival Navi Mumbai, 2018 and have been a Performer Poet & featured artist for "jashn-e-Rekhta" , "YourQuote-Language Festival", Planet radio city Freedom awards, and Open Mic, Kala Ghoda Arts festival, IIT Mumbai-Kharagpur-Delhi, Kavyahotra poetry Marathon.

Rupert Picardo

Rupert Picardo is the founder and director of d’frens Consulting, an employee experience and team building organisation founded in 2005. Recently, Rupert has also chased his passion to co-found and create a brand of Escape Rooms called Mystery Junkies.

Vijay Raghavendra

Vijay Raghavendra is a popular Indian actor, working in the Kannada film industry. Fondly known as 'Chinnari Muttha', the artist made his big screen debut in the very year he was born, in the movie starring Dr. Rajkumar, "Chalisuva Modagalu". His performance in the 1994 flick "Kotreshi Kanasu" earned him the prestigious National Film Award for Best Child Artist. Making his debut in the year 2002 with the successful movie "Ninagagi", Vijay set a strong foot in the industry. He also was awarded the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor in 2016, for his performance as Puttaraj Gawai in the movie "Shivayogi Sri Puttayyajja". Vijay also won the inaugural edition of the famed Bigg Boss show, which goes on to show his immense popularity.