Theme: Expanding Horizons

The way of living to expand one's horizon is to seek out new experiences especially ones experiences, especially if one's experience has been relatively limited. In this day and age, where we have access to almost all the information that is possible to be accessed, we still do not take the opportunity we have. For the same reason, we've invited 7 exceptional speakers to speak about what they feel most passionately about. And their topics are most definitely worth their mettle.

DKTEs TEI Auditorium
DKTEsTEI
Rajwada
Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra, 416115
India

Aditya Raj

Aditya Raj is an Electronics & Communication undergrad. He is a data engineer, freelancer, blogger, event organiser, and an active volunteer. His major interest lies in Cyber security, Digital marketing, SEO. He has bagged opportunities at Microsoft, Viacom18 International etc. and also organised international, national and regional events like GSF, ISF, and IASF. A part from these he and his team were also the finalist at NASA’s space app challenge. He follows his passion of being writer and shares his travel stories, poems, and Book reviews.

Amey Nerkar

Amey is a social innovator who enjoys building things that impact the community. He develops exceptional products and deploys those in the community around. Amey recently got featured by Google Developers on their YouTube handle for his change-making innovation. Amey is currently working as a Project Manager at FirstCry and experienced in developing and managing the products! He’s a full-time Project Manager and loves to spend the weekend over Music + Code!

Dr. Anand Nadkarni

Founder of Institute for Psychological Health

Mental Health is just as important as Physical Health, and Dr. Nadkarni aims to achieve this. He is the person who has taken the concept of Mental Health and made it very commonplace to discuss. He is working in so many diverse settings. He has pioneered ‘Institute for Psychological Health (IPH)”. Dr. Nadkarni is also Founder & Trustee of Muktangan De-addiction Centre in Pune. He has worked extensively in the world of psychology and has spoken extensively in favour of destigmatizing mental illness. He won “Manasa National Award & Hirvai Sanman Puraskar”. He has been awarded with “Thane Nagar Ratna” and “Thane Bhushan” awards from the city of his residence. He has been conferred with “Samaj Shikshak Award” as well as “Arogya Dnyaneshwar” award by prestigious Institutes.

Dr. Komal Rao

Dr. Komal Rao is an international Mixed Martial Arts Athlete, Motivational Speaker, Instructor in Art and philosophy of Bruce Lees Jeet Kune Do. She has studied Business Management from Harvard and Exercise Physiology from Stanford. She is one of the few pro mma women atheletes in the world to have defeated a man in a cage fight. She holds a fifth degree blackbelt with over two decades of training in martial arts. She has studied Zen in temples of South Asia and Samurai traditions from Japan. She shot to fame as “Woman of Steel” when she became one of the handful women in the world to defeat a German male challenger in a internationally acclaimed MMA cage fight in Germany.

Dr. Sneha Gokani

She did Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Geomagnetism on Very Low frequency whistler waves at low latitudes. Awarded Ph.D. in 2019. Started working as a Post-doctoral fellow at Tongji University, Shanghai, China since January, 2019. Soon, she will be joining Vikram Sarabhai Space Center as a Ramanujan Fellow. In her research career of around 9 years, she has published 12 scientific papers in peer reviewed journal. She has quite a few national and international awards on her name.

Nikhil Malankar

Nikhil Malankar is the CEO of Game Eon Studios. He started his career in 2013 by founding his company. He is also a popular You Tubers having over 75,000+ subscribers. As a YouTuber he educates his audience on his field of game development. He has authored 2 books on game development. Currently he is working on his dream project titled “Mumbai Gullies” under GameEon Studios.

Vishal Pinjani

Vishal Pinjani is a Life coach, bookseller and a LGBTIQA rights activist .He is the founder of ABHIMAAN, Kolhapur’s first community-based organization for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, intersex and queer communities (LGBTIQA). He is also a TEDx speaker, having previously spoken at TEDxTarabaiPark.