Theme: Breaking Barriers

TEDxKanke brings our local, national and global innovators, change makers, and design thinkers together to inspire critical thinking by sharing powerful ideas. We believe that sharing ideas can change attitudes, lives and ultimately our world.

What TEDx Kanke aims?
• Bring out the innovation within you and say two words “I Can”
• Bring together new idea’s and innovation’s within You.

TEDxKanke allows you to -
• Connect with thought leaders
• Contribute to the vision of Ideas Worth Spreading
• Come collaborate with like-minded people
• Impact the future
• Leverage ideas, technologies, design and education
• Invest in the creating the community with the belief in IDEAS WORTH
SPREADING

Chanakya BNR Hotel
Station Road
Ranchi, Jharkhand, 834001
India

Amitesh Anand

CEO, Co-founder, 366Pi

Amitesh Anand is a Ranchi based entrepreneur. His start-up 366Pi is a global organization working with teams and partners across the UK, US and UAE. 366Pi, headquartered in Ranchi has offices in Aberdeen and Dubai. Currently, they are serving partners in e-commerce, oil & gas and healthcare sector with their digital solutions and services. Amitesh comes with experience to ideate, build and scale businesses. He is been working and building start-ups since 2006. He has successfully helped in bootstrapping Acuvate, Zevenseas (now acquired as Rapid Circle), and 99 LEAP (now defunct). An engineer by profession and community curator by intent to bring change, he started as a 4-person coffee table discussions at CCD which quickly overgrew coffee style meetup to 50+ members.

Caroline Chavier

Artificial Intelligence Expert

Ms. Caroline Chavier is Head of Tech Talent Acquisition at Agorize & Founder at Paris Women in Machine Learning & Data Science. https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-chavier-859b4032/ Holding a Master's degree from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po) and recruiting Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Researchers, Caroline has always been passionate about encouraging women to network, speak at conferences and present their work to peers. She will deliver her talk on Artificial Intelligence.

Clive Vaz

Musician, Music Producer & Director

Clive Vaz is a Mumbai Based Musician, Flutist, Didgeridoo player and he plays multiple other instruments including, Djembe, Ukulele, keys and guitar. Clive is also Electronic Music Composer and Producer. His music combines electronic music with instruments from across the globe. His compositions and music style is an amalgamation of Lounge, Deep tech, Oriental Indian fusion, Dub, Ambient and World Music. He began performing live across the country since 2010. His first studio album, Letting Go, released in 2015. In 2017, he made his Debut as a Film Music director and composed the background (BG) music for the Feature Film in 2017. He has been touring India, playing at multiple music festivals and at some of India's most prestigious stages.

Deepak Vohra

Retired Indian Diplomat

Dr. Deepak Vohra is a globally renowned Indian diplomat. He currently serves as the special adviser to the Indian Prime Minister for Lesotho & Guinea-Bissau. In 2012, he was the advisor to the Government of South Sudan. He was a newsreader in Doordarshan at the beginning of his career. During his service in the Indian Foreign Service, he has served in France, Tunisia, US, Chad, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Armenia, Sudan & Poland. Dr. Vohra has also worked with Sulabh International and has been a part of UN assignments in Africa. He brings extensive insight and expertise on matters of development in developing countries and an understanding of the political mechanics of Africa. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, St. Columba's School, National Defence College (India) and University of Paris.

Dr Arbinder Singal

Paediatric Urologist & CEO, Fitterfly

Dr.ArbinderSingal is a renowned PediatricUrologist and surgeon with more than 20 years of international experience in child healthcare. He is a gold medalist in MBBS & M.Ch, Pediatric Surgery Residency program from AIIMS. A healthcare entrepreneur, consultant, and co-founder of Fitterfly (a tech-enabled child fitness & nutrition venture), Dr.Arbinder believes in the role of prevention more than cure. In his words "A child is not a small adult. Children are pulsating with life and energy which needs to be channelized and nurtured. His passion lies in defining new healthcare paradigms, creating new healthcare delivery models, establishing hospitals and further the use of technology for healthcare delivery.

Dr T. V. Rao

Chairman of TVRLS & Ex Prof at IIM A

T V Rao, Chairman of T V Rao Learning Systems, was a Professor at IIM, Ahmedabad from 1973 to 1994 and subsequently an Adjunct Professor and on the Board of IIMA. He also worked as the L&T Chair Professor of HRD at XLRI, Jamshedpur. He was the Founder and First President of the National HRD Network and the Founder and the First Honorary Director of the Academy of HRD. He has established the first dedicated Department of HRD at L&T along with Dr Udai Pareek in mid-seventies much before HRD was known. He has authored around 60 books and pioneered the 360 Degree Feedback, Assessment Development Centres and HRD Audit in India. He has won several awards for his outstanding contributions to the field of HRD including the title of "Ravi Matthai National Fellow" awarded by the Association of Indian Management Schools. He was recently awarded by the Asia Pacific Federation of HRM as APFHRM Professional of the year 2019.

Hannah Kern

Founder of Hannah's Happiness Project & Happiness Activist

Hannah, currently cycling from Vietnam to England to raise money and create awareness for four incredible charities: Crisis, Friends of the Earth, MSF (Doctors Without Borders) & War Child UK. The purpose of her mission is not just about raising money for a cause but to inspire and drive an international happiness movement. Hannah believes in encouraging others to respect each other, themselves and our planet. Her bicycle journey is an affirmation that anyone can achieve their dreams. Anyone can live outside their comfort zone or challenge societal expectations and still be happy. She aims to empower young women and children by traveling solo through the remote and notoriously challenging regions; thoroughly documenting her journey and raising key topics in discussion groups along the way.

Manju Jakhar

International Golf Referee

International Golf Rules official, who has to her credit numerous club events and IGU National Amateur circuit events. From being a National level athlete, Basketball Player during her school and college days to being a horse rider and Marathon enthusiast, scaled the Pin Pabha pass which is at the height of approximately 16150 ft in HP.

Nandita NaganGoudar

Mountaineer

Adventure Junkie, Mountaineer, Motivational Speaker, Social Entrepreneur, First Woman from Karnataka to climb Mount Everest (South Col) She envisions to conquer all the seven summits and being a social entrepreneur, where she can pave a road map for the improvement of youth, women of India and across the world

Nirmal Saranna

CEO Fast Lane Automotive & Futurist

Nirmal Saranna is an automotive professional & CEO of Fast Lane Automotive, focusing on accurate and timely information systems in the Indian automotive industry and its stakeholders such as insurance & finance sectors. Leading brands such as BMW, Volvo, Tata-AIG, are amongst 60 blue-chip clients that are reliant on the world-class solutions, accuracy & efficiency. Earlier Nirmal was the founder member of Autobahn in the UK which began as a small two-man vehicle repair workshop in 1985 and grew to become the largest centre for Porsche cars in Europe. After building a successful business including setting up systems for the UK’s vehicle registration, Nirmal quit in 2012 and returned to India with a mission to employ his experience, knowledge, and expertise in the Indian Automotive Sector.

Siddharth Kaushal

IPS

Born into an army household, Sidharth grew up around the country and hopped 11 schools before graduating from the St.Stephens College. He went on to study business at the IIM Indore, and Aix-Marseille Graduate School Of Management in France. While working for a London based consultancy firm, he decided to quit and spent the next year in sabbatical studying psychology & philosophy. He joined civil services in the Ministry of Railways and switched to the Indian Police Service a year later. He spent the initial phase of his IPS career in counter-insurgency and intelligence roles. Sidharth switched to traditional law enforcement and now heads the police force of the 10th largest district of India. He has undertaken path-breaking projects focussed on improving citizen access to justice, police capacity-building, and citizen engagement.

Srikanth Sundararajan

Parner at Ventureast

Dr.SrikanthSundarajan has 25+ years of international experience in the software product and services space.He has worked at HP & Informix in the USA and was part of the executive leadership team at HCL. He was CTO at Cognizant & COO at Persistent. Srikanth founded his start-up, Pretzel Logic Software Inc. which was acquired by BEA spinoff WebGain. BEA was later acquired by Oracle. Currently, a general partner with Ventureast, he funds technology-focused start-ups looking to go global from India.He is also a visiting faculty of Computer Science at IIT Bhubaneswar. Dr.Srikanth serves in the national committees of technical education, an initiative of MHRD, India. He is a B.Tech. from IIT, Madras, and an MS/Ph.D. in Computer & Information Sciences from the University of Illinois.

Sumit Kutani

Founder, Kutani Handpan Academy, Rishikesh

Sumit Kutani aka Baba Kutani is a Handpan Player with vast experience of performing at the national and international levels who loves to play his hang drum by the banks of Ganga. He founded the Kutani Handpan Academy in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. From music and film festivals to working with established bands, he has taken the Handpan community to a space beyond alternative music and has worked effortlessly to mainstream the instrument. His projects in the future are focused on collaborations and helping Handpan music reach masses. He wants to build a school in the Himalayas for the underprivileged kids of Uttarakhand.

Yasharth Goyal

Co-founder, I Parliament

Having graduated from The Doon School, Yasharth is presently studying B.Com at the St.Xaviers College, Kolkata. A keen thinker, motivator and change maker, he is the driving force behind India’s flagship forum for school students, I-Parliament. Goyal has worked with several MP's and wishes to establish a national youth parliament in India recognized by the Lok Sabha. In 2016, the Parliament of India accepted his bill on electoral reforms for further discussion. Yasharth has been instrumental in furthering democratic imagination in India and sharing the message of Bhagavat Gita with the youth. He has been working very closely with the Royal Government of Bhutan to establish the Gross National Happiness Index in India. Yasharth also manages tea gardens & factories in Assam and is the Director of Lekhapani Tea Company.