Ted Presentation

M.P.SARIKA RANI

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TED TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is an annual event where

some of the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about.

It comprises of young Indians who have made a mark overseas, and they intend to spark conversation and inspire action.

The list of speakers include Global Head of Unilever Mehmood Khan, CEO and MD of NSDC Dilip Chenoy, Techie and Artist Ramana Gogula, CEO of VBHC Siva Kondapalli, Professor and political activist Prahlad Pandey, Correspondent of Washington Post Rama Lakshmi, Techie and puppetry artist Anupama, Chief Evangelist of ZOHO Corp. Raju Vagesna, Director of DRDO P.S. Krishna, Entrepreneur and Film director ‘Madhura' Sridhar and former President of Reliance Industries

M. Ganapathi.

DR.ALLAM APPA RAO

Dr Allam Appa Rao, Vice-Chancellor of the JNTU Kakinada, is an iconic and towering personality in the field of education and research. His contributions to the field of Computer Engineering have been exemplary and spilled over into numerous other areas of science and technology, making him a pioneer of scientific advancements meant for the benefit of society. A boon to the academic fraternity, Dr Allam Appa Rao has been a guiding light for innumerable students over the past few decades. Apart from being an awe-invoking teacher, he has also played many other roles of significance which were crucial and vital to development in various fields.

According to him, the motto of this programme is to bring change in students.

He strongly believes that students have dynamic power.

He quoted two says which he believes strongly. “If I have half a dozen of students, I will bring a dynamic change in country”-SWAMI VIVEKANANDA “you be the change, you can bring change”-MAHATMA GANDHI

He called this programme as an USHERING CHANGE which means the whole world(including university) is expecting change.

He just posed a question, ”What can we do individually to bring change?”

India is at the edge to become a great country. 20% of students are employed what about the remaining 80% ?????????

Thus he concluded that in order to bring change in every individual, this programme is conducted.

Ramana Kumar Gogula is an Engineer/Entrepreneur/Musician/Green Entrepreneur/ music director in telugu films. He formed his own rock-and-roll band in vizag at the age of 17. Since then, he has traveled around the world as a software professional and music director. His most famous albums are the musical scores to the movies Thammudu,Premante Idera and Yuvaraju. He composed the theme music for the 70th anniversary celebrations of his alma mater,Timpany school. He was also co-founder and former CEO of the company Liqwid Krystal in bangalore. Gogula has also played key roles at several Fortune 1000 companies, including Sybase.He recently relocated to Hyderabad and has finished a new film called Boni.

RAMANA GOKULA

He feels to have a change in his life for every 5 years.

He relates life to a fairy tale “HANSEL AND GRETEL.”

Inspite of his job in U.S. , he had given his first rock band show in a university , where he got a howling response from the crowd.

He concluded by strongly saying ,”Our passions are also part of our lives, irrespective of what we had studied in our respective institutions, as our passions bring change in our lives.”

RAMA LAKSHMIRama Lakshmi, 42,is a professionally trained museologist and has worked with several American museums, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. In India, she has consulted with the National Rail Museum, National Museum Institute, Gandhi Museum and the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art. She is also a member of the CII Task Force on Museums. She is currently curating an exhibition on portraying the people's movement for justice in Bhopal. She has also worked as a journalist for The Washington Post for 19 years, and won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for her coverage of the tsunami disaster in 2004.   

Her passion is to visit museums. She is a museum lover. She feels that INDIAN MUSEUMS are neither been properly

constructed nor properly being used by the people. She articulates that people are spotting museums as

picnic spots but not actually gaining the knowledge, that has to be gained, about our history.

She supports her opinion by giving few exemplaries like NEWS MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON DC. She even says that every spectator, after visiting this museum, gets inspired to become a reporter.

She just want to pose a few questions like Why cant our people get inspired after visiting our museums? Is the problem lying in people or museums?

So she finally decided to bring a change in our society. She is presently working on a project regarding BHOPAL TRAGEDY and she decided to initiate a mobile museum, which carries each and every incident regarding BHOPAL TRAGEDY, which travels throughout our country.

Thus she is trying to bring change in the society by enjoying her passion.

RAJU VEGESNA

Raju is the Chief evangelist for Zoho and is one of the foremost thought leaders in the SaaS revolution. Raju is one of the key people responsible for developing the strategic direction of the Zoho Suite. Prior to joining Zoho Corp, Raju co-founded an Internet product company serving the educational market. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science.   

He introduces his company as a product company

(which designs to produce products) but not a service company(which does software works in the form of programs).

He just want to bring change in the education system as he feels that students are not being properly trained and are getting relieved with certificates, without proper knowledge on what actually they had studied.

In their university the procedure is as follows: Exam is conducted for economically poor students, who cant afford for graduation courses, which consists of a simple maths. After they get selected they are trained for a year regarding some products design and solutions for the problem. Their teaching structure consists of product-customers requirement-how the problem is solved-algorithms(small part as it is not service based)-maths etc. After one year these students are offered a job and train the new batch students. These students have equal knowledge with graduates, studied for four years.

He just want to pose few questions like “Is the present college education relevant to what actually they are doing now?” “Why should students go out, after college hours, for learning some extra courses?”

ANUPAMA AND VIDYASAGAR HOSKERE

Anupama & Vidyashankar Hoskere are Engineering graduates from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore with a Master’s degree from the US- Cal State Univ, Long Beach and Univ of Colorado, Boulder respectively. Anupama is also a performing Bharathanatyam artist, and has choreographed ballets like Pavanasutam Bhaje Hum and Bharati Deviya Nene Nene. . She is currently a member of the Karnataka Sangeeta Nrutya Academy. She is also trained in traditional puppetry of Karnataka. She scripts, creates the puppets and directs her puppet shows. Over time this took the shape of an organization called Dhaatu.   

At Dhaatu, they hope to fill a gap between what today’s young parents know implicitly and what they are able to actively teach their kids. They aim to present it to the children in a way that they can enjoy it, cherish it and thereby gain an experience and an introduction into India’s traditional wisdoms - in the hope that this will prove to be a valuable space in their consciousness to which they can return to at any time of their lives, when they feel the need for it.

She lead a very happy married life, with two daughters, for 10yrs in U.S. Later she felt like having a change in her life. She came back to INDIA, to Banglore, which is her home town, and was stunned to see the change in the city. She felt bad by seeing people who were completely under the influence of western culture and were least bothered about our culture and traditions. So she decided to bring change and started this organization to spread our culture etc.

SREEDHAR REDDYSreedhar Reddy known as Madhura Sreedhar Reddy, directed a movie Sneha geetham. 1) Did B.Tech(Mechanical Engg.) from REC (NIT) warangal -1994 2) Completed M.S (Research) from IIT Madras in 1997 and Received Sudarshan Butt award from Indian vice president for best project thesis . 3) Worked for TCS, INFOSYS, WIPRO and Tech Mahindra for 12 years. Worked in South Africa, Switzerland and USA for financial and retail business clients.4) Now own a music company MADHURA with a catalogue of 350 movies and albums. Own CINESTAR film weekly magazine5) Directed a movie Sneha Geetham, which was released in mid July and running successfully all over AP. 

He is very interested in having a change in his life.

After working in various software companies for few yrs, he altered his life style as a director.

His future plan is to enter into politics. His idea of entering into politics is that he wishes to stand as one of the competitors for C.M. post in 2019 elections and to rule this state.

In this way he always tries to bring change in his life by bringing in his dreams into reality.

MADHAVANMadhavan is an IITian, turned farmer who married his passion for farming with his engineering background. His love for farming made him quit a job at ONGC and follow his heart. He believes in smart agriculture, where Only 20% of agriculture involves tilling the soil and the rest 80% with engineering skills. Madhavan bypasses the middle men and sells all his farming produce himself. He believes that food insecurity is more threatening than an atom bomb. About 49% of Indian children suffer from under-nourishment. He believes that producing more food is a solution to the problem and he is already walking his talk. Former President Abdul Kalam, visited his farm and acclaimed that “We need not one but a million Madhavans in this country!”

PRAHLAD PANDEYWith a progressive hold and experience in the field of Economics, Mr. Pandey has taught in many reputed Business schools, including ICFAI National College Hyderabad. He has had many research papers in his credit published in National & International journals both in English and Hindi, and has presented many papers in conferences all over India. His areas of interest and expertise are Economics, Managerial Economics, Governance and Public Policy.  Mr. Pandey hails from Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He is a master in business economics, bachelor in education and has qualified UGC-NET. Prior to coming to management education, he had taught in government schools in Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Pandey is a passionate social activist. He has driven campaigns for environment awareness in Indore. He is currently teaching in iLEAD School of Business and also supporting India Against Corruption movement.

His connotation is to bring change in the society by eliminating the word corruption.

From his experiences, he used to burst himself in anger whenever he comes to know that an employee is corrupted.

His experiences made him to take this decision and he is trying his level best to change this society and people from not being corrupted.

DILIP CHENOYMr. Chenoy has served as Director General, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) since March 2004 where he was responsible for leading a team of professionals and working with members to set the technical (environment & safety), economic and social responsibility agenda for the automobile industry. Prior to his role at SIAM, Mr. Chenoy served with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) since 1986, his last held role being that of Deputy Director General

MEHMOOD KHANBorn on 5th June 1954 at village NaiNangla, Tehsil :Ferozpur Jhirka, District: Mewat,Haryana India BSc(Hons) Agriculture, HAU Hissar (1970-75) Post Graduate Programme from Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad (IIMA) (1975-77).  Experience33  years in Unilever in various International Positions with postings in India, The Netherlands, Singapore and United KingdomRetired as Global Leader of Innovation from Unilever London in 2009Development experience at IIMA, Bharatiya Agro IndustriesFoundation and Punjab Cooperatives. Have travelled across 70 countries in 5 continents President of IIM Network in Europe 

Managing Trustee of Rasuli Kanwar Khan Trust NaiNangla, Tehsil Ferozpur Jhirka which is transforming lives in rural Mewat .

Nominated as Person of Year by Forbes India 

Capabilities & Expertise 

Unique individual with very broad 33 years of Global experience in managing in diverse circumstances 

Unique blend of development expertise of creating value by involving all Stakeholders to bring rewards of prosperity of inclusive growth. 

Natural Leader with vast track record of leading people and communities. 

Personal: Married to Sanobar for 31 years. Together we have two grown up children ,both well settled in their respective careers. Sanobar works with me on all our development initiatives

CONCLUSION Our success doesn’t only depend on what we

studied as a part of our curriculum, also it depends on our passions and the way, we are working sincerely to bring our dreams into reality.

We should change or update ourselves with the technology, entertainment, design etc around us.

Everyone has got their own talent in them. They should know their talent and start working on it. Then for sure, they will taste the sweetness of success.

There are lots of opportunities around us. Only thing is that we should be efficient in utilizing them.

Thank you