TEDxHITKolkata - Past Editions

TEDx 2021 THEME : LIMITLESS LOADING

SPEAKERS OF 2021

Dr. Biswajit Banerjee

Specialist General physician and Diabetologist.

Dr. Biswajit Banerjee

Dr. Banerjee is a specialist General physician and diabetologist. Dr. Banerjee has been working in the field of medicine, cardiology and Diabetiology for 27 years. He later on organized a walk and public awareness programme to prevent diabetes on World Diabetes Day 2017, attended by one hundred odd people, across North Calcutta. Dr. Banerjee Regularly organising free diabetes camps for underprivileged patients in the locality and patient awareness camps, focused on diabetes, in various locations around Kolkata.

Shams Aalam

International gold medalist para swimmer.
(Previously Keto India)

Shams Aalam

Md. Shams Alam Shaikh is an international gold medalist para swimmer. He was awarded best emerging leader in disability sports. He has won 4 Gold medals at Indian Open Para Swimming Championship in S-5 category and also represented India at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta.

Manvir Singh

Food Business Expert, Serial Entrepreneur and a Best-Selling Author.

Manvir Singh

Manvir Singh Anand is a Food Business Expert, Serial Entrepreneur and a Best-Selling Author. He is the Founder & CEO of Knight Gourmet - is a pan India presence Event Hospitality Solutions Company with 3 local offices in Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai and a presence across 11 states, 30 cities having experience of serving over 1.35 million people for event properties like India Premier League, Indian Super League, IIFA awards, etc. He’s a strategic Investor, Consultant and mentor to multiple Startups and Cloud Kitchen brands. Also, He's author of National Best-seller "Catering Your Way to Financial Independence" and has trained over 3000+ budding food entrepreneurs to start their food business. He's a Trained Chef with a Management Degree..

Khushi Khater

Poet,Record holder in India Book of Records,Karamveer Chakra Awardee

Khushi Khater

Khushi Khater, age 19 years old is the holder of few of the most prestigious awards of India like, India Book of Records, India Star Icon Award, Karmaveer Chakra Award in association with United Nations and iCONGO, Nari Samman Award and her love for poetry has got her recognitions by getting her poetry published in the International Poetry Digest - New York.

Sayan Chakraborty

Founder & CEO -
WTF!Where's The Food!

Sayan Chakraborty

Sayan Chakraborty, Founder/ CEO of WTF! Where’s The Food! is one of Eastern India’s youngest entrepreneurs to cross a turnover of a million in a year, with over 4 restaurants in just 15 months of operation. He was also the youngest to receive the Times Hospitality Icon of the year.

Kaushik Sen

Actor and Thespian

Kaushik Sen

Kaushik Sen is a well-acclaimed Indian actor and thespian. He is the director of the theatre group Swapnasandhani. He has won the BFJA awards for best supporting actor for his performance in the Mrinal Sen directed film Aamar Bhuvan. His recent independent film Cold Fire has released In Kolkata International Film Festival on 11th and upcoming on15th of January. He has acted and directed in countless movies and plays.

Soukarya Ghoshal

Illustrator,Journalist,Renowned Film Director

Soukarya Ghoshal

Soukarya Ghosal is an Indian film director, lyricist, animator and screenplay writer. He works in Bengali cinema. His first feature film was Pendulum. He has received recognition for directing Rainbow Jelly and Rawkto Rawhoshyo.

Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay

Faculty of Business Analytics and Statistics
at School of Management Science, MAKAUT

Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay

Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay is a member of the faculty of Business Analytics and Statistics at School of Management Science, MAKAUT. He is also the University Faculty Co-Ordinator of BBA and MBA in Business Analytics at MAKAUT. He is the Lead of Facebook Developer Circle, Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning and Intel Software Innovator.

TEDx 2019 THEME : OUT OF THE BOX

SPEAKERS OF 2019

Sanjiv Mehta

Award Winning Global Business Leader & Technologist
Go-To-Marketer, Sales Coach & Mentor, Speaker on CNBC

Sanjiv Mehta

He has build lasting, consultative relationships with customers, partners, sales and alliance. He has developed solution selling capability in organisation and partners to develop compelling business cases to differentiate and highlight the value of portfolio. He has delivered profitable business growth, increased #revenue and market #share. Sanjiv Mehta brings with him 30+ Years in IT Industry with experience in Technology Sales, Business Development, Strategy & Planning with operation in multiple geographies.

Anindya Chatterjee

Actor

Anindya Chatterjee

Anindya Chatterjee, one of the most versatile and talented actors of Bengali movies, web series and a well-known face of TV serials for Star Jalsha and Zee Bangla. He actually hailed from being behind the camera background and acting happened later. He still does a lot of production works. He has been an integral part of super hit movies such as Chotushkone, Ami Ashbo Fire, Asche Abar shobor, Bela Seshe, Bapi Bari Ja and many more. Anindya Chatterjee is also a public-spirited person and is the brand ambassador of Kolkata Police for the 26th June international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking and has been doing it for the past 4 years.

Madiha Ahmed

Author, Mentor and Brand ambassador

Madiha Ahmed

In her own words, Madiha considered herself an Average Girl in the past, a Dreamer and a Doer, a Lifelong Learner and a Global Citizen, who loves to connect people and ideas for a Peaceful World. An Author of "13 Inspirations@23- The story of a young woman who said no to being average," her book is soon to be published. Madiha is a Multipotentialite who enjoys new challenges. She is an explorer who pushes to learn new things and express herself, her creativity and her concern for humanity through them. Hers is a story of triumph when all seemed to be lost, of our need to remain steadfast on the path of righteousness, even when confronted with odds that are seemingly impossible – a story of the triumph of the will.

Aaquib Hussain

Co-founder and creative head of I And We.

Aaquib Hussain

An exhausting 3.5 years of experience with IBM GBS, ISL (R&D), IBM – UCP, Vodafone – Global & Europe cutting across niche technologies like Cloud Security, Cross-platform Application development, MachineLearning based Algorithmic Support vector development, and interactional integration with HR teams of 17 corporate houses, Aaquib Represents the ephemeral geek of today… He's a computer science graduate from Techno India group, Research Internship from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and IIT Kharagpur. An entrepreneur for a mere 1.5 years, he has been able to build a business valued at 16.13 million USD. He is the Founder and Creative Head at i&We, leading a team of 24 motivated young professionals, catering to a business spreading across 11 states in a mere 500 days of operation, with 156k paying clients in only its first year of business realization.

Neelanjana Sengupta

computational biophysicist
IISER Kolkata

Neelanjana Sengupta

Neelanjana Sengupta, a computational biologist almost by accident. She had been a curious child who felt bothered unless she was able to grasp, at least conceptually, how ‘things worked’. She went on to study physics at the Bachelors and the Master's levels, majoring in Nuclear Physics in the latter. However, a half year stint in a theoretical polymer physics group at IISC Bangalore kindled a new interest in ‘soft matter’, which broadly encompasses research in systems susceptible to thermal fluctuations. Subsequently, she went on to earn her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine in the domain of computer simulations of biomolecular systems in 2008. Neelanjana Sengupta is currently serving the Department of Biological Sciences at IISER Kolkata in 2016 as a ‘computational biophysicist'. She is immensely grateful for the changing scientific landscape in the country that allows interdisciplinary research such as hers to flourish.

Smriti Dewan

CEO of Finology Writer
, Director and Host

Smriti Dewan

Smriti Dewan is a writer, director, and host who started her career with Red Chillies Entertainment. Her writing expedition not only brought her laurels but has taken her to a level about which, every person with the art dreams. She went ahead to work on Kaun Banega Crorepati and started her writing career with historical shows like #Ashoka for Colours and the very famous Lajwanti for ZEE TV. She's also the writer/producer/director of #YouTube channel 101 India. Currently, she travels the country looking for fascinating stories that she features in her short films.