Jamshedpur, Dec. 13: XLRI Jamshedpur hosted its third edition of TEDx talk on Sunday. The event, organised by the students of the premier B-School, was based on the theme �Soaring High: Ideas Scaling New Heights.� The event hosted eight speakers from different walks of life, who shared their ideas and experiences.
The session, attended by faculty and students of the academic institution, started with a talk by Harish Iyer, a social rights activist who was in the list of 100 most influential LGBT people in the world for 2013 published by The Guardian. This was followed by talk by Archana Sardana, India�s first woman civilian BASE jumper, and Rajiv Jayaraman, founder-CEO of Knolscape. The pre-lunch session ended with Kunal Rao, a stand up comedian, sharing his ideas.
Enthusiasm levels continued to stay high post-lunch. The session started with a talk by Anand Pillai, who is the managing director of Leadership Matters Inc. and former senior executive vice-president and chief learning officer at Reliance Industries Ltd. This was followed by talks by journalist Meghna Pant and Mani Vajipeyajula, founder-CEO of Banyan Nation. The session ended on a melodious note with Rasika Shekar delivering her TED talk.
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, TED Talks 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-organised.
TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today’s leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED’s annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, NandanNilekani, Philippe Starck, NgoziOkonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
TED’s open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily. These include the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; while the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a “wish” or idea, to create change in the world.
TEDx provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
