TEDxHitechCity stars are special invitees who have made achievements that are inspiring. You can nominate achievers by sending an email to tedxhitechcity@gmail.com. Please provide their contact details to help us to reach them. A jury will decide on the achievers to invite as the TEDxHitechcity Stars.
Dr. Vara Prasad Reddy
Dr. K I Varaprasad Reddy, the Founder and Managing Director. Dr. Varaprasad, an electronics engineer by profession, established the company in 1993 with the sole purpose of developing efficacious but cost effective vaccines and therapeutics that are within the reach of the common man and floated Shantha Biotech.
Mohan Rao
Mohan Rao is working with CCMB and initiated intact lens spectroscopic investigation. He initiated work on protein folding in health and disease, particularly molecular chaperone like property of alpha-crystallin and its relation to cataract, neurodegenerative diseases and cardiomyopathy.
Sekhar Kammula
Sekhar Kammula’s first film was the so called “commercial formulas” in making his movies. Nevertheless, all his movies have been very well received and have been commercially successful at the box-office, making him one of the revolutionary directors of Telugu cinema.
Mr. Babu
Started and operates an NGO for hearing impaired children. More Info
Dinaz
Dinaz is a leading fitness expert in Hyderabad. She has set Asia record by conducting aerobics session continuously for 20 hours.. More Info
Mr.Jayaprakash Narayana
Currently a Member of Legislative Assembly. Well known for his role in bringing electoral reforms. Development of the Infocity HITEC City (Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City) in Hyderabad to facilitate the growth of the software industry and hence was felicitated by the Hyderabad Software Exporters Association, Hyderabad. Started Lok Satta Movement (means people power) in 1997 to educate citizens of India about voting, rights and government. Speech 1 2
Dr. Rajeev Sangal
He is currently the Director of IIIT-Hyderabad and a INAE Fellow. He is leading the team that has developed ‘Shakti.’ Shakti is an Intelligent Indian language translation with text-to-speech processing. Shakti has been quoted by outlook as top 10 Indian Technologies that can change the world. More Info
Mr. Karan Grover
Karan Grover is an internationally acclaimed Indian architect who in 2004, became the first architect in the world to win the Platinum Award for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) from the US Building Council in 2002. He is working towards the need for practicing “Green Architecture” inspiring students and fellow architects to build “Beyond Platinum” and set cutting edge benchmarks in the architectural fraternity.
Dr. Anuradha Reddy
She can speak on her passion for heritage buildings or on history of airports.
Narendra Luther
Knows everything about Hyderabad.
Nagarjuna
A BITS Pilani engineering graduate who runs one of Hyderabad’s best known sweet shop – Almond House. More Info
Harish Balan
Harish Balan is the Site Director, Synopsys Hyderabad (350 employees, R&D and Applications Engineering Center).Computer engineer by training (MS 0 Univ. of Texas, Austin) and 20 yrs in Silicon Valley in engineering and management positions in technology. He is passionate about technology development in India and the growth of India into a first world country.
Amala Akkineni,
She is passionate about animal rights & sustainable (green) issues. She is also an accomplised dancer & movie star. An articulate & down to earth person
Mr S.V Nathan of Delloit. He is a wonderful speaker & accomplished HR professional .
J Sailaja, is a certified metaphysical teacher who has been guiding people towards creating their own peace, happiness and abundance for well over a decade.
Sailaja was trained in the USA under renowned healers and masters such as Louise L Hay, Dr Brian Weiss and Colin C Tipping, who have authored books that have changed lives worldwide – ‘You Can Heal Your Life’, ‘Many Lives Many Masters’ and ‘Radical Manifestation’, respectively. Sailaja brings the knowledge of the masters along with her own rich experience of healing to help you understand and empower yourself.
Sailaja conceived Antharyami as a place where people come to find and restore their natural balance through the application of holistic healing techniques; a place where everyone takes responsibility for their own lives and live in harmony and peace; a place where everyone can look within and find answers to their discontent and miseries of life.
Over the years Sailaja has conducted over 150 workshops for individuals and organizations all over India and abroad, and over 20,000 people from across the world have benefited from her work.
I would recommend Richard Seshie
Richard founded ‘My Choice!’ – among if not the first youth educational program for environmental sustainability in India; where hundreds of high school students in Bangalore were thaught on environmental and responsible citizenship practices.
The program has been succesfully replicated in Canada and would hopefully expand to Brazil Pakistan and India again in 2010. http://www.myworldmychoice.org
He also supported the ongoing work of Ashoka and Innovest Group in India and is a vibrant development activist.
I would like nominate Mr.Ramakrishna N.K from RangDe.org to be a TEDxHitechCity Star.
RangDe.org is an innovative non-profit, social enterprise, with a mission to lower the cost of microcredit and help people take a step out of poverty. Rang De’s interest rates are currently the lowest in the world at 8.5% p.a (flat).
Through the online portal, RangDe encourages individuals to lend (not give) as little as Rs.100 to micro-entrepreneurs from low-income households in India. The idea is to encourage individual social responsibility by providing a sustainable alternative to charity.
Over the last two years, Rang De has reached out to over 2000 borrowers in 17 states in India and disbursed over Rs.1 crore with a 100% repayment rate.
For more details you can visit the website http://www.rangde.org.
Ram Mohan – Film Producer [Film: Ashta Chamma]
Ram Mohan is a IIM-A graduate and trained at UTV under Ronnie Screwaalla. His film has become a case study at ISB. I have the link below. I think he is a star for having made a film with no stars and delivering a hit in an industry that is so star driven. It’s a definite shift in paradigm. He is Hyderabad based.
http://mahamovie.com/telugu-news-movies-photos-online/ashta-chemma-part-of-isb-study/
Raj Nidimoru and DK – Film Directors [Films: Shaadi.com, Flavors, 99 & Shor]
Students of Engg from Sri Venkateshwara University, they are US based filmmakers who worked with the Bollywood system to make something that was different and their movie 99 has made the top ten of every list of 2009. It got a rating of 4/5 stars from ‘The New York Times’ and their films have won awards at numerous prestigious international film festivals. They are presently in production for their next feature ‘Shor’. They had a coup with their lead casting for this film and roped in Senthil Ramamurthy, the principal star of NBC’s Heroes in Hollwyood.
Raj and DK represent a new generation of directors who are really bridging the Hollywood/Bollywood gap in the commercial film arena unlike the filmmakers of yesterday who could only make an impact in the west with their art films.
They are Mumbai based and often visit Hyderabad to help produce Telugu films and transform this industry as well.
As this conference is all about ideas and making a difference. I wanted to suggest a prospective Speaker who would be very apt for this conference.
There is a 19 year old boy, named Chaitanya from Hyderabad, who has won the UNITED NATIONS YOUTH EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENUERSHIP at the United Nations Youth Asembly at the age of 16, he was the only Indian and Asian to recieve the honour. I first read about him in the media and then met him and presently working with him in a few projects..
He runs an organisation named PASSIONATE (www.passionatefoundation.org) which he founded when he was in grade 12. Passionate is working on the involvement of Youth into community service and Youth Led change.Chaitanya was also a nominated member on the Committee of the AP Legislative Assembly for the Achievement of the united Nations Millenium Development Goals by the then Speaker Mr. Suresh Reddy. He has worked with the A.P. Legislative Assembly and the Speaker personally for the involvement of the youth at the legislature and its decisions, so that the youth can come up with creative suggestions and provide suggestions from the grass root level..
Under his leadership Passionate is working on several projects such as AIDS awareness in the slums of Hyderabad, they have adopted ten government schools and are providing Bannas everyday to the children for their nutrition and health, Cycling Marathons, Medical Camps, Youth Involvement at the Legislative Assembly besides many others.
I request you to add him as a Star.The most important aspect that inspires me, is that he is so Young and still making a great difference to the world.
Vamshi, CEO of Darkhorse Technologies PVT LTD.
Simple, passionate on technology running a software company since 2003, didn’t even fire a single employee even in recession. He is role model to everyone, being not come from technical back ground able to manage clients, projects and very good project manager, able to establish successful relationships with every one. It’s a privilege for TEdx to call this young entrepreneur. He learns from each and every one ,gives lot of respect to every one and the value he gives for relationships is amedabale.
Vijay Anand, Co-founder and President of 5th Pillar.
5th Pillar is a non-profit organization that aims to “Encourage, Enable and Empower Every Citizen of India to Eliminate Corruption at all Levels of Society”.
Launched a campaign titled “Freedom from Corruption” and distributed more than 1 million notes predominantly amongst students, engaging them as messengers of zero corruption to their parents. He has covered close to 600+ colleges and schools to sensitize the students on the evils of corruption and train them on the Right To Information Act (RTI) 2005 & other innovative methods to tackle corruption.
Founder of AIMS India Foundation, a non-profit organization with a mission to bring people together for the lofty purpose of bringing about a positive transformation in India and to achieve a vision of economically self-sufficient, socially harmonious & politically clean country that serves as a beacon of light to the rest of the world.
Organized and headed a 2 month volunteer camp at Nagapattinam starting the day after the Tsunami to enable victims and survivors in the rehabilitation process.
Joint Secretary of India Cultural Coordination Committee, a non-profit organization that conducts various cultural activities including India’s Independence Day Program every year.
Board of Director of National Federation of Indian-American Association (NFIA), the largest U.S. based Indian-American umbrella organization that aims to promote and foster goodwill between the people of the United States, the people of India and to cultivate & encourage unity among all Indian-American organizations.
As one of founder of Dark Horse technologies in 2003, he has been the key member in deploying 80+ software development projects across the globe. A young entrepreneur with more than 14 years of IT experience in the fields of Multimedia and Functional areas of other Software. As he was in London for 2 years, he has got international exposure in terms of market and IT.