TEDxYouth HIXS

It’s a bittersweet moment to see that all our hard work is finally coming to a fruitful conclusion. Each member of our team has spent hours on end crafting an enriching and thought provoking event. The whole experience has and continues to educate us richly and we hope you get to learn with us :)

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Alok Bansal is the Co-Founder & CFO at PolicyBazaar. He is a director and chief financial officer at PB Fintech that owns Policybazaar and Paisabazaar. Alok leads the finance department which includes corporate finance and controllership, treasury, tax, strategic planning and analysis functions. He is also responsible for the strategic alliance division for PolicyBazaar. Prior to PolicyBazaar, Alok served as the Director, Finance for FirstEuropa. He has also held prestigious managerial positions with Mahindra & Mahindra, iGate Global Solutions and General Electric. He holds an MBA from IIM Kolkata and a degree in Engineering from Lucknow University. He loves reading and enjoys exploring the hills and playing sports.

Khushi Jain, national gold medalist swimmer, former model and an undergraduate student at NYU, founded her non-profit organisation DefEating Disorders at age 20.
She motivates people to practice food freedom, work on a healthy relationship with eating. She has been a survivor of multiple eating disorders and wants to raise awareness about how they are first and foremost, a mental illness that in turn manifests as food and body issues.
She is also a public speaker and has represented her university at Oxford University and multiple global conferences for social work, education for girls in rural India and conducted workshops to break the stigma associated with eating disorders.

Naila Moloo is a 15-year-old environmental researcher, one of Canada’s top 100 most powerful women, and the best selling author, having written the ‘Chronicles of Illusion: The Blue Wild’. Based in Ottawa, Canada, she is an innovator that is passionate about leveraging technology to address our global consumption of fossil fuels and aims to make an impact in the sustainability sector. She is passionate about solar energy, where she has designed a transparent and flexible perovskite solar cell.

Besides working on the sequel for her novel, she writes environmental articles for Medium and Green AQ TeC. She is currently working for Carleton University, where she is developing a Bioplastic from duckweed. Her latest area of exploration is machine learning. When she’s not learning, she’s probably reading, playing sports, or writing. Her debut novel that got published when she was 14 was a #1 bestseller in magical realism. She has been featured on CTV National News and Ottawa Life Magazine. She has spoken at Web Summit, attended the WXN Top 100 Women galas, and received the Pollution Probe award.

Sashi is an electrical engineer with a master's degree from EPFL. After working with the ICRC, WHO and the EPFL Essentialtech Center, he co-founded the company SurgiBox Inc. Currently, he acts as the Chief Development Officer overseeing quality assurance, regulatory affairs, international manufacturing and partnerships. He has in parallel helped develop several social enterprises in rural Mozambique with the NGO SolidarMed. Sashi has worked in Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Mozambique and Switzerland and is a winner of the Forbes 30 Under 30 award in 2021. We are proud to have him as one of our speakers!

Shireen Limaye is the captain of the Indian Women’s National Basketball Team. After participating in the Under-16 FIBA Asia Championship in 2009, Shireen has gone on to represent India in 10 FIBA Cups, winning the Best Rebounder Ace of Asia award in 2008 and the Shiv Chhatrapati Award in 2018. In 2018, she even competed in the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Additionally, Shireen has also represented India as part of the Netball team in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, while holding a national Rank 2 in Under-21 Snooker as well as Rank 3 in Under-18 Billiards. We can't wait to see her!

A leader in technology integration and strategy, Deepti Sawhney completed her Certificate of Educational Studies from The College of Teachers Institute of Education in London. She has trained in Teaching Languages through Technology from Trinity College in the UK with a Distinction Grade in her ICT project from Consultant-E in Spain. She is working with Google India on CBSE and NCERT projects for teacher training; recently conducting the first-ever MOOC for the Central Board of Education in India in a five-webinar series which was watched by over 1 million educators all over the world.
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Nick Harinos is originally from Athens, Greece, but lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Having lived and worked in nine different countries for a variety of sectors, such as diplomacy and consulting, he has developed a strong interest in education, volunteering and innovation. He is currently working as a Project Manager at a rapidly growing EdTech start-up in Stockholm as well as the Global Chief Executive Officer of 180 Degrees Consulting (the world’s largest university-based consultancy for non-profits and social enterprises.) He is extremely passionate about social impact, and in particular how we, as individuals, can use our core strengths and skills, to do good in this world. We are excited to have him with us!

Varsha is an ACE (American Council of Exercise) Certified Health and Fitness professional. She coaches people to plan and achieve their fitness goals. Her high purpose is to build a healthy and fit community across all ages. She has run several half marathons, full marathons and ultra-distances which include 12 hour and 24 hour runs. She aims to motivate, inspire and educate about the benefits of exercising and living a healthy lifestyle. We are excited to have her as one of our speakers!

The theme for this year's TEDxYouth 2022 event is 'The Butterfly Effect.' This refers to the idea that small actions might not have a significant impact. However, the compounded effect of actions can make a massive difference.

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