TEDxMICA

“Whenever you're seeing news channels saying why I am number one that's all based on 50,000 boxes in a country of 1.4 billion people, and by now it's been scientifically proven almost that TRP has come from shouting and screaming, it comes from tabloid contents, it comes from sensationalism, you don't get TRPs from doing serious programming necessarily.”

-Vikram Chandra
JOURNALIST AND FOUNDER, EDITORJI

Vikram talks about how linear news TV channels are on a slippery slope due to the rise of live streaming and OTT platforms and how the future is bound to be all digital. The current problem of fragmented digital news has to be tackled by companies and media houses that aim to be the face of digital news. Vikram talks about the AI algorithm of his digital news app, Editorji, and how it is the solution to the above-said problem in the news world.

Check out his talk from Map The Gap 2022 below.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCAhIJjO-60)

The Future of Digital News | Vikram Chandra | TEDxMICA “Why did you leave Television news to set up a digital news venture?” A question that has been asked the most to Mr. Vikram Chandra. In this talk, Vikram tal...

"People are inherently changing everyday and if we see our relationships and human nature as one of growth mindset vs fixed mindset, we will be more careful to attach labels to people."
- Tanvi Girotra
Founder, Becoming I Foundation

Tanvi Girotra shares the secret to thriving in your everyday life by not just surviving, but intentionally changing your mindset and skillset from an early age. She shares her personal journey of applying her learnings in everyday life to reach her true potential and helping others around to do the same.

Tanvi is a social entrepreneur and an advisor to social impact organizations around the world, focusing on both the head and the heart of building leadership capacity, organizations, and movements from the ground up. Her work has been recognized at the UN, where she has been awarded for ‘Contribution to Humanitarian Development’ in addition to being awarded the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award and the Karamveer Puraskar for Justice & Citizen Action.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5L5SytypmA)

How to develop your Mindset and Skillset | Tanvi Girotra | TEDxMICA Tanvi Girotra shares the secret to thriving in your everyday life by not just surviving, but intentionally changing your mindset and skillset from an early a...

“It's one of the few places that we can go and sit and watch someone with curiosity and generosity and not look at them with suspicion behind the mask, the suspicion that oh my god are they going to give us something. I think the theater has a huge role in healing us from this pandemic.”
-Quasar Thakore Padamsee
FOUNDER, QTP ENT PVT LTD & THESPO

Quasar believes that theatre is reinventing itself. The shared experience of viewing live theatre with strangers, who you look at with curiosity and gratitude, makes it indispensable. Their happiness permeates within you, and that is what enabled the theatre to have a healing role in the pandemic.

Check out his talk from Map The Gap 2022 below.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKVnLBk7TD0)

The Healing Power of Theatre | Quasar Thakore Padamsee | TEDxMICA ‘The theatre is dying’ is something we all have heard. Quasar believes that theatre is reinventing itself. The shared experience of viewing live theatre wit...

"Think of the story you want to tell a few decades from now and start writing it today, because our world today is essentially, a grand storytelling competition. We are all striving to present our own national, cultural and personal stories in the most persuasive manner."
-Palki Sharma Upadhyay
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, WION

Check out Palki Sharma's talk at TEDxMICA: Map the Gap 2022, where she beautifully uses the analogy of ‘Katha’ and ‘Kathakar’ to land the point of how it’s not about just the story but the way it’s put across by the ‘Kathakar’ and how by following the five steps of ethos, pathos, logos, metaphor, and brevity, one can create value for consumers.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwHCOI8V4LQ&t=1s)

The Art of Storytelling in the News World | Palki Sharma Upadhyay | TEDxMICA A fresh flavor in the world of news, WION news has caught many eyes. Palki Sharma Upadhyay, the Executive Editor of WION, shares about the four gaps in the w...

Social change does not come only by knowing more but by using that knowledge too.
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Our next speaker, Palki Sharma, is an award-winning journalist and the Executive Editor of WION, India’s only international news channel. She hosts a prime-time news and views show called Gravitas, that tracks and comments on all the big developments around the world.

With a tagline that says ‘making sense of the news’, Gravitas has brought logical, research-based conversations minus rhetoric back to television. Palki focuses on engaging storytelling with informed commentary that showcases India’s perspective on world affairs.

Palki also hosts the channel’s flagship Global Leadership Series that features current and former heads of state through wide-ranging interviews. As part of the series, she’s interviewed Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Nobel Laureate & Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, among others.

With the focus largely on international affairs, Palki has reported from the ground on key events and stories like the ongoing Ukraine conflict, the UNGA sessions, the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, the Modi-Xi Wuhan Summit, PM Modi’s Israel visit, etc. Her coverage of the pandemic and sharp commentary on China’s role has won her global acclaim.

Palki has a career spanning 20 years with stints in the ITV Network, CNN-IBN, and Doordarshan News as anchor and editor. She has also worked with the Hindustan Times newspaper.

From geopolitics and climate change to space missions and social trends, Palki tracks a range of news stories that interest and impact people and shape our collective future.

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Our next speaker, Vikram Chandra, is the founder of Editorji Technologies - a start-up that seeks to transform video news through innovation in user experience, using artificial intelligence. Editorji provides personalized video newscasts on mobile phones. In his earlier avatar, Vikram was one of India’s best-known TV news anchor, presenting shows like ‘The Big Fight’, ‘9 o’clock News’ and Gadget Guru together with programs for social transformation such as the Cleanathon, Greenathon, and “Save our Tigers”.

He has helped pioneer innovations such as news on mobile phones, the live streaming of video on the internet, and the first major news app in India. Vikram has been named ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’ by the World Economic Forum in Davos; and has won the Indian Television Academy Award for ‘Best Anchor for a Talk Show’, the Hero Honda Award for ‘Best Anchorperson’, and the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Communication, along with featuring in the top 20 on the Impact List of the Digital Power 100. He was educated at Oxford University and St Stephen’s College, before attending the Mass Media Institute at Stanford University.

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We are thrilled to announce our next speaker, Captain Yashika Hatwal Tyagi. She is a War Veteran who was a part of Operation Vijay, more popularly known as the Kargil War in 1999. She is the first lady officer from the Logistics Wing of the Indian Army to be posted in a high altitude and an extremely cold climate area.

Despite being pregnant at that time, she served valiantly during the War and became the first lady officer to earn a Battle Report for her work. She has also served in Counter Insurgency (CI) operations in North East India. Her time in the Forces has inspired several young women to choose this career and serve their nation.

She is now a Transformational Speaker, Warrior Mindset Coach, and Corporate leadership multiplier. She enables youth and corporate leadership alike to adopt best practices from the Armed Forces to stay ahead of the learning curve. She is an active TEDX and Josh Talks Speaker who also runs ‘Shaurya Tales’, her YouTube channel, that narrates the stories of Bravehearts from the Indian Armed Forces.

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Our next speaker, Manvendra Singh Gohil is the Crown Prince of Rajpipla, an erstwhile princely State of Gujarat and the 39th direct descendant of the 650 year old Gohil Dynasty. He is the first member of a royal family to openly come out as gay to the world.

He is the only Indian to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey three times and has been featured on the show "Keeping up with the Kardashians ". He is the Chairperson and Co founder of Lakshya Trust dedicated towards Empowerment of LGBT community. He is also the Brand Ambassador of AIDS Healthcare Foundation India Cares, the world's oldest and largest non profit organization for HIV testing and treatment. Currently he is developing his dream project, A LGBTQA community campus at his royal establishment of Hanumanteshwar for the social and financial empowerment of LGBT community.

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Presenting the first speaker of TEDxMICA 2022 - She is a social entrepreneur and advisor to social impact organizations around the world, focusing on both the head and the heart of building leadership capacity, organizations, and movements from the ground up. She founded Becoming I Foundation at the age of 19 with the aim of transforming educational systems that negatively impact India’s most marginalized communities.

She is a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award recipient and has also been awarded the Karamveer Puraskar for Justice and Citizen Action. Her work has been recognized at the UN where she has been awarded for ‘Contribution to Humanitarian Development’. Tanvi serves on the board of Fora - a global women’s leadership organization and was awarded the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and calls New York City and New Delhi home.

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