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  • The 2016 conference will be bringing together more than 24 dynamic speakers from across India and the world under one roof

    TEDxGateway partners with Genesis Burson-Marsteller for fourth consec year

    By A Correspondent

     

    The seventh edition of TEDxGateway will be held on December 4 in Mumbai and will feature an interesting line-up of speakers. A nanotechnologist, a 12-year-old singing prodigy, a microscopist, a global artist and photographer, a social media intelligence CEO, an augmented reality futurist, a quantum researcher, a peace activist, young innovators and scientists will tell their inspiring stories to a live audience of over 1300 and many more across the world through live-streaming.

     

    To amplify the TEDx platform and to showcase its electric line-up of speakers and their inspiring stories, Genesis Burson-Marsteller is collaborating with TEDxGateway as its official communications partner. This partnership marks Genesis Burson-Marsteller’s fourth year of association with the TEDxGateway platform, having successfully popularised the main event held last year as well as the first ever TEDxGatewayWomen held in early 2015.

     

    Celebrating TED’s mission, “Ideas Worth Spreading”, the TEDxGateway 2016 conference will be bringing together more than 24 dynamic speakers from across India and the world under one roof.

     

    On partnering with TEDxGateway 2016, Prema Sagar, Vice Chair, Burson-Marsteller, Asia-Pacific and Principal Founder, Genesis Burson-Marsteller, said: “TED is universally celebrated as a unique platform bringing to fore some of the most brilliant minds in the world, and TEDxGateway has been successfully bringing that experience to India year after year. It is a privilege for Genesis Burson-Marsteller to be associated with a platform like TEDxGateway and provide our support for creating a social movement.”

     

    Yashraj S Akashi, Curator of TEDxGateway and Senior Ambassador of TEDx in India said, “It gives me immense pleasure to continue our partnership with Genesis Burson-Marsteller for the fourth year and gives us confidence that we are building right kind of profile and communication for this seventh edition of TEDxGateway. We believe Prema Sagar and Genesis Burson-Marsteller not only bring the best communication expertise to the table but also help us define the essence of TEDxGateway’s journey in India.”

     

  • The fifth edition of TEDxGateway in Mumbai will happen in Mumbai on November 2

    TEDxGateway conf in Mumbai on November 2

    By A Correspondent

     

    TEDxGateway, an independently organized TED Conference, will take place at the National Centre Performing Arts (N.C.P.A) in Mumbai on November 2, 2014.

     

    Expanding on the spirit of TED’s mission, ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’, the TEDxGateway 2014 conference will focus on ‘Ideas Worth Doing’ by bringing together 25+ speakers from across India as well as around the world. The speaker panel comprises explorers, storytellers, photographers, scientific pioneers, a roboticist, social activist, artist, visionaries and provocateurs from across the globe. All speakers will present their world-changing innovative ideas during their brief 15-minute talks.

     

    Participants and speakers at this one-day event include prominent luminaries and industry leaders such as Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16-year-old Google Science Fair finalist; Ramesh Raskar who is an Associate Professor and head of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture; Ramanan Laxminarayan, a Drug Resistance Economist; Ram Subramanian, Film Maker, Founder, Handloom Pictures; Graham Hill, Journalist & Founder of TreeHugger.com and LifeEdited; Naresh Narsimhan and Adam Magyar amongst many others.

     

    The fifth edition of TEDxGateway is expected to draw more than 1500 curated and selected attendees across India.  Attendees of TEDxGateway will include philanthropists, policymakers, industrialists, CxOs, entrepreneurs, creative heads, students, scientists, artists, corporates and bureaucrats from across the nation.

     

    The conference will be held at Jamshed Bhabha Theatre and Lawns, N.C.P.A, Nariman Point Mumbai on Sunday 2nd of November, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and will be simulcast live to 20 locations. Along with this conference, TEDxGateway 2014 is also holding a simulcast for 1000 students and young entrepreneurs at Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) where the students can benefit on no cost basis. After the session, the students will have the opportunity to interact with speakers.

     

    Speaker profiles and more information on TEDxGateway can be found at http://www.tedxgateway.com/