It seems to go over in minutes but factually it was a 6 hour’s innovative and intellectual voyage at TEDx conference held in Sir Padmapat Singhania University yesterday.

The theme was “Order from Chaos”; it started at 5:30 in evening and went on till 11:30pm. There were 7 main speakers, who have their own interesting saga of success and failures, inspirations were flowing and future started looking realistic. TEDx in Udaipur was one of my greatest experiences.

Here I cut short the whole conference by putting only selected excerpts of the whole episode.

First talk was delivered by Rohit Nair, 3rd year of student of SPSU in which he explained how art can inspire for future technology. Also, he differentiated between art and technology by saying “Art is combination of emotions and intellect. Technology is only intellect.”

Next talk was delivered by Mohit Pawar, CEO of New Media Consulting Group. He talked about managing time and making the most out of it for your hobbies and work.

Amit Ray, co-founder of Go!Places (goplaces.in) presented the five stages of a startup which brings it to an “order” from “chaos”. He said that every startup is a chaos; there are lot of ideas and plans behind that. But, it takes time to decide how to proceed.

Jayesh Sachdev is the founder of Art & Design Studio, Emblem Art Gallery and Emblem Couture. He is also the recipient of Tog 5 Young Arts Entrepreneurs in India, 2008. He spoke about the hardships he faced during his journey from college to the business world. He gave an inspirational message of moving on whatever may be the situations.

Viplav Baxi, currently working on the NBT (Network Based Training), a new futuristic format for digital learning, based on networked collaboration pointed out the flaws in the present education system and introduced to some new ideas which need to be implemented for better learning.

Jay Thakkar, Research Head at Design Innovation & Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University and author of two books “Matra” and “Naqsh”. In his speech, focused on the various traditional architectural excellences which can be found in the rural areas of our country. He led emphasis on “Bringing vernacular (traditional) architecture to a wider audience”. He also said that, “there needs to be a balance among us, we should treat everyone equally so that there is proper flow of knowledge and experience”.

Anuj Sharma is a post graduate in Apparel Design from National Institute of Design (NID), India. He was also selected among four finalists for International Young Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year award (IFFEY) by British Council, India. He presented one of the most amazing clothing collections named, “Button Masala“. He also said, “you need not get inspired from anyone. Everyone around us is the same and you yourself are your inspiration.”

The last talk was delivered by award winning geologist Dr. Ritesh Arya. He holds Guinness World Record for drilling highest artesian bore well in 2004. He introduced everyone to the most amazing fact that “Global Warming is Good” His research work says that Global Warming and Global Cooling are consecutive process which are repeated over fixed duration of years which he calls “C Cycle”. Hence, this phase is currently of Global Warming and in next few hundred phase of Global Cooling will come into existence.

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