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Thinkedu conclave 2019
panel of speakers
Banwarilal Purohit
Governor of Tamil Nadu
Scheduled at:
February 13
12:00 pm
Inauguration and address
Banwarilal Purohit
Governor of Tamil Nadu
Pranab Mukherjee
Former President of India
Scheduled at:
February 13
12:00 pm
Bharat Ratna Pranab Mukherjee's view from the Hill: Education and beyond
Pranab Mukherjee
Former President of India
Kiran Bedi
Lt Governor, Puducherry
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:00 pm
Are we doing enough in schools to create a nationalist India?
Kiran Bedi
Lt Governor, Puducherry
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
National Vice-President, BJP
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:00 pm
Are we doing enough in schools to create a nationalist India?
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
National Vice-President, BJP
Feroze Varun Gandhi
Member of Parliament and Author
Scheduled at:
February 14
04:00 pm
Is India's education ecosystem stifling the underprivileged and rural masses?
Feroze Varun Gandhi
Member of Parliament and Author
Bibek Debroy
Author and economist
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:45 pm
Modern lessons from ancient India: Have we learnt the right ones?
Bibek Debroy
Author and economist
Amitabh Kant
CEO, NITI Aayog
Scheduled at:
February 13
10:15 am
Engineering, medicine, skills or liberal arts: What does India need to focus on to become Incredible?
Amitabh Kant
CEO, NITI Aayog
T V Mohandas Pai
Chairman, Manipal Global Education
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:30 pm
Is the Public-Private relationship actually skilling India or killing education?
T V Mohandas Pai
Chairman, Manipal Global Education
Anil D Sahasrabudhe
Chairperson, All India Council for Technical Education
Scheduled at:
February 14
11:00 am
What does India's new education policy really need?
Anil D Sahasrabudhe
Chairperson, All India Council for Technical Education
Anil Srinivasan
Musician and educator
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:10 pm
Are we producing hyper nationalists or pseudo-secularists?
Anil Srinivasan
Musician and educator
Anita Karwal
Chairperson, Central Board of Secondary Education
Scheduled at:
February 13
11:00 am
Can you crack UPSC with just your school curriculum and without your friendly neighbourhood coaching centre?
Anita Karwal
Chairperson, Central Board of Secondary Education
Apeksha Priyadarshini
Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students Organisation
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Apeksha Priyadarshini
Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students Organisation
Apsara Reddy
National General Secretary, All India Mahila Congress
Scheduled at:
February 14
10:00 am
Are we producing hyper nationalists or pseudo-secularists?
Apsara Reddy
National General Secretary, All India Mahila Congress
Ashok Kamath
Chairman, Akshara Foundation
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:30 pm
Is the Public-Private relationship actually skilling India or killing education?
Ashok Kamath
Chairman, Akshara Foundation
Israel Jebasingh
Former IAS Officer and Director, Officers IAS Academy
Scheduled at:
February 13
11:00 am
Can you crack UPSC with just your school curriculum and without your friendly neighbourhood coaching centre?
Israel Jebasingh
Former IAS Officer and Director, Officers IAS Academy
Kawalpreet Kaur
All India Students Association
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Kawalpreet Kaur
All India Students Association
Malavika Banerjee
Director, Kolkata Literary Meet
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:00 pm
Is too much tech making young India un-creative?
Malavika Banerjee
Director, Kolkata Literary Meet
Mayank Kumar
Co-founder, UpGrad
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:00 pm
Are we producing hyper nationalists or pseudo-secularists?
Mayank Kumar
Co-founder, UpGrad
Shankkar Aiyar
Columnist
Scheduled at:
February 13
10:15 am
Engineering, medicine, skills or liberal arts: What does India need to focus on to become Incredible?
Shankkar Aiyar
Columnist
Nikhil Gupta
National Coordinator, Research Scholars of India
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Nikhil Gupta
National Coordinator, Research Scholars of India
Prof Pushpesh Pant
Former Professor, JNU
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:00 pm
Is too much tech making young India un-creative?
Prof Pushpesh Pant
Former Professor, JNU
R Subrahmanyam
Higher Education Secretary, Govt of India
February 14
11:00 am
What does India's new education policy really need?
R Subrahmanyam
Higher Education Secretary, Govt of India
Rakesh Sinha
Rajya Sabha MP and Professor
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Rakesh Sinha
Rajya Sabha MP and Professor
Thirumurugan Gandhi
Activist and campaigner
Scheduled at:
February 13
02:00 pm
Are we investing enough in education infrastructure and research?
Thirumurugan Gandhi
Activist and campaigner
Ravi Shankar
The Sunday Standard
Scheduled at:
February 13
05:00 pm
The big discussion: Lessons from the Epics: Should we have them in our textbooks?
Ravi Shankar
The Sunday Standard
Dr Sam Paul
Educationist and entrepreneur
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:30 pm
Is the Public-Private relationship actually skilling India or killing education?
Dr Sam Paul
Educationist and entrepreneur
Smriti Irani
Union Minister of Textiles, Government of India
Scheduled at:
February 14
05:00 pm
The big session: Is India's education system divisive?
Smriti Irani
Union Minister of Textiles, Government of India
Farooq Abdullah
Former Chief Minister, Jammu and Kashmir
Scheduled at:
February 14
05:00 pm
The big session: Is India's education system divisive?
Farooq Abdullah
Former Chief Minister, Jammu and Kashmir
Jairam Ramesh
Member of Parliament
Scheduled at:
February 13
12:45 pm
Are we producing hyper nationalists or pseudo-secularists?
Jairam Ramesh
Member of Parliament
Subramanian Swamy
Member of Parliament
Scheduled at:
February 13
12:45 pm
Are we producing hyper nationalists or pseudo-secularists?
Subramanian Swamy
Member of Parliament
Anbumani Ramadoss
Member of Parliament
Scheduled at:
February 13
10:15 am
Engineering, medicine, skills or liberal arts: What does India need to focus on to become Incredible?
Anbumani Ramadoss
Member of Parliament
Shashi Tharoor
Member of Parliament and Author
Scheduled at:
February 14
04:00 pm
Is India's education ecosystem stifling the underprivileged and rural masses?
Shashi Tharoor
Member of Parliament and Author
Dilip Chenoy
Secretary General, FICCI
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:30 pm
Is the Public-Private relationship actually skilling India or killing education?
Dilip Chenoy
Secretary General, FICCI
Amish Tripathi
Author
Scheduled at:
February 13
05:00 pm
The big discussion: Lessons from the Epics: Should we have them in our textbooks?
Amish Tripathi
Author
Ashwin Sanghi
Author
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:45 pm
Modern lessons from ancient India: Have we learnt the right ones?
Ashwin Sanghi
Author
Vivek Agnihotri
Filmmaker and Author
Scheduled at:
February 14
10:00 am
Are we creating liberals, nationalists or Urban Naxals of Young India?
Vivek Agnihotri
Filmmaker and Author
Anil Swarup
Former Secretary, Government of India
Scheduled at:
February 14
11:00 am
What does India's new education policy really need?
Anil Swarup
Former Secretary, Government of India
Prof S Vaidhyasubramaniam
VC, SASTRA Deemed-to-be University
Scheduled at:
February 13
11:00 am
What does India's new education policy really need?
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:00 pm
Is too much tech making young India un-creative?
Prof S Vaidhyasubramaniam
VC, SASTRA Deemed-to-be University
Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Director, IIT Madras
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Director, IIT Madras
Dinesh Singh
Former VC, Delhi University
Scheduled at:
February 13
02:00 pm
Are we investing enough in education infrastructure and research?
Dinesh Singh
Former VC, Delhi University
Dr Debashis Chatterjee
Director, IIM Kozhikode
Scheduled at:
February 13
02:00 pm
Are we investing enough in education infrastructure and research?
Dr Debashis Chatterjee
Director, IIM Kozhikode
Prof E Suresh Kumar
Vice Chancellor, English and Foreign Languages University
Scheduled at:
February 13
02:00 pm
Are we investing enough in education infrastructure and research?
Prof E Suresh Kumar
Vice Chancellor, English and Foreign Languages University
J Krishna Kishore
CEO, AP Economic Development Board
Scheduled at:
February 14
11:00 am
What does India's new education policy really need?
J Krishna Kishore
CEO, AP Economic Development Board
Jayaram Komati
Special Representative for North America, AP Govt
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:00 pm
Is too much tech making young India un-creative?
Jayaram Komati
Special Representative for North America, AP Govt
N Sai Balaji
President, JNU Students' Union
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
N Sai Balaji
President, JNU Students' Union
Padma Sarangapani
Chairperson, Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research, TISS
Scheduled at:
February 14
11:00 am
What does India's new education policy really need?
Padma Sarangapani
Chairperson, Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research, TISS
Parth Shah
Founder and President, Centre for Civil Society
Scheduled at:
February 13
03:30 pm
Is the Public-Private relationship actually skilling India or killing education?
Parth Shah
Founder and President, Centre for Civil Society
Prabhat Jain
Director, Pathways World Schools
Scheduled at:
February 13
02:00 pm
Are we investing enough in education infrastructure and research?
Prabhat Jain
Director, Pathways World Schools
Prabhu Chawla
Editorial Director, TNIE
Scheduled at:
February 13
12:45 pm
Are we producing hyper nationalists or pseudo-secularists?
Prabhu Chawla
Editorial Director, TNIE
Prasanth Nair
Deputy Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Scheduled at:
February 13
11:00 am
Can you crack UPSC with just your school curriculum and without your friendly neighbourhood coaching centre?
Prasanth Nair
Deputy Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Shekhar C Mande
Director General, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Scheduled at:
February 13
02:00 pm
Are we spending enough on education and research?
Shekhar C Mande
Director General, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Dr S Subbaiah
National president, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Dr S Subbaiah
National president, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
Taran Singh
Founder, Melvano
Scheduled at:
February 14
02:00 pm
Is too much tech making young India un-creative?
Taran Singh
Founder, Melvano
Tejasvi Surya
BJP IT Cell, Karnataka
Scheduled at:
February 14
12:30 pm
Does dissent still have a place in India's campuses?
Tejasvi Surya
BJP IT Cell, Karnataka
