For over last five years, academician Vijay Sahi had been a regular viewer of TED talks, but he could only watch them online. Sahi like many others in the city had been wondering when Lucknow would see a live TED event.

Their wait finally got over on Sunday when Lucknow’s first independent TED event – TEDx Indiranagar – was held.

Eleven speakers, from Lucknow’s youngest disc jockey (DJ) to perform at Asia’s biggest music festival, Sunburn, to German woman Ulrike Reinhard, the founder of Janwaar castle in Madhya Pradesh, spoke at the event.

Others included fashion designer Ken Ferns, co-founder of Sarthak Foundation, Shubendra Pandey working for slum children, founder of Alexis group Aditya Singh, GST expert and mentor Rajeev Kumar Gupta, founder of Project Impact Saurabh Pratap, Venture Catalysts Uttar Pradesh co-founder Vinayak Nath, ICICI vice-president and regional head Najaf Rizvi and social media activist Vikas Pandey.

“It was long due that Lucknow had a TEDx event and it was even more heartening to see youngsters organise it and be part of it as speakers,” said Sahi.

Another attendee, Deepak Mishra, said, “We all are glad that somebody thought of bringing TEDx to Lucknow. The speakers and their stories were extremely motivating.”

Curators of the event Ashish Mishra and Megha Khosla said, “The process to get the event’s license was long and stressful but the entire team is glad to have hosted the first TEDx event in Lucknow finally.”

source:http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News / TNN / March 19th, 2018