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TEDxYouth@DAIS 2022 Mrs. Vasundhara Kaul

Mrs. Vasundhara Kaul is an expert trainer, mental health practitioner and well-being coach with
over 16 years of experience in the field. She is the founder of Carpediem EdPsych Consultancy, a
female-led organisation that aims to destigmatize mental health and promote well-being. She is
passionate about empowering people to communicate better, be future skill-ready, and become
life-long learners. Her talk captivated the audience with stories from her life and she focused on the
spotlight effect - a phenomenon where people tend to believe they are being noticed more than
they really are!
2022

Mr. Rehan Poncha

Mr. Rehan Poncha has represented India in swimming at the most prestigious championships
including the Beijing Olympics, Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games. He started his own
academy called SwimSmart with Rehan Poncha to train competitive swimmers and give back to a
sport that means a lot to him. Despite being a sportsperson, all students, from artists to scientists,
were inspired by his call to finding a purpose. His talk highlighted the importance of surrounding
oneself with positive influences and he encouraged the audience to chase their dreams!

Since the dawn of humanity, darkness has been a sign of danger: when the sun descended, the creatures of the infernal thrived. But
had we forever been afraid to venture into the depths of darkness, would we be where we are today? Our understanding of physics
would have been incomplete without Einstein exploring the shadows beyond Newton's theories. Our appreciation for modern theatre
would not have emerged without Ibsen traversing beyond Shakespeare's romanticism. Our fight for equality would not have Aditya Jhaveri
materialised without young change-makers championing the cause of those hidden behind the veil of inequality. With the fervour to
DAIS Class of 2008 alumnus Aditya Jhaveri is a serial entrepreneur with 12 years experience in
explore the obscurity that lies beyond the haven of the light, the theme for TEDxYouth@DAIS was chosen to be Beyond the Spotlight!
building businesses across industries. He is a pioneer in creating technology infrastructure for
We were extremely excited to bring TEDxYouth@DAIS back to the CPA after 2 years of virtual events. The room was buzzing with real estate and is the Founder and CEO of Blox - India's first and only home buying platform that
energy as students and teachers came together to hear our 7 speakers talk about topics ranging from the Arts, psychology, sports, is fully integrated with technology. Mr. Jhaveri's talk inspired the audience with his
education, diplomacy, entrepreneurship and culture. As always, we even had our very own student and alumni speaker and, for the first entrepreneurship journey and presented his novel application of artificial intelligence to the field
time, a teacher speaker as well! At TEDxYouth@DAIS, we strived to create a platform to share Ideas Worth Spreading and journey into of real estate.
the world that exists Beyond the Spotlight!
Student Heads: Dhruv Bhalla and Trayi Ajit

Mr. Arzan Khambatta Julian Vera Aguila

Mr. Julian Vera Aguilar has been a Spanish teacher in India for the past seven years and is a
Mr. Arzan Khambatta is an architect-turned-sculptor who found his love for sculpting at a young
beloved member of our school's faculty. He was born and raised in Mexico and moved to India
age and has been creating sculptural masterpieces for the last three decades. He specialises in
for his further education in 2008. He is an avid reader and is passionate about understanding
using his creativity to reuse and reimagine scrap found in junkyards, inspired by the tradition of
different communities, especially Hispanic and Indian cultures. In his talk, Mr. Aguilar shared
other local sculptors. Mr. Khambatta's talk was truly inspiring for the audience as he urged them
lessons he learned from his experiences as a Mexican in India. He urged those venturing into a
to plunge into new opportunities headfirst, and "Leap and then look". He left our audience
new life in a new country to "let go of the concept of normalcy, and embrace differences."
enamoured by the scale, medium and the underlying playfulness of his sculptures.

Mrs. Sujata Sahu Ahaan Jindal
Mrs. Sujata Sahu is the Founder and Director of the 17,000 ft. Foundation, an NGO that works 17 year-old Ahaan Jindal is currently in IBDP Grade 12, pursuing the IB Diploma programme at
to improve education access in the mountainous regions of Ladakh and Sikkim. Her organisation DAIS. In his talk, he combined his interests in sports and foreign relations to explore how sport
has impacted over 50,000 students in 1,000+ government schools by providing libraries, has helped open diplomatic channels between nations and promoted social and cultural
playgrounds and DigiLabs. She was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar and the Women movements around the world. Titled "The Game Beyond the Game", his speech explored
Transforming India Award for her contribution to the community. Her talk truly embodied the examples like the normalisation of US-China relations thanks to Ping-Pong Diplomacy and the
fact that anything is possible - even in the harshest geographies of the Himalayas! reduction of poverty in Afghanistan due to the popularisation of cricket.

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