About TEDxJUIT?
Describing it just an ancillary to TED will be grave injustice, it is in fact a microcosm of TED in which, a screening of TED Talks videos -- or a combination of live presenters and TED Talks videos will spark a good conversation and connections at the grass root level. Our goal is to bring together bright minds to give talks that are idea-focused and on a wide range of subjects, to foster learning, inspiration and wonder and provoke conversations that matter. We have made it an immediate priority to focus on the stories of Incredible India and its people, projects and ideas. We believe your voice would be critical addition to the TEDx JUIT stage. The whole organizing committee has left no stone unturned to achieve this arduous task of successfully organizing this event.

Our Vision
TEDxJUIT's vision is to help in the community's development process through sharing valuable information and unique ideas.

Our Mission
TEDxJUIT's mission is to become a platform for sharing knowledge amongst the JUIT students, leading them to a much prosperous future.


Event Details:
TEDx JUIT will start during the morning hours on 24th August, 2014 in our Auditorium, JUIT Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh. We will be having generous breaks as desired by the presenters. A general presentation session will be followed thereafter by the respective speakers.


We will expect you to stay for the whole conference, unless there are extenuating circumstances beyond your control. We also expect that you are prepared to converse with audience members about the Talks during the breaks. We will make sure that TEDx JUIT will offer a smooth environment for exchange of ideas among the audience and presenters.



How to Reach JUIT

JUIT Waknaghat is midway between Shimla & Solan. Shimla is 24 kilometres from the campus. Kalka is the nearest broad-gauge railway station. Waknaghat is very well connected with buses from Delhi, UP, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Chandigarh/Kalka.


Waknaghat is 24 kms from Solan on the way to Shimla on NH-22. For coming to JUIT, One has to take a left turn at Waknaghat and drive for 3 kms. From JUIT, Shimla is 24 kms. The location is at a height of 1550m above MSL.


Connecting toy train (UN World heritage)

The train starts from Kalka station. You have to get a ticket for Kandaghat station. After getting down at Kandaghat, get a taxi for Jaypee University. From Kandaghat it takes approximately 30 minutes to reach our University.


Bus

Kalka to Waknaghat (approximately 3.5 hours). From Waknaghat to Jaypee University it takes approximately 10 minutes. The charges of taxi are ?100 (please ask the taxi driver about the charges before boarding).


Taxi

There is a taxi union just outside the Kalka railway station. The charges are approximately ?1450, and it takes approximately 2.5 hours up to our campus.



Social Media

We are an active group whose main goal is to reach out and touch lives of people around us so this very platform forms the backbone for the promotion of our event. We have been very active since the very beginning and we provide definite number of mentions every week over various channels of social media like Facebook, Twitter, to name a few.


https://twitter.com/TedXJUIT
https://www.facebook.com/tedxjuit?ref=hl