Harish Sivaramakrishnan » User Interface http://blog.flexgeek.in Platform Evangelist @ Adobe Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:30:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Video of my talk at TEDxPilani http://blog.flexgeek.in/2010/04/video-of-my-talk-at-tedxpilani/ http://blog.flexgeek.in/2010/04/video-of-my-talk-at-tedxpilani/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:33:11 +0000 Harish Sivaramakrishnan http://blog.flexgeek.in/?p=673 The video of my talk on User Experience at TEDxPilani is now live on you tube.

]]> http://blog.flexgeek.in/2010/04/video-of-my-talk-at-tedxpilani/feed/ 1 Recap: TEDxPilani – a fantastic event! http://blog.flexgeek.in/2010/03/tedxpilanirecap/ http://blog.flexgeek.in/2010/03/tedxpilanirecap/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:42:23 +0000 Harish Sivaramakrishnan http://blog.flexgeek.in/?p=623 I was invited to TEDxPilani to deliver a talk on rich user experiences at the TEDxPilani chapter on the 13th of March at BITS, Pilani – which also happens to be my alma mater. The event had an eclectic mix of speakers, it was a great privilege sharing the stage with some of the best minds in the country in their respective fields. The event started out with a talk by K N Ganeshaiah – a plant scientist and an award winning mythology book writer. My session was the next – I spent some time setting the context, speaking about the need for building great user experiences. I also got to sing a song on stage and closed my talk with a demo. My session was followed by Karthik Satyanarayan – co founder of WildlifeSOS, Cleo Paskal – climate change expert, Nitin Gokhale – a leading journalist with NDTV, Vishal Talreja – A social entrepreneur, Rahul Roshan (@fakingnews) – the funny guy who runs fakingnews.com and finally Nakul Shenoy – a brilliant psychic entertainer. We also had two TEDx fellows from Pilani present mini sessions.

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It was hard to tell which one was my favorite talk – each one of them were great in their own respect. Overall, it was a fantastic experience to be part of TEDxPilani. A special word of congratulations needs to go out to the organizers, who painstakingly made sure everything was done to perfection – right from booking our flight tickets to setting up the stage. TEDxPilani has indeed set a very high standard for any exclusively student run conference with the poise they demonstrated with this event. Take a bow, Guys!

I didn’t have an elaborate presentation, just a few slides that goes with my talk. You can check out the slides below :)

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