Padmashri and Maharashtra Bhushan Awardee, Dr. Bhatkar is best known as an architect of the PARAM series of Supercomputers. He has spearheaded path-breaking initiatives like C-DAC, ER & DC, IITMK, Techno Park and I2IT, and has led the development of innovation-based systems like ETH, MKCL, Divinet, Dishnet, Multiversity and Know-IT. Dr. Bhatkar has been awarded the FICCI and ELCINA awards, the Government of Maharashtra Information Technology Awards in HRD and the Global E-Biz innovation award. In his highly invigorating talk at TEDxSIBMPune, Dr. Bhatkar sailed through the complex concepts of hexascale computing with great ease. As he discussed his insights on the new era of technology and computing, he made the audience realize the paradigm shift in the scientific ecosystem and left the audience with a whole new perspective on science and education.

TOM WUJEC -- Autodesk Fellow, Author, Singularity University Professor Visual thinking guru and award-winning innovator

The democratization of technology: what's happening in other industries and what's next

Take a look into 2012 technology trends with Intel Executives including Justin Rattner, Intel Chief Technology Officer; Genevieve Bell, Cultural Anthropologist and Director of Interaction and Experience Research, Kirk Skaugen, Vice President and General Manager of Data Center and
Storage Group, Intel Corporation; and Mark Bohr, Senior Fellow, Intel Corporation.

For more 2012 technology trends by Intel, visit: http://download.intel.com/newsroom/archive/2012_Predictions_factsheet.pdf

Roger Bamkin and Steve Virgin of Wikimedia UK take to the stage at TEDxBristol 2011, to give their talk on Transforming Museums with Technology, using QR Codes and linking them to information stored on Wikipedia.

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed.

A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse.

Solutions to clean energy production are found at the nexus of science, policy, and industry. Understanding the potentials and limitations of emerging energy technologies, as well as the underlying science, is necessary for sound regulatory oversight and industrial-scale production.

More than anything else, Eythor Bender is a team builder. You want to be on his team. And that's good news for bionics, a nascent industry that Eythor has championed and grown, taking bionic prosthetics from unconventional approaches to sustainable, approved products that merge man and machine, and enhance individuals' participation in their community. Today and as CEO of Berkeley Bionics -- developer and maker of wearable robots - Eythor is leading his company's charge to boost everyone's potential through personal bionics.

Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality and financial investment. He is the author of numerous books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), the technological singularity and futurism.

At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more -- and more about each other -- than ever before. Drawing the audience into a philosophical discussion, Horowitz invites us to pay new attention to the basic philosophy -- the ethical principles -- behind the burst of invention remaking our world. Where's the moral operating system that allows us to make sense of it?