ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: INDIA – Engineering the future of innovation | Siddharth Rajhans | TEDxSCEM

Here’s Great Tip: INDIA – Engineering the future of innovation | Siddharth Rajhans | TEDxSCEM

Here is Something You Should See…


In this captivating TEDx talk, Siddharth Rajhans, one of India’s prominent TEDx speakers, through his years of experience of giving keynotes to engineering students across the country tries to encapsulate the ideology of Indian innovation and how we have to engineer the future of our country with the same pace and determination with which India has become a pioneer engineering nation in the world.

Siddharth explains the classic gap of engineering education in India and how it is churning out more tech professionals and fewer innovators. He connects this concept with the idea of “Make in India” and why it is paramount for our generation to think “India first” rather than focusing purely on personal goals. Known for his trademark wit and spontaneity in keynotes, Siddharth emphasizes on the need to keep contributing towards India’s development – along the lines of the Sustainable development goals of the UN and trying to bridge the lack of patriotic influence in our engineering education.

This crisp TEDx video is packed with humor, taking digs at societal notions and pseudosciences along with the current culture of colleges, relationships, and so on – and weaves a lasting impression on the audience who might connect with college life in India. Siddharth is a well-known innovator and Harvard educated entrepreneur trying to make a difference to India’s education system through his keynotes, work, and research. His interaction with over a million college students over 6 years is a testimony of his love for India and his effectiveness as a keynote speaker. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
He is a Harvard educated first-generation technology
entrepreneur, a Silicon Valley Technocrat and product expert,
management researcher, TEDx, and motivational speaker and Pioneer
of the Outernet Technology in India and the Asia Pacific Region.
Siddharth is currently a Principal Policy Officer working on the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) format of the United Nations
in New York and has previously worked as a Product Manager for
Apple in Singapore and spearheaded Apple’s Everyone Can Code
project. He also heads his startup called “Spacify” as a co-founder &
CEO, which has been working to provide satellite-powered internet or
“Outernet” in Singapore & parts of rural India as part of the Digital
India initiative. Siddharth is on the board of several universities, including DAVV Indore, Symbiosis, Indore, RGPV Bhopal
and de facto advisor to several others, including the likes of IIT Kharagpur, NIT Kurukshetra, UPES Dehradun & NMIMS
Bangalore for bridging the industry academia gap. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at