Entreprenuers in India Under 20

Ishita Katyal
Author, TEDx Licensee & Motivational Speaker
Ishita Katyal, all of 11 years is an Author & Motivational speaker. She believes
there is so much out there in the environment for young people like herself to get
inspired, imagine new things and start doing something creative at an early age.
Ishita says that there should be nothing stopping a child from experimenting to do
what they want to do in life and they should not wait to be an adult to follow
their passion.
Ishita has spoken at the prestigious global TED Conference in Vancouver, TEDYouth
in New York, TEDxGateway, NASSCOM, Mind Mingle @IIM Ahmedabad, Toastmasters & REX
conclive events etc. Ishita emphasises the message that all parents have a
responsibility to help their children in discovering their creative interests and
motivating them to spend time without fear in whatever they want to make.
Ishita is the youngest TEDxYouth organiser in the Asia-Pacific region. Ishita was
also facilitated with 2015 Sakhi Samman award from Lokmat and REX Karmaveer Chakra
Award and REX Global Fellowship 2014-15. She likes to write, dance and sing and
loves to play basketball, is an avid reader and digs into Sudha Murthy and Ruskin
Bond in her free time. She is author of �Simran�s Diary� which she wrote only at an
age of 8.
Ishita is one of the youngest Author�s in India and was also featured in the Child
Magazine as one amongst the 8 Child Prodigies in India. She is also the youngest
indian ever to speak at the prestigious global TED Conference.
Saad Nasser
Ati Motors
Co-founder
Saad is a co-founder of Ati Motors, an autonomous vehicle startup based in

Bangalore. At 14, Saad is one of the youngest engineers in the country. His
interests vary from Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning to Aerospace Engineering to name a few.
As an intern at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems @ IISC he was
member of the team that was 1st Runner up at the IESA and IoTBLR Connected Device
Makeathon, where they built a sensing device for prosthetics. This project has also
been shortlisted by the ICRC for further development.
He was a Broadcom Masters International Delegate from India to the US twice. He has
been a winner at the Intel IRIS Science Fair 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016.
His project on tiled processors won him the Sam Pitroda Award for Research and
Creativeness as the best project of the fair.
Saad is self taught and home schooled. He has been doing online courses since the
age of 10 and completed numerous MOOC�s on edX, Coursera and Udacity.
He has given talks on Blockchain technology at various forums like the Cisco
Launchpad, Zinnov Confluence 2016 and at Broadridge.
Saad has worked with Team Indus. He is a Young Member of the New York Academy of
Sciences.
Soumya Tejam
BookBite
Founder and CEO BookBite
Tenth class student Soumya Tejam�s keen interest in technology and business, led
her to establish �Bookbite�, a subscription box service that sends out a curated
package containing a Young Adult novel, short stories by budding novelists, bookish
goodies and an exciting online experience. Created to spread the joy of reading, it
has grown to become a thriving community of passionate readers and writers. The
philosophy behind it was simple - don't make reading a habit, make it a lifestyle.
With recent tie-up with NGO Parikrma Foundation, BookBite is now trying to ensure
that for every privileged reader, it also supports an underprivileged reader.
Soumya was the Global Finalist at the Technovation Challenge � a tech. and
entrepreneurship competition. The app �cAppAble�, acts as a bridge connecting
physically challenged job aspirants with Corporate and NGO�s. Her team was selected
to represent India at the Global Pitch Event at San Francisco, USA. The team also
won first place in India region.
Soumya was also invited as a speaker , for the India Onward- Scaling Digital India,
a signature event organised by IBM.
Soumya was awarded the Rotary Young Entrepreneur Award.
Soumya is President of the School Dramatics association, Executive Editor of the

Literary association.

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Ishita Katyal

Author, TEDx Licensee & Motivational Speaker

Saad is a co-founder of Ati Motors, an autonomous vehicle startup based in

Soumya is President of the School Dramatics association, Executive Editor of the

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