nagpur ideas they say can be more powerful than guns city youngsters got a taste of this power as they got to meet and interact with a galaxy of well known people from various fields who had excelled because of small simple ideas tedx nagpur a nonprofit organization comprising of youngsters organized a conference to promote ideas worth spreading on monday speakers who shared their experiences with students included father of the indian super computer dr vijay bhatkar cofounder of the ngo make a difference gloria benny medical social worker dr abhay bang social entrepreneur akshay cherian founder of indianblooddonorscom khushroo poacha founder of crazyengineerscom kaustubh katdare cofounder of jaaga freeman murray and senior journalist from the city jaideep hardikar the usp of the event was bringing together speakers from multiple disciplines like technology entertainment design science humanities medicine business development and innovation all speakers were impressed by the energy and enthusiasm that they saw in the young students while cherain inspired them to borrow ideas from any source they could poacha told the audiences from his own experience how small everyday instances can give people some big ideas katdare told them how small ideas when embraced by a large number of people can bring about big changes murrays innovative office space a movable building made on pallet racks inspired awe from the students the students seemed to have taken the words of the speakers seriously too in a matter of hours there is a huge influx of great ideas into my brain these people despite their achievements respect young ideas and have told us that this is the time of life when we can get some of the best ideas opined akshat deshpande an electronic engineering student he said the speakers inspired him to do something big as soon as possible one thing that i learnt from all the speakers was respect for the needs of the society was the most important thing they also helped us realize that however small it may be every idea has its own importance said vipul gadekar a student of class xi the speakers were no less impressed dr bang was all praise for the students they have enormous amount of energy and talent what they lack is that they do not have a touch with real people and real world as most of these solutions are virtual he said