TED Fellow + Atlas Corps Fellow + Social Entrepreneur
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- StartingBloc Fellow 09 at StartingBloc
- TED Fellow at TED Conferences
- Atlas Corps Fellow 2008-09 at Atlas Service Corps
- Manager - Digital Strategy at Ashoka / Youth Venture
- Co-Founder and Coordinator at Pankhudi Foundation - Bangalore Chapter
- Director at doSomething
- Volunteer at Various
- Past
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- User Experience Design Researcher at Human Factors International
- User Experience Design Researcher at Hewlett Packard Research Labs
- Research Intern at Hewlett Packard Research Labs
- Design Intern at Centre for Knowledge Societies
- Education
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- Human Factors International
- Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
- The Air Force School, New Delhi
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Yatin Sethi’s Summary
Engineer by education, Designer by profession, Social Activist by passion. Believes that by giving to the society, you tend to receive more.
Yatin Sethi’s Specialties:
Technology for Social Change, Supporting Social Startups, Children and Youth, Education, User Research, Ethnography, Design and Innovation.
Yatin Sethi’s Experience
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StartingBloc Fellow 09
StartingBloc
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Selected as one of 100 young leaders across the globe to become a StartingBloc Fellow, and to participate in the Winter 2009 New York Institute for Social Innovation. The partner schools include MIT, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Wharton, NYU, Oxford, The Fletcher School and Duke University.
www.startingbloc.org -
TED Fellow
TED Conferences
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Selected as a TED Fellow, among an amazing, eclectic group of 40 people across the globe to inaugurate the TED Fellows program at 2009 Long Beach TED Conference.
The TED Fellows program helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED's members: technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, the humanities, the arts, NGOs, business and more.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED Conference is a gathering of world's leading thinkers and doers.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/fellows -
Atlas Corps Fellow 2008-09
Atlas Service Corps
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
Atlas Corps Fellows represent some of the most dynamic, rising citizen sector leaders in India, Colombia and the United States. I was selected as a 2008 Fellow to work with Ashoka's Youth Venture in Washington DC to support young social entrepreneurs across the world.
Atlas Corps is a completely new kind of social venture that facilitates international fellowships for rising citizen sector leaders to volunteer overseas for 1-year to learn best practices, share skills, and gain valuable experience.
www.atlascorps.org -
Manager - Digital Strategy
Ashoka / Youth Venture
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.
www.ashoka.org
www.youthventure.org -
Co-Founder and Coordinator
Pankhudi Foundation - Bangalore Chapter
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Pankhudi Foundation aims at working towards benefitting under-priviledged children.
• Instrumental in raising the chapter strength from only 4-5 volunteers to approx 40 volunteers now.
• Organized various activities like collection drives for clothes, books and toys across Bangalore and exceeded estimates.
• Commenced business proposal workshops and Kannada language classes to educate volunteers.
• Built relations with various non-profits and corporates and evangelised Pankhudi Foundation in Bangalore.
(More details at - http://www.pankhudifoundation.org/bangalore) -
Director
doSomething
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
doSomething is a social innovation organization founded to help people convert their ideas into reality and achieve meaningful impact. Overall, the objective is to nurture social enterprise.
The current project "The Missing Half" is an educational kit which uses ingenious but proven activities to inculcate different facets of leadership in students.
(More details at: http://www.dosomething.in) -
Volunteer
Various
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2004 — Present (5 years)
2006 - Participated in Bangalore International Marathon to run for the cause of HIV AIDS.
2006 - Engaged with Shrishti Special Academy (a non-profit) to put up a theatre play that creates awareness about the specially-abled mentally challenged and autistic persons.
2004 - Provided strategic help for online presence and developed website for Budhan Theatre - an NGO in Gujarat working to raise awareness about the condition of denotified tribes in India.
2004 - Organized Summer Camp in college to counsel senior secondary school students about future career options.
2004 - Compiled an India Resource Handbook for Young Inventors International - an NGO that provides resources and support to student innovators and start-up companies in North America. -
User Experience Design Researcher
Human Factors International
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 1 month)
• Organized and conducted research studies throughout India for education and mobile segments.
• Researched and analyzed the market entry strategies for a new Contextual Innovation division.
• Identified needs, cultural factors and trends that drive user intentions. This was used to design better technologies.
• Interacted with clients to understand their requirements for projects in different domains.
• CSR and Team-Building Activities – Lead and organized several activities like Social Awareness Week, lectures by eminent personalities and outbound learning trips. -
User Experience Design Researcher
Hewlett Packard Research Labs
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Design industry)
November 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 6 months)
• Designed innovative and user-friendly data logging tools to quickly record insights during long in-depth interviews and to make the process interactive for the user.
• Moderated focus groups to capture insights and feedback on various design concepts.
• Developed cost-effective user-recruiting techniques for interviews by performing extensive secondary research.
• Outsourced different tasks of a project and motivated the agencies to deliver the same within timelines.
Activities:
• Global Citizenship – Lead and moderated of Education Grants Community as a part of HP Asia-Pacific efforts.
• CSR Activities – Initiated and organized activities being a part of HP Labs Theatre Club and on World Environment Day. -
Research Intern
Hewlett Packard Research Labs
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Design industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Gesture Keyboard - Design of an Indigenous Input Device for Indian languages.
(http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/research/aad-gkb.html)
• Improvised user-friendly techniques for Visual Feedback of the input device.
• Coordinated with cross-functional technical and design teams to create the software for the device.
• Conducted usability studies to evaluate the acceptance level of the device with diverse users groups.
The project won the Runner’s Up in The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards (Consumer Electronics) and finalist in NASSCOM IT Innovation Awards 2007. -
Design Intern
Centre for Knowledge Societies
(Design industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
Learning Lab Initiative – Exploring innovative ways to promote mobile devices for education in developing countries.
• Explored gaming cultures of tribal communities by conducting ethnographic studies in various tribal areas.
• Illustrated and prototyped educational games to impart factual and cultural knowledge in an interactive manner.
(More details at: http://www.cks.in/html/ecology_htmls/cks_ecology_building01.html#section11)
Yatin Sethi’s Education
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Human Factors International
Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) , 2005 — 2005
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Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
Graduation , Technology and Design , 2001 — 2005
Participated in presentations and competetions across india and abroad.
- Activities and Societies:
- Lead activities at Mind Body and Spirit Council, Budhan Theatres, Young Inventors International, Education Summer Camp, Electronics Hobby Club.
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The Air Force School, New Delhi
1988 — 2001
National Cadet Corps (NCC) Scholarship - 10th and 12th Standard
Topped in 11th Standard
Additional Information
Yatin Sethi’s Websites:
Yatin Sethi’s Interests:
Traveling, Learning about different cultures and practices, Photography, Music, Dance and Adventure Sports.
Yatin Sethi’s Groups:
ACM SIGCHI, doSomething, iVolunteer, vConnect, CSR International
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HP Alumni -
NetSquared -
Interaction Design Association -
International Network of Social Entrepreneurs -
DAIICT Alumni Association -
TechSoup (now TechSoup Global) -
Consultants Network -
StartingBloc Online Alumni Network -
YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS -
Salesforce.com Professional Network -
Atlas Corps -
India Leadership Network -
HCI India -
Designindia -
Startup Specialists -
TiEcon -
TED -
New Media, Social Media, and Social Networking Participants -
Ashoka - Everyone a changemaker -
Youth Venture - Dream it. Do it. -
Social Media Today -
Social Media Marketing -
The Indus Entrepreneur -
User Experience -
Pankhudi Foundation -
Design Research -
Non Profit Professionals -
HP Connections -
Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Network -
Global MIT Enterprise Forum -
Nonprofit Professionals Forum -
Human Factors International Certified Usability Analysts (CUAs) -
Social Entrepreneur -
Bridgestar: an initiative of the Bridgespan Group -
BoardSource -
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading -
CSRwire, The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire -
United Nations (UN) - Open Link -
Non Profit Network - MojaLink -
Digital_Nomads -
NonProfit DC (US) -
Web Startup Group -
Idealist.org for Professionals -
Web 2.0 for Nonprofit Organizations -
TED India: Ideas worth spreading -
Justmeans - Green, CSR, Good Work, Sustainability, and Social Enterprise News and Updates -
Business Professionals for Nonprofits -
The Indian Startup Fraternity -
InteGreater - Happier planet in 5475 days!
Yatin Sethi’s Honors:
TED Fellow 2009
Selected as a TED Fellow, among an amazing, eclectic group of 40 people across the globe to inaugurate the TED Fellows program at 2009 Long Beach TED Conference.
StartingBloc Fellow 2009
Selected as one of 100 young leaders across the globe to become a StartingBloc Fellow, and to participate in the Winter 2009 Institute for Social Innovation. The partner schools include MIT, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Wharton, NYU, Oxford, The Fletcher School and Duke University.
Atlas Corps Fellow 2008-09
Atlas Corps Fellows represent some of the most dynamic, rising citizen sector leaders in India, Colombia and the United States. I was selected as a 2008 Fellow to work with Ashoka's Youth Venture in Washington DC to support young social entrepreneurs across the world.
