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The Goa Project 2018

The Goa Project 2018

The Goa Project is an annual “unconference” that brings together a diverse set of people from various fields – to converse, collaborate and co-create. Attendees learn, share, and exchange ideas in a range of different formats.

If you have a topic, skill or insight that you believe is worth conducting a debate, discussion, talk, workshop on, go on and use the Funnel to propose a session for it. If you are a performer - be it a solo act, a band, a magician, or an artist, nominate your performance under the section performance. Performers will be given a slot in the evenings once the session wraps up.

We encourage attendees to vote on the proposed topics. The opinion of our event participants is a key factor while curating the sessions that make it into the final agenda.

We have a framework of tracks - Society, Design, Interactive Media & Cinema, Fringe, Music, Performing Arts, etc. and a separate track for workshops. These are defined as sections in the submission form, we may refine these tracks/sections in the next step of the funnel with YOUR contributions.

Note:

  • Topics related to religion and politics are not accepted.
  • For your proposal to be considered you need to complete the Delegate Application form here https://goo.gl/forms/gXMi5hPmjWEfq8fz1.

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#The Goa Project Funnel The Goa Project is an unconference - where unlike a typical conference, the talks are not put together by a panel or knowledge partner - but is proposed by the attendees themselves. You propose a session or talk that might be of interest to the audience at the unconference, … more

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Akshay Shah

My 2 decades as a hard core product entrepreneuer - Making & Selling in India - Learnings!

Would like to share my learnings over the past 2 decades I had building a make in india & sell in India B2B enterprise product - will focus on both the good and the bad aspects of being there doing that! more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 09 Sep 2018
Section: Fringe & Geekery Technical level: Intermediate

Kaustubh Khade

The price of gold

Why winning a gold medal in sports is not everything we make it out to be. more
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  • Submitted
  • 09 Sep 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Intermediate

Birendra singh Proposing

Woodcut in contemporary art

Now a days the artists are practicing woodcut prints but some where in a corner not reaching to the people and I am always fond of doing a workshop in which more no of emerging artists can participate in an open surrounding in different states in same day. more
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  • Submitted
  • 10 Sep 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Pravash Dey, MBA

Hyper Local Digital Journalism

Brand India Studio is a platform for global PR support, Brand Equity & Brand Positioning to progressive businesses, ideas-n-innovations, unplugged with opportunities and conversations. Unceasing business is a resultant of Impactful headlines, advertising, PR & marketing campaign. It’s an every organization’s essential. What is the use of good product/service without the user itself? Brand India M… more
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  • Submitted
  • 10 Sep 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

piyush vijayvergiya Proposing

Jobs opportunity for disable people and make active in society

now a say we saw lot of scope is available for disable people but they don’t know about it and they dont active in society so I want talk to this topic and want find out opportunity for them more
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  • Submitted
  • 17 Sep 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Beginner

chetan soni Proposing

Influencer Marketing

Do’s and dont’s of influencer marketing. Outline Do’s and dont’s of influencer marketing. more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 17 Sep 2018
Section: Interactive Media & Cinema Technical level: Beginner

Shantanu Paknikar

AEIOU - A Self Development Framework

A key challenge facing our society today is the job paradox. We have graduates being churned out by universities, and yet employability remains a challenge. Even if people do get employed, organizations struggle to find the “stars” to fill key positions. Occasionally, there are people who appear to have an “X factor” - they are able to get jobs of their choice, and zoom up the career graph. What … more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 18 Sep 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Beginner

Nandkishore Kapoor

Waste No Love!

We eat, sleep and repeat daily without regrets, i aint talking about falling in love. Its about all the waste we generate from the time we take a dump to when we get dumped with a bouquet of flowers in our face. Alot happens in between, for instance we write letters then we post em post to which we wear great clothes and eat good food, all until our cycle of love is complete. However something th… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 19 Sep 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Rachika Komal

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Play to become a better decision-maker

The talk (more like a workshop) is designed to be highly interactive and engaging in nature. In the workshop every member in the audience will be offered to play 2-3 games. These games are designed to identify implicit biases that individuals are normally influenced by, when taking decisions. These games are short in duration but richer in the insights every member will get from the facilitators. more
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  • Submitted
  • 20 Sep 2018
Section: Fringe & Geekery Technical level: Advanced

madhu vadlamani

Me, Data and society

Data is the most valuable thing ever and society is connected with data. But Im as data scientist... I’m more concerned about it too as most of the data flown has less facts and more falsE and this is reflecting society/people got worried and worse(at times) more
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  • 20 Sep 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Intermediate

gayatri rao

Come share, pa!

We propose an interactive session to discuss the pros and cons of the sharing economy and how sharing can be promoted. We would also introduce share-pa.com, a platform, developed by the speakers, for peer-to-peer sharing. The platfrom connects lenders and borrowers and assists in keeping track of the items shared. As the website is in the beta-testing phase, we would like to get feedback from the… more
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  • Submitted
  • 23 Sep 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Intermediate

Deeksha Gehlot

Black & White of the Creatives

The success of creative and artistic right-brained population is often restricted by the left brained legal system that exists in our country. Hence, I would like to share insights into legal protections are available for the different types of creative people, including artists, choreographers, musicians, cinematographers, writers, poets, designers, architects, visual artists and the like. I wou… more
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  • Submitted
  • 25 Sep 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Amev Burman

Influencer Marketing - The power of Micro Influencers

I will be talking about the pro and cons of Influencer Marketing and the comparison between Macro and Micro Influencers. Most brands and agencies treat Influencer Marketing as a black box. We’ve built a platform that helps bring out the numbers behind influencer marketing. more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 25 Sep 2018
Section: Fringe & Geekery Technical level: Intermediate

Aayush Srivastava

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Eudaemonia: An interactive game to battle the demons of the 21st century and finding 'flow'

This workshop is about the future. The world that we are bequeathing to our children. The facilitators will walk you through a series of vingtage and novel thought experiments, with a slight twist. The aim of these thought experiments is to construct the future that we are currently building. more
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  • Submitted
  • 27 Sep 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Advanced

Jayati Doshi

BYOQ: "Bring your own questions" party

Think of where you are in your life right now, and all the aspects of it that are important to you. Now think about the many questions you are sitting with as you go about living that life. Are there questions you left to “later” because you just did not have the time to think about them right now? Yeah, those uncomfortable/ abstract/ existential/ mundane/ tricky questions. more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 27 Sep 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Srilakshmi

Being a Design Entrepreneur

I am an Independent Consultant (aka freelancer, collaborator) and an entrepreneur. In the past, there was a reason why I stayed away from anything related to finance and business administration. I just couldn’t understand them. Even today, they are intolerable. But indepenndent consultancy forces me to enngage with them. more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 30 Sep 2018
Section: Fringe & Geekery Technical level: Beginner

Srilakshmi Proposing

How Zines influence society

I love zines. Its a a form of creative expression, and it can entirely be a single individual’s contributionn. Its aking to blog, but only it is more creative and tangible. I often find zines communicating the voice of an activist. It creates a strong impression about a societal perpective. It motivates creative expression on a sensitive topic. more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 30 Sep 2018
Section: Design & Visual Arts Technical level: Intermediate

manoj surya

How to keep your mind sane when tough gets tougher

Last year I spoke about reading 52 books in 52 weeks at TGP, I have had few lessons over time from reading and with life on how to keep yourself sane when thought gets going based on my recent article in Entrepreneur.com more
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  • Submitted
  • 30 Sep 2018
Section: Fringe & Geekery Technical level: Intermediate

Nikunj Ladani

Shaping our future with design

While tech is evolving with light speed, mankind needs design more than ever. While dreaming and planning for habitation on Mars, we should also be able to sustain life on earth. Design is the key which will solve problems and create balance more
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  • Submitted
  • 04 Oct 2018
Section: Design & Visual Arts Technical level: Intermediate

SandeepBalaji

The Psychology of Failure and how to re-wire your brain.

Faolure hits us all hard. Maybe there is a way we can all adapt, survice and handle failure better in our lives. more
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  • Submitted
  • 05 Oct 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Intermediate

Nikhita Ghugari

Collaborative workshop on 'Empathy for social impact'

Empathy is a key tool from the Design Thinking framework to design solutions that are relevant for all the stakeholders. The aim of the workshop is to understand the power of Empathy to solve challeges and find opportunities in our social environment to create a positive impact. Getting an overview of diverse techniques of Empathy, hands-on application and collaboratively solving a social challen… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 05 Oct 2018
Section: Workshops Technical level: Beginner

Sameer Shisodia

Transitioning Back To The Future

Many of us see and perceive a lot that’s gone wrong with our cities, our economies, and our planet. The circle of concern is huge, and growing. What can the circle of influence be? How do we act on the concerns, and how do we create the opportunity for a saner future for the species? more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 08 Oct 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Intermediate

Sudhir Sharma

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Pool Magazine

Journey of creating a magazine for design in India and now efforts to turn it digital more
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  • Submitted
  • 11 Oct 2018
Section: Design & Visual Arts Technical level: Advanced

Tanay Kumar

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Design and Designers in the world of Autonomous technologies

Self driving cars, AI powered robots, Intelligent homes, machines of today are learning to conduct themselves in our world at a pace which we humans can’t even imagine. In this world of autonomous technologies where we are empowering non-humans on a daily basis to take over our lives our role as a designer will have to be re-written. My consversation with you will be targetted towards a starting … more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 14 Oct 2018
Section: Design & Visual Arts Technical level: Intermediate

Tanay Kumar

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Design and Designers in the world of Autonomous technologies

Self driving cars, AI powered robots, Intelligent homes, machines of today are learning to conduct themselves in our world at a pace which we humans can’t even imagine. In this world of autonomous technologies where we are empowering non-humans on a daily basis to take over our lives our role as a designer will have to be re-written. My consversation with you will be targetted towards a starting … more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 14 Oct 2018
Section: Design & Visual Arts Technical level: Intermediate

Peter Griffin Proposing

Inclusive Design

I’d love to hear from practising designers about best practices in inclusive design. This could include not just products, and software, but also urban design. more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 15 Oct 2018
Section: Design & Visual Arts Technical level: Intermediate

Peter Griffin Proposing

When do you need counselling or therapy? And how do you choose a practitioner?

We don’t pay enough attention to mental health. Are there warning signs one should be aware of when it comes to our mental health and those around us? How does one go about choosing the kind of professional help that best fits our problems and personalities? more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 15 Oct 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Beginner

Peter Griffin Proposing

#MeToo and India

MeTooIndia has show us that we have failed and are continuing to fail when it comes to creating a safe environment for women in our workplaces. (As also our public spaces and homes, but that may be too vast a topic for a session at TGP.) There is a law on sexual harassment in the workplace. How well is it being implemented? Why is due process failing? Also, laws can deal with wrongdoing; they can… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 15 Oct 2018
Section: Society Technical level: Intermediate

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#The Goa Project Funnel The Goa Project is an unconference - where unlike a typical conference, the talks are not put together by a panel or knowledge partner - but is proposed by the attendees themselves. You propose a session or talk that might be of interest to the audience at the unconference, … more