The first list of 40 speakers for the first-ever TED event (conference on technology, entertainment and design) in India called TED India was announced in Mumbai on Thursday. The event, having the theme ‘the future beckons’, will be held at the Infosys campus in Mysore from November 4 to 7 and will see an unusual mix of people from diverse disciplines.

The list includes doctor, researcher and data wizard Hans Rosling, founder of beauty company, Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients Horst Rechelbacher, who calls himself ecopreneur, and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, who finds the surprising link between mythology and business.

Other important names in the first list include industrialist Anand Mahindra, management guru C K Prahlad, economist Sendhil Mullainathan, chief of Global Fund for Women Kavita Ramdas and India’s minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor.

Expect to see some young innovators like Pranav Mistry of MIT MediaLab whose innovation SixthSense was unveiled at the TED Conference at Long Beach in February this year. Mistry is the winner of ‘TR35 2009’ award by Technology Review.