TEDxUTP – 2015
By Sharvnee Raja
Mohan (PG, 1st Year/ 1st Semester)
Undercroft, 15th August –
"Extraordinary from The Ordinary" was the theme for the first ever
TEDx's talk event that took place here in UTP. Over 100 participants gathered
in the spirit of a day full of ideas worth sharing and spreading through
international platform in a local environment. TEDx is an independently
organized version of a conference that produces TED Talks that are held in cities and universities all
around the world. TEDxUTP spreads out an array of thought-provoking content
under the overarching theme "Extraordinary from the Ordinary" through
over 11 talks, videos and performances and with inspirational and visionary
leaders from a wide spectrum of industries.
After
registration, the ceremony started with a recorded video of TED conferences. The
lights came up, and the talks begun with first speaker Ahmed Basyuni, founder
of a youth organization, Arzumy MD, a startups hacker, Jason Campbell, a
marketing leader and Jackie Yep from UNITEN, founder of FastTrack. The
participants were quite excited about first round. After some social activity
and lunch break, the talks were continued with Ronan Diego, a Brazilian who is
also the leader and founder of AIESEC Paraguay followed by Ahmed Alaa a trainer
from Egypt and Wesley Chan, Gold Chancellor recipient from UTP. This session
was followed by a break and an energetic Mozambican dance performance by MyMoz.
The last session speakers were Sukesh Pandian, an inventor and alumni of UTP,
Walla SallahEldin a young women from Sudan., Zikry Kholil, co-founder of the
movement Incitement and Beshr AL Khateeb, an aspiring student from UTP.
"The event
was successful and mind-blowing with brilliant speakers and creative
hardworking team. We hope that it will become an annual tradition in UTP with a
greater success" said Yasser Nazir, the Project Manager of TEDxUTP.
Gorgeous and well-designed
stage
Part of the audience
Ronan from
Brazil during his talk
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