Theme: Unveiling Hidden Potentials

Quick Facts About TEDxTanta
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× TEDxTanta is the first instance a TEDx event (of this scope) in Egypt’s Delta.
× Our project began on August of 2011 × Our team includes nearly a dozen volunteers who assist us
immensely with our planning.
× We made it an immediate priority to focus on Tanta and Egypt and its people, projects and ideas. While we’ve brought in some exciting people from the faculty and alumni network, our focus is on you.
× We are TED license holders and this event is thus independently organized without their supervision or financial assistance.
× Our secret dream is to help to make Tanta, Delta and Egypt a better place for all. If you’ve made it this far, you probably have a good sense of what TED and TEDxTanta are. We’ll skip most of the background, but to summarize, TED is an event based on the mantra of “ideas worth spreading”. Similarly, TEDxTanta aims to bring the same experience to Tanta specifically, Delta in general and Egypt on the larger scope and to give inventors, scientists, writers, and innovators of all kinds, the platform to share their own ideas.


OUR THEME
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(Unveiling Hidden Potential)

Believe it or not, it took us weeks to come up with a theme. In the end, we arrived at something broad but pertinent to TEDx event. Our theme, “Unveiling Hidden Potential ”, means that we expect each TEDxTalk

×To be forward-oriented;
×To relate, inspire or bring a hidden potential of an idea, a person or something.
× To have an explanatory or predictive angle; and above all (To be motivating for our audience).
Quite simply, ideas empower. A good idea, properly leveraged, can have an immense effect on our future.

Hall Of Conferences
Hall Of Conferences,Tanta University
El Bahr Street,Tanta
Tanta, 31111
Egypt

Hala Elkholy

Mrs. Hala ElKholy lead the Institute of Cultural Affairs in the Middle East & North Africa region (1993-2007) which, under her leadership, has grown from a localized grass roots entity into a distinguished institution with a pioneering role in the development of the entire region. She Lead a staff of 85 with 4 branch locations in Egypt and supported practitioners with a collective vision and mission to contribute to the region’s civil society through a focus on building relations, linkages and partnerships. She has a particular emphasis on inspiring young women and men to maximize their potential. By investing in human resources, Mrs. ElKholy championed investment in Egypt through youth empowerment, leadership and employment. Under her leadership the Institute engaged in major social and economic programs providing integrated Participatory Human development to more than 1 million community members. Through building the capacity of the numerous Community Development Associations, in Rural and Urban Egypt, an array of social and economic projects were implemented. Mrs. ElKholy is currently exploring innovative methods to support Youth evolution, enhance a culture of dialogue and forge partnerships. She offers her experiences through consultation and short term contracts.

Mostafa Housny

A preacher, presenter and public figure. A 33 years old father , works as an editor and presenter at Iqraa’ Channel programs, A teacher of Building Personalities Subject at one of the international school, A Board member at ( Hayat Bela Tadkhen – No Smoking Life ) Association, A member at ( Shoryan El Ata’ - Artery For Giving ) Team for Children in Egypt to spread volunteering and blood donating culture. Although Mustafa was graduated from faculty of commerce Ain Shams University at 2000 but he started working at 1997 as sales representative which helped him to titled as Sales Manager at early age. Mustafa also graduated from the institute of Islamic preacher’s preparation. He is giving seminars regularly in and outside Egypt. He is also participating at some charity campaigns such as: ( Ma’n Natkatf – Together we stand ) for Egyptian Food Bank , Permanent Support for 57357 Children’s Cancer Hospital ,and Rehabilitation for young drugs addicts . Mustafa started his programs with ( Neda’at EL Rahman ) at 2004.In 2005 ( Ama Ba’d 1,2 ) , in 2006 ( Ahla Hayat ) , in 2007 ( Law Kano Ya’lmon & Ala Bab Al Jannah ) ,in 2008 ( Khad’ok Fa Qalo Part 1 & Al Kenz AL Mafqod ) ,in 2009 ( Khad’ok Fa Qalo Part 2 – Qesst Hob ) , in 2010 ( Khad’ok Fa Qalo Part 3 , Madrest EL Hob ) and his latest programs was ( Khad’ok Fa Qalo Part 4 & Ohbok Rabby ) ..

Haitham Dabbour

A journalist, a poet, a scenarist, and a best-selling author Graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University.Showed an interest in writing and publishing business in the Arab world; he promoted his books through image advertisements as in " The first duplicate /أول مكرر" then through short clips in "Mid-life crisis 23 years old / أزمة منتصف العمر 23 سنة ', which was directed by Kareem Alshennawy. The idea was largely promoted via other writers, and later it became one of the birthmarks of newly published books. His newest book " Article 212/مادة 212”was accompanied by a documentary film, also directed by Kareem Alshennawy. The documentary was a great success, many stations played it like BBC, Dream 2, Al Jazeera channel, and German TV. It was also translated to English and played worldwide in different festivals. This book was the first book in the Arab world where readers could pre-order a copy. He helped in processing and preparation of "Tahrir 2011: The good, The Bad, and The Politician", directed by Tamer Ezzat, Aiten Amin, and Amr Salama. The documentary participated in Venice, Toronto, Abu Dhabi, and Amsterdam short film festivals. It won the UNESCO award as well.

Shady Sherif

Known as one of the youngest and most successful entrepreneurs in the publishing industry, Shady Sherif solely created a previously non-existent niche in the magazine industry in Egypt with the creation of the edgy, groundbreaking, and unprecedented English youth publication Campus Magazine in 2000. Leaving no time to waste, Shady flung himself into the events industry with the creation of Ee Entertainment and Events that put a slew of unique and innovative events under his belt. Shortly after the establishment of Ee Entertainment and Events, Shady again pioneered a new twist on an old genre, that of the guide magazines, and created Gmag, the second addition to Core Publications. After the great success and wide acclaim that Gmag received, it was time for Shady to venture into yet another unknown territory and claim it as his own with the inception of E7na Magazine Both Egypt Treasures and Egypt Treasures' sleeve are distributed on Egypt Air Flights with more then 1,500,000 people receiving them yearly. The latest addition is Core Virtual,it is the online evolution of Core Publications (Campus, E7na, G Mag and Egypt Treasures)Core Virtual’s aim is to support freedom of expression and to both inform and entertain. Besides that, Core Virtual also takes it a step further and helps break down barriers that exist for talented youth who need a safe platform to showcase their talents amongst like-minded people. Core Virtual first online project is elgomhoreya.tv. that is extremely dedicated to motivating, encouraging and facilitating them in bringing Arab youth ideas and talent to the public through elgomhoreya.tv.

Ammar Abu shady

Video and Film Producer Qabila Co-founder and Production DirectorBorn in Cairo, Ammar abu shady's academic journey took him from Misr International University (MIU) to James Madison University (JMU) in the States . Ammar pursued a good career in media production and worked for reputable organizations as Dream TV (10 pm Talk show), Awakening Records, and Media production houses. Although Abu shady works for different media outlets, he was lucky to be offered an overwhelming experience during an early stage in his life. That is, QABILA. A mere idea thrown by a friend in an outing could have never been expected to impact their life that much. Qabila is a media incubator that aims at producing constructive media (be it music videos, short movies, infographics, you name it!) through turning people's ideas into productions. In more sophisticated terms: crowd-sourcing. Ammar became the Production Director of Qabila, an organization that in less than 4 months: had 74,000 fan on facebook, about 600,000 views on YouTube, did 20 productions, and received zillions of people's ideas and contributions. Ammar -through qabila- aims to continue being inspired, and inspire :)

Maged Ghoneima

Maged Ghoneima obtained his PhD from Northwestern University in Chicago in 2001. After that Maged worked in the Electronics design sector in leading companies like Intel Corporation and Nvidia Corporation. He has more than 10 issued and pending patents, as well as more than 40 conference and journal publications. In 2010 he returned back to his country to contribute to scientific research and entrepreneurship efforts. He has co-founded three companies in the fields of electronics, IT and LBS. He strongly believes that the strength of Egypt is in each of its citizens and accordingly is trying to boost entrepreneurship and human development efforts in all fields through volunteering and sponsorship.

Hatem Arafa

A 23 years old man who lives in Alex ,who is a Graphic designer, writer, photographer and Arabic Calligrapher. Since three years, specialized in designing books' covers.Every now and then, He designs photography and creative writing workshops to create an artwork of both. Some of his short stories and articles are already published. He dreams of publishing his own book soon.

Yasser Tawfik

Yasser is the Co-Founder of Ideas Gym which is based on a new innovative concept worldwide in linking Education to sports and Entertainment. Yasser is also the Open Innovation Projects Manager at Orange Labs and Chairman of TEDxYouth@Alexandria. Yasser is person who likes to share real experience with others to help them learn from the challenges faced him during his life and one of the believers in investing in Kids and Youth Education as the Right way for a better future. Yasser has more than 10 years of volunteering experience with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) and founded The FIRST Lego League since 2005 and The Future City competition since 2002 for schools in Egypt and co founded the Made in Egypt competition since 2005 for Engineering Universities in Egypt. Yasser managed Entrepreneurship and Education programs around the Arab region for more than 3 years. Yasser earned his Master of Management of Technology from Nile University even his Bachelor degree was in Communication and Electronics Department, Alexandria University. Yasser is the Chairman of the TEDxYouth@Alexandria Event and co founder Ideas Gym and Co Founder of Searag For Educational Innovation and Content services company.