Theme: Our True Selves and Purpose

At TEDxUSMC, we believe the motives behind our actions go on to shape their outcomes. That is why we believe it is crucial to identify our passions and beliefs in life before we embark on tasks. We truly want to expose our community to mind-challenging ideas and concepts to spark meaningful communication and encourage one’s finding of his or her purpose in life. This theme is a challenge to both speakers and attendees to think about why we do tasks, as opposed to how or when those tasks can be done. Behind the question ‘why?’, both speakers and attendees can discover their true passions.

EduCity Multivarsity Auditorium
3, 1, Persiaran Canselor, Kota Ilmu
Gelang Patah, Johor, 79250
Malaysia

Classmates Johor Bahru

Classmates is a Malaysian Pop Punk/Modern Rock band from Kota Tinggi, Johor formed in 2007. After a stint of what stardom feels like while performing for Teacher’s Day, Classmates band was formed. The band currently consist of lead vocalist Elham, guitarist Ucop, bassist Din and drummer Kim. Their original band members were Syukri (vocalist), Topek (bassist), Elham (drums), Osman (guitarist) and Azim (guitarist). The group first released their Demo CD in 2009 called ‘The Initiation’. It sold out in 6 months. In 2012, Classmates released their first self-produced EP CD called ‘Good News Come Soon’ which included their breakthrough track called “Primadunia”. It sold more than 500 copies and was played on various radio stations and social medias, first picked by Suria fm, Hot fm, Xfm then later ERA fm. The EP was launched at Urban Village Bangsar, in collaboration with the Drugs Free Youth Association organized by Ein from Second Combat. In 2013, they released their second breakthrough song called ‘Luaskan Kuasamu (Dari Selatan)’, a tribute to the Johor Darul Takzim Football Club (JDT). In 2014, the band entered Anugerah Lagu Johor 2014 and won the best songwriting competition category for their song ‘Luaskan Kuasamu (Dari Selatan)’.

Eddie Woo

With more than 10 years of learning and development experience, Eddie has conducted various training programmes such as Personal Growth, Investment Product & Sales, Retail Product and Sales, Leadership, Teambuilding, and First Aid. His past experience has led him to believe that our passion could be discovered by Chance as well as by Choice, all by doing only one action.

Henry Chan

Dr. Henry Chan is the Head of Conservation Sarawak, WWF-Malaysia. He was seconded to WWF-Indonesia and WWF-Malaysia as the Heart of Borneo Leader. He recently concluded a Conservation Summit with His Royal Highness Sultan Nazrin, Sultan of Perak, Royal Patron of WWF-Malaysia, and His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, President of WWF-United Kingdom.

Ivan Ling

Ivan is a postgraduate research student at the University of Southampton, specializing in using nanocrystaline graphene/graphite for environmental sensing purposes. Ivan is a passionate science communicator and has contributed to various outreach activities affiliated with the university.

Lyn Cacha

With a passion in writing and interacting with students, Lyn followed her interest and ventured into social media marketing. Currently working as a Marketing & Communications Officer in the University of Southampton Malaysia Campus, she wishes to bring a different viewpoint to a wider audience on the power of social media and how we can utilise it to develop our future career path.

Nadia Abdullah Hasbi

As the founder of Fit Rebel, Nadia's mission is to offer the world's most gorgeous fitness apparel at an affordable price through fitrebel.com. Her line of apparel, SENI, features hand drawn and painted traditional batik artwork by Malaysian artists which have captivated the imagination and attention of yogi practitioners all around the world. In August 2016, she was nominated by FEMALE Magazine Malaysia as a ‘New Malaysian Icon’ for her outstanding work in the field of entrepreneurship and for her efforts to ‘bring sexy back’ to Malaysia’s traditional art form, batik.

Santa Santosh Avvannavar

Santosh started his career as a consultant and soft skills trainer. Currently, he is working as a Chief Commercial Officer at QtPi Robotics. He has over twenty-five publications of mostly research documents in national and international journals, authored sixteen conference papers, and regularly writes articles for a national and worldwide daily paper.