Theme: Passionately Curious

“I have no special talents. I am only Passionately Curious” - Albert Einstein

In accordance to the quote, we design “Passionately Curious” as the theme of our first TEDxITT event. As our admiration of Einstein’s genius, we’ve got the clue that we don’t need special talents to be success, otherwise we must be passionately curious with the stubject we do.

“Passionately Curious” is a moment to contemplate our current life, have we lived our passion? Are the progress we made are meaningful? Is this the life we are looking for?

We will discover how passion is extremely important in order to achieve the success in life. However, success is not only about money. It also involves positive impact to society and happiness to ourself.

TEDxITT
Institut Teknologi Telkom Jl. Telekomunikasi no.1 Dayeuh Kolot Terusan Buah Batu Kab. Bandung
Bandung, 40257
Indonesia

Mesty Ario Tedjo

Mesty Ariotedjo, student of Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, with original name Dwi Lestari Pramesti is known as multi-talented woman. Her love of music, especially harp, flute and piano brings her to perform in several concerts and orchestras. She’s also an ambassador of Indonesia Music Foundation with mission to introduce classical music to the public. In modelling, she’s also Brand Ambassador for Nivea in Indonesia, appear in a hundred works of Biyan and Sunsilk advertising. Mesty also active in social activity such as represented the World Heart Federation as a speaker with the topic ‘Fighting Non-communicable Diseases’.

Ginan Koesmayadi

one of Rumah Cemara Founder, a nonprofit organization that actively strive to improve better quality of life for people with HIV/AIDS and drug users in Indonesia. Selected as one of nine ‘Fellow Ashoka’ which is pinned to figure that considered as a reformer in the community. Using football program, he succeeded in bringing together more than 300 people with HIV/AIDS, drug users and public from diverse background in all areas of West Java.

Anantya Van Bronckhorst

passionate about online media. CO-Founder and Executive Director Think.Web, co-founder of wooz.in, co-managing director for Girls In Tech Indonesia. She was selected as International Young Creative Entrepreneur finalist 2008 and until now has handled more than 20 maintenance website. She has been invited to come at International Forum several times, such as F8 (Facebook Conference), Google Analytics Certified Meet Up, and TechCrunch Disrupt. Loves digital media and communication industry within it.

dreamBender

born from the spirit to compete. Not only participate in International arena, their projects also help people with special needed. Among them are Sparkins and Isara.Their project’Sparkins’, a touch based applications for learning typewriter Perkins for children with visual impairment, has won the first runner-up of Imagine Cup 2011 and the first place in INAICTA 2011 Awards. And ‘ISARA’ is a NUI (Natural User Interface)-based application for deaf speech people and anyone who wants lo learn sign language. This application has won first place of e-Inclusion category in APICTA 2011 Awards.

Suyanto

a great lecturer in ITTelkom and researcher in AI (Artificial Intelligence). Passionate in AI (Artificial Intelligence), SC (Soft Computing), EC (Evolutionary Computation) and Speech Technology. Speaker at many International Conferences around the world. The most popular books author of AI, EC, SC and has won some awards. A member of some research groups and join the national and international research. He believes that AI is the ultimate solution that could make everything simple and better.

Aghnie Hasya Rif

the youngest Young Change Maker 2010. In her 14th, she has become social activist involving her classmate in junior high school. Because of the cross-subsidies program in her school, there are social inequality between the students which bring Aghnie to make social movements. By carrying out the motto ‘from us for us’, she successfully organized Garage Sale up to more than 3 times. The money raised has been used to purchase textooks which are then stored in the library.

Deni Sugandi

a former of Pinhole Photographer Community and Braga Photo Festival. Outstanding Lecturer of DKV ITB, DKV Widyatama, presenters/ speakers for photography seminar or club, judges and event photography consultant. Imagination is more important for him than any sophisticated recording media. His concept of art does not depend on commodity tools, it can be anything.