Theme: Take Two🎬: Pause & Rewind

Last year, TEDxIMU taught you to see the unnoticed. This year, our event returns with a fresh new scope, to bring you on a journey to revisit and challenge old ideas.

The theme for TEDxIMU 2019 is ‘Take Two🎬: Pause & Rewind’. To get the details right and fit the director’s vision, movie scenes are often shot in more than one take. We embrace the idea that it takes more than one attempt to get the big picture. First impressions play a major role in how we perceive something, far more than anything else. Through our theme, we intend to have our audience appreciate the importance of reassessing these early preconceptions. To achieve this, we will invite different speakers to deliver their talks on the values of self-reflection and changing perspectives. We want our audience to take ideas of which they only have a surface understanding and re-examine them, to grok the many nuances and subtleties that shape our worldviews.

TEDxIMU 2019 is an exercise in reflection, for its attendees to take a step back and re-examine beliefs long held to be common truth. It takes great courage to challenge your own perception of the world. TEDxIMU offers an opportunity for participants to banish assumptions and preconceptions about the world, and to deal with the world as it is.

International Medical University
Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, 57000
Malaysia

Abir Abdul Rahim

Women's Activist

Since her student days in the UK, Abir has always been passionate in giving back to the society. On that aim, Abir co founded Asia Women Circle (AWC); that drives “Lean In Malaysia”, a women-led non-profit organisation inspired by Sheryl Sandberg’s (COO, Facebook) #leanin movement which harnesses the power of leadership and community to embolden women to achieve their full potential by educating,enabling and empowering them to define their success. The platform challenges the norm and raises the status of women in the society for an equal world. In January 2016, Abir was named Regional Leader of Leanin.Org by Sheryl Sandberg and has spoken on women empowerment agenda on panels across the world such as California, Thailand and Turkey.

Frederick Pour

Registered counselor & psychotherapist

Frederick Pour is the Community Health Care Clinic (CHCC) manager at PT Foundation, an organization centered around HIV-AIDS prevention, support and care. As a licensed and registered counsellor-psychotherapist, he has actively engaged with sexual health, HIV/AIDS and STI counselling and support in Malaysia since 2011 targeting the key affected population and people living with HIV in the country for over 4 years. The stigma and discrimination on sexual health issues is a leading cause of mental and medical challenges in various communities. A better understanding of the mechanism and causes behind the stigma of sexual health issues can lead to a more accepting and healthy society. To these ends, Frederick will engage the oft-neglected topics of STDs and challenge us to consider the issues of sexual well-being in a new light.

Harsha Ravindran

Social entrepreneur

Harsha is a 17 year old social entrepreneur; International conference speaker; singer- song writer and comedian; founder of the social enterprise “StartMyName.com”; as well as a founding member of Ascendance, a nationwide youth movement that has worked with over thousands of students across the country to aid them in creating sustainable careers while excelling in school. At the age of 11, Harsha began her entrepreneurial journey through the guidance and exposure to working from the business incubator, ET ideas. By age of 14, she was an international conference speaker who was known as the voice of Generation Z on several ASEAN platforms

Jane Lattimore

Regional Service Line Leader, MSU APAC at Ipsos

Jane is a Market Research professional with nearly 20 years’ experience in the industry. She firmly believes that women everywhere deserve equal opportunities, and considers herself lucky to work for a fully diverse and inclusive company. However, we all know that this isn’t always the case, which is why we need occasions like International Women’s Day to help raise awareness. But do you really and truly understand the gap between men and women in the workplace? Globally and closer to home, here in Malaysia? Jane will unveil some surprising realities of the issues women face in the workforce, arming all of us with the information needed to ensure women have equal opportunities.

Jason Shong

Chief Financial Officer of HUB of ALL Things

Jason Shong, total privacy geek turned data mobility advocate, found that with technology, one can be private but yet share personal data to benefit from personalised services. He now works as the Chief Financial Officer of the startup that develops the decentralised personal data account technology. With this technology, individuals now have a technological capability to protect themselves against overaggressive use of their personal data by corporates and governments.

Jojo Struys

Mindfulness expert

Jojo Struys is a Regional TV Host, Speaker, Author & Founder of OhanaJo Studio, which is the largest yoga and sound healing space in Malaysia. She has trained multiple MNC companies on the topic of stress management and increasing motivation and positivity levels as a HRDF Accredited Corporate Trainer. She finished a foundation course at the London College of Clinical Hypnosis where she studied the power of working with the subconscious mind to break negative thinking patterns. She was also the Lead Scriptwriter and TV Presenter of ‘Jojo’s Diary of Asia’ on Discovery Channel, uncovering the various ways people can release their daily stresses across different cultures.

Kathy Tan

Company localization head

Two-time winner of the most valuable player award and recognized as the most goal-oriented individual in the company, Kathy Tan started the global expansion team and is the Head of Localization of Mindvalley – one of the world's hottest personal growth company with teachers like Robin Sharma, Neal Donald Walsch, and Alan Watts. She successfully expanded online education to 4 new language markets in 5 months and is on a mission to spread the importance of cultural intelligence in our society today.

Kunal Chandiramani

Youth entrepreneur

At the age of 15, Kunal Chandiramani is the CEO of two cloud-based tech startups, Kstar, an independent sales platform, and CompAcademy, an educational site offering 90-minute courses on different topics. As a young and passionate entrepreneur, being a teenage CEO is a challenge. He believes that breaking the constraints put forward by the society and not accepting that is something that all of us must do.

Lynne Hegazi

Psychologist

Lynne Hegazi is a registered psychologist with a background of working with individuals to confront unhelpful thought patterns and engage themselves in self discovery. In the past, she has collaborated with NGOs to facilitate psycho-social workshops for education and empowerment of Syrian refugees. She has completed a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from IIUM and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Professional Counselling. Lynne is passionate about advocating for mental well-being and wants to normalize and overturn stigmas blocking the forthright discussion of mental health issues.

Mitch Carson

Branding Consultant & Public Speaker

Mitch’s background includes starting his first business in college and selling it for more than 7 figures USD by the age of 28. His second startup with partners (Planet Recycling, Inc.) was sold in 1993 to Waste Management for an undisclosed sum. He started Impact Products Marketing in 1997 and grew its sales by speaking throughout the USA pitching advertising services to professional practices of lawyers, doctors, dentists, chiropractors, and real estate professionals. He found it made any business grow exponentially faster by mastering the use of selling one to many versus one on one. This simple twist in marketing grew Impact Products to a business generating more than $10,000,000 USD in less than 3 years.

Pedro Uria-Recio

Data analytics & AI expert

Pedro Uria-Recio is a senior marketing leader, highly experienced in data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, product marketing, and P&L management. As the head of Axiata Analytics, Pedro leads advanced analytics and AI across the operational companies of Axiata Group, a telecom and digital conglomerate in 11 Asian countries. With a cross-functional team of marketing specialists, data scientists and engineers as well as digital professionals, Pedro focuses on marketing analytics, digital growth hacking as well as new revenue streams.

Siddharth Anantharam

Founder of Life Circles

Siddharth is the Business Head of Mindvalley’s global School for Coaches - Evercoach. He is the Founder of LIFE CIRCLES - an initiative that helps people connect deeply over meaningful conversations and unforgettable human experiences to gain new perspectives about life. He coaches leaders, entrepreneurs and change-makers to discover and live their truth. He also regularly hosts some of the biggest events on the Mindvalley stage including Mindvalley University and Evercoach Summit.