Theme: breakthrough

No matter how dysfunctional your background,
how broke or broken you are,
where you are today,
or what anyone else says,
YOU MATTER,
and your life matters!

SU Complex
Fars Province, Shiraz, Saheli
shiraz, Fārs, 10017
Iran

Amirabbas Kashef

product designer

Winter of 90, I was a sophomore at chemistry, during a field trip to the refinery there were open green barrels filled with grains of Catiyoon Sodium resin. I grabbed a bunch and took them home with myself. By assembling some plastic cans and attaching a shower to a water hose and another container filled with the resins and inserting it in a large Polypipe I made a water purifier. I named it “Catiyoon”. Showed that to our principal, who is a knowledgeable chemist. Since then with his assistance I won some student awards in different student fairs but because I had too much stress I did not enjoy the appreciations and the awards. However, the glittering life of the “Catiyoon” was as short as a fly but that lasted me as long as the life of an elephant. Finally, everything settled down and no one blamed me for the completely wrong performance and application of the “Catiyoon”.

Arman Valian

business etiquette trainer

Arman Valian is a trainer & lecturer in business etiquette and cross-cultural training who holds seminars and lectures in German, English, and Persian in Austria.

Faranak Askari

founder of toiran

Faranak was born in Shiraz, Iran, and raised in Canada. She is a management expert, who holds different degrees from different Universities in Canada and states . In the past decade, she has used her keen business sense to launch different, successful startups. Faranak lived in Canada, the US, UK, and UAE before returning to her fatherland to use her passion for Iran, business experience, international expertise to revolutionize the country’s tourism industry. She is the visionary founder behind toiran.com, Iran’s first online tourism platform, cultural website, and information directory. She is currently working with her team to build the technological side of Iran’s tourism industry. Having lived in different Middle East countries, she realized the tourism potential of Iran for Middle East travelers as they can travel to Iran for ski trips and historical tours with just a short flight.

Hesam Naseri

Composer & Music Arranger

Hesam Naseri has tried to integrate oriental music melodies and electronic music in his works and he founded “Novak Ensemble” in 2016 based on new experiences in oriental music especially Iranian Music. He could introduce his music and his instrument “Moshtagh” by performing different concerts in different countries in Europe,Asia and Africa in 2017 and 2018.

Mehdi Mirazimi

author

the author and creator of the one-page book.

Mohammad Ali Sahraeian

neurologist

Dr. Mohammad Ali Sahraian is a neurologist and a researcher currently working in Sina hospital which is affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. His main field of research is multiple sclerosis. He is one of the two main authors of "MRI Atlas of MS Lesions", published by Springer.

Saleh Sokhandan

artist

Saleh works in a strange field of design. We know this field as the optical illusion but just up to the cool images around the internet. Saleh started his works in 2011. During the past decade, he designed and created more than 400 different artworks and events. He is more or less known as "Mr. Op Art" because of his works. The museum of optical illusion, namely Roya Park, Upside-Down House, and illusiona theme park, are some of his delightful projects.