Theme: Endless Opportunities

The City School, as an Educational organisation, strives to provide opportunities to its students and this commitment is the soul of our wish to choose the theme "Endless Opportunities" for our first ever TEDxYouth event.

We aim to host this event to project the charm, charisma, struggles and strengths of those extraordinary humans who not only transformed their own lives, but had a huge impact on the community as well.

We wish to challenge the pessimistic narrative of limited opportunities. This one day journey of exploration will not only help you find the right ingredients for creating the opportunities, but how to get optimal output from them, once created.

It’s an open question to thoughtful minds that whether the opportunities are subliminally present or they are created by sheer will and wisdom in accordance to one's scenario.

The City School Okara Campus
2/4 L Canal View Road
Near Canal View Housing Society
Okara, Punjab, 56300
Pakistan

Abdul Hafiz Ali Sutacio

Forensic Scientist & Travel Blogger

Abdul Hafiz Ali Sutacio is one of those travelers who explore cultures, food and stories of the people. Born and raised in Spain and the Philippines, Abdul Hafiz has visited a lot of countries at the age of 23. A forensic scientist by profession and polyglot travel blogger by passion, Hafiz has been traveling to 43 countries including Pakistan. Abdul Hafiz writes unique travel stories rather than a traditional guide.

Asim Azhar

Asim Azhar is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, musician and an actor. He started his career as a singer on YouTube, re-singing contemporary Western songs before he became a public figure.

Dr. Saman Hayat Soomro

Dentist and Travel & Lifestyle Influencer

Meet Saman Hayat Soomro, a dentist, and a travel and lifestyle influencer from Karachi trying to break stereotypes, and motivate and inspire Pakistani women to be self sufficient, emotionally and financially independent and to travel solo! She’s a strong believer of the fact that YOU are enough for yourself and usually when we rely too much on others, our dreams get crushed one way or the other. Live in the present, the future will follow! - “I believe in living for ourselves and keeping no regrets! Don’t want to say this at the age of 40 that I wish, I wish I did this at the age of 25”

Kami Sid

Human Rights Activist

Kami Sid is a development professional who has been working with gender minorities since 2012. Her areas of interest includes human rights, gender, health, advocacy, leadership, education and project management. She has attended several national and international conferences. She has been part of many documentary films including award winning short film Rani. Currently she is working as Executive Director of Subrang Society, which is working on advocacy for transgender and other minority groups. She is also a part of UN women civil society advisory group.

Khurram Elahi

Khurram Ellahi is a PhD scholar who completed his academic career with multiple gold medals. Spoke at House of Lords UK about his book Managers as Little Prince. This book resolves the dilemmas of Management science from fiction and poetry. Khurram completed his second book on philosophy of Iqbal titled Mankind encountering Angels in poetry of Iqbal. This book is soon to be translated in Danish language. Khurram hosts philosophical TV show on PTV home titled Nukta. Khurram has multiple publications in which he used the work of fiction to guide the management science. Moreover, he likes to spread the message of singularity that is spread across the universe so students can explore the world with greater curiosity.

Malieha khan

Malieha Khan is an ACCA and currently working as an A-Level Administrative Coordinator at the The City School, Shalimar A-Level College. She has made her name as an under 19 Tennis player and a part time singer working with the likes of Sami Khan. She is a full time mother who believes in self dependence by challenging socio-cultural barriers and need to raise boys who treat women as equal individuals.

Moeez Ahmad

Moeez Ahmad is an alumni of The City School Sahiwal Campus and has been performing on various national platforms before this. We look forward to have him here.

Musa Aamir

Social Entrepreneur

Musa Aamir is Co-founder at Rizq, a social enterprise that is working to combat food insecurity, food wastage and hunger at large to protect and advance the right to good food for all, and work to restore the dignity and honor of human. Musa believes that hunger is not a systemic issue rather it is a moral one. Musa is very passionate about working with the youth, instilling in them the spirit of compassion to work on various social justice issue. He is currently developing an autonomous network of youth chapters across various schools/universities, The Rizq Youth Republic, that educates its members through curated programs and service learning. He also looks after technology development at Rizq, leading product innovation for food ecosystems. Musa graduated from LUMS with a degree in Economics.

Prof. Waqas Halim

Educationist

Waqas Halim is a technology evangelist, a thought leader, an educationist, and a futurist. Currently, he is working as a global technology development practitioner. In the past, he has worked as Director of the Center for Technology in Education, the Smart Cities Initiative and the Media Lab at Information Technology University in Lahore. He is passionate about the use of technology for social change. Waqas holds a Masters in Public Administration with concentration in International Development from Columbia University, and is a Fulbright Alumnus. He works with various INGO's including the World Bank and the United Nations.

Rahab Munir

Rahab Munir is a visual graphic designer by profession. She is a music composer and song writer. Her music is all about love and compassion towards environment. She aims to encourage people to understand the sounds and noises around them and the impact these sounds leave on minds and their lives.

Zainab Chugtai

Zainab Chughtai. Who is Currently working as a Consultant in education, and as a Therapist. She is also a Barrister from Lincolns Inn and practiced criminal law for nearly five years. Moreover, she is founder of Bullyproof, a social awareness campaign aimed at fostering empathy, equality and kindness across the classrooms in Pakistan.

Zainab Javaid

Zainab Javaid is a valuable asset of The City School Okara Campus. Her soulful voice leaves her audience mesmerized. At such a young age she has brought laurels to TCS Okara. She is fantastically gifted and amazingly popular among teachers and class mates.

Zara Naeem

ACCA Student

Zara Naeem an ACCA student from Lahore who has been declared the global prize winner for scoring highest marks in the Financial Reporting exam conducted in December 2020. Zara credits this success to her father who has always encouraged all the girls in the family to pursue their dreams and smash all artificial barriers. Zara is an Alumnus of The City School, Pakistan.