Theme: A BlasTED Idea

A BlasTED Idea is focused on our speakers’ broad range of expertise, from medical, social movement, green-preneurship, education, to architecture. Each of the speakers bring their ideas become a possible ones through hardship and a continuous genuine work. Their ideas can be seen as a blasted one and some of of them giving huge impact to the society, how their action can bring goodness and difference to this world.

This time, we hope that the topic range from Technology, Art, Science, Education will lead to BLAST us and make us wonder, “will I be the next BlasTED one?”

3rd floor of Pascasarjana building
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 60111
Indonesia

Ahmad Rizal

Achmad Rizal Mustaqim, or usually known among friends as Rizal, always live to that motto. As the student of Mechanical Engineering ITS who is currently undergoing his third year of study, a long record of achievements that he starts since Junior High School still continue to today. He always challenges himself with new and exciting things.

Andi Yudha Asfandiyar

Andi Yudha Asfandiyar, with his animal partner persona Mio the Cat, is a trainer who is very loved by children. For Andi, storytelling is not merely telling stories, but also a way to share knowledge with other people. This observer of children and youth is also the man behind the successful children authored book titled “Kecil-Kecil Punya Karya” (KPPK), which is very much popular among child reader. He has more than 200 works and publications, some of which are in the form of books. In fact, his book entitled "36 Dongeng Pilihan Kak Andi" gained so much success; it is included in the best-seller category and has been reprinted many times.

Anto Satrio Nugroho

Anto Satriyo Nugroho has been working as a research scientist in Pusat Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi, Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi (BPPT) since 1989. In 1995, Anto finished his Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree at Nagoya Institute of Techonology, Japan on a STMDP-II scholarship which was initiated by B.J. Habibie. He also received the Monbukagakusho scholarship to complete the master and doctorate program in 2000 and 2003, respectively.

Deden Fathurrahman

His figure is popular among designers and illustrators. He is a book author, the founder of mukaku.com, and he was also a lecturer at Artmagic studio, an art & drawing tutoring in Surabaya. Deden Fathurrahman, or often known as Fathurisi, finished his bachelor degree with the highest GPA in the Department of Industrial Product Design ITS when all of that happened.

Dhany Arifianto

As a researcher slash lecturer of Physical Engineering department of ITS, Dhany has always take interest in computational modeling, signal analysis and enhancement, auditory scene analysis, and also psychoacoustics as his field of research. Dhany completed his bachelor degree in ITS, then continue his master and doctorate program in Tokyo Institute of Technology. His previous researches had won many awards and also research grants range from United States (National Institute of Health), United Kingdom (Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council), and many joint research from universities in Japan.

Eko Prawoto

Even in the field of architecture, EkoPrawoto is unique. Born in 1958, Eko graduated from Gadjah Mada University and achieved his master’s degree from the Berlage Institute, The Netherlands. Both an academician as well as a practicing architect, Eko’s true character lies in his creative ability to explore local and traditional styles and materials, especially bamboo.

Januarti Jaya Ekaputri

Januarti Jaya Ekaputri, became a lecturer ITS Department of Civil Engineering since 2005. Born in Papua, January 12, 1974, she completed her bachelor program and master at ITB Department of Civil Engineering in 1997 and 2000, respectively. Then in 2007, she continued her doctoral program at Tokyo University, Japan under Hitachi Scholarship Foundation.

Mahendra Ega Higuitta

His name skyrocketed ever since his culinary business, Sego Njamoer, took the interest of locals. When he was still undergoing his bachelor degree, Mahendra Ega Higuitta successfully delivering Sego Njamoer as the favorite champion in the Shell Live Wire Business Start-Up Award.

Muhammad Yasya Bahrul Umum

Yasya, as he called, became the pride of his university and even Indonesia for his many achievements. Having successfully won the 1st prize of national science olympiad or OSN Pertamina in mathematics, the student of Electrical Engineering ITS also promote the name of Indonesia in the international arena. His recent triumph is taking the gold medal in a prestigious International Mathematics Competition (IMC) for University Student in Blageovgrad, Bulgaria.

Ventra Agustri

For him, a vegetable garden in the city area is a business opportunity that needs to be taken seriously. Sure enough, and with the help of his wife, Venta successfully established an interesting business chain through a development of vegetable gardens. The man who experts in earth metals and mining, managed to create a vegetable garden café. His café is meant for people of the city to enjoy the gardens with a variety of juices and food treats which raw materials derived from the vegetable garden itself. In addition to the garden, Venta also had other private businesses, two cafés at the heart of Surabaya's shopping district. Previously, this alumnus of Department of Civil Engineering ITS class of 1995 has had over 18 years of work experience in the construction and mining industries such as Freeport McMoran, which projects mostly based in Indonesia, Mongolia, DR Congo, Chili, and Mauritania.