Theme: Ignite

Local, flexible, quick, easy, face to face, communal and most importantly inspiring these are the adjectives that we think would describe a TEDx event best. It doesn't need to change the world, or be a panacea to all its ailments, all it does need to be and all it actually is a chance for local curators of change and reality-redefining ideas to communicate with their local communities, giving them a chance to quickly and easily catch up with the rest of the world, an old school face to face, almost tribal, meeting, that teaches, equips, and re-configures people who might have lost their agency due to their ignorance before anything else, now they regain it, not just due to empowering words but through tools, a way for their aspirations to become dreams and for those dreams to become realistic goals as they take shape on a stage, IGNITING within the very young and the very old a fire once again to fight the good fight.

Ladies and Gentlemen we are proud to invite you to be a part of our first TEDx Event, the full TED experience in a more “local” way where we believe in “ideas worth-spreading”, ideas that might be a great benefit for the others who’re seeking a change in their attitude and approach towards their projects, work or even their lives.

TEDx
dahyet el nakheel
shorouk city, Al Qāhirah, 11837
Egypt

Abdullah Rashed

Abdallah Rashed Graduated from communications and electronics engineering from El-Shorouk Academy, his love for sharing knowledge moved him to be the co-founder and vice chairman of IEEE at his university, a non profit that fosters technological innovation for human benefit, afterward he became a T.A at the same university and now he works as a software engineer at Valeo, France's leading patent filer and a company that is trying to bring us closer to smarter cars, a field that is equal parts groundbreaking and racing as companies are not only competing to get there but also competing to define what that is.

Khaled Saraya

Khaled Saraya is a 16 year old high schooler, while not the oldest in the room he definitely has a story to tell when it comes to life and living it. He loves to read, ADORES sports, enjoys nature and one of the people who don't only appreciate art but also create it and have witnessed first hand the power it holds. A while ago chance chose him and he rose up to meet it through perseverance, art and support from his loved ones.

Mohamed Gawish

About 14 years ago we used to call it the "Age of Speed." E-mails were becoming even more main-stream, knowing Microsoft office was a valuable sought after skill and if you knew of Photoshop, let alone knew how to use it you were one of the technical elites. Fast forward to today and the "Age of Speed" looks positively quaint and abysmally slow, to the point Where many of its technologies, for example, dial-up modems and floppy disks, have been retired and are entirely unrecognizable by younger generations. Yet our education system hasn't changed, and if it did try to change the decision makers will be hard pressed to discern what will be valuable and relevant for the coming day and age. We mainly teach today what we understood well enough 30 or so years ago to deem relevant, and large institutions (such as education) find it very difficult to catch up to change. This is partially why visionary initiatives and individuals are often the ones we look towards for real change. Sadly back in the mid-2000s, we focused on the by-products of new tech instead of the actual development of that tech and how we could be part of it instead of being left behind. Things like hardware development, coding, and robotics are what is shaping the current job market and is about to completely change the face of it. Many experts and researchers forecast that entire sectors of work will no longer be available as they get replaced by robots or software (robots that you can't push around or unplug). This doesn't mean that all is lost, there is a place for us still, afforded to us by the likes of Mohamed Gaweesh. Mohamed Gaweesh understood that what we should be learning is programming, electronics, graphic design, and robotics. These are Fields that if not necessarily safe from our soon to be robot overlords then at least it helps shape said, overlords. What We find to be truly admirable about his realization is what he chose to do about it? and who he directed this action towards. Mohamed founded iSchool the 1st parallel education system in Egypt certified by the Academy Of Scientific Research And Technology for kids from 4 to 17 year. Mohamed offers many of our youth a chance to be part of not just the future of the region but that of the globe, as changes in tech constantly change the scope of the words, fast, revolutionary and global, causing the demands of the labor market to shift completely from one year to the next and only keep changing and growing faster, his school provides them with the necessary tools to catch up to it, allowing them to ready themselves for their future, that will make our present look positively quaint and abysmally slow