Theme: Countdown: Zero-Carbon World

TED Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. The goal: To build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 in the race to a zero-carbon world – a world that is safer, cleaner and fairer for everyone.

TEDxJalanTunjunganCountdown is a part of the TED global initiative to turn climate change ideas into action. With “Zero-Carbon World”, we’re bringing our very own curated TEDxTalks on solutions for a healthier environment.

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TEDxJalanTunjungan
Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 6000
Indonesia

Bora You

Founder of SOS Earth School, Writer of 'What On Earth', Earth Teacher

Bora You is an active and passionate teacher for children; familiar with creating digital educational contents to raise awareness of environmental issues. She is the founder of SOS (Study OneSelf) Earth School at Surabaya and an author of “What on Earth,” an Enviro101 textbook for kids. She majored in Arts & Science at the college of the Rockies and also studied Journalism and Eco-Tourism in Canada. She became an English teacher and travelled around various countries for many years. Until 2017, she started her official environmental project called Earth Dayz in the hopes of saving the rainforests and endangered species. Her activities and works can be found at www.earthdayz.com and ‘storybora’ on Youtube.

Darlis Pujianto

Founder of Haloijo

Darlis Pujianto is a Surabaya native, and he knows full well how scorching the days are here in the city. Still, he fell in love with the outdoors -- hiking became one of his hobbies. And while the lush scenery of the mountains was a far cry from the view back home, he realized that the environment still needs saving, wherever you are. Then, he founded Haloijo Ecoservice, one of Surabaya’s first eco-courier services. At first, they helped deliver packages for a friend’s online shop. But their clientele grew larger and now they can deliver from documents to foods, drinks and more… so that we don’t need to sweat it if we want to go green.

Kiwi Aliwarga

CEO of UMG IdeaLab

Mr. Kiwi’s vision, passion and commitment in technology and agriculture can easily be seen from more than 50 startups under his wing all across the country. The tech innovator is also the CEO of UMG Myanmar since 1998, a Myanmar-based group of distribution and manufacturing companies. Graduated from Institute of Technology of Indonesia with a bachelor degree in 1992, he is now pursuing a doctorate in agriculture at Universitas Gadjah Mada. His career launched when he joined Astra International from 1992 – 1995. He then went back to Indonesia to start funding Indonesian startups, such as agritech MSMB Indonesia, voice recognition platform Widya Wicara, chatbot platform Botika Online, and many more.

Meyda Bestari

Puppet Theatre Creative Manager

Meyda Bestari joined the Flying Balloons Puppet in 2015, at first managing the costumes. At the same time, she started to make her own puppets, became a puppeteer, and also a producer in the group. She once dreamed of entering an art school but instead she graduated from international relations in 2017. Fortunately, she found her way back to art. “NATUH” was one of the performances she produced, which has been performed seven times throughout 2016 to 2018. She also translated some plays, one of them written by Toshiro Suzue, “My Friend Has Come.”

Tommy Tjiptadjaja

CEO & Co-Founder of Greenhope

Tommy Tjiptadjaja is passionate in solving world’s problems while bringing social and environmental impacts. He manages to do that by being CEO & co-founder of Greenhope, a company making plastic production and consumption greener and more sustainable by US-patented technology brands: Oxium and Ecoplas. His education and experience revolved around business management. He received an MBA with Honors from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a Schwab Social Entrepreneur with the World Economic Forum and also selected as Unreasonable Goals Fellow. They affirmed Greenhope as one of the most potential businesses to scale up in solving the world’s toughest problem – plastics.