Theme: Together, building a better world

Bringing the community together from across Shanghai and beyond, from Lingang to Tongiang, TEDxYouth@YCYWShanghai aims to inspire discussion, sharing of ideas, creative and innovative works. With talks from young people, creative and artistic unique performances, exhibitions of innovative ideas, and opportunities for learning and sharing, the event will be a place for the whole family. The venue also hosts 2 restaurants and a cafe, and is well positioned on the HuangPu River with spectacular views of up and down the river area.

West Bund Museum
2600 Longteng Avenue
Xuhui
Shanghai, Shanghai, 200000
China

Alex Butala

Student Researcher

Alex's talk explore the topic of artificial intelligence: Al - For Better or Worse?

Alex Peng

Student Researcher

Alex is a student from Zhejiang, China. He is good at biology and likes to do experiments to discover new things. Alex has won awards for his explorations. His enjoys playing badminton and participates in an environment protection group at his school.

Alina Jiang

Student Researcher

Alina is a student currently studying in Zhejiang, China. She really likes Lil Ghost’s music and has a passion for learning and inventing new ideas.

Amelia Seah

Student Researcher

Amelia is 13 years old and has lived in Shanghai, China for over 10 years. She loves playing soccer and enjoys reading young adult fiction novels, especially dystopian books. Amelia also likes to play the piano and hang out with friends after school.

Andy Chen

Student Researcher

Andy is 13 years old, born during the Olympic Games in 2008 in Hangzhou. However, he is not that sporty! Instead, he prefers writing or thinking of wonderful new ideas (usually during physical education classes) which he dare not promise to be useful. Andy has been interested in designing new ways of living and, through building prototypes of his ideas, hopes to inspire new ways of thinking about one's home.

Angelos Maroulis

Student Researcher

Angelos currently studies in Shanghai, China, and is finishing his seventh year. He is an ambitious creator of small crafts. He loves books, science, and engineering. Angelos spends most of his spare time making craft with cardboard and electronics, also writing code for games. His proudest project so far is a biker’s helmet that intends to save the lives of millions.

Ann Huang

Student Researcher

Ann is a student who has been studying in Shanghai, China. She is passionate about the environment and exploring ways to better understand the connection between people groups and their relationships and hence their impact on the environment.

Anna Metz

Student Researcher

Anna Metz, a 17 year old student from Germany, is currently in Shanghai, China. Despite holding a German passport, Anna has lived in China all her life, and loves to connect to people in daily life and build relationships with peers from all over the world. She is a curious individual, being very much intrigued by questions regarding social, philosophical and economic issues. Anna's eagerness to learn more about different cultures has led to her continuous involvement in Model United Nations, which has nurtured her global awareness and strengthened her understanding regarding inter-cultural phenomena.

Arnav Patel

Student Researcher

Arnav is a student currently studying in Shanghai, China. He is interested in technology and particularly how gamification can be used to improve engagement in schools. Arnav's talk explores how games can be used to positively impact learning.

Austin Chang

Student Researcher

Austin is 13 years old and originally from Australia. His hobbies included: playing multiple sports, playing video games, and singing. Austin values spending time with friends, talking to different people and, most importantly, spending time with his family.

Bronwyn Haggarty

Student Researcher

Bronwyn's talk, entitled "Don’t ask me where I am from?" explore life as a Third Cultured Kid growing up across many different countries.

Bryson Patterson

Student Researcher

Bryson was born in Louisiana and grew up there until he was 6 years old. This shaped his passion for sports and seafood and the development of close bonds with family and friends. After kindergarten, he moved to Texas, gaining new friends at school and growing a love for American Football, which he still plays today. As part of a family that travels, he relocated to Abu Dhabi, then to China. Despite the challenges of moving a lot, Bryson has gained a lot of friends and great experiences along the way.

Carmen Tong

Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Community Builder, Environmental Advocate

With a honours specialist degree in Environmental Management from University of Toronto, she is passionate about sustainable development and combating climate change. With her experience in experiential marketing, content creation and events management, she has developed valuable skill sets to help brands build audience, culture and community. While she is currently obtaining her MBA from University of Birmingham, Carmen has also extended her work and contribution into mentoring prospective undergrad students, and preparing them for society.

Chiara Garrett

Student Researcher

Chiara's talk, entitled, "We’re all in this together", explores a young Global Citizen’s take on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected life.

Curtis Wang

Student Researcher

Curtis is currently studying in Shanghai, China. He loves to connect with other people and sharing his experiences. Curtis' life goal is to share his experience and knowledge to people around him and hopefully inspire others to enjoy life and become more successful.

Daphne Cheng

Student Researcher

Daphne is current student studying in Shanghai, China. Her talk explores the effects of methane and how as young people we might find solutions to mitigate the impact on our planet.

David Ammerschlaeger

Clinical Psychologist, Teacher, Presenter

With a rich corporate experience, David held several executive positions in multinational companies, but trying to find a fulfilling job, he changed his career path 5 times, worked on 5 different continents and obtained 4 Masters of Science. David has been working in Shanghai as a psychological counsellor, researcher, blogger, speaker and lecturer for 5 years. Currently, he is working with YCYW on topics related to wellbeing, mental health and psychology.

David Qiu

Student Research

David is from Tongxiang, China. He likes physical chemistry, history, robotics and programming. David likes to do all kinds of experiments and designing new inventions. He likes to take things apart and put them back together. David has won awards in robot and science competitions.

Dimple Liu

Teacher, Musician

Dimple is a music teacher working in Shanghai, China. As an experienced and talented musician and singer, Dimple loves to inspire young people to enjoy music and develop their own skills in creating and performing music.

Dylan Ding

Student Researcher

Dylan's talk explore artificial intelligence: AI - for better or worse.

Elena Yu

Student Composer and Performer

A talented musician and composer, Elena finds inspiration in the world around her. She has studied in Shanghai, China.

Eva Xu

Student Researcher

Xuzhefei Eva is 13 years old and originally from JiaXing, China. She is currently studying in Zhejiang, China. She likes to study and is interested in finding ways to improve life, handle pressure and study more effectively.

Haruki Ota

Student Researcher

Born in Osaka, Japan, Haruki's hobbies include: playing video games, badminton and listening to music. His life goal is to make an entirely new video game genre unlike any other. He is currently studying coding languages to work towards his goals.

Hobert Sun

Student Researcher

Hobert is thirteen years old and was born in China. At an early age, he went to America for the first grade of school. Living in America helped him to speak English better than Chinese! Hobert enjoys spending time playing sports like basketball and, in his spare time, plays video games. He enjoys public speaking and loves to share his experiences with others.

Isabella Gong

Student Researcher

Isabella (Junyuan) was born in Shanghai, China. As a student, she studies a range of subjects and hopes to further her education in either biochemistry or criminology. In daily life, Isabella loves doing sports such as soccer and basketball. She loves how sport can help to relax people, but also sees how team sports help to promote relationships, social development and teamwork skills.

Jack Qi

Student Researcher

Jack was born in Zhejiang, China. He likes tinkering with computer programmes, digital, and playing badminton. Jack enjoys building things like making a drone and he has also made his own website. He’s also good at numbers and doing science projects.

Jada Lee

Student Researcher

Jada is a student studying and exploring business ideas in Shanghai, China. She is passionate about making a positive difference in the world and finding new ways to impact communities and people who live in them.

Jake Xu

Student Researcher

Jake is a student who has been studying in Shanghai, China. He is heavily involved in a large number of music, sporting and academic pursuits. Jake is passionate about developing unique solutions to problems and global issues.

Jason Chang

Student Researcher

Jason is fourteen years old and from his childhood, he found that language and memory are his strengths. He has a passion for many things and believes this has helped open many opportunities for him, as well as, helping to shape him to become more confident and better global citizen.

Jenny Gao

Student Researcher

Jenny is 12 years old and currently studying in Zhejiang, China. She likes pets, which are a great as a companion and help to relieve stress. However, recently she also found that slime could be a great way to help alleviate pressure in daily living.

Jerry Li

Student Researcher

Jerry Li 李聿桐 is a student studying in Shanghai Lingang, China. He is interested in creating art and treasures different ways of explaining his imaginative world of drawing. Jerry enjoys showing people how he can turn something as plain as paper into a cascade of different ideas and unique combinations of real-world objects. He started drawing when he was only four years old, now with nine years of continuous improvement and discovery, he can now draw almost anything imagined or unimagined.

Jian Ye

Student Researcher

Jian's talk focusses on how passions can drive real learning. But ‘what is REAL learning?’ This talk explores what learning really means.

Joel Chau

Student Researcher

Originally, from Singapore, Joel is 13 years old and has been studying in Shanghai, China for over 10 years. He enjoys many things, such as playing a variety of sports, listening to music, and most importantly, spending time with friends and family.

Johnny Sheng

Student Researcher

Johnny's talk explore artificial intelligence: AI - for better or worse.

Judy Guo

Student Researcher

Judy is 19 years old and going on to study journalism to expand on her passion for writing and exploring social issues. She is fond of driving and traveling solo.

Julie Tu

Student Researcher

Julie Tu Jia Yi is a student currently studying in Zhejiang, China. She loves rap music and enjoys eating chocolate. Julie is passionate about improving the world and likes to come up with new ideas to make the world a better place.

Leroy Shu

Student Researcher

Leroy is currently studying in Shanghai, China. He enjoys sharing his ideas and public speaker. Leroy is particularly interested in how people form memories and how these memories shape their perceptions of the world around them.

Lisa Li

Student Researcher

Liziyan Lisa is 13years old and currently studied in Zhejiang, China. She likes to actively participate in many extracurricular competitions and activities. Lisa found that playing with decompression toys helps to manage stress and pressure when studying.

Lucas Wang

Student Researcher

Lucas explores the life and impact of Yuanlong Ping.

Marianna Yu

Student Researcher

Mariana has been a student in Shanghai, China and plans to study Psychology in the future. She enjoys reading and topics related to the human mind.

Martin Lee

Student Researcher

Martin is current studying in Shanghai, China. He describes himself as a talkative and outgoing person. Martin has a keen interest in mechanics and cars, even from a young age. Fascinated by how combining lifeless parts can create character and soul, he began studying cars and other mechanical devices in primary school, and continued that passion to the present day. His dream is to design new advances in the automotive industry.

Nathan Liu

Student Researcher

Nathan is a student, currently studying in Shanghai, China. He is passionate about technology and academic pursuits to global issues. Nathan likes to learn independently, often working through online learning to advanced his skills.

Nia Yoon

Student Researcher

Nia’s talk tackles the difficulties faced by people who suffer from social anxiety and how this can be overcome.

Nicholas Hu

Student Researcher

Nicholas' talk focuses on exam pressures and how it is destroying our love of learning.

Peyton Chow

Student Researcher

Peyton’s talk focuses on how humans are damaging the planet and how we can work together to preserve life on land.

Quinn Chapman

Student Researcher

During Quinn’s talk he explores what would happen if large companies were obliged to donate part of their profits to charities and the impact this could have on the lives of others.

Rain Williams

Student Researcher

Rain shared his 10-year-old's vision for our future, that ‘pressure does not equal true success”.

Roger Sincharoenkul

Student Researcher

Roger’s talk focuses on how everyone has the right to quality education. Roger will discuss how changes could be made to enhance children’s life chances.

Shambhavi Shambhavi

Student Researcher

Shambhavi enjoys reading, particularly about history and mythology to fulfil her appetite for learning about different cultures. Originally from India, a land of many languages, Shambhavi finds learning new languages comes naturally. She enjoys traveling and exploring new places.

Shannon Lee

Student Researcher

Shannon’s talk focuses on gender equality across the world and how women can be empowered.

Sonya Yan

Student Researcher

Sonya is a student studying and exploring business ideas in Shanghai, China. She is passionate about making a positive difference in the world and finding new ways to impact communities and people who live in them.

Thatcher Lai

Student Researcher

Thatcher Lai, originally from Hong Kong, has lived in Shanghai for the past 12 years. He has been playing piano since he was 3 years old, violin since 6, drums since 7 and DJ/Mixing since 9. Music and producing electronic dance music is a passion. Thatcher also likes to cycle, ski, play badminton, tennis and squash.

Vera Hsuan

Student Researcher

Vera explores the effect that climate change is having on a young person's world.

William Hu

Student Reseacher

William is a creative young student from Tongxiang who always has great ideas. He enjoys designing and inventing new things. Working with other students, William enjoys creating and exploring engineering solutions to problems.

Yonga Sheng

Student Performer

Yonga is a student in Shanghai, China. She has loved music since her childhood and has learned three musical instruments and different styles of dance. Yonga has set singing as the goal and future of her life. She loves to learn and to challenge different musical styles.

Zhi-en Su

Student Researcher

Zhi-En’s talk informs the audience about inequality across the globe and suggests possible solutions to this complex issue.