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TEDXGATEWAY RETURNS TO MUMBAI WITH A LINEUP FEATURING ICONIC SPEAKERS AND REMARKABLE IDEAS TO INSPIRE THE FUTURE

The upcoming edition in association with the Aditya Birla Group will spotlight 24 speakers and will be hosted at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on 4th June 2023

Mumbai, 22nd May 2023: TEDXGateway, India’s largest platform for breakthrough ideas, and conversations presented in a radical format, is scheduled to take place in Mumbai on Sunday, 4th June at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA JBT).

Known to bring together an exceptional list of creators, thinkers and catalysts from across the world, this edition too will play host to individuals - on stage and in the audience, who through their work, have reimagined and revitalised the will to challenge the world we live in.

Attendees who have previously been witness to this exchange have described their time at the events as one that offers a glimpse into the future, in the company of those creating it. Accepted globally as a platform for the exchange of ideas, TEDXGateway 2023 will continue to give firsthand access to ideas and conversations that have potential to propel us into a better future.

For the first time, this year, the platform will present the Big Idea Scholarship Pass by the Aditya Birla Group. If you are a young innovator with on your way to build the next big thing or a truth teller in the early stages of your career or know of someone who is, the Big Idea Scholarship & Pass gives you the opportunity to be present at TEDXGateway 2023 in the same venue as some of the world’s most enterprising and creative minds. Apply here.

This edition will also feature 24 esteemed Indian/International speakers from diverse professional backgrounds, sitting at the intersection of science, technology, humanities, culture, environmentalism, activism and more:

NAME OF SPEAKER

TOPIC OF CONVERSATION

DOMAIN

Anirudh Krishna - Public Policy Expert, Duke University

Achieving Excellence by Investing in Talent Ladders

Policy

Robert Katzschmann - Robotics Expert, ETH Zurich

Why is it Necessary to Build Machines that Resemble Nature and Humans?

Soft Robotics

Alexander Macdonald - Chief Economist at NASA

A New NASA Project

Space

Smita Sharma - Independent Photojournalist

Trafficking Of Minor Girls - Photojournalistic Stories

Women’s Rights

Prof. Ramanan Laxminarayan - Epidemiologist, Princeton

5 Biggest Key Threats Likely for the Next Pandemic

Healthcare

Naheed Farid - Former Afghan Parliamentarian

Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

Women’s Rights

Madhusudan Rapole - Clean Energy Innovator

Topic of conversation to be shared shortly

Climate Change

Agata Blasiak - Digital Healthcare Expert

The Power of Digital Therapeutics

Healthcare

Kelly Wanser - Climate Innovator & TED Speaker

Climate Intervention Technologies

Climate Change

Bharat Vatwani - Mental Health Activist

Social Work led by Emotion

Mental Health

Mohit Raj - Prison Reformer

Prison Reform with Prisoners as Leaders

Social Work

Arun Sundararajan - Economist

Should we own our AI?

Technology and Social Transformation

Aadeel Akhtar - Roboticist

Bionic Revolution of Affordable & Quality Prosthetic Devices

Innovation

Daniel Bögre Udell - Language Activist

Revitalization of Languages and why is it important

Language

Michelle Drouin

Overcoming the Intimacy Famine in the post- Covid era

Love and Intimacy

Moran Cerf - Neuroscientist

Critical Decision Making

Neuroscience

Piyachart Phiromswad - Economist

Unleashing the Power of Ageing Population

Policy and Academia

Marco Tempest - Creative Technologist, NASA

Creating Illusions using AI and Technology

AI And Technology

Rashid. K - Innovator

Innovation for Social Good

Innovation

Radhika Batra

Preventing Permanent Blindness in Children

Healthcare

Deepa Unnikrishnan Aka Dee Mc - Artist

Performance

Khatija Rahman + Sunshine Orchestra

Performance

Sahil Vasudeva - Pianist

Performance

Tharanga Goonetilleke - Soprano

Performance

“TED has always been the cornerstone of innovation, insight, and storytelling. It has built a worldwide community committed to lifelong learning and to sparking positive change. As an extension of this thought in India, TEDXGateway addresses the curiosity, creativity, and enterprise of our audience. We have always passionately believed in the power of ideas that will change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. The upcoming edition this June in Mumbai, will be bold and brilliant — without apology. At TEDXGateway 2023, we’re shining a spotlight on 24 dazzling ideas from some of the world’s most extraordinary risk-takers and innovators. Attendees can expect a fast paced and curated daylong conference that will explore the most pressing questions of our time. The mainstage sessions will celebrate pioneers making power moves, and those who tirelessly show up as allies and advocates, setting in motion a community that is driven by curiosity, connecting both the speaker and listener.” said Yashraj Akashi, Curator of TEDXGateway and Senior Ambassador for the TEDX Program.

Speaking about the association, Percy Chowdhry, Director, Rustomjee Group, said: “Rustomjee is excited to partner with the upcoming edition of TEDxGateway and welcome the platform back in its physical form to Mumbai. Our philosophy at Rustomjee is to bring people together and form happy & healthy communities. And it is truly the power of ideas that have formed our blueprint for impactful change. Similarly, TED and TEDxGateway have been at the forefront of nurturing a global community - spanning domains, cultures, walks of life; and driven by curiosity. With this association, we look forward to an exchange of game-changing ideas that promises to set the foundation for our future.”

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TED has originally stood for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are collectively shaping our world. Today, it encompasses the full spectrum of human ingenuity. But a TEDXGateway conference goes beyond, showcasing important research and ideas from all disciplines and exploring how they connect. The goal is to expand the imagination, make unexpected connections, inspire conversation and set the ball in motion for meaningful learning and change. Its signature blend of innovation, insight, and storytelling has ignited a worldwide community committed to lifelong learning and to sparking positive change.

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How one student turned an idea into a global mission to end our planet’s plastic waste crisis

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In 2018, then 11-year-old Haaziq Kazi delivered his first TED Talk at TED-Ed Weekend and unveiled his prototype invention: a ship called Ervis that cleans plastic from the surface of the ocean. The homemade prototype he created in his bathtub has become the Ervis Foundation, a coalition of young people mobilizing their fellow youth to help clean our world’s oceans.

We spoke with Haaziq Kazi and Priyanka Prakash, Program Director at Ervis Foundation, about how a bathroom prototype grew into a global movement, and how the Ervis Foundation is using the TED-Ed Student Talk program to encourage young people to create Talks about their ideas, just like Haaziq did.

What inspired your original TED-Ed Talk?

HAAZIQ KAZI (HK): My very first TED-Ed Talk was about a ship I conceived to clean the ocean of the plastic waste crisis. It started with a documentary I saw on National Geographic around 5 years ago on the impact of the plastic waste crisis on marine life and ecosystems. The enormity of the problem and impact it had horrified me, and I dreamt of making a ship to clean it.

When we throw our plastic waste away, we think it’s gone, except there is no “away.” It stays on Earth and is slowly finding a place all across the world from the Mariana Trench to the human body, and we need to act before it’s too late.

Haaziq Kazi speaks at TED-Ed Weekend 2017, photo: Dian Lofton/TED on Flickr

How has the idea you shared at TED-Ed Weekend grown since delivering the Talk?

HK: If it wasn’t for my TED-Ed Talk, this journey wouldn’t have started. Period. The TED-Ed Student Talks Program gave me a platform to share my vision of a world where we can dream of a better future for the Earth. The idea of a ship which can clean oceans has morphed into various ideas and forms, but what delivering a TED-Ed Talk has truly done, is made me believe that an idea worth pursuing can lead to change in the world.

Ervis the ship is a moonshot project and I’ve learned the hard way that this is not child’s play. Problems like solving the intricate engineering of design and prototyping a futuristic ship, and then creating a monetization model of waste collection and disposal, are some of the obstacles I’ve come across. Bringing this idea into reality is a painfully slow process which I am working towards. Cleaning the ocean is a long journey and incredibly complex, but one constant of this journey is my unwavering belief that we can and we will reverse the impact of this crisis that my generation has inherited.

Since delivering my TED-Ed Weekend Talk, I have co-founded Ervis Foundation to bring a generational change in the way the youth of today consumes and disposes of plastic in a responsible and sustainable manner.

Haaziq Kazi with an Ervis ship prototype

What is the Erivs Foundation?

PRIYANKA PRAKASH (PP): The Ervis Foundation is a social enterprise that is dedicated to bringing a generational change in the way we as a society consume and dispose of plastic, by inspiring and educating the youth through various ocean literacy programs.

Launched in 2019, the Foundation has a three-pronged approach:

1. Hero: which encompasses all our educational initiatives.

2. Hub: which includes our digital initiatives such as our Zero Waste Marketplace and an app called RoaRRR which shows people their plastic footprint.

3. Hygiene: which includes the moonshot project of Ervis the Ship and an incubation lab that we hope to launch to support the implementation of innovations by youth across the globe.

Our goal is to create young leaders who are instilled with the right tools, capacities and knowledge to lead the much needed change for the sustainable future of our planet. With each passing day the climate crisis is worsening, and we hope to create a chain effect, where one person inspires the next, and together we redefine the future of our planet.

Why should young people care about and get involved with this crisis? What are some things that students can do to help end our plastic waste crisis?

HK: We have consumed more plastic in the last 10 years than in the entire 100 years before. Plastic doesn’t get destroyed, it breaks into smaller particles called microplastics which are not visible to the human eye and that is something we all should worry about. We don’t want our generation to fight a losing battle, so we need to act and care now.

Students can start with themselves, changing their behaviors on a daily basis by refusing and reducing plastic consumption. They can also act as advocates in their homes and advocate to local and national level policy makers, encouraging a culture of sustainable life. The power of the collective cannot be underestimated, and if we rise and are vocal, people will listen to us.

PP: In the last two years we have focused on building a strong foundation for our Hero initiative. We began our journey with the Blue Workshops, with a goal to bring ocean literacy into the school learning environment. Through these workshops, we engaged with students through meaningful activities and discussions, to instill environment sensitivity and inspire them to take action.

With the onset of the pandemic, we launched the Blue Circle program which is primarily a mentorship program, where we select passionate students and engage with them for three months, with support from experts, to give them a detailed insight into the marine crises and the measures they can take to conserve the ecosystem. The program culminates with each of the students developing their own projects or innovations focused on marine conservation. The youth leaders from the Blue Circle program went on to launch the Blue Warriors Club, which is a youth-led and youth-driven club focused on bringing ocean action and literacy into the school learning environment.

HK: We also have our digital initiative called Hub through which students can work towards reducing their plastic footprint. Lastly, we have Hygiene, which is an incubation lab where young people can bring their ideas and inventions to help reduce the plastic crisis and work with mentors to bring the ideas to reality.

How is the Ervis Foundation using the TED-Ed Student Talks Program?

PP: I believe that it is very important to give students the right platform to express and voice their ideas. It’s crucial to keep young people inspired and motivated, especially if we want them to take up the responsibility of leading climate action. Haaziq, I believe, is an inspiring example of the potential that young people have in truly driving change. We truly believe that if a student like Haaziq can lead climate action, then millions of youth across the globe can too. Our goal is to educate students with an aim to inspire them to create solutions for conserving our ocean.

We want to offer students a platform to channel their ideas, and incubate innovations and solutions to bring about long-term change. This is where we believe that the Student Talks program can truly motivate young leaders like Haaziq to channel their ideas for climate action in the right direction. In the upcoming edition of the Blue Circle, I am hoping to culminate the three month mentorship program by giving each of the students an opportunity to work on their own Student Talk. This will not just inspire them, but also motivate them to continue taking climate action in the long-run.

What advice do you have for students in the Student Talks program who want to turn an idea into action?

HK: Turning an idea into action starts with a profound or even an insane sense of belief, even when the world does not see it the same way. Never be afraid to follow your dreams. When you go about taking action, start with understanding the drivers, enablers, and deterrents to achieve the goal and the impact it will have. Align with the enablers and work around the deterrents. Some days will be fun, others won’t. Don’t quit.  Adapt.

Sometimes we might not achieve the goals that we started with, but if the result aligns with solving the problem statement, keep pursuing. We never know what we are capable of until we truly push the boundaries of our own resolve. Like Paulo Coelho said, “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” Be curious, ask questions. Asking questions gives you answers, and if it doesn’t exist, find the answer.

Digital rendering of future Ervis ship

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Haaziq Kazi is 15 years old and is currently studying at The Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville CT. Haaziq is passionate about the oceans and tackling the plastic problem afflicting oceans and marine life. At the age of 11, he was invited to speak at TED-Ed Weekend in New York to share his invention, Ervis the Ship, and has spoken on multiple other forums, including TEDxGateway Mumbai, TEDxJGEC, VJTI College, TEDxICEM, Seed and Chips Summit and Economic Times Global Business Summit, to raise awareness on the danger of plastic pollution. He was invited to speak at the 2020 United Nations session of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF), on behalf of the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY). Haaziq is also the founder of the Ervis Foundation, which works with the youth of today to change how we interact with plastic, and is currently appointed as the Regional Focal Point for SDG14, Youth Constituency for the Major Group for Children and Youth.

As the Program Director for Ervis Foundation, Priyanka Prakash is works closely on aligning the foundation’s visions with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 12 and 14 and is greatly instrumental in running the operations of the foundation. Priyanka cares deeply for marine life and is committed to work with  youth to alleviate the problems afflicting ocean life. She has worked on developing curriculums, programs and initiatives that aim at educating and inspiring the youth to take action against the plastic crises. Over the last two years, she has closely engaged with over 1,600 students across India and UAE, educating and spreading awareness about the urgency to save our Earth and to build a plastic-free environment and cleaner oceans for our future generations. She is also currently appointed as the Regional Focal Point for Asia-Pacific, India for Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) SDG 14 / Oceans Youth Constituency.

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In music, there’s no such thing as a comfort zone. That’s what Mumbai learned at the 11th edition of TEDxGateway 2020, themed Ideas Worth Spreading, where exceptional international talent showed that musical genius is a product of collaboration.

Thumming it up

A few years ago, Australian star beatboxer Tom Thum, who uses his mouth and vocal chords to create an array of sounds from a trumpet to a turntable scratching, entered into a surprising collaboration with composer and symphony conductor Gordon Hamilton. ‘Thum Prints,’ this collaboration between the Brisbane boys, not only wowed audiences but has had other orchestras following suit. They make forward-looking, experimental music, inviting the audience into their imagination.

“It’s our original music, which we’ve worked on together and taken all over the world,” says Gordon. “We did an eight-minute version for the beatboxer and orchestra youth at TedX, where we collaborated with the Bombay Chamber Orchestra. It’s a very different way to use beatboxing. Tom is always looking for ways to take beatboxing into different landscapes.”

Gordon Hamilton and Tom Thum’s collaboration is called Thum Prints ( Shivangi Kulkarni )

This is exactly what Tom accomplished at the Jodhpur RIFF music festival in 2018, where he spent three days collaborating with folk musicians to create an hour of scintillating music. “My friend Bobby Singh is an incredible tabla player in Australia,” Tom explains. “He’s taught me different ragas and we’ve played together a few times. This project with Rajasthani folk artistes was intense and insane. They do a lot of spoken rhythms and drums and clappers. Neither of us spoke each other’s language, but we spoke the language of music.”

Wide open spaces seem to inspire musicians like little else can. Gordon, 38, who has travelled the world as a music composer and conductor and in his role as artistic director of The Australian Voices, went to Antarctica last year, where he composed a symphony called Far South, in which field recordings of ice, ocean and whales interact with the orchestra. After such solitude, it’s no wonder that Mumbai is a bit of a sensory overdose for him! “This giant tapestry of humans… I have never been in a city this big in terms of population density before,” he says.

“My friend Bobby singh is an incredible tabla player in australia. He’s taught me different ragas and we’ve played together.” -Tom Thum, Australian star beatboxer

For Tom (34), who wrote graffiti at 14, breakdanced at 15, and beatboxed at 16, and put out his first album at 21, it was exciting to check out the local musicscape on his first visit to Mumbai. “The SacredWorx Foundation (an NGO that works to empower the underprivileged) hit me up on my FB page. Gordon and I did a workshop in exchange for a tour around Dharavi. All the local beatboxers came and we jammed. I was super impressed. The Bombay Beatbox Community, they’re really, really good.”

Gordon and Tom were especially taken by the talent and enthusiasm of a young dancer who goes by the name of @bboy_prokid_09. “He is maybe like 15 years old, but there’s a seven-storey high mural of him in Dharavi that Guido van Helten, my friend from Brisbane, painted,” grins Tom. “He did some really sick B-boying. Everywhere we went, he was like throwing down and breaking – in the leather goods store, on the train over-bridge, in the middle of the street… His style far outweighs his age, as if he’s been B-boying for 20 years or something! He reminded me of me when I was that age!”

Freedom by moonlight

Winning the 2019 Grammy for Best New Age Album certainly made them happy but didn’t send them over the moon as much as performing together does. The musical foursome called Opium Moon is made up of Canadian-American violinist Lili Haydn, her husband Itai Disraeli, an innovative Israeli bassist, Iranian santoor master Hamid Saeidi, and acclaimed American percussionist MB Gordy. The Los Angeles-based ensemble’s music is so eclectic, it’s hard to categorise. But everyone who listens to it agrees it’s bliss inducing.

Lead Singer of the Grammy Award-winning band Opium Moon Lili Haydn (centre) with Tom Thumb and Gordon Hamilton in Mumbai ( Shivangi Kulkarni )

Lili Haydn, who has collaborated with and opened for everyone from Roger Waters, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Sting to the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his nephew Rahat, is the epitome of positive and primal energy. MB calls her their central driving force; Itai calls her the ‘fearless leader.’

“Every time we get together, it’s like it’s the first time. We love the audience but if we played for ourselves, it’d be just as exciting.” -Itai Disraeli, an Israeli bassist

“She’s the love of my life, a combination of really strong and powerful and also very soft and emotional,” Itai says. Lili, who hasn’t let humble beginnings or even brain damage from an accident get in the way of her musical journey, maintains that the angels brought the group together. “It was pure magic the first time we played,” she says.

This past year has been super intense as they won the Grammy, and are now regrouping for a new record. Independently, each of them has worked on various projects, including soundscapes for films. Hamid elaborates, “All of us are composer-producers and we each play in our own bands with 245 different projects. But whenever we get together, we start playing and we forget any outside negativity or any disagreements with each other.”

“Whenever we start playing together we forget any outside negativity or any disagreements with each other” -Hamid Saeidi, Iranian santoor master

Itai explains, “This is because our music is transforming. It’s very improvisational. We know the structure and the melodies, but we don’t know the note we will play from show to show. Every time we get together, it’s like it’s the first time. We love the audience but if we played for ourselves, it’d be just as exciting.”

Hamid, whom they affectionately call the Prince of Persia, says, “My entire study in music was to be able to improvise. It’s not about base or percussion or violin or any other instrument, not even about music. It’s about energy.”

“One of my favourite records is Call of the Valley by Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and classical flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia” -Lili Haydn, Canadian-American violinist

“Hamid comes from a very old culture and his roots are very deep, but he’s modern too,” says Itai. “He brings soul to our sound.”

With MB, Itai seems to have found the perfect drum to his bass. “I’ve played with a lot of good drummers, but with MB, it’s something special. He’s like the foundation, the Earth, on which we build our music.”

Lili calls the magic between MB’s percussion and Itai’s bass guitar ‘the fire.’ “Hamid and I are sort of in the heavenly realm but the way MB and Itai play makes all the elements – fire, earth, water, air – come together to create this fantastic realism. Without that fire, Opium Moon wouldn’t be as interesting, sexy and compelling.”

“Studying tabla in graduation changed everything for me, even the way I approach the drum set” -MB Gordy, American percussionist

The name Opium Moon is inspired by the work of Sufi poet Hafiz. In a poem, he writes, ‘The bird’s favourite songs / You do not hear / For their most flamboyant music takes place / When their wings are stretched / Above the trees / And they are smoking the opium of pure freedom…’ The band’s music is all about that.

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