TEDxSTAN 1.0

Last sunday I had the biggest opportunity to join as a volunteer in a non-profit organization named TED. But I was involved in its TEDx which is an independent organized TED event.

I was joining the Concept and LO team. The jobdesc was pretty much what I've enjoyed the most; organizing event, compute the proper concept for the first ever TEDxSTAN, and finding the speaker who will speak about their ideas and experiences.

The preparation was pretty short tho; approximately we only have a month to prepare all the things from the scratch. Fortunately, I was working with such an amazing team. Not only mine, but also other. Ofcourse our event wasn't perfect, there are still things that should be improved on the next event but overall, it was good;)

I got the chance to specially LO-ing one of STAN alumnae, Mr. Ibnu Najib. He is one of ex-employee in Ministry of SOE(he has just quit about 3 months ago) and now having fun doing his agricultural project and helping farmers around Bandung.

I don't know him at first, but once I'be read his CV. Wow. You know that I always have a dream to continue my master degree in UK? Well he took his on UK. Actually that is the first thing that make me interested to know more about his project. Then I opened his website and find out more about his farm. Knowing that his farm is located in Bandung, I become more interesting-I finally have additional reason and a kind of pressure to visit Bandung as soon as possible!

I haven't got enough chance to really speak wirh him because before his turn, he was busy preparing his material for the talks, and after that I saw that he was determined to learn new things from other speakers, so I shutted my mouth eventhough I wanted to ask sooooo much!

You know the interesting thing that I observed after the event finished? All of the speaker was giving each of their name cards. And that is lesson number xxx that night; networking is important! Who knows that you will need a help from an architect, even if you are a film director now?

Unfortunately, as a LO that night, I couldn't watch the whole talks but hey, who cares? The video will be uploaded on the site (you can check on tedxstan.com) and I could learn later. But the chance to personally know the speaker? It was priceless.

The point is, I really glad to be given the chance to contribute myself in TEDxSTAN 1.0. I do really hope the lisence can be continued so I could still volunteering as the team at least until I graduated?

The Concept and LO Team

Part of the whole team. Looking forward to get the chance working with you guys at TEDxSTAN 2.0!