Muhammaddiyor Shermuhammedov

Activist, Business leader, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Idea generator, Inventor, Muslim, Project manager, Student, Technologist

I’m Muhammaddiyor Shermuhammedov, a student leader, researcher, and entrepreneur from Uzbekistan. I’m interested in the intersection of technology, education, economics, and human behavior — especially the ways ideas can challenge the systems and assumptions that shape our lives. I lead student initiatives focused on research, debate, entrepreneurship, and collaboration, including United Visionaries and Founder Forge. Through these projects, I work with students to turn curiosity into research, research into ideas, and ideas into action. I’m particularly fascinated by how technology can expand access to knowledge and opportunities for young people. I believe students should not have to wait until adulthood to contribute meaningful ideas to the world. My long-term goal is to build technology-driven organizations that solve real problems while creating opportunities for other young people to lead.

Ideas — especially the kind that make people stop, question something they have always believed, and look at the world differently. I’m passionate about technology and entrepreneurship because they give people the ability to turn an idea into something real. I’m passionate about education because access to the right knowledge can completely change the trajectory of a person’s life. I also love debate and research. I enjoy taking an uncomfortable question, looking at it from different perspectives, challenging my own assumptions, and trying to understand why people think the way they do. Most of all, I’m passionate about building things with other young people. Whether it is a research project, a debate community, a startup idea, or a new platform, I enjoy creating environments where people can think bigger than they initially believed they could.

Young people should not be treated only as the leaders of tomorrow. They are already capable of shaping the world today. We often underestimate students because we measure their potential through age, grades, and titles rather than through the quality of their ideas. But curiosity does not have an age requirement, and meaningful ideas do not become meaningful only after someone turns eighteen. Schools should become places where students are encouraged not only to memorize existing knowledge, but to question it, research it, debate it, and create something new from it. I believe the next generation needs more spaces where young people can disagree intelligently, think independently, collaborate across backgrounds, and actually build solutions to problems around them. If we give young people a seat at the table, we may be surprised by what they are capable of building.

Economics & Business, Education & Youth Leadership, Innovation & Social Impact, Research & Critical Thinking, Technology & Entrepreneurship

My connection with TEDx began with a simple question: what happens when students are given the opportunity to share ideas that genuinely matter to them? As I became more involved in research, debate, entrepreneurship, and student leadership, I realized that many young people have interesting ideas but rarely have a platform where those ideas can be taken seriously. That motivated me to help bring TEDx to my school and create an environment where students can explore meaningful questions, develop their ideas, and communicate them to an audience. For me, TED is not simply about standing on a stage. It is about the responsibility that comes with having an idea worth sharing. A good talk should not just make people clap — it should make them think. I hope my TEDx journey will help create more opportunities for students around me to question, create, and speak up.

Connecting seemingly unrelated ideas. I enjoy taking concepts from technology, economics, psychology, education, and everyday life and finding the connections between them. Sometimes the most interesting ideas appear in the space between completely different subjects.