TEDxIUMS

Speakers

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• Alireza Afshari

  Activist, Industrialist, Entrepreneur

  I am an entrepreneur, product inventor, and designer for international markets. I started AF Optical company in US in 1993, and managed it for 20 years until Edmund Optics bought my patent, and I signed a non-compete agreement with them for 5 years. I decided to use that opportunity to come to Iran to spend time with my elderly mother. Having nothing else to do, I started OMiD museum: (opto-mechanical institute of design) which is a collection of opto-mechanical instruments for the youth. I have been running ZIMAK watch factory till present. I studies physics, and mech. Engineering at University of Illinois, electronics at DeVry, and California state university, Los Angeles, and optics at university of La Vern. I worked on Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini spacecraft, and the Schmidt Cassegrain telescope at Mount Palomar.

• Amin Samizadeh

  Digital Transformation & Innovative

  Amin Samizadeh was born on January 25th, 1981 and has PhD in Business Management. Since Childhood he was interested in technology and this enthusiasm has developed over time that he has participated in many technological projects during his education and beyond such as, Iranian National Computer project. After graduation from university he started his career in digital transformation. Amin Samizadeh believes that technology, philosophy and humanity are bounded together and we can't approach to technology without understanding human being.

• Hamed Vahdati Nasab

  Full Professor of Archaeology

  I was born in 1974 in Tehran. I got my BA and MA in Biology (Zoology) and in the year 2000 I started my education at the Arizona State University under the supervision of Prof. Donald Johanson and Prof. Geoff Clark. I received my Ph.D. in 2006 on the facial morphology of Neanderthals and then moved to the University of Alberta to work on the Baikal Archaeology Project in my Postdoc doing ancient DNA analysis. Later I fulfilled another Postdoc position within University of Oxford on Bioarchaeology of the Salt men project. Since the year 2007 I have been working in the department of archaeology in Tarbiat Modares University.

• Pouya Paknejad

  Cognitive science communicator

  Pouya Paknejad was born in Isfahan on February 3rd, 1992. Since childhood, he dreamed of becoming a scientist. The most important questions of his life were formed around human behavior, during his teenage years. At that time, he noticed a deep gap between the realities of the world of science and people's mental image of science; A gap that could lead to the dominance of scientist over people. Therefore, Pouya, who dreamed of becoming a scientist, decided to democratize science and popularize science professionally instead of developing the boundaries of knowledge. After completing his bachelor's degree in cellular and molecular biology and a master's degree in cognitive science (cognitive psychology), he decided to continue his studies in media and communication. Pouya is currently a Ph.D. candidate in media management at Tehran University. Since launching braincast media, in 2020, Pouya has been continuously producing podcasts to popularize cognitive science.

• Rezvan Madadi

  Entrepreneur

  I am Rizvan Maddi, born in Khordad 1369. Graduated in telecommunication electrical engineering at the undergraduate level, and MBA at the graduate level. I entered the world of entrepreneurship since 1395. Youtopin started working in the winter of 2018 and until today, after starting from zero and not having a group tour platform in Iran, it has become the market leader in this field. Today, we are in direct and indirect contact with more than 200 employees. And group tours all over Iran and outside of Iran, in 5 continents from Europe to Africa and East Asia are available on the Youtopin platform.

• Sherwin Vakili

  Mythologist

  Born in 1974, and raised in an intellectual family. He Received his MS in Physiology and his PhD degree in Sociology from Allameh Tabatabaei University; Lecturer, University of Tehran. His thesis was known as the Iranian’s best research of the year 2004 in the realm of humanities by the National Administration of Culture and Science. He started a non-formal sciencephilosophy circle called the club of knowledge, in 1992, which was continued for 4 years, and then ended up in a cluster of cultural groups. These groups united again in the year 2000, to become Kanoon Khorshid (the Center of the Sun) NGO.