TEDxULIS

Speakers

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• Đình An Nguyễn

  Nguyễn Đình An (TikToker Ngan) is a content creator who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and tens of millions of likes on his TikTok channel. He has been recognized by the media as one of the Gen Z figures “shaking up the online world,” noted for his positive energy, relatable content structure, and natural approach to engaging audiences.

• Ngọc Anh Nguyễn Thị

  Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Anh is a blind teacher at the Center for Support and Development of Special Education and the representative of Nghe bằng Mắt (Listen by Eyes), a group established to engage blind individuals in art and filmmaking. She oversees production and provides directorial support within the group. She has served on the organizing committee for all eight editions of the event series Nghe bằng Mắt (Listen by Eyes) and has coordinated major projects such as “Nghe bằng Mắt, Kể bằng Hình” (Listen by Eyes, Tell by Images) and “Nghe bằng Mắt, Nói bằng Phim” (Listen by Eyes, Speak by Film). Ngọc Anh has participated in producing several films, including “Nơi tôi thuộc về” (Where I Belong), “Ăn ốc nói bò” (Snail-Eating, Cow-Talking), “Học cùng Tiếng Việt” (Learning with Vietnamese), and “Phòng chống bạo lực giới đối với người điếc” (Preventing Gender-Based Violence Against Deaf People). She has also taken part in the International Deaf Film Festival in Hong Kong.

• Nhân Phan

  Nhân Phan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the human dimensions of technology. His works and projects question the nature of humanity in relation to technological systems by integrating software and technical platforms into lived human experience, particularly in the communication processes between humans, and between humans and machines. Nhân’s practice spans a wide range of mediums, including programming, data, teaching, public speaking, installation, printmaking, and language. He is the founder of CodeSurfing (Lướt Code), a research collective operating at the intersection of technology and art in Ho Chi Minh City. Through this collective, his works have been recognized by the Lumen Prize and FutureTense. In addition, he has been both a fellow and later a mentor for the Processing Fellowship program.

• Phương Linh Trần

  Trần Phương Linh is a second-year student at the University of Languages and International Studies - Vietnam National University (ULIS–VNU). She was the Champion of the TEDxULIS 2025: Spectrum Speaker's Competition and served as a ULIS Admissions Ambassador in 2024. She also earned Third Prize in the ULIS English Public Speaking Contest and was selected as one of the Top 10 finalists in the ULIS Student Tour Guide Skills Competition.

• Quốc Đạt Nguyễn Tiêu

  Nguyễn Tiêu Quốc Đạt is an urban spaces architect and the co-founder of Think Playgrounds (Nghĩ về sân chơi trong thành phố), an organization dedicated to designing and building sustainable playgrounds, community gardens, and public spaces. Under his leadership, Think Playgrounds has received several major awards for green urban innovation, including GreenCity from the Embassy of Denmark and Urban95 from the Bernard van Leer Foundation. By 2025, the organization has constructed more than 270 public playgrounds for schools, hospitals, and private clients across Vietnam.

• Thái Hà Đặng Thị

  Đặng Thị Thái Hà is a researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, and a lecturer in Ecocriticism and Gender Studies at the Creative Writing - Journalism Department, Hanoi University of Culture. Her research centers on contemporary Vietnamese literature from gendered and ecological perspectives, with a particular interest in how the human body is represented in relation to its material environment across cultural texts and artworks. She has co-authored a wide range of books on Vietnamese literature, ecocriticism, gender, and contemporary theory, and published a solo study, Identity, Body, and Ecology (2019). Her essays appear in major academic journals, examining issues of embodiment, illness, trauma, violence, queer identities, and early 20th-century women’s writing. In addition to her scholarly work, she also serves as a translator and co-translator of several literary and theoretical publications.