Speakers At TEDxDhaka 2017 Stress Unity For Rendering A Better Tomorrow

Speakers At TEDxDhaka 2017 Stress Unity For Rendering A Better Tomorrow

- Wafiur Rahman

Speakers at a city conference on November 18 stressed on the urgency for coming together in order to frame a better future for the country.

Speaking at the 6th annual TEDxDhaka conference, 12 experts in their respective fields were invited to speak about ideas and concepts which could bring about an inclusive and sustainable future.

The theme for this year’s conference was “Rendering Tomorrow”.

TEDxDhaka is an ‘independently organized TED event’ in Dhaka, organized by a group of TEDsters and TED enthusiasts. TEDxDhaka is organized under the license and guidance of the TED Conferences LLC, New York, USA.

They were divided into four segments, which included “The People’s Tomorrow”, “Climate Change is Now”, “The Demography” and “Self-reflection”.

The first segment included Faisal Ahmed, chief economist at Bangladesh Bank, Hildegarde Thyberghien, deputy country director of Action against Hunger and Mehedi Haque, executive editor of satire magazine UNMAD.

The People’s Tomorrow

Faisal Ahmed opined how Bangladesh can build on their economic success story by leveraging on labour-intensive initiatives and increasing manufacturing growth.

Pointing out that Bangladesh is no more a ‘bottomless basket’ and is widely considered as the ‘Silicon Valley’ for social innovations, he referred to how the country had developed from being the second poorest nation right after Independence to a success story in multiple social and economic indicators.