I met Ibnur, in 2007 when I was a finalist of the Miss Earth Pageant. While getting busy with a coastal clean up of one of Singapore's mangrove swamps, we had a small talk. And he struck me as someone with a soul indeed. He was admitted to medical school but chose otherwise. I am actually glad he now runs a start up, what an inspiring individual.



TEDxBled took place on 18 March 2012 in Bled, Slovenia under the theme of Inspire.Change.Impact

And Ibnur was there to share - "Changing the Way We Innovate: From the Ground Up"

A community-oriented ground-up innovator at Ground-Up Initiative, Ibnur believes in leadership and learning from Nature. He graduated with a B.Eng in Engineering Science (Nanotechnology) with Minor in Technopreneurship from National University in Singapore (NUS). He worked on biochip nanofabrication and 'invisibility cloaks'. He has developed prototypes like a tap sensor, antennas, filters, fruit dryers and water roller. At HDB, he worked on vertical greening and rainwater harvesting. (hurray!)

At Silicon Valley, he worked at Zong, studying mobile payments, social networks and multiplayer games. He helped to refine innovation at Ministry of Home Affairs. His teams have won the Daimler-UNESCO Mondialogo Engineering Award for appropriate solutions in rural India, Challenge:Future for an innovation platform prototype, and EDB-BETA for designing a health platform for 2030. He also represented Singapore at the ASEAN Youth Forum on Innovation and Creativity (AYFIC). Having done field assessments at villages in Vietnam, India, Indonesia & Cambodia, he now co-leads the Humanitarian Engineering Alliance (HEAL) and the Sustainable Living Lab (SL2).

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