{"id":57899,"date":"2026-06-04T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57899"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:39:01","slug":"its-back-revived-tedxhongkong-challenges-assumptions-and-reframes-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57899","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s back \u2013 revived TEDxHongKong challenges assumptions and reframes beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/03\/f89ff369-f205-44f8-9679-96b05481a51a_11d49b6f.jpg?itok=uV4heQfx&amp;v=1780478592\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong is an international economic powerhouse brimming with talent and capital, but how much of that has trickled down to local communities?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This was the question that weighed on Daniella Lopez\u2019s mind when she acquired the licence for TEDxHongKong \u2013 which had been inactive since 2017 \u2013 in late 2025.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">There have been more focused TEDx events in Hong Kong, such as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">TEDxTinHauWomen<\/span>, that had specific themes. But TEDxHongKong is about building a broader platform that uses local expertise and innovation to address globally relevant issues, Lopez says.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">TEDx, founded in 2009 as an offshoot of the more formal TED talks, is a global non-profit network of independently organised events aimed at amplifying \u201clocally driven\u201d ideas through short, powerful presentations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lopez, an American who lived in Shanghai for five years before relocating to Hong Kong in 2016, is all too aware of how easy it is to get trapped in an echo chamber, even for worldly, cosmopolitan professionals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYou\u2019re in your silo,\u201d she says of the exchange of knowledge between those in the same fields. \u201cYou\u2019re a medical expert talking to another medical expert, or a tech person talking to another tech person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3355675\/its-back-revived-tedxhongkong-challenges-assumptions-and-reframes-beliefs?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is an international economic powerhouse brimming with talent and capital, but how much of that has trickled down to local communities? This was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19450,20248,353,24109,21916,24108],"class_list":["post-57899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-assumptions","tag-beliefs","tag-challenges","tag-reframes","tag-revived","tag-tedxhongkong","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}