Alwaleed Abdeen

Brainstormer, Engineer, Idea generator, Muslim

Alwaleed Abdelhameed Abdeen from Sudan is an Ashoka Changemaker Scholar who completed the Future of Work in Africa online course: Innovation In Youth Employment with Ashoka and the MasterCard Foundation, Alumni of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme and Alumni of YALI Regional Leadership Center East Africa Civic Leadership Track. Founder of Ya Zool Events & Ya Zool For9a Netwok. Previously worked in establishing Sudan Startup Hub the 1st Sudanese co-working space & business incubator in the role of projects manager and online community manager where he developed the I Know Business Workshops and initiated and co-created Womenomics Sudan an open platform for women to discuss, share and explore opportunities and challenges relating to their business, careers and personal development. He was part of the TEDxKhartoum 2013 team and Co-organized TEDxKhartoum Live 2013 of TEDGlobal “Think Again" with organizer Nada Ahmed, and volunteered for another six TEDx events (TEDxNileStreet 2013 - TEDxKhartoumED 2013 - TEDxAlMoasasa 2013 - TEDxYouth@Khartoum 2013 - TEDxKhartoum 2015 - TEDxSheffieldHallamUniversity 2015 ). He Also worked in organizing the 1st edition of Sudan Independent Film Festival.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Customer Service, Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Social Media Marketing, Team facilitation

I came across TED through Facebook in 2012 a friend of mine shared TEDxYouth@Khartoum Wafa Elamin - Positive thinking talk and I watched it and other talks from TEDxYouth@khartoum and thought what all the speakers spoke about were great and left it at that I didn't know what TED stood for or what exactly is it? but around January 2013 also through Facebook I watched Amy Purdy - Living beyond limits talk and immediately I wanted to know more so I did and watched so many inspiring mind boggling talks and from there on I fell in love with TED I just wanted to be a part of the upcoming TEDxKhatoum event so I decide to go for it and I think being in the right place mentally and the right time in my life made it possible.