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Become an Idea Steward

Help Amdavad hear its own ideas.

Anyone can become an Idea Steward: a teacher, a student, a researcher, an artisan, a neighbour, or an institution. Register once, sign in, and point us to an idea growing in your community, in Gujarati, Hindi or English.

!AIS is a pathway, not the gate. It is separate from TEDxThaltej Youth.
Please read this first

AIS is a pathway. It is never the gate.

Ahmedabad Idea Search and TEDxThaltej Youth are two different things. AIS listens to the city all year. The TEDx event is one day, with its own independent curation. An idea can travel from one to the other, but AIS never decides who speaks, and nobody needs AIS to be considered.

Ahmedabad Idea Search

Listens, discovers, nurtures.

A year-round framework for finding the ideas already growing in Ahmedabad's classrooms, labs, studios, workshops and neighbourhoods.

  • Open to everyone as a Steward
  • Conversations in any language
  • Valuable even if an idea never reaches a stage
A pathway Only with consent, and only as one input among many.
TEDxThaltej Youth

Curates, selects, amplifies.

An independently organised TEDx event, operated under licence from TED. Its curation team alone selects speakers, under TED's rules.

  • Its own independent curation process
  • Considers ideas from many sources
  • AIS referrals get no priority

Becoming a Steward means

  • ✓You can point us to ideas from your own community.
  • ✓The AIS team may reach out to listen, and help an idea develop.
  • ✓You can follow what happens to each idea you referred.

It does not mean

  • ✕That you, or anyone you refer, will speak at TEDxThaltej Youth.
  • ✕Any priority, ticket, role or membership at the TEDx event.
  • ✕That AIS is the only way to reach the TEDx curation team.

Most ideas we discover will not become talks. That is intentional.

What we listen for

Three simple questions.

Substance

Is there something real here?

A question someone keeps returning to, backed by work, research, an experiment or lived experience.

Relevance

Does it grow from Amdavad?

An idea rooted in a community, place or problem in this city.

Originality

Would it otherwise go unseen?

Something the city has not noticed yet, from someone who might never have applied on their own.

1

Register

Name, email, phone and city. We confirm your email with a 6-digit code.

2

Sign in

Each session lasts up to 25 minutes, then signs you out for your safety.

3

Refer an idea

Answer three questions. Follow your referrals from your desk.

Welcome back, Steward.

Sign in to refer an idea or follow your referrals.

New to AIS?

Institutions and communities

Schools, universities, labs, studios and community groups are welcome to register too, or to invite AIS for a visit. Write to ais@tedxthaltejyouth.in.

Trouble signing in?

Use “Forgot password” to reset it with an emailed code. Still stuck? Write to ais@tedxthaltejyouth.in.