THE FUTURE NEEDS A ROOM
Malaysia is changing quickly. The question is whether we are changing together. On 13 August, ten voices enter one room to ask, what must be seen, what must be protected, and what must be carried forward.
ALL OF US
A future is never built by one kind of person.
It is built by people who remember differently, know differently, make differently and hope differently.
TEDxBukit Bintang is a room for those differences to meet.
Not so that we agree on everything.
So that we can listen seriously enough for something new to begin.
A Defining Chapter
WHAT DO WE
Carry Forward?
Culture does not survive because we admire it.
It survives because someone continues to practice it, teach it, question it or find a new way for it to matter.
The same is true of ideas.
This evening moves between indigenous knowledge, public health, architecture, law, business, emotion and everyday work.
Different fields.
One shared question:
WHAT DESERVES A FUTURE?
Some things are inherited. Others must be chosen again.
JOIN US FOR:
Afternoon
Discovery Sessions
Before the talk, the room opens. For conversation. For curiosity. For the unexpected connection that changes how you hear what follows.
Evening
Ten Voices. One Room.
Ten people bring ten different ways of seeing. Across culture, health, creativity, leadership and the future, each begins with one idea worth listening to.
Afterparty
A Question Worth Carrying
You may not leave with all the answers. You may leave with a better question. Sometimes, that is where change begins.
Meet the Speakers
Ten people.
Ten ways of seeing something the rest of us may have missed.
Location
PARK Hyatt
Kuala Lumpur
Warisan Merdeka TowerPresint Merdeka 118
50118 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The room sits high above Kuala Lumpur.
Below it, a city still being written.
Inside it, ten ideas about what the city, and the country around it, might choose to carry forward.
Thursday, 13 August 2026
4:00 PM–9:00 PM
INVITE-ONLY
THE FUTURE NEEDS A ROOM.
ALL OF US NEED TO ENTER IT.
Ten voices will enter the room.
They will bring ideas shaped by different lives, disciplines and ways of knowing.
Come ready to listen.
STAY WITH THE IDEA
The room opens on 13 August.
The ideas should travel further.
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