<h1>Innovation and resilience showcased through personal narratives and pragmatic, data-driven solutions shaping civic and organisational action.</h1> An independently organised TEDx at Dayananda Sagar University featured speakers stressing authenticity, resilience, innovation and lifelong learning. Talks linked personal courage and creativity to broader social and economic aims, presented a crisis-response framework of positivity, understanding, mindfulness, courage, improvisation and persistence, and offered data-driven, technology-enabled approaches to urban congestion as an economic development priority. The programme promoted translating individual resilience into communal benefit and continuous skill renewal for organisational and civic problem-solving.