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PROGRAM June 11, 2015 * Palais Frankfurt
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TEDxFRANKFURT CROSSROADS AND CROSSLINKS. DIGITAL SOCIETY.
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ARWED-RALF GRENZBACH Arwed-Ralf Grenzbach is an internationally trained media and entertainment executive, entrepreneur, digital enthusiast and facilitator. After more than 15 years in music, TV, character brand licensing and the interactive games industry, he founded his first company back in 2010, Conflutainment is a Frankfurt based business incubator, which has been established to merge creativity and cash in a new gamified world. Arwed is a strong believer in the unlimited power of the visions of individuals and realistically defined ideas. The triple-Ds – dream it, dare it, do it – made him believe that TEDxFrankfurt will become the next hub of inspirational ideas worth spreading. He is a happily married husband, daddy of two boys, runner, kite-surfer and enjoys traveling, funky music and the company of optimistically minded, storytelling people.
ABOUT TEDx, x = INDEPENDENTLY ORGANIZED EVENT In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local,
self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
STEPHAN BALZER Stephan Balzer is a pioneer and a decision maker in the innovation scene in Berlin and beyond it’s borders into Europe. After more than ten years in technology in the 90ies he founded red onion in Berlin – his idea incubation vehicle. In 2009, Stephan Balzer became the first licensed partner of TEDx conferences in Germany. He is a passionate art collector, engages in culture, politics and the global dialogue. Stephan believes in change as a necessary driver of our time and loves to challenge people, companies and institutions to participate in making a difference. He is a radical optimist and enjoys good food, traveling and “doing good stuff”.
TEDx stands for inspiring and progressive ideas: In June 2015 TEDxFrankfurt will celebrate a premiere and host its first conference entitled “Crossroads and Crosslinks. Digital Society.” Leading thinkers, doers and idea crusaders will be on stage and will explore the social, cultural and philosophical impact of digitalization. In what way did and will our social life, our ways of perception and communication change in the light of a proceeding digitalization? In what extent will new media reshape our perception, consciousness and life forms? What will a fully digitalized society look like? What are the great future possibilities, what are the challenges and risks? Will our perception and world outlook as well as our social life be more rich and expanded or in the end even more restricted and uniform? Our speakers and performers will challenge us to think bigger when it comes to the aspects of our common digital future. TEDxFrankfurt is dedicated to explore the benefits and downsides of digitalization from a national and international perspective in the areas of health, cities and mobility, identities, arts and cultures, politics as well as economic development.
ANDREW BASTAWROUS
Andrew Bastawrous is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon) and Clinical Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Andrew has worked and undertaken research in Sierra Leone, Peru, Belize, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Uganda and has recently returned from living in Kenya where he was leading a major eye disease study and the development and testing of Peek, the Portable Eye Examination Kit, a new smartphone based tool to detect eye diseases in the worlds most challenging areas. Andrew was recently voted one of the world’s 30 most influential people in public health, was selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum and is on the scientific steering committee for TED and the eHealth working group for the International Coalition for Trachoma Control. peekvision.org
tHe sPeAKeRs Kenneth Cukier is the Data Editor of The Economist and has published “Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, Work and Think” in 2013, a bestseller coauthored with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and translated into 21 languages. He serves on the board of directors of International Bridges to Justice, a Geneva-based NGO promoting legal rights in developing countries. He is on the advisory board of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. cukier.com
KENNETH CUKIER
Serial entrepreneur and triathlete Elton Rivas is well versed in the challenges of launching a company. Elton is the founder/co-founder/advisor of businesses ranging from construction to footwear to tech start-ups.
DAN EMODI Leading Beyond Verbal marketing operator, Dan Emodi is a 18-year technology-marketing veteran of Cisco, Sheer Networks (acquired by Cisco), Orbotech and Comverse. Beyond Verbal has developed an innovative emotional analytics technology that is capable of extracting, in real-time, the full spectrum of human emotions from a person’s vocal intonation. Dan started his career as a sous-chef before moving to financial journalism, investment banking, technology pre-sales, and finally to marketing. Combining his diverse career background, Dan has developed an alternative point of view to the traditional mix of technology, engineering and marketing. Dan is a distinguished speaker and has appeared on CNN, quoted in the New York Times as well as countless on-line, printed and broadcasted media. beyondverbal.com
KEIRA HAVENS Biotechnology is a fascinating and complex field, but it is often portrayed as a parody of itself - a scientist in lab coat and glasses, holding a syringe of blue liquid at a bench in an industrial clean room. Keira Havens is a scientist with a love for beauty, and as CEO of Revolution Bioengineering she has combined the two by making flowers that change color throughout the day. In her talk, she shares her vision of a vibrant and stunning future made possible through responsible innovation and the integration of computation, engineering, and biology. Keira wants to shatter some stereotypes, and inspire people to learn how beautiful biotechnology can be! revolutionbio.co
Elton has a background in corporate marketing, but left that world behind with a goal to reinvigorate the local business climate in Jacksonville, Florida. To that end, he has launched CoWork Jax, downtown Jacksonville’s first co-working space, and co-founded OneSpark, a six-day event for creators where they can connect with the people and resources they need to make their great ideas reality. One Spark is the World’s Largest Crowdfunding Festival. onespark.com
ELTON RIVAS
Christoph Krachten founded the “VideoDays”, one of the most successful youth culture events of our time. He has organized Europe’s largest gathering of online video producers and creators since 2011. The event, which originally was part of the Gamescom, takes place in Cologne and Berlin. After working as a television journalist and producer for many years (amongst others for WDR and RTL) Christoph recognized the potential of online videos as one of the first media professionals in Germany. Christoph Krachten is also a founder of Mediakraft Networks, a leading online video network in Europe. Since 2009, he has also hosted “Clixoom” which is the most successful science show on YouTube in Germany. videodays.eu
CHRISTOPH KRACHTEN
Andreea Sultan is a specialist in human resource area having worked for various Technology and Communication companies. Her career took her to India, France, Malaysia and now Germany. However, she started differently, with volunteer work at AIESEC, the world largest youth organisation. Out of this experience, Andreea drew an abundance of unique insights into the views and minds of her fellow young colleagues.
HENRIK SCHARFE
ANDREEA SULTAN
Since 2013, Henrik Scharfe is Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2008-13, he has served as the Director of Center for computer-mediated Epistemology at AAU. His diverse career includes contributions to seemingly distinct research areas such as Narratology, AI/ Knowledge Representation, Persuasive Design, Human Centered Robotics, and Research Infrastructures. Henrik Scharfe gained global attention for the Geminoid-DK project. The ultra-realistic android, modeled in the professor’s likeness, has fascinated and perhaps startled millions of people around the world. So Prof. Scharfe will be on stage twice: in person and in the shape of his Geminoid. henrikscharfe.com
Combining these views with her professional knowledge, in 2014 she made her first appearance on a TED-like internal company event where she revealed „Why generation Y is not lost.”
V I D e O tA L K s MICHAEL SCHULTE Michael started his career as a YouTube cover artist in 2009. His most successful cover “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye has been viewed over 4.4 million times so far and so it was only a matter of time until established musicians became aware of Michael’s talent. In 2011, Rea Garvey checked his Channel, invited him to a gig at “Kieler Woche Festival” and finally they wrote the song “Carry Me Home”, which directly hit Nr. 8 of the German Single Charts. His first studio album “Wide Awake” – with 12 original songs – was released in September 2012 and debuted at number 1 in the “Media Control Newcomer Charts. michaelschultemusic.com
CHRIs MILK first gained renown as a director, creating game-changing music videos for U2, Arcade Fire and Kanye West, and contributing to A Mother’s Promise, a short documentary that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Seeking to discover “what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling”, Milk turned to cross-media storytelling on a variety of platforms. His groundbreaking work The Johnny Cash Project, with Aaron Koblin, uses crowdsourced artwork to create an ever-evolving music video of Cash’s final release. Milk’s live-action VR film “Hello, Again” allows fans to view a Beck performance from unlimited vantage points. “Evolution of Verse,” Milk’s latest VR film, premiered at Sundance 2015. milk.co
JennIFeR GOLBeCK is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where she also moonlights in the department of computer science. Her work invariably focuses on how to enhance and improve the way that people interact with their own information online. “I approach this from a computer science perspective and my general research hits social networks, trust, web science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction,” she writes. Author of the 2013 book, Analyzing the Social Web, Golbeck likes nothing more than to immerse herself in the inner workings of the Internet tools so many millions of people use daily, to understand the implications of our choices and actions. Recently, she has also been working to bring human-computer interaction ideas to the world of security and privacy systems. www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/
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