It's a wrap! Thank you to everyone that attended our 7th TEDxBerlin conference. With an international group of over 15 fascinating speakers and three performances that crossed musical borders, the event was a true and inspirational success.…
Redefining Our Comfort Zone - A Review of Crossing Borders
Crossing borders physically, emotionally, culturally, artistically – all these aspects were widely explored on the 23rd of November by an array of international, truly…
Managing director of red onion GmbH.
Stephan Balzer is the founder and managing director of the communications agency red onion GmbH in Berlin. The trained media consultant is one of the pioneers of the German new media scene. During his…
"“Crossing borders”, internationally, politically, or within ourselves, was a great inspiration. When we cross borders we let go; we let go of our preconceptions, our fears, our egos – we become one; one with ourselves, with each…
The internet has globally infiltrated almost every individuals’ life. It has improved living standards, catapulted the speed information spreads and reformed the standard networking structures of society. By founding betterplace, Till…
What limits and borders are we faced with as individuals, as a society? Who or what defines these boundaries? What are the results of these demarcations – demarcations as barriers that may even result in scientific and artistic limitations…
Television, as we know it, does not work anymore. Why? Because individualisation, globalistion and digitalisation has chanegd the tnertainment landscape. By combining the ease of television and the intelligence of the internet, you create…
Artificial intelligence as art. Hannes Koch, co-founder of the art collective rAndom International, discusses the relationship between man and machine and how simulated natural behaviour effects us. Welcome to Art 3.0.
"There are 6 billion mobile phones in the world and only 4.2 bllion toothbrushes." René Schuster, CEO of Telefónica Germany, discusses the future of communication and how our increasingly connected world is going to change drastically in…
Connor McEwen is 20-year old entrepreneur and co-founder of Credport. Credport is reimagining the way people use their data to build trust with their peers with the specific focus on marketplaces.
Simon Redfern is the CEO of TESOBE, a Berlin based agency that designs and builds web and mobile apps using Python, Scala and Node. He started working on data driven web applications in 1996 and has worked on media, location based and social…
In his TEDxChange talk, Jeff Chapin discusses his work with IDEO, taking a closer look at his latrine and hand washing projects in Cambodia. Jeff advocates for design as a tool to enable deeper, better, and different conversations that can…
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. She is a consultant to key progressive media and advocacy organizations, and her clients have included The Ford…
August 31st looks to be promising! Get ready to enjoy an overload of inspiration and discover the spirit of TED with some of today's brightest minds mapping out our tomorrow in fields such as technology, education and design.
What effects do mobile technologies have on our society? How will our daily lives unfold ten years from now and what will the future of the working world look like?
Our society is entering a new technological era that is accompanied by…
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