TEDxBerlin: The topic of today’s TEDxBerlin conference is "Thinking Change". What does that mean to you?
Gesine Schwan: Change is a constant process of life. And there are always moments of crisis where change is especially important, as…
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Belgian economist Bernard Lietaer discusses how the financial crisis is caused by failing structures in the current financial system. He proposes complementary currencies that he believes will break the vicious cycle of global financial crashes.
Digitalisation has revolutionised media and has in a way even become our interface for reality. With music and maps undergoing a digital revolution, the act of reading is taking on a new, digital dimension with the advent of eReaders.
How can we make digital content graspable? The PHD student Fabian Hemmer researched how mass, shape and even intuition can be applied to mobile phones in order for technology to move towards becoming more human.
For many, security and a steady income are not enough motivation anymore when it comes to searching for employment. Founded by Jonathan Imme, Palomar 5 is a six-month brainstorming camp bringing together 30 creative individuals from around…
To create a strong community you have to create strong girls. With that idea in mind, to allow for sport to initiate social change, Heather Cameron founded Boxgirls International. Starting out in Berlin and uniting various nationalities, she…
For Noa Lerner, having no access to sanitation means being robbed of one’s dignity. By reinventing the toilet and overcoming what appeared to be insurmountable challenges, her design is able provide even the poorest of the poor with…
Corruption is the area that illustrates best when we are faced with inherent governance failure in a globalised economy. Peter Eigen discusses how systematic, grand corruption is the main reason for the poverty, the conflicts and desperation…
Reto Wettach discusses how technology, specifically the use of computers needs further innovation in order to seamlessly work together with humans. Can we create technological moto memory, sensory dynamics and even have technology be an…
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…
Prof. Dr. Achim Peters is an obesity specialist who lives and works in Lübeck. He developed the "Selfish Brain" theory and since 2004 has been leading a clinical research group.
In 2007 anOtherArchitect (aA) was founded by Daniel Dendra as a multidisciplinary platform for digital design with a focus on sustainable strategies, connections between virtual networks and real tectonics and urban design processes. Daniel…
A storyteller from an early age, Maha Alusi was born in the city of a thousand and one nights, to a family with a history of storytelling, spiritual healing, philosophical teaching and writing. She studied in the inspirational city of…
After studying architecture in Berlin, Stuttgart and New York, Tobias Wallisser worked in the United States, Netherlands and Germany. For 10 years Tobias was Associate Architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for a series…
Daniela Schiffer helps people make their own energy. The co-founder of the German startup changers.com explains why protecting climate is as hard as stop smoking – and how men nevertheless do have fun with it.
His pictures went around the world: J Henry Fair ist photgrapher, ecological activist and he is best known for his Industrial Scars series, in which he researches the worlds most aweful enviromental desasters. At TEDxBerlin he showed…
John Perry Barlow joined TedxBerlin via skype live from the US. Inspired by the speaches before he affirmed that there is no energy source more powerful and sustainable than hope. And he explains how climate protection starts with an…
Why can’t Nigeria be like Norway? With 20 years experience in and around the oil industry journalist and consultant Johnny West claims a simple policy tool, that can switch the situation of countries in which natural resources are produced…
Do you do what you want to do? Or just what your employment contract says? Do you do, what your mum expects you to do? What your friends want you to do? What society makes you to do? Martin Cordesmeier’s company Millionways helps people…
Nik Nowak has got a passion for the physical experience of bass. The artist studiend in Berlin, New York and Shanghai. His work shows the energy of sound – and its function as a weapon.
Management consultant Nils Lindell and his family set out to reduce their CO2-footprint from the Swedish average of about 7 tons per person and year to the one ton that will be required in the not too far future. An ordinary family in an…
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…
"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…
Nik Nowak’s wall paintings and sound objects have made him internationally renowned and he has exhibited his work in museums and galleries in Germany, Austria, Russia and China. His most recent work ’Panzer’, a combination of a…
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