Reinventing the Wheel
Oh wheels! Used since centuries by now, what could go even better than the classic round wheel we are all using? Let's challenge ourselves!
To us, the wheel is the perfect image of what we've been using since ages and we are not questioning its efficiency anymore. It's acquired that there is no better way to roll than a wheel! But what if...?
What if we actually started questioning these ways which seems to be okay but could actually be replaced by much better ideas? What if we could find much nicer or much more qualitative ways to live our life simply by changing our old rusty habits?
Have you ever taken a step back to look at what you have been doing for ages systematically the very same way until you noticed there are so many better ways to handle it, or even so many more interesting things to do? See what our speakers have to share with you!
Richard McGeown - @richardmcgeown
Chef at Couch's Great House, Cornwall
Richard McGeown is a British chef and restaurateur who cooked the very first in vitro meat product in history back in 2013.
His talk will be focused on the scientific & economic progress of lab-grown meat since 2013. He will discuss how the human impact on the planet needs us to consider how our food may be alternatively produced in the future, and whether this is socially accepted and economically viable, as demand for meat grows with an expanding population.
Sofie van der Meulen - @sofiedumoulin
Health & data law expert, Netherlands
Sofie is a Dutch health and data law expert. She is also chair of the board of foodwatch Netherlands and a diversity & inclusion advocate.
In her talk, she shares her perspective on diversity and inclusion based on her own observations and experience.
Sofie particularly discusses diversity and inclusion in the workplace and promotes a life-enriching human-friendly approach everyone can start with today.
Somaye Dehban - @somayedehban
Founder of the synergetic personal tranformation model "Verbinding", Netherlands
Somaye is a Dutchified Iranian who has a dream to live in a world with true personal freedom of choice, equality of opportunity and the ability for people to thrive, balanced with personal responsibility to contribute to collective good. To make this reality, Somaye has developed a synergistic personal and organizational transformation model which she has dubbed “Verbinding”. Verbinding is the Dutch term for “inter-connectedness” with an emotional hint towards “inter-relatedness” and “inter-dependencies”.
In her talk, Somaye walks us through her personal Verbinding journey and how reinventing herself and her identity has been inspired by the “over-shadowed“ definition of innovative: putting existing ideas together in a different way.
Marlon Jost - @marlonjost
Expert in sexual education
and Communication & Campaign Director of OHHH! Foundation
Marlon is the campaign director of the OHHH foundation.
Marlon and his foundation are reinventing the wheel of sex education by making this issue known and sharing his expertise in this era by speaking about it publicly across the globe.
During his ted talk , Marlon is going to talk about sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV, and how it was in the past, current, and how it will/might be in the future.
Kevin O'Garro
Information Technology Consultant, Netherlands
Kevin O’Garro is an IT consultant from the Netherlands. Usually, a job title like this is automatically linked to a lot of (international) travel.
In his talk, Kevin shares how his perspective on necessary travel changed. He will discuss how he reinvented his way of commuting to work, from driving his car everyday, to riding his bike as his only mode of transportation. He will discuss the impact that this decision had on his life, health, and on the environmental advantages derived from it.