Theme: Change Begins with a Smile

In the spirit of an extremely diverse community, Kyiv International School, TEDxYouth@KIS strives to host young voices and ideas to build their own future. We have the honor to host both local and international speakers, imbibing the spirit of "Change begins with a Smile" as ideas from all over the world can be brought to a common stage.We are extremely proud of our current speaker line-up and we can't wait to share it with you.

Kyiv International School
Svyatoshyns'kyi Ln, 3А, Kyiv, 02000
Kyiv, Kyïv, 02000
Ukraine

Ani Yoseliani

Student at Webster University Vienna and KIS Alumni

My entire life has revolved around change. I moved many countries, I've experienced many different cultures, I've gone to an international school, I've lived through revolutions. My life has always been subjected to change. It is an inevitable component of life, and the more you learn to understand it, the better friend it becomes.

Emma Alman

IB Diploma Candidate at Kyiv International School

I live in an international community and change is to that kind of community what water is to fish. It’s a constant, and a given. Change has been significant in my life because it’s led me to where I am now as a person. At the same time, not so much the change, but the process of change has fascinated me to the point where I’m interested in engaging in a career that revolves around making slow, steady, and positive change to a person’s life. I’ll be talking about how we think about change, and how we could create change in a better way if we thought about it a little bit differently. I’ll focus on the LGBT community here in Ukraine, and how the ideas in my talk might be applied to a real situation. I hope to communicate a different vantage point on making change, while spreading awareness about the LGBT situation in Ukraine, which is in need of the attention."

Eugene Safonov

Editor-in-Chief of "Bird In Flight" (Online Magazine)

I have worked as a journalist for ten years. I know a lot of people who have changed jobs multiple times during the same time period. Of course, I find such stories inspiring, but personally I have no craving for such change: my work is interesting enough and it constantly supplies me with new tasks and challenges.

JT Rehill

Founder and Managing Director of LEAD|Turkey (Consulting Firm)

As a teacher, trainer, and instructional coach, I devote my energy toward the facilitation of learning—what I see as the applied science of manifesting physical change in the brain.I hope to inspire educators and their admirers to embrace the changes taking place all around us; to understand that resistance is natural and overcoming it can be done through systematic planning and effort; and to recognizing that managing change, whether invited or imposed, all starts and ends with people."

Martin Slosarik

Student at New York University Abu Dhabi | Project Leader for 'Wadi Drone'

Martin is a student at the extremely prestigious New York University Abu Dhabi. He led a team that created the Wadi Drone, an award winning concept to monitor wildlife.

Michael Lyzanets

CEO at Moneyveo.ua

Change was extremely important for my life and career, because in hindsight I realize that only due to all those various radical changes I became who I am now (and I am a very happy person).