Theme: Changes that matter!

TEDxFSU Jena “x” stands for independently organized event and FSU is abbreviation for Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. It is the first official university-based TEDx event in Eastern part of Germany, which will be organized on 10th of February 2015 in Jena. This is the onset of tradition as TEDxFSU Jena will not end on the event day, but will be organized annually instead. Current organizers are group of international students united by the trust in power of ideas to make the world a better place. All speeches on the conference will be filmed and posted on Internet

Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3
Jena, Thüringen, 07743
Germany

Chiaran Burke

Ciaran Burke is the professor of international law and the director of law and language center at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. He made his first L.L.M degree at the university of Amsterdam in 2008 followed with his second L.L.M degree at the European university institute in Florence. From 2012-2014 he was a lecturer and Moot court coach at the University of Passau. Since 2014 he joined Frierdich Schiller University of Jena chairing International Law.

Christoph Ohler

Christoph Ohler graduated in law from the University of Bayreuth and the College of Europe in Bruges. His PhD in European law he received at the University of Bayreuth. After working as an associate in an international law firm in Frankfurt/Main he became a research assistant at the Universities of Passau, Bayreuth and Munich. Since 2006 he holds a chair in public law, European law, public international law and international economic law at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. From 2008 to 2014 he was the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary graduate program „Global Financial Markets“. He publishes extensively on German and European constitutional law and the regulation of financial markets in international and European law. „Banking Supervision and Monetary Policy in EMU” is his most recent book.

Ciaran Burke

Ciaran Burke is the professor of international law and the director of law and language center at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. He made his first L.L.M degree at the university of Amsterdam in 2008 followed with his second L.L.M degree at the European university institute in Florence. From 2012-2014 he was a lecturer and Moot court coach at the University of Passau. Since 2014 he joined Frierdich Schiller University of Jena chairing International Law.

Giovanni Dosi

Giovanni Dosi is a renowned and prominant professor of economics and the director of the Institute of Economics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa; Co-Director of the task forces “Industrial Policy” and “Intellectual Property Rights”, IPD – Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University; Continental European Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. Included in “ISI Highly Cited Researchers”. His major research areas – where he is author and editor of several works – include Economics of Innovation and Technological Change, Industrial Economics, Evolutionary Theory, Economic Growth and Development, Organizational Studies. A selection of his works has been published in two volumes: Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics.

Hartmut Rosa

TEDxFSU Jena is proud to have among the speakers one of the most prominent German sociologist and political scientist. Hartmut Rosa is the full professor of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the head of the Max-Weber center of advanced cultural and social studies of the University of Erfurt.

Ivan Savin

Ivan Savin is a social scientist, an economist, a postdoctoral researcher at the FSU Jena. Main interests are concentrated (but not limited to) economics of innovation, agent-based modeling and computational econometric.

Martin Schneider

Martin Schneider is a young lawyer who after 7 years of studying found his profession in solving issues from different than common approaches. Inspired by that he founded his own financial consulting business and became an assistant writing concepts for an HR consulting company. Starting to be an author and co-author he loves to talk about issues people normally don’t face

Peter Perceval

With more than 20 years of experience in writing comedy for radio, television and theatre, we can consider Peter as one of the founders of the modern comedy scene in Belgium. He knows how to inspire and convince people and how to make them listen to you. He is an expert in adding humour to a speech.

Seymur Rasulov

Seymur Rasulov is a motive speaker who comes to us with a 7+ years of international experience in the library and information science world having received his MSc in Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before he joined Springer, one of the world’s largest publishers in Science, Technology and Medicine, Seymur worked at Qatar Foundation, The World Bank, The British Embassy and with some non-profit organizations, Seymur loves researching topics that are in a symbiotic relationship with one another such as courage, inspiration, motivation, dedication and success. Seymur provides free public courses to youth, particularly students in public speaking and building confidence.

Silke Uebelmesser

Silke Uebelmesser is Professor for Public Finance at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and Research Professor at the Ifo Institute, Munich. Her research covers a wide range of topics in the domain of public economics. These, in particular, comprise issues related to social policy, education and migration policy. In her work she is interested in inquiring the implications of globalization and the demographic change for the sustainability of public activities.

Simone Vannuccini

Simone Vannuccini is an Economist of Innovation, Ph.D candidate at the FSU Jena. He is interested in how pervasive and general purpose technologies affect the dynamics of industries and the whole Economy.

Stefan Schweinberger

Stefan Schweinberger is the head of the department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. He is the author of plenty of research papers published in scientific journals. In 1992 he was nominated as the author of the best paper in Neuropsychologia. Since 2003 he is the honorary professor of Glasgow University.

Uwe Cantner

Uwe Cantner is the Vice-President for Young Researcher and Diversity Management at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He is Professor of Economics at the FSU Jena and at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense and he is the Director of the Ph.D Program “The Economics of Innovative Change” and of the interdisciplinary Graduate School “Human Behavior in Social and Economic Change”. He is former President of the International J. A. Schumpeter Society.