Theme: Wanted

We’ve given much thought about which theme would fit the ideas that we want to spread in October. With the theme WanTED we want to present the slightly more outrageous ideas – Extreme, Exclusive & Essential. This may sound a bit vague. We’ll try to explain

Extreme

Naturally the theme has an extreme edge. Consider a strong desire which leads to extreme behavior. Obsessive desire. Crime is an example or going to the limits to acquire that one medal or reward.

Exclusive

The perfect designer’s handbag. The best football player. The desire to own that practically unreachable product that only the chosen few have.

Essential

Needed. Necessary. Can’t do without. Searching for acknowledgement and becoming completely dependent on something or someone. You can’t live without that one thing otherwise life isn’t worth living.

These three sub-themes all have a search in common. For the positive, the negative, the desire to own. All of them are WanTED. Welcome to TEDxEde 2015!

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Bennekomseweg 24
Ede, Gelderland, 6717 LM
Netherlands

NesaRu

Nesaru is a Tricking team, introducing us to a relatively new and unknown sport called Tricking. Tricking is a mixture sport taken from martial arts such as Taekwondo, KungFu, Capoeira and acrobatics such as gymnastics and breakdancing. But unlike these sports, Tricking has no formal rules, regulations or governing bodies that regulate the sport, allowing participants to express themselves with their own moves, making it a unlimited, free and spectacular sport.

Tango La Zapada

Tango dancers, choreographers and teachers Birkit Wildenburg and Muzaffer Demiray have travelled the world teaching, creating and performing and are now settled in Utrecht with their own tango school Tango La Zapada. Many of their performing activities were together with piano player, composer and arranger Katrien Karimoen. She is part from the quintet Zárate and played concerts, at milongas and in theatre shows. She coaches different tango-ensembles and teaches at the Wereldmuziekschool amongst other places.

Vince Watson & Metofa

Glasgow native producer Vince Watson has been busy in the electronic music circuit for over 20 years, delivering timeless music for many of the worlds best record labels. In 2014 he debuted on his own on various labels and in 2015 his release topped the charts for 6 weeks solid. Based in Amsterdam, Vince’s live shows are now in demand around the world, and as a former Tresor resident, his DJ sets are also highly requested.

Anne Glick

Anne Glick left the field of international development after years of working in the Middle East and Africa, to create an educational iOS app series that encourages cross-group friendship. She’s a writer and photographer who believes that technology can help save the world, just not in the way we expect it to.

Arthur Brand

Arthur Brand is a specialist dealing with the art and antiquities trade. His company tracks down looted art and investigates forgeries. He is an expert about the shady side of the art business where even terrorists earn their money by selling looted art.

Daan Heerma van Vos

novelist

Daan Heerma van Voss is a novelist, interviewer and historian. He has written various novels, essays and a book of interviews. He has also written for several newspapers, such as NRC, Humo, De Morgen, De Groene Amsterdammer, Vrij Nederland, Das Magazin, De Morgen, De Volkskrant, Vogue US and The New York Times. His novel, Sunday Man was nominated for the Anton Wachter Prize in 2012 and The Country 32 was nominated for the Halewijn Prize and the Cutting Edge Award.

Daan Heerma van Voss

Daan Heerma van Voss is a novelist, interviewer and historian. He has written various novels, essays and a book of interviews. He has also written for several newspapers, such as NRC, Humo, De Morgen, De Groene Amsterdammer, Vrij Nederland, Das Magazin, De Morgen, De Volkskrant, Vogue US and The New York Times. His novel, Sunday Man was nominated for the Anton Wachter Prize in 2012 and The Country 32 was nominated for the Halewijn Prize and the Cutting Edge Award.

David Reitsma

David Reitsma is a 21 year old graduate Business Administration. He is captivated by the power of words and communicating with people in a new way. Spoken Word is one of his passions which he uses to communicate a message on an experience level.

Denise Jannah

jazz vocalist

Denise is a Dutch jazz vocalist. She was born in Paramaribo, and currently lives and records in the Netherlands. She is the first Dutch jazz soloist to be signed by the Blue Note recording label. According to the press she is one of the few singers around who truly meets the standards set down by the generations that gave us Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Carman McRae.

Fleur Ravenbergen

Fleur Ravensbergen is assistant director at the Dialogue Advisory Group (DAG) who facilitates political dialogue to reduce violence and hope to create or advance political dialogues between armed groups, governments and international organisations in conflict situations. Fleur manages DAG’s mediation operations

Floris van Delft

Floris van Delft is a theologian and theater producer who has directed various performances about crime. He wonders if it's possible to cure criminals.

Hidde Boersma

Hidde Boersma has a Ph.D in molecular biology and s since 2009 full time freelance science journalist. He writes for De Correspondent, de Volkskrant and Elsevier, amongst others. He specializes in biotechnology, agriculture and bio-ethics. Hidde is one of the founders of Bureau Wibaut, a large freelance journalist collective based in Amsterdam.

Mauk den Boer

Mauk den Boer has developed biophysical medical instruments. His company produces hardware and software solutions, that use coloured light, micro-current and pulsating electro-magnetic fields to diagnose and treat sicknesses.

Olaf Kaper

Olaf Kaper is professor in Egyptology at the university of Leiden. He forms part of an international excavation team in the Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, and he is reconstructing the history of that area and the temples of the ancient Egyptian religion.

Tako Rietveld

Tako Rietveld id the world’s first children’s news reporter. As a former reporter for the Dutch NOS “Jeugdjournaal” he has traveled all over the world reporting for children about the various situations in the world, such as Nelson Mandela's death to the Olympics in China. Since the beginning of this year he has set-up the ‘De Kindercorrespondent’ platform so that the stories and the opinions of children can be heard. According to Taco children are rarely heard in the news.

Titia Hoogendoorn

Titia Hoogendoorn is an actress, artist and the initiator of the web site www.dingenoverdingen.nl which supports young teen girls with their self-image.

Vera Pauw

Vera Pauw is a Dutch football coach and the first female to achive a trainers diploma in the Dutch football world. She has quite a lot of experience coaching the Dutch, Scottish en Russian teams. Currentlly she coaches the South African women’s football team Banyana Banyana who have qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games In Rio de Janeiro. Being the only girl of a triplet, Vera grew up like a boy. She could finally play football at the age of 13. Later as national coach and technical director of different countries she used her experiences to influence the approach of creating equal development opportunities for both boys and girls in sport.'

Wasima Khan

Wasima Khan is a jurist and writer. She is interested in exploring how responsibilities toward justice can be shared and implemented in law, business, and society. Wasima has received awards, honorable mentions, and nominations for her writings from various organizations, including the Global Peter Drucker Society, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, Actal, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Harry Honée Foundation, and the International Corporate Governance Society. She has presented and discussed her scholarly essays and ideas at various conferences and symposia around the world.