Theme: Trigger your Potential

Imagine there is one single button which can trigger all your potentials and talents.
Through this button you find talents you weren’t even aware you had. Imagine you have the opportunity to push this button and find a way to bring your ideas into action. A button that even takes away the insecurity of being an utter newbie. For us, TEDxDornbirn is this incredible, magic button. TEDxDornbirn invites you to get inspired by people who already triggered their potentials in order to encourage you to just do the same. TEDx could be your button for inspiration, motivation, innovation and of course heaps fun.

designforum Vorarlberg
Hintere Achmühlerstraße 1
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, 6850
Austria

DRAHTHAUS

musicgroup

Simon Öggl studies composition at ‘MUK Vienna’ and works as a freelance music producer, among others, for Sounds of Red Bull. Under the pseudonym ‘Hidden Aspect’ he produces drum and bass music and loves to encounter glasses from the table. Valentin Martins studied guitar at the ‘Vienna Music Institute’ and is currently working as a freelance musician in the media industry as well as in various pop and jazz projects. Unfortunately, he cannot understand the need of socks. Ludwig Ascher studied trumpet at the ‘Vienna Music Institute’ and he plays in several big bands as well as in different pop and jazz combos. He only watches black and white films and can sometimes even sleep through 15 hours. Hans Zoderer studies sociology at the ‘University of Vienna’; besides Drahthaus he organizes festivals with the collective ‘Botheration HiFi’, collects instruments and has a weakness for colorful sweaters.

Anton Gunzinger

Engineer

Toni Gunzinger is an entrepreneur and teacher at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His company does contract based research and development for industry, media, health, mobility and energy. His research focus in energy is to reduce the global footprint to a level that allows the next 7 generations to live on a similar standard of living as today by just using the inner potential of a country intelligently.

Daniel Leeb

CEO

Daniel is the CEO of a startup in Vorarlberg, Dornbirn. Daniel designed a smart product to give people riding a bike, oder skating more visibility.

Elisabeth Willi

Writer

Elisabeth Willi is the chief editor of ‚marie – Die Vorarlberger Straßenzeitung‘. Founded in September 2015, the first edition came out in december 2015 with 10.000 papers. In March 2016 it was doubled to 20.000 papers.

Georg Terlecki-Zaniewicz

Engineer

The majority of our lifetime is spent on duties and routines, instead of things we are passionate about and activities which are self-fulfilling. The biggest technology revolution of the lighting industry since the invention of the light bulb will help us to re-focus on the things we love. It will change the way we live, work, travel or shop significantly.

Madeleine Alizadeh

Blogger

Madeleine Alizadeh is the blogger behind dariadaria.com, one of the most read blogs in the german speaking area. Reaching over 100.000 individuals each month, her main focus lies on sustainability, lifestyle and fair fashion.

Marko Blumenreich

psychotherapist

He is a psychotherapist and his motto is: one who sees differently, sees more. After completing his education as a massage therapist, he studied Psychology and Psychotherapy. For the last nine years he has been working in his own practice. Marco sees the world differently and that, he says, has become his greatest gift. Marco was born blind. Since he was a boy, he has spent quite some time dealing with the subject of seeing. He is convinced that seeing differently is not just possible for him, but also for everyone else. In his talk he will share some of his insights with us. His motto is: one who sees differently, sees more.

Sergei Ikovenko

Consultant and project facilitator

Sergei is one of the leading consultants and project facilitators in innovation technology of design. He has conducted more than 900 courses on innovation topics for Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Sergei was the primary instructor to deliver corporate innovation programs at Procter & Gamble, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Samsung, Intel, Siemens, Hyundai Motor Group, etc. Sergei has effectively utilized his expertise to receive 104 patents in various engineering fields. He has taught seminars at MIT, Harvard University, Carnegie-Melon University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and other leading educational institutions worldwide.

Tom Venning

Business Trainer, Facilitator and Artist

May be its madness, possibly brilliance … Asmeic calligrapher and performance artist Tom Venning has spent the last 13 years painstakingly painting black lines on white paper… that’s approximately 20 000 lines, an intense learning curve and a sore wrist. Surprisingly this monotone experience fed back into his other life as a business to business sales expert in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He learned how to think! Then he started noticing where our society accidently uses this amazing capability, and where it deliberately destroys it.