Theme: Play.Pause.Restart

“In all, there were three things: the certainty that one is always beginning, the certainty that one must go further, and the certainty that one will be interrupted before finishing”. (Fernando Pessoa)

Play Pause restart focuses on the need of a constant renewal. Innovation needs the courage to take risks, to prove ourselves with a dash of improvisation. TEDxVicenza 2016 will bring on stage stories of change and ideas, that shake the status quo feeding the desire of discovery.
A dynamic theme that embraces innovation, technology, art, music, entertainment, sport and sciences all mixed with a constant curiosity and the desire to go further. IN order to be effective and lead to real changes, the dynamic nature of Play.Pause.Restart cannot leave the Pause aside. The latter becomes a discussion aimed to collect new energies required for the third moment, the Restart, driven by what the previous action has created in the wake of future actions.
Speakers and performers will be called to share their experiences on stage where Play.Pause.Restart is coded as an unique action, a process, often cyclical, or a set of actions that follow each other creating meaning, telling about a precise way of life, mindset, design, experiment and constant study.
The goal of the second edition of TEDxVicenza, in accordance with the first edition, is to inspire the audience through storytelling and ideas that become source for reflection and knowledge and, at the same time, provide useful tools to look forward and foster change. The audience gets immersed in an truly emotional and immersive experience.
As for music, where rhythm imposes breaks that allow to give meaning to the sequence of notes, also experiences and ideas shared at TEDxVicenza acquire meaning thanks to the distinct moments synthesized in Play.Pause.Restart.

Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
Viale Giuseppe Mazzini, 39
Vicenza, Vicenza, 36100
Italy

Nikki

Rock 'n' Roll Ambassador

Fabrizio 'Nikki' Lavoro is a speaker, guitarist and Italian Dj. He is born in Apulia in the Seventies and raised in a valley between Turin and France. In March 1990 he lands in the Deejay universe thank to an audition for Deejay Television. Years of shows, trips, jam sessions, collaborations with summer music Festivals and Italian artists. In the first 00s, he takes a break a year-and-a-half long from radio shows, spent mostly in New York. From here, he begins to broadcast on Deejay with simple equipment. Between 2010 and 2012 he edits and directs 100 mini episodes of Shuffolato, a show directed on the road, touching 20 European cities on Deejay TV. His Tropical Pizza Radio Show, the vibrant evening heart of Radio Deejay has been on air for 10 years, with a fresh, curios international feel.

Andrea Budu Toniolo

Runner

Andrea Budu Toniolo is a young man with a normal life, until 3 years ago. He played football, had a job and a girlfriend, until a huge car crash changed his life. During the 6 months spent in bed, he started to think that dreams should be chased, no matter what others thought. In 2015 he, literally ran away from his small town in Veneto, while pulling a small wagon, in order to be fully autonomous and reach North Cape alone.

Andrew Coté

Beekeeper in NYC

Andrew Coté is a fourth-generation beekeeper and polyglot with most of his beehives atop skyscrapers in New York City. Although tending to his many hives in Connecticut and New York City is a full-time job, Andrew’s passions are diverse. The beekeeper dubbed by the New York Times as “one of the industry’s legends” and by Bon Appetit as “hot tempered”, Andrew is a Fulbright scholar and retired professor as well as beekeeper extraordinaire. He has installed a live honeybee sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, done a beekeeping commercial with Spike Lee, and assists the NYPD with bee-related emergencies in Gotham City. Andrew is also the founder of two non-profit organizations, Bees Without Borders and the New York City Beekeepers Association.

Claudio Bertorelli

Landscape Architect and Urban Planner

In 2002, Claudio Bertorelli founded the Usine Study Center (Centro Studi Usine), a research center investigating the complexities of cities. In 2004, he opened Asprostudio, a professional studio dedicated to master plan designs and urban development across many regions in Italy. He is the creator of the Comodamente Festival, an annual event bringing together permanent and temporary community groups that can be both local and regional, dealing with issues ranging from science, to the arts, to economics and politics. Since 2014, he has been director of the Francesco Fabbri Foundation, a production center for best practices for Italian provinces and for their willingness to move with the times.

Dario Polli

Physicist & Researcher

Dario Polli is a professor of physics at the Polytechnic University of Milan. Scientific diffusion enthusiast, he has been working for 15 years on experimental scientific research, building lasers that generate very short flashes of light, that are used on innovative materials and in the biology and research field, including medical applications too. He signed over 80 articles, which appeared on major international reviews. In 2015 he was granted by the EU for developing an innovative microscope based on laser impulses, in order to study human cells and identify cancerous tissues. His speech would make us discover the project: how a flashing light could tell us if a human cell is healthy or not.

Francesca Bosco

Cybercriminologist

Francesca Bosco has always been aware of her desire to make the world a better place for everybody. She graduated in law at the University of Turin and since 2006 she works at UNICRI, the United Nations institution which provides help and technical assistance to member states on issues regarding crime and justice. Francesca has been working for years in law enforcement programs for computer crimes and organized crime. Shes is in charge for information security programs and she is investigating the misuse of technology, focusing on technology as a development driver, aimed to build a more secure and free society. In her TEDx Talk Francesca describes how cyber-crime has evolved and who are the main actors and victims.

Luciano Canova

Economist and Science Writer

Luciano Canova is an economist. After studying at Bocconi University and Paris School of Economics, he started teaching behavioral economics. His research interests cover mainly the happiness economics and quality of life assessment. He believes in digital education and he is iProf of the happiness economics for Oilproject.org. He loves science communication and in his TEDx Talk he explains how the measurements of happiness works in today's complex reality.

Marianna Baldo

Photographer and Environmental Activist

Marianna Baldo is a naturalist from birth. After earning a degree in Natural Sciences, she dedicated many years to the exploration of caves, serving as a technician in the National Mountain and Speleological Rescue Corps. She works as Health & Safety Manager for several companies in Veneto, until she decides to leave corporate environments to return to nature. Photography and writing help her to communicate ideas, feelings, life and behaviors. The encounter with Sea Shepherd happens in March 2002, allowing her to be photographer on ships. Since that moment, her life is on a ship, documenting deep blue and its creatures. Hosted by national and international conferences, TV shows, she signed several articles and interviews; her photos are know worldwide, depicting oceans defense actions.

Marie Moe

Self-hacking Scientist

Marie Moe cares about public safety and securing systems that may impact human lives, this is why she joined the grassroots organization I Am The Cavalry. Marie is a research scientist at SINTEF ICT, and has a PhD in information security. She has experience as a team leader at the Norwegian cyber security center NorCERT, where she helped victims of cyber-attacks. She is currently doing research on the security of the wireless communication of her own personal critical infrastructure, an implanted pacemaker that is generating every single beat of her heart. In her TEDx Talk Marie explains the importance of transparency of information, citing her experience as a patient and as a scientist, showing us how medicine and wearable technology are two worlds which are getting closer. Marie Moe wants to secure humans with connected medical implants in their body against cyber threats.

Stephen Hicks

Visual Prosthetics Researcher

Stephen Hicks is a Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford. He works at the intersection of neuroscience and visual perception, computer vision and wearable technologies. Stephen’s current work – the development of vision enhancement for legally blind individuals, is the result of five years of research at Oxford, and a long time interest in cybernetics and vision. His achievements have been recognized with a number of high profile awards including the 2014 Google Global Impact Challenge and the 2014 Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation. Stephen is also an installation artist with work focusing on the abstract representation of real-time detection of people and motion – probing the boundaries of human and computer perception.

Susanna Martucci

(R)Evolutionary Entrepreneur

Susanna Martucci was born in Verona in 1958 and was an agonistic swimmer in the 70s. In 1981 she starts her career in sales with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Walt Disney and in 1983 she founds M.83 general Mondadori Walt Disney industry aimed to launch the first English audiovisual lab dedicated to children. Afterwards, in 1994 she founds Alisea, enterprise and art gallery, which sells and promotes artworks, english antiques and design objects. At the end of the ’90s she gets really interested in recycling and environmental sustainability, concentrating her activities everyday more on reuse, recovery and recycling. In this period she gives birth to her first design objects, made out of industrial discards of her client companies. Alisea Recycled & Reused Objects Design is unique in the field of design and production of promotional objects made with natural, reused, eco-friendly objects.

Victor Perez

Visual Effects Artist

Victor Perez is a filmmaker and a visual artist who works in the highest grossing film productions in Hollywood as a visual effects artist such as The Dark Knight, Harry Potter or Pirates of the Caribbean. Born in the countryside in the south of Spain from a humble family, as a child, Victor was deeply influenced by Star Wars movies and the way science fiction can illustrate human endeavor from a distant point of view. At the age of 28 his life was struck by a devastating earthquake in L Aquila, Italy where he lost his house, his studio and all his personal belongings. This event marks the beginning of a journey, that led him to become the person he is today.

Xavier Lozano Palay

Omniphonist

Always into different music genres, from tradition to experimental one, fusing multiple elements, Xavier Lozano Palay specialized in traditional wind instruments. He collaborates regularly with radio and television shows and he dedicated most of his life to teaching and pedagogy trough shows and laboratories- as a solo or with the Bufa & Sons trio, focusing on how to make music with used objects and materials.