Theme: Transformation in the Valley

The world is moving and globalization is impacting everyone around us. Change is happening everywhere affecting everyone in organizations, governments and in the context of our private lives. Change requires people, organizations, governments and regions to adapt and startups and young people challenge existing rules and business models. TEDxEde 2016 is proud to provide a stage for Ideas Worth Spreading, from within the region as well as outside the region, which drive Transformation in the Valley.

Personal Transformation
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Transformation can happen on various levels. Personal Transformation can be triggered by internal motivation, but also by external influences and factors that are not always controlled by the individual. One thing is clear: Personal Transformation needs courage, flexibility and an open mindset to adapt.

Economical and Social Transformation
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Enterprises have ambition to facilitate innovation in order to stay ahead. The world is becoming more global and exactly this globalization has its impact on enterprises, however also on the individuals. And it is all about choices. People and organizations have to embrace this change. One thing is for sure Transformation is happening everywhere for everyone and it has an impact on our social and economical environment.

Ecological Transformation
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The speed of change is enormous and it is impacting the Valley. The Valley is known for its knowledge and long lasting connection to nature. Exactly this knowledge connects the Valley with the world and this is utilized to create a sustainable world.

Innovation and Transformation
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Innovation and new ideas are required to stay connected to the pace of change. Thinking differently and challenging boundaries are facilitating Transformation. Exactly these innovations motivate TEDxEde to spread innovations and new ideas in order to make these great ideas accessible for everyone, spark conversation and facilitate Transformation in the Valley on the 27th of October.

De Reehorst
Bennekomseweg 24
Ede, Gelderland, 6717 LM
Netherlands

Colour Collective

Colour Collective is a classical ensemble combined with different art-disciplines. Judith Groen and Enig Wong, as the founders of Colour Collective, have been shaping and creating many interdisciplinary projects. Collaborating with a variety of different artists, ranging from the visual arts to contemporary dance - but all with keeping chamber music as a backbone.

Luminous Blue

We are together for several years to make music! Our goal is to make beautiful music, thereby to inspire others with both energetic and in the small and emotional music. A good example is 'Autumn' written by our keyboardist Nils Heutink. A piece which - as the title says - trying to define the fall with beautiful music. In the beginning it is small, flourishes a bit. After a while it stops and there to feel the force of the fall.

Omnifarious

We are a group of young performers who are ready to change the world by dance. The group consists six students of the dance teachers department of the university of arts in Amsterdam. Our piece "In the middle of the night" that we will perform today is about a love of life and the living world; the affinity of human beings for other life forms.

Abigail Martina

Born in 1989 and in love with music ever since her parents kept playing music of great artists like The Winans, Whitney Houston, Kirk Franklin and a lot of classic soul music. She played the piano since she was 10 years old. Funny enough she didn't think she could sing until she was 15 years old. But from that moment on she didn't stop. She started to develop her skills in singing and began to take classes. She pushed herself to sing and play the piano at the same time... and that payed off. Now she is a performing artist and this year she will graduate at the conservatory in Haarlem. Although Abigail knows how to play the piano and sings all the right notes, there is something more important than that, and that is that she wants to touch people with her music and show everyone there still is love and hope. The best way to deliver this message is through music.

Arnold van Vliet

Arnold van Vliet helps society to adapt to climate change. He is a biologists at Wageningen University and involves thousands of people in the monitoring of climate change impacts on plants and animals. He is also specialised in communicating news on nature to society, e.g. via www.naturetoday.com.

Dirceu da Silva

Dirceu da Silva is a father, entrepreneur and educational consultant. He is an expert in developing new curriculum and strategy for educational institutions. As a frequent guest lecturer at schools and universities he is familiar with the challenges they face. Inspired by his 5 children he is dedicated to make a positive change in the world of education.

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

Dr. Esmeralda Kleinreesink is a lieutenant-colonel with the Royal Netherlands Air Force. As an assistant professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy, she studied international military Afghanistan memoirs (On Military Memoirs, Brill, 2017). She published several short stories and a military memoir (Officier in Afghanistan, Meulenhoff, 2012) about her own deployment to Afghanistan.

Esther van Duin

Esther van Duin is a young woman, raised in Ede She is an activist on mental health and LGBT-rights. Having represented Dutch youth at UNESCO for the last 2 years, Esther is now part of the Youth Taskforce on Mental Health of the National Youth Council and Master student in Development Studies.

Hans Bouscholte

Hans Bouscholte is 1 of the most famous sailors of the Netherlands. He achieved 2 world champion titles, 4 european champion titles, 3 world record and 7 French champion titles and he was skipper in the Volvo Ocean Race. The passion for breaking records features the character of Bouscholte. So he sailed in an open catamaran fastest ever from Africa to America, and he was also the fastest-ever sailed across the North Sea, around Texel, around St. Maarten and the renowned Antwerp race. He excels in communication, being the national TV (Studio Sport) sailing analyst, communication manager of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team, author of various books and motivational speaker for big companies. After his professional sailing career, he became head coach of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team and Technical Director of the Dutch Sailing Federation.

Irene van Staveren

Irene van Staveren is Professor of Pluralist Development Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research and teaching present a wide variety of economic perspectives on key problems, such as gender relations, financial instability and economic inequality.

Koen Lekkerkerker

Koen Lekkerkerker is a passionate engineer with various experience in artificial intelligence, control, and robotics. He is the chief engineer of the WEpods self-driving public transport project; a unique project in which small autonomous buses are driving public roads to explore the technological and regulatory challenges involved in self-driving.

Madadh MacLaine

"Madadh MacLaine is an adventurer, activist and social entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Fair Winds Trading Company and Fair Winds Trust whose objective is to create economic equality and sustain biodiversity through fair trade and transport. Madadh is also founder and member of the Executive committee of the International Windships Association; promoting the use of wind in commercial shipping".

Mehtap Ocek

I’m a 19 year old Legal Assistant student and in the future I want to work as a judge in the juvenile court, and I’d love to practise my job in America. My physical handicap is not something that's holding me back in achieving my goals because of my passion for education and helping people in need. At the same time I’m representing my school (ROC A12) as the “Uitblinker 2016”. I’ve won this title because I reached some exceptional achievements, such as my internship at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Dutch Institute of Vision and Sound.

Ofir Drori

Ofir Drori is an activist at the forefront of the wildlife extinction crisis. In the African forests his group EAGLE hunts down wildlife traffickers, and fights corruption to ensure they stay behind bars. Ofir connects the audience with his passion to nature and calls others to join the fight.

Tim Hofmeester

Tim is a young ecologist about to finish his PhD in disease ecology at Wageningen University. He is a real mammal fanatic, studying mammals (especially rodents and carnivores) and their parasites both for his research and in his spare time. Curiosity is his driver and his goal is to better educate the world about natural processes.

Wolter Pieters

Wolter Pieters is an assistant professor in cyber risk at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, and one of the initiators of the TREsPASS project. He studied computer science and philosophy of science, technology and society at the University of Twente, and wrote his interdisciplinary PhD "La volonté machinale: understanding the electronic voting controversy" at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Pieters’s research focuses on cyber security risk management in complex systems. He works with qualitative and quantitative socio-technical security models, attack models, and attack graphs, to discover and prioritize weaknesses, and evaluate countermeasures. In relation to such decision support, he is also interested in the ethics of cyber security and in the integration of security and safety. He published on electronic voting, verification of security properties, cyber risk management, and philosophy and ethics of information security.