Theme: Transform the present, reinvent the Future

TEDxJoven@Cuenca 2016 will take place at Universidad del Azuay. This auditorium has the capacity to held 450 people, but our goal is to reach 20000 youngsters between the ages of 14 - 25 years old, our strategy is to reach 23 educative institutions and organize live streaming sessions for their students. With our event we want to create a call to action, showing that the simplest ideas are the ones who are changing our society and changing lives. Who would thought that some lawyers could become tourist guides or that a bully could change his life and become an active young man always working on developing new entrepreneurship ideas for our country. This are 2 of the topics, but our event relies on creating that spark that is going to change our short term future. Our event is part of what we have called "TEDx Cuenca Community Initiative". We are planning to create a community divided in different sub-communities, we already have 200 people to work and be part of our project which has the same philosophy that TED has, IDEAS WORTH SPREADING in our city, our goal is to create at least to new independent events for the next year, this is how we are transforming the present to reinvent the future.

Auditorio de la Universidad del Azuay
Ave 24 de Mayo
CUENCA, Azuay, 010105
Ecuador

Alejandra Gonzales

Student and future teacher

Alejandra is a student of art and design, an art enthusiast who has carved her way through life in a medium that does not value theater as a formal profession. At its young age it has founded several theater clubs and is part of several social movements that foment these spaces. She maintains that there is a social conditioning that does not allow us to advance as a society

Belen Quintanilla

Free Walking Tours Guide

Belen is a 21 year old law student who was looking for money to attend a concert in another city, along with her friend and now a member of Mishelle, founded "Free Walking Tours" in the city of Cuenca - Ecuador. Their story tells the problems they have had to make a proposal outside the traditional system and how day by day they overcome these obstacles. We could say that Belen is an activist since she is always involved in social movements for society. An example to follow for the youth of our city.

Brandon Avila

Professor of language and literature, game designer and passionate gamer

Brandon is a young teacher who is making a change in the formal education of his country, Ecuador. Passionate seeks his students to learn and seek their passion, a true friend and guide for anyone who passes through his classroom. From a very young age he was charmed by video games and all kinds of games! When he began to teach he found the concept of gamification and from there he has developed his own methodology to create games and to teach.

Francesca Flandoli

Blogger, actress, singer, professional model, TV presenter, fashion designer and Communication and advertising student

Francesca is one of those people who is not content to dominate a profession at the age of 27 has done what many have done in a lifetime. As she calls herself, a seeker of light, she tries to discover the essence of life in all her steps. Self-taught from his birth, he contemplates that the words were put in our mouths to be used.

Jose David Sinche

Hospital Clown, Circus artist and Future Doctor

Jose David is a medical student with very different abilities to social stereotypes. An adept at musical instruments, he has taught himself to play various instruments ... at the same time!. He considers himself as a curious person and this is what has moved him to seek to learn more and more things. A true servant who seeks to give love and smiles to others, he is the founder of a group of hospital clowns with whom he gives smiles to those who have often lost hope.

Juan Pablo Espinosa

Director de Innovación Yachay

Juan Pablo Espinosa Burgos, es ecuatoriano, Master en Dirección Estratégica y Gestión de la Innovación , Especialista en Planificación Estratégica Urbana, Abogado, con Especialización Superior en Derecho Procesal y Mediador acreditado por la Camara de Comercio de Quito; adicionalmente cuenta con estudios en Innovación Abierta en el Sector público, por ESAD, Barcelona; y, en Compras Públicas Sustentables, por la OEA.; es socio fundador de Tribu Innovación ( consultoria en innovación urbana) y Dinámica ( Asesoría y capacitación para emprendedores y start ups): es tutor virtual del BID ( Banda Ancha para el Desarrollo), del Centro de Estudios de Banda Ancha, CEABAD ( Capacitación digital y alfabetización digital) y del Centro Iberoamericano de Desarrollo Estratégico Urbano, CIDEU ( Gestión y evaluación de proyectos estratégicos urbanos ) . Dentro del sector público, se ha desempeñado como Coordinador de la Agenda Digital de Quito 2022.

Katherine Astudillo

Psychologist

Katherine is a person born with what she says, "a different way of doing things". Her life history is an example of overcoming and adapting to a society that is not ready to serve people with different abilities. As she says, adapting is necessary to not lose opportunities, success is in asking what you can do instead of asking what you can not. Her goals are the same as anyone but her path to reach them is different.

Mishelle Calle

Free Walking Tours Guide

Belén and Mishelle tell us about their passion for tourism development and how they managed to consolidate the Free Walking Tours Cuenca.

Paul Flores

Chef and teacher of gourmet cuisine

Paul Flores is a young chef from the city of Cuenca - Ecuador, besides being a lover of the culinary arts is a passionate teacher, at his young age has founded several institutes of cooking that seek to teach that everyone can cook. Paul teaches through a method that he calls cooking therapy in which through the kitchen can improve the way of life and even as a psychological therapy.

Paul Jarrin

Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at EDEC-EP

Coordinador de #EEAA en Ecuador. Co-fundador de AIESEC en Cuenca. Ex-presidente de AIESEC en Cuenca. Coordinador del Global Community Development Program en AIESEC in Cape Town. Miembro de la Red Botín para Fortalecimiento de la Función Pública en Latinoamérica. Pasante de la Corte Juzgado 4 de lo Civil y oficina de citaciones. Pasante de la Dirección de Relaciones Externas de la alcaldía de Cuenca.