Theme: Life Hacking

The theme of the TEDxLundUniversity event 2016 will be “Life hacking”. Speakers have been carefully selected to give inspiring talks about how we can hack our lives in different ways to increase productivity and efficiency in all walks of life and improve ourselves in body and mind. Join us for an exciting, fun and inspiring afternoon that will change your life.

Lund University is an arena where open and inquiring minds can meet to discuss our world and the human condition. However, if unexpected collaborations and new ideas are to come about, we need more than just a research perspective. We need meeting places at a university where curious individuals with completely different experiences can meet and inspire and challenge one another. TEDxLundUniversity will be such a platform.

Hörsalen
Medicon Village
Lund, Skåne län, 22363
Sweden

Farzin Saber

Founder of Cool Minds

Farzin Saber is a Civil-Engineer from the Technical university of Denmark with 20 years of executive experience from global consultancy companies such as Accenture, Deloitte and EY helping companies in transformation work all around the world. Since the year 2015 Farzin has used his experience to setup an interactive educational center in Malmö, Sweden combining playing with deep learning in order to help children and young people in developing their curiosity and finding their passion in life.

Jörgen Tånnander

Jörgen Tånnander is a flutist educated at the Malmö Academy of Music and at the Conservatoire Berlioz in Paris. He is active as freelance musician and teaches flute at the Malmö Academy of Music.

Lisa Ekström

Founder of Kamoja/ CEO

Lisa Ekström has over 20 years of experience in sales management and customer relations. She also has documented experience from highly successful change management projects. In 2007 she won “Framgångsstipendiet” – a price awarded to someone that has shown documented and extraordinary leadership results in Sweden. Lisa did so when turning SAS Customer Relations into a core asset for improving the way the company went about its business. Lisa was selected Speaker of the year 2014 by P&P, and she is a very charismatic individual with vast experience that she shares in a very inspirational way. Facts are combined with anecdotes and laughter leaving no one untouched.

Mattias Ribbing

Author and speaker/ Memory training

Mattias Ribbing is an official Grandmaster of Memory, a published author of three books and a public speaker. He has a passion for helping people optimize their learning abilities through situation based brain training. Mattias has been invited to speak at Harvard Business School, Ericsson, Karolinska Institutet and many other places where he not only demonstrates his own unique skills live, but more importantly gives effective tools that everyone can use to to quickly become an expert in any field of knowledge.

Mehrdad Mahdjoubi

Founder of Orbital Systems/CEO

Mehrdad Mahdjoubi is an entrepreneur and the inventor of the Shower of the Future. Inspired by resource-economic space technology he designed the shower that uses only 5 liters of water, saving 90% water and 80% energy at the same time. Water is deemed the number one global risk in terms of impacts on economies, environment and people and with over two billion people suffering from water scarcity Mehrdad realized that water should be treated as a precious resource, not only in space but also on earth. With a clear vision in mind he founded the company Orbital Systems “To create a new paradigm in daily water usage”.

Sindra Petersson Årsköld

Senior scientific advisor European Spallation Source (ESS)

Sindra Petersson Årsköld is a Senior Science Advisor at the European Spallation Source and an Associate Professor of biochemistry. She's done research on photosynthetic oxygen production and the workings of the influenza virus, and she’s introduced many generations of students to the wonders of the chemistry of life. She now works with policy and outreach in one of the largest science facilities under construction today.

Ulf Ellervik

Professor in bioorganic chemistry at Lund University

Ulf Ellervik is a chemistry professor at Lund University in Sweden, and has three times been elected best teacher at the chemical engineering division in Lund, and has a degree in Excellent Teaching Practice. He’s a passionate popularizer of science, author of several books and recently one of two hosts of a chemistry show airing on Swedish television, where he explains anything from the effect of drugs on our brain, to how a substance from a berry can turn sour into sweet and why you should choose your alcoholic beverages carefully if you want to have a drink while on top of a high mountain. He is convinced that science and the humanities really should marry and live happily ever after. In his books he often presents chemistry with historical anecdotes or art as a starting point. He believes that if more people discover chemistry as the fun and important field it is – this might help us solve some of the environmental problems of our day.