Theme: Mosaic of Thought

TEDxIESEBarcelona is a half day speakers event to be held at IESE Business School in Barcelona. The event will feature eleven speakers, with each one of them presenting an original talk.

Aula Magna, IESE North Campus
Carrer d'Arnús i de Garí, 3-7
Barcelona, Barcelona (ca), 08034
Spain

Alden Mills

Alden Mills conquered childhood asthma to become a nationally ranked rower, a three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander, CEO of one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. and the father of four boys. He is the author of Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything, has been awarded more than 40 patents, was the creator of the Perfect Pushup, and is writing a forth-coming book Build Unstoppable Teams. Alden—with over 25 years leading teams of Navy SEALs, start-ups, and non-profits—is an in-demand speaker, traveling the world to inspire and teach people how to harness their talents and find the success they seek.

Carlos Abellan

Carlos Abellan, from Spain, obtained his PhD from ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, where he focused on the development of quantum technologies. He is CEO of QuSide, a quantum technology company he co-founded in 2017.

Eghosa Oriaikhi

Eghosa has achieved about 15 years in the Energy Industry and is the founder of nonprofit AWE in Energy – Africa Women Executives in Energy. She is also a Director for Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), with prior over 9 years of experience in Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB). Eghosa is responsible for the Completions and Wellbore Intervention Business for Baker Hughes Africa. She previously led a $1Bn+ business across 54 countries with 1200 employees across Europe, Africa and Russia Caspian. Her expertise is in Business Development and Commercial Strategy in the Energy Industry, Operational and Financial Leadership, Business Management, Contract Management, Engineering and Technology, Supply Chain and Manufacturing. Eghosa started her career with a background in Mechanical Engineering (Bachelors & Masters) from University College London, UK. She completed her Project Management Professional Certification (PMP), in Houston, Texas, USA. Eghosa holds an Executive MBA from IESE Business School where she graduated as Class President. An extraordinary lady, a definite inspiration and mentor to many shares her mind through an insightful, life-changing talk about finding your truth. An interesting mantra she swears by: Make life count ... Live!

Fernanda Maciel

Fernanda is Brazilian with a fervent love of nature. Through her love of mountain and looking for a challenge she has travelled widely and now lives in the mountains of the Spanish Pyrenees. As a child she was asked what her ‘dream’ would be – to live in a big house on the beach, or to travel the world. Her dream was to travel. But she realised early that to travel you have to find a way to fund your explorations and without parental help she knew that she would have to be a good person, and a good athlete – and in that way to hope to find support. In her professional life, Fernanda practised as an environmental lawyer and has also been greatly involved in outdoor education through the international ONG Outward Bound. She is also sport nutritionist and business woman that loves to encourage people to have a health life. In this way her love of high mountains and to help people are not limited only to her experiences through her sport, but also to reaching out to others in working and teaching to conserve and respect natural environment and have life quality.

Itziar de Ros

Itziar de Ros is Spanish and after graduating from IESE’s MBA program she worked in Geneva in a big multinational company. After a year, she decided to follow her passion and work with people in her alma mater. She joined IESE Business School in 2007 and has been the Director of MBA Admissions for the last 6 years.

Jean-Paul Destarac

Jean Paul is a current full-time MBA student at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, Jean Paul spent two years in research and analytics at Merrill Lynch while studying the European debt crisis funded by various fellowships and grants. At Southern Methodist University, he studied Economics with a specialization in Financial Applications, Markets and Culture, and French, graduating with Liberal Arts Honors as a Hunt Scholar. Jean-Paul complemented his academic program at SMU through additional studies at Oxford University, the Sorbonne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Juilliard School. While in High School, Jean Paul started and ran a charity project in which he arranged, recorded, and produced two CDs of his own music to raise funds to support children in Guatemala suffering from cancer and unable to finance their treatments. His CDs have helped support Ayudame a Vivir (Help me to Live), a non-profit foundation in Guatemala.

Lekshmy Parameswaran

Lekshmy is the co-founder of The Care Lab; a collaborative platform that brings together stakeholders from healthcare, social care and education, and uses design practices to rethink and redesign care models and solutions for our societies and care systems. The Care Lab is an initiative that she and co-founder László Herczeg have launched after almost two decades of experience working in healthcare innovation as fuelfor; an experience design consultancy that develops award winning products, services and strategies for international clients. Through their practice they have developed a design thinking approach specifically suited to tackle complex health and care challenges. As a design activist, Lekshmy is passionate about applying her design skills to innovate health and social care; encouraging people to challenge conventional thinking, bringing the voices of patients, their families and care professionals into the design process in inspiring ways and creating solutions that can have measurable and meaningful impact. She holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Cambridge, and a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art in London. Links: www.thecarelab.org, www.fuelfor.net/caregiving

Massimo Maoret

Massimo Maoret is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School, and a Marie Curie Fellow of the European Commission. He has received a Ph.D. in Management from Boston College in 2013. Massimo's research focuses on how social networks affect the performance of firms and individuals. At IESE Business School, he teaches Competitive Strategy, Strategy Execution and Managing Social Networks in the MBA and Ph.D programs, and also in various Executive modules.

Raúl Cristian Aguirre

Founder and first CEO of Tango/04 Computing Group, Inc. Graduated in Computer Science (University of Buenos Aires), EO/MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Entrepreneurship Master Program, and the Superior Institute of MorphoPsychology (ISM, Barcelona). Designer of award-winning technologies (such as the APEX Award of Penton Media for VMC, USA, 2004) and products sold in more than 50 countries. Frequent speaker at international conferences, including Gartner events, Internet World, Internet Global Congress, etc. and entrepreneurial and corporate events. Also a poet, cinema enthusiast (director, writer), actor, (still active) soccer goalkeeper, avid reader, proud father, and really lousy chess player.

Ricardo Fernandez

Ricardo is not an expert in cross cultural communication but has over the last 10 years been working remotely with several companies and teams from many different countries. He was born in Spain but spent most of his time living abroad between the USA, France, Netherlands, and Puerto Rico, where he learnt how to adapt to the differences in every day conversation and activities. He currently lives in Madrid and works remotely as Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for Prodigy Finance; a company that is spread around the world and has expanded the use of remote working to be more efficient in the workplace. His work philosophy is making people happy and giving them the tools they need so they excel in their workplace – one of them being able to manage their time. Personal happiness will bring about success in the workplace and millennials or younger generations demand flexible work environments.