Theme: To Dare Reality

During the Heerenveen event we will be exploring the malleability of reality together.

Everything starts with inspiration, and recognition can only be accomplished by actually doing things. Our Heerenveen speakers are people with inspiring ideas. Sometimes a little rebellious, sometimes modest. Sometimes large and impressive, sometimes small and touching the heart. Sometimes already a bit more concretely formed, sometimes still in need of some help. Together with the audience we want to take these ideas further. Because whatever they are, they put reality up for debate, from the perspective that the world (Friesland) will change and be improved, if and when they are implemented. The TEDxFryslân 2017 theme describes the starting point of this joint trip.

Therefore this year’s theme is:

TO DARE REALITY

Thialf Stadion
Pim Mulierlaan 1
Heerenveen, Fryslân (fy), 8443 DA
Netherlands

Amanda de Voogd

Psyco dynamic therapist, (team)coach and story teller

Since the day I decided to change the way I worked, everything changed. I always lived with the conviction respectable persons are brave and strong, and they work hard and do not complain at all. So I used all the will power I had in me to succeed as a project manager in advertising agencies. Willpower was all I needed. My sensible character did not agree. My job did not work and I lived like a zombie. I missed the one I was deep inside. Until something dramatically occurred in my life. Something I needed to open my eyes. It was heavy and I went deep. It is a dark period in my life. Yet it has made me change the way I live. From lack of joy to fulfillment and connection. That's quite another level of life.

Gerrit Baarda

Chief Innovation Officer

Gerrit Baarda (1969) is Chief Innovation Officer and founder of ZiuZ. ZiuZ is a successful and fast growing high-tech company in the field of visual intelligence. Gerrit would like to contribute to a “better world” with the development and deployment of products. That's why he (co-)founded ZiuZ in 2002 from a garage in Waskemeer (Friesland). Currently, ZiuZ has grown into a company with 46 full-time employees and three offices in Gorredijk (head office), Amersfoort and New York. Its solutions are used in 52 countries. ZiuZ develops and delivers visual inspection products for the medical market which improve the quality of drug distribution to a significant high standard. "That leads to fewer hospitalisations and fewer deaths, worldwide." And we support national and international police and security organisations. Its solutions are used in the field of fighting child abuse and other serious high impact crimes. "We help rescuing victims and catching the bad guys

Henk Van der Klok

Adventurer & Life Enthusiast

Henk van der Klok has always been known as a serial quitter, the guy who never finished anything. He quit two universities, a wrestling team, the Dutch Marine Corps, and many other things. In 2011 he reinvented himself as an adventurer to prove to himself and others that he could stick with something. In the years that followed he walked from England to Rome, cycled from Holland to Istanbul, spent several months leading pack horses across the wilderness of Canada, and paddled the entire Mississippi river in a kayak in 110 days. He slept in graveyards, ate raw eggs, walked across Spain thrice, was chased by feral dogs in Romania, and stood face to face with a grizzly bear in the Canadian wilderness. However, even though he started his travels for these somewhat dysfunctional reasons, over time he discovered that trying all these new things had a surprising benefit.

Inge Stoter

Manager Innovationlab Thialf

In her role as manager of Innovationlab Thialf, Inge Stoter is able to combine her passion for sports with her interest in science. With the combined power of sport and science she attracts companies towards Thialf, the speed skating center of the world, to jointly work on innovative products which enhance performance, fan experience or the accommodation. Innovationlab Thialf is initiated by Thialf, Topsport NOORD and Sportstad Heerenveen in 2016. Within one year, Innovationlab Thialf is assigned as one of the official Sportinnovator Centra in the Netherlands and rewarded with The Innovation Manager award for the Most Innovative Ecosystem by CIO-Magazine. It is the interplay of different disciplines that push boundaries and dare reality. As manager of the Innovationlab Thialf, as PhD-candidate and in her former job as manager of the Sport Science Institute Groningen, Inge Stoter unites disciplines in order to push boundaries in sport and in science.

Koert van Ittersum

Professor of Marketing and Consumer Well-being

Van Ittersum received his PhD from the Marketing and Consumer Behavior Group at Wageningen University in 2001. Between 2000 and 2013, he was a visiting scholar and a professor of marketing at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (USA) and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA). It was during that period that Van Ittersum became intrigued by the critical role that marketing can play in improving consumer well-being. Contrary to common belief, his research shows that taking consumer well-being into consideration can result in win-win outcomes for both consumers and firms. He authored over 30 academic articles in such journals as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the British Medical Journal. Van Ittersum is a full professor of Marketing and Consumer Well-being at the University of Groningen since 2013 and actively involved in the Centre of Expertise Healthwise.

Machiel van Dooren

Social entrepreneur

Machiel van Dooren is the co-founder of Made Blue Foundation (2014). Machiel believes in the power of social enterprise and viable business models as drivers for change and impact. Doing good by doing business inspires Machiel to develop new models and rethink ‘business as usual’ in various markets. As of 2014, together with his partners, Machiel is working on the development and growth of Made Blue Foundation, enabling companies to mirror their water savings with creating equal amounts of clean water in developing countries. Three years down the road, over 50 participating companies ensure access to over 2 billion litres of clean water in 6 counties across Africa and Asia. Within Made Blue, Machiel is currently working on growing the initiative and developing related propositions targeting different markets and user groups. All for one and the same goal: creating acces to clean water for all!

Rick Companje

Co-founder Doodle3D

The hype around consumer 3D-printing is considered to be over. There is a chance you will not have a 3D-printer in your home within the next 10 years from now. So why is it that Rick Companje and his team are still building software to make 3D-design and 3D-printing accessible for anyone? (Rick: I don't know the answer yet.)

Theunis Piersma

Prof. Dr

Theunis Piersma is a professor of Global Flyway Ecology at the University of Groningen and senior research leader at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. He was a winner of the 2014 Spinoza Prize. His life-long study of long-distance migrating shorebirds is driven by love of their habitats and deep curiosity about the scope of individual bird flexibility in the light of their ecology and evolution.

Timon Krause

Push the Button: Being Your Own Bitch

Born in Germany, trained in New Zealand and now based in Amsterdam, Timon Krause has aleady traveled every continent with his show. He studied at the Paul van Vliet Academy for performing arts and cabaret in the Hague as well as Philosophy in Amsterdam. He is currently studying for his masters degree in Philosophy in Leiden. Timon has found the love of his life in magic. He published his first book on mindreading when he was merely 16 years old. He is the current holder of the title 'Best European Mentalist' and the youngest mindreader to have been awarded this title – ever! His career so far includes several live TV performances on national television, theater tours in Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand, competing at several championships including the World Championships of Magic, numerous radio performances, the release of several specialist publications and a decade of experience as a performer.