Theme: The Happy Generation

Each year we are gathering our university community around speakers and generating new connections and ideas. This year, TEDxULB reflected upon happiness. We questioned what is a happy generation, if there is any, and how to become more fulfilled. From engineering to economics, through sports and psychology, we met amazing speakers and minds of our time around the fourth edition of TEDxULB, on April 25th 2017.

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Belgium

Arnaud De Meester

Owner of iungoSport, Triabel Association and smallzoute.be + Triathlete

Arnaud de Meester is one of those people who never stay in place! Whether it is in the development of his new mobile application, iungoSport, the organization of his own triathlon, the Belman International Triathlon, his training sessions, his races, his conferences on surpassing itself, his event's company or as the father of two children, believe us, his days are full. Arnaud is a pro in the long-distance triathlon, he has done 10 ironman's distances and 2 double ironman. Right now he is preparing his new challenge: the 666 Icelandic Challenge. It is an ultra triathlon of 6 km swim, 600 km biking and 60 running in less than 50 hours, through the beautiful landscapes of Iceland. As he started 6 years ago with 6 km race and his now doing 666 km race, Arnaud and his team have developed their own recipe on how to go beyond your limits and become your own champion.

Audrey Ngomsik

Consultant on Improving Sustainable Development and operational excellence

Audrey Ngomsik-Fanselow is French and has obtained her PhD in physical and analytical chemistry at the University Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. For the last 16 years, she has been driving her career with full commitment towards fostering, developing, disseminating, implementing, and commercializing innovation in Green Chemistry and sustainable development, in order to reduce the carbon footprint of companies. She has started by developing novel green technologies and products to clean up the pollution resulting from industrial processes. Along the way she has been developing green technologies based on biomaterials, ionic liquids, nanoparticles, and super-critical fluids. By now, she has started the 2nd part of her career as a consultant. She is working as a governance manager in a multinational pharmaceutical company in Belgium.

Cyril Jamelot

Managing Director at Sens 21 and Morpho Blue & International Marketing Consultant

Cyril Jamelot started in international marketing and consumer research amongst strong brands such as Yoplait, Coca-Cola in the UK and in Belgium, and Alpro. He is now owning Sens21 and Morpho Blue, being an international marketing consultant and trainer as well as a professor in business schools and a keynote speaker. His ambition is to boost the brands and the stakeholders with a new marketing based on emotions, inspiring objectives and strategies through human connections.

Jean-Luc Roux

Specialist in Complementary Currencies and Solidarity Economy

Jean-Luc Roux has developed numbers of skills and competencies regarding changing strategy, project management, environmental policy, poverty policy, complementary currencies and neuro-cognitive and behaviorial coaching. He has been active in Center Study and Training in Ecology (CEFE), King Baudouin Foundation (Management of the Belgium National Environment Fund), WWF-Belgium (Program Director), Department for International Development - DFID ( Head of DFID - Cameroon), Greenpeace International (Head of the Political unit). Co-author of two books « Economy and Spirituality » and « S’approprier les clés de la mutation – Comprendre, innover, agir autrement » and co-author of « Douce Révolte » a documentary on complementary currencies in Europe.

Laura Fischer

Co-Founder of ONEN ENA & CWE Solutions & Artist & Art Educator

Laura is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of cross-disciplinary Art collective ONEN ENA in London, UK. She is also the Co-Founder of CWE-Solutions; community-led projects and consultancy in health and social care in London & Cornwall, UK. Finally, Laura is an Artist and Art Educator, exhibiting in Switzerland, the USA and the UK since 2005.

Laurence Vanhee

Founder and Chief Happiness Officer at Happyformance & LoftOffiz

Laurence Vanhee is the founder and Chief Happiness Officer of the firms Happyformance and LoftOffiz, aimed at helping businesses, organisations and governments develop a business strategy based on the following formula "Freedom + Responsibility = Happiness + Performance". Between 2009 and 2013, Laurence, who was not the HR Director but former Chief Happiness Officer at the Belgian Ministry for Social Security, has developed a strategy on how to make organisations more successful, agile and efficient. The importance of happiness at work is at the heart of her philosophy. Laurence was CHRO of the year 2012 in Belgium and author of Happy RH (Ed. La Charte).

Mathilde Vera

Co-Founder of Better Me Foundation (Kenya) & Manager at a Consulting Company

Mathilde Vera successfully combined her thrive for learning with her passion for travelling. She has worked in administrative environment in South Africa and Mauritius, co-founded Better Me Foundation based in Kenya, and is now based in Belgium working as a manager for a consulting company.

Semih Yalman

Founder of Dreams Talk

A vibrant resonance who is in the search of nothingness… A student of life to serve the universe as a decoding processor. On one side leading a life in which he aspires to make the world dream again via DreamsTalk a social inclusion corporation he founded aiming to improve the imagination capacity and quality of humanity; on the other side university professor who aspires to touch many young souls; Semih chooses to poke people with his inner expression in the form of talks, books, music, poetry, philosophy, visual arts as well as namaz and yoga flow. Excitement, aesthetics, relevance being his core values Semih aims to contribute via discovery, expression, perception and coexistence. He defines his core as love. Having worked in multinationals and large conglomerates Semih Yalman chose to journey into his own. His education in literature, philosophy, communication and business provided him with the right mix of basic starting content to exploit further in life.