Theme: ImaginAction

This year’s topic is “Imaginaction” - because we believe that good ideas commit us to act and our actions must be powered by beautiful ideas. Ideas without action stay only dreams, and actions lacking ideas are pointless. So what do we do to turn great ideas into actions and create an impact? Find out and join us at TEDxDonauinsel.

Donauhof
Engerthstraße 141
Wien, Wien, 1020
Austria

Ahlam Alaqili

Co-Founder

Ahlam is a Yemeni activist, now living in Berlin. She graduated with a degree in Business Management from Sanaa University and has been widely speaking on rights and inclusion of women in Yemen before and after the revolution. After the beginning of the civil war, Ahlam moved to Berlin, Germany, where she has been granted the status of a refugee. Together with Carina she began talking about her country and her story to German high school students which was the beginning of the project “Life back Home” that creates a dialogue between young refugees and young locals in schools all over Germany.

Baxter Stapleton

Baxter is a Hollywood based director/photographer working with some of the most influential people in entertainment and companies in the world including will.i.am and Apple. He specializes in inspirational media and shot the recent Black Eyed Peas music video “Where’s the Love.”

Carina Schmid

Founder

Carina is an advocate for intercultural learning, currently living in Berlin. With her NGO The Global Experience she promotes cross cultural exchange programs, both online and in schools around the globe. She is also the co-founder of Easy Languages, an online series with over 400.000 subscribers and more than 70 Million hits on YouTube, that promotes authentic language learning and cultural exchange through online video. With their most recent project "Life back Home” Carina and her team invite young refugees to school classes all over Germany in order to increase the dialogue and understanding between young locals and young immigrants.

Ivanna Petrucci

Director at ABI (Ajedrez Barrial Inclusivo)

When she was 5 years old, Ivanna learned how to play chess. 5 years ago, she started and has been leading the ABI (Ajedrez Barrial Inclusivo) project. Reaching the most vulnerable neighbourhoods and giving resources that will help not only chlindren but also teenagers with drug problems to solve issues more efficiently all throughout their lives using chess as a tool of inclusion and self improvement.

Ivory Parker

Manager of the international Beatbox Shootout Battle

Ivory Parker is definitely a Pioneer in the Beatboxing Scene. He is a four-time Austrian Beatbox Champion and the founder of the “International Beatbox Shootout Battle“ and the „International Emperor of Mic Beatbox Battle”.

Louise Deininger

Louise is a conceptual artist whose work focuses on human consciousness and various other multi-disciplinary subjects. As part of her artistic work, she made a documentary film, “DNA of War”, inspiring her to initiate Gulu Youth Conference GUYCO and the Austrian Impact NGO, dedicated to sustainable and impactful youth empowerment in post-conflict societies in northern Uganda.

Maximilian Haidbauer

Producer & Director

Maximilian Haidbauer is an award-winning Producer & Director and Social Entrepreneur with over 150 hours of Television programs to his credit for Red Bull Media House and other international outlets. He has traveled the globe to more than 30 countries producing & directing content and experienced first-hand some of the world’s most devastating social issues. Most recently, he produced & directed the “Waves for Water” documentary on pro surfer Jon Rose and his lifelong mission to bring clean water to those in need throughout the world

Nermin Ismail

Journalist

Who are the others? What do we think about them? And what does it say about us? Nermin Ismail shows you why it doesn't matter what "others" think of you and how much power you really have to define yourself.

Reinhard Grabler

Reinhard Grabler is an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering - Management at the Vienna University of Technology, and co-founder of the Practical Robotics Institute Austria. As Director of Sea Shepherd Austria he has been active at the frontline of marine conservation since 2014, in Austria as well as on international campaigns.

Teresa Distelberger

Teresa is a filmmaker, facilitator and sometimes a muse. She co-directed the documentary DIE ZUKUNFT IST BESSER ALS IHR RUF (the future is better than its reputation) and is the founder of "art of co".

Tudor Mihailescu

Tudor Mihăilescu is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and a co-founder at GovFaces. In 2017, Tudor was nominated by Forbes Magazine on its Europe 30 under 30 list of most influential change-makers in the Law and Policy sector.