Theme: The Ripple Effect

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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Anne Kliebisch

Social activist

Anne Kliebisch is a social activist and self-organization maniac. She is currently working at Mein Grundeinkommen and Leadership³. Her goal is to be shaping the future collaboratively. Anne Kliebisch studied International Business Economics (B.A.) and Economic & societal design (M.A.). After starting her career in an excellence program in a multinational company she soon found out that her pathway would take her to other places. She engaged as voluntary in a UN-founded youth project, started a project on social innovation and helped other initiatives (e.g. the youth project of the Right Livelihood Award) to organize themselves in distributed leadership. Today she is self-employed with Leadership³ and works for Mein Grundeinkommen. In her current work, she notices how freedom creates health. This is leveraged especially by an according to mindset, organizational structures, and a basic income.

Anne-Marie Flammersfeld

Key note speaker

Anne-Marie Flammersfeld has a Master degree in Sports Science of the German Sports University Cologne and is a keen Ultra Trailrunner, Blog writer and keynote speaker. In 2012 she won the well known Ultra Race Series „Racing the Planet 4 Deserts“ as the first woman. Therefore she ran 1000 km through the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest desert of the world within one calendar year. Since that she has won a lot of extreme ultra races and created her own challenge „Bottom Up 7 Volcanic Summits“ where she climbs the highest volcano of each continent with the start from the lowest point of the country – all with own power and without any mechanical help. In 2015 she set a new female world record in speed running up to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania within 8 hours and 32 minutes.

Giulia Muntoni

Author

Giulia Muntoni has worked for the English Civil Service for nine years after completing her degree in Greek Archaeology. She recently returned to her native Italy after overcoming breast cancer in 2014, a true “watershed” moment in her life. Ever since, she has been talking, writing and publishing about her experience, giving voice to a passion for communication that had always inspired her to reach out to others with empathy. Her positive approach to life keeps motivating her to embark on new adventures, such as the TEDx talk, hoping to inspire her generation and the new ones to be proactive builders of their own world. Amongst her many dreams, there is the desire to help raise awareness of cancer, and also the aspiration to become a motivational speaker.

Julius Emmrich

Healthcare

Julius Emmrich is working on ways to make healthcare accessible to people living in extreme poverty. He is the co-founder and chairman of Doctors for Madagascar, a charity supporting healthcare development. In his day job he works as a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He is affiliated with the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment and holds a Junior Clinician Scientist position at the Berlin Institute of Health.  Born in Freiburg, Julius grew up next to a farm in Bavaria. He got pretty good at packing during his student years: studying medicine at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig, gathering data for his doctoral thesis at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and finally for an MPhil degree at the University of Cambridge.

Kai Gondlach

Researcher

One of Kai Gondlach’s most outstanding insights: in today’s world we’re all able to shape the future … if we’re able to recognize the opportunities of change instead of focusing on the threats. That’s why Kai abolished crystal balls and megatrends but rather practices hands-on trend research to support big and mid-sized companies. Investigating the future is about having the proper phone number and being able to schedule a one-hour-talk with the one person currently realizing the most-disruptive idea and business model. With more than 50 annual keynotes Kai is one of the most influential speakers in the German-speaking area about future trends. Being one of the first academic future scientists in Germany, parts of his job as a Senior Researcher at 2b AHEAD ThinkTank, today’s biggest independent trend research institute in Europe, deal with specific industries like automotive, health, insurances or textile.

Marten Winter

Biodiversity scientist

Dr. Marten Winter is a trained macroecologist, music nerd, drummer. In his professional life, he leads the Leipzig based sDiv, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig. After doing his Master at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, his PhD at the University of Bern (CH), and several Postdocs (e.g. in Fribourg, CH) he started working at sDiv in 2012. In his daily job, he serves two functions. As a scientist, he loves maps and aliens. He tries to reveal patterns and processes of species invasions across space and time. He also works on nature conservation questions, such as why and how we should conserve evolutionary history. As an expert of biological invasions, he served in the past as appraiser in governmental hearings and media, such as TV and Radio. At the end of the day he usually talks about the beauty of nature, either in reality or being expressed in music by his former band Neun Welten or his new band WAL (wal-band.bandcamp.com).

Martina Neef

Entrepreneur

Martina Neef is the founder of Rock It Biz, an NGO that’s developed a curriculum to foster entrepreneurial skills and mindsets of children in education in Germany. Rock It Biz focuses on online education and promotes youth entrepreneurship in Germany. She is an entrepreneur, advisor on youth entrepreneurship, startups and economic development as well as an angel investor. Martina is also an active advocate and mentor for global entrepreneurship. Additionally, Martina is a member of various boards including the female advisory board of the HVB/ Unicredit. She has lived and worked in the United States and Latin America, where she worked with clients such as Apple, Coca Cola and Sony. Her diverse background in engineering and business as well as her appreciation for both developed and emerging countries gave her the opportunity to work across industries and continents for local investors and ministries of economy & tourism.

Nils Seger

Entrepreneur

Nils is the founder of RCKT, a Berlin based consultancy which leads brands and businesses into the digital age. RCKT is a company of Rocket Internet SE. Before making the leap to RCKT, Nils functioned as the Global Head of Communications for the Africa Internet Group (AIG). AIG is an online joint venture of international companies Millicom and MTN Group, together with Rocket Internet. Additionally, Nils worked as VP of Communications at Rocket Internet, supporting a global network of startup companies. Prior to joining Rocket, Nils assisted several startups during their launch, worked two years in the advertising industry and served as a big data analyst for GFK’s digital unit, Germany’s largest market research institute. Nils studied Media Sciences at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hannover, and Economics at the University of Lugano and at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

Philipp Buddemeier

Director

Philipp is a Director at Accenture Strategy – Sustainability in Berlin. He leads Accenture’s work on Circular Economy in Germany, Switzerland & Austria. He co-authored “Wertschöpfung statt Verschwendung”, Accenture’s book on the Circular Economy and helps companies to realize the benefits from moving into a more resource effective economy. Additionally, Philipp has hands-on entrepreneurial experience demonstrating the power of Circular Economy at work as a Managing Partner of Blue Economy Solutions GmbH and CEO of Oppidum Underground Farming GmbH. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Master from University of Hamburg.

Raphael Fellmer

Foodsharing

Raphael loves challenges and changing the world. After an experimental monelyess road- and water trip from The Netherlands to Mexico in 2010 he started to live moneyless in Berlin to create awareness for the waste of resources, the responsibility we all have for our planet and the possibilities we have today to live the change we want to see in the world. In 2012 he founded the foodsaving movement, where people save surplus food from supermarkets, restaurants, bakeries etc. In the last 5 years they saved more than 8 million kilograms of food distributed from 3.200 businesses by 26.000 Foodsavers. After five years without money he started using money again to tackle global food waste. In August 2016 he founded SirPlus, an impact business which is revolutionizing the saving of food. They sell surplus food in Berlin's first food outlet store, via their same-day delivery service in Berlin, and online with delivery across Germany www.startnext.com/en/sirplus.

SOBI music

In April 2016 Sobi released her new EP ‘Biting Back’ and has toured around Germany and the UK with her band to launch the EP since. She also supported Jamie Lawson on his German Tour in 2016. She became a regular and a favourite on the Manchester circuit and is now currently based in Germany. Her biggest influences include Norah Jones, Lucy Rose and Lianne La Havas.

Tom James

Thrilling, virtuosic and full of passion, yet so familiar that it becomes difficult to escape his attraction. Tom captures audiences with deep emotional lyrics as well as turbulent, compelling guitar forged sounds. The success of the ‘Blood to Gold’ Ep in late 2014 lead to extensive headline tours and festival appearances in Europe and South Africa, alongside support slots for International headliners including James Bay, The 1975 and Nahko & Medicine for the People.