Theme: Bridges

The TEDxFlandersWomen team is busy composing another fantastic program around six speakers, special acts & guests, entertainment, lifestyle facilities, ...

Every year we dare ourselves to introduce new ideas and get ourselves out of our comfort zone to make TEDxFlandersWomen an out-of-the-ordinary TEDx event.
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This years theme is ‘Bridges’. We build them, we traverse them and sometimes we even burn them for better or worse. For TEDWomen 2017 we explore the theme of ‘Bridges’ in a city full of crossings and connections: Antwerp.

KBC Boerentoren
Eiermarkt 20
Antwerpen, Antwerpen (nl), 2000
Belgium

Daisy Wouters

At the end of 2012, Daisy Wouters returned to Belgium and started teaching Jamaican dancehall classes and organizing dance workshops with guest teachers. In 2017, she joined the RAW Dancehall team and together they breathed new life into the Belgian Dancehall Queen competition. She also curates mini festivals with documentaries.

Emanuelle & Céline Duez - Parsoud

Céline Parsoud is a young entrepreneur and media specialist who became an "extrapreneure" on digital and gender equality issues after working in the first French media group. In 2017, she founded the start-up Gender Busters, which works with companies to achieve gender equality. Current president for WoMen'Up, she is invested in shattering stereotypes and is the ambassador of a new kind of feminism, both in the workplace and in civil society. Emmanuelle Duez is a serial entrepreneur who studied non-stop and then created Women’Up in 2011, the first organisation mixing gender and generation topics. She launched The Boson Project in 2013, an atypical and committed consulting firm seeking to understand how human capital is the one thing that can transform organisations in the long run. In 2014, she directed her energy towards the French Navy, where she ranks Enseigne de Vaisseau and is now focusing on building ‘bridges’ between civil society and the Navy.

Emanuelle Duez & Céline Parsoud

Céline Parsoud is a young entrepreneur and media specialist who became an "extrapreneure" on digital and gender equality issues after working in the first French media group. In 2017, she founded the start-up Gender Busters, which works with companies to achieve gender equality. Current president for WoMen'Up, she is invested in shattering stereotypes and is the ambassador of a new kind of feminism, both in the workplace and in civil society. Emmanuelle Duez is a serial entrepreneur who studied non-stop and then created Women’Up in 2011, the first organisation mixing gender and generation topics. She launched The Boson Project in 2013, an atypical and committed consulting firm seeking to understand how human capital is the one thing that can transform organisations in the long run. In 2014, she directed her energy towards the French Navy, where she ranks Enseigne de Vaisseau and is now focusing on building ‘bridges’ between civil society and the Navy.

Jade Derudder

Jade Derudder left Belgium when she was seventeen to study Pina Bausch's dance theatre in the Netherlands. Her lust for creating and new cultures didn't end when she graduated so she decided to study theatre directing in Brussels and later on furniture design at Central Saint Martins in London. The world of mindfulness and yoga opened up to her at age twenty-four and from then on she's been combining all of her intrests into making her own choreographies and performances.

Marie Van den Broeck

Marie Van den Broeck is a young, creative entrepreneur and an Industrial Engineer Designer. She loves mastering new skills and is the founder and head of her company My Add On, where she pimps crutches and wheelchairs to not only make them more beautiful, but also user-friendly. Marie invented My Add On's first product and has already won a series of prizes, such as the Reva Nueva Award for most innovative product as well as Student-Entrepreneur 2017 from Unizo and Vlajo. She believes small changes can make a big difference and she hopes to inspire more people to do the same!

Reinhard @ Simon Deman - De Cuyper

Sound of Colours Simon De Cuyper, a freelance pianist and singer and Reinhard Deman, a vocalist and songwriter make up half of the quartet that is Sound of Colours. Sound of Colours in an innovative audio-visual project, which aims to bring musicians together from the most varied backgrounds and cultures, young or old, native or immigrant, and give them the opportunity to speak the universal language of music. Through music, the project designers, Joren Cautaers, Simon De Cuyper, Reinhard Deman and Stef Lenaerts, wish to show the unity of the world beyond its diversity.

Reinhard Deman Simon De Cuyper

Simon De Cuyper, a pianist and singer & Reinhard Deman, a vocalist and songwriter make up half of the quartet that is Sound of Colours. Through music, the project designers, Joren Cautaers, Simon De Cuyper, Reinhard Deman and Stef Lenaerts, wish to show the unity of the world beyond its diversity.

Sound of Colours

Simon De Cuyper, a freelance pianist and singer and Reinhard Deman, a vocalist and songwriter make up half of the quartet that is Sound of Colours. Sound of Colours in an innovative audio-visual project, which aims to bring musicians together from the most varied backgrounds and cultures, young or old, native or immigrant, and give them the opportunity to speak the universal language of music. Through music, the project designers, Joren Cautaers, Simon De Cuyper, Reinhard Deman and Stef Lenaerts, wish to show the unity of the world beyond its diversity.

Steven Laureys

Steven Laureys MD PhD, author of over 350 scientific papers and several bestselling scientific books, is a neurologist and brain scientist working at the University Hospital and University of Liège, Belgium where he is head of the Coma Science Group and GIGA Consciousness Research Centre. He is a world-leading expert in severe brain injury, chair of the World Federation of Neurology Applied Research Group on Comas and has received the prestigious Francqui Prize (2017).

Sukina Douglas

Sukina Douglas is a Spoken-Word and Hip Hop artist, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organiser. She makes up one half of the Muslim, female, Hip Hop duo, Poetic Pilgrimage and has performed across the UK, Europe, the USA, and North and South Africa with her group, where their intention is to make progressive Hip Hop music that ‘bridges’ their African and Caribbean roots with their musical tastes such as Jazz, Afrobeat, Soul and beyond, providing a novel backdrop to their message of peace, unity, interfaith relations and freedom.

Ulrike Reinhard

Ulrike Reinhard is a network enabler who forges direct links that connect people across sectors, disciplines and continents. She’s a public speaker, writer (Google’s THINK QUARTERLY) and an expert in modern communication technologies. With innovative formats, she kick-starts co-creation processes in companies and rural villages for long-term change and pushes her client’s boundaries, initiating cultural change, helping them to reach out to new audiences, strengthen their relationships to all their partners and merge their online and offline activities. Being disruptive is her job.