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Rialto Theatre
19 Andrea Drousioti Str. Heroes Square
Limassol, Lemesos, 3040
Cyprus

Alexia Barrable

Alexia Barrable grew up in Greece and the UK. She completed her first degree at the University of Oxford, and her postgraduate training at Cambridge and York. She had fun working with young children as a teacher for ten years, before embarking on an academic career. She is now a lecturer at the University of Dundee, where she conducts research on nature connection in childhood. She has co-written two books, Growing Up Happy, on ways that we can enhance our children’s happiness and wellbeing, and Growing Up Wild, on nurturing our children’s connection with nature. When not working she loves walking on the beach with her family. In her talk she will ask, Can a challenge change your life? Make you happier, more connect- ed? In this talk, she explores how a 100-day challenge changed her, and her family’s life for the better.

Ancient Memes Petros Dokos, Kostas Krinos

Costas Krinos was born and grew up because he had no other choice and began creating memes because he can’t draw. He studied destruction of interior design, cheddar mashing, pick and roll and agonizing expressions. He has three masters but no degree. He wishes peace on earth and less censorship. He believes that poetry is for whomever cannot rap and that we are all human and we therefore all make mistakes. Petros Dokos was born but never grew up because he found a different choice, to pick answers for his childhood curiosity, from other talents. He studied science from a theoretical field of interest and, via technology, he found himself doing things that were irrelevant to his fantasy’s livelihood. To some people all these may sound poetic and he is in agreement; he is literally searching for the proof to realism. He is loud in actions and silent in words. Something like this.... He finds people less selfish, wishing it’s true but, in fact, it’s not. He believes that if there are more people living because of the madness they carry upon them, more of them will live enjoying their freedom.

Andre Chris

Andre Chris Vocalist Surrounded by the seas of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Andre Chris emerges as one of the most promising artists in the Urban/Pop music scene. Performing and recording with many indie and major acts, the unique blend of his many musical influences are bound to captivate. Andre Chris has collaborated with many talented artists and musicians and he is in the process of recording his next upcoming album and single.

Andre Chris

Surrounded by the seas of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Andre Chris emerges as one of the most promising artists in the Urban/Pop music scene. Performing and recording with many indie and major acts, the unique blend of his many musical influences are bound to captivate. Andre Chris has collaborated with many talented artists and musicians and he is in the process of recording his next upcoming album and single.

Casper Rongsted, Rasmus Schiellerup Kasper Myding

Casper, Rasmus and Kasper are education consultants dedicated to enriching and promoting Scandinavia's educational success with schools, teachers, parents and education systems around the world. At TEDxLimassol they will share the stage to present the Nordic School Teaching Approach. For more than 25 years Casper Rongsted has been working in education, learning and motivation. The last 10 years he has worked in his own company as an educational consultant, keynote speaker and writer of books and articles. He graduated as a teacher in 1994. Casper works with teachers, educators, trainers and leaders in both private and public schools and in companies all over the world. Casper brings theory and practice together in the search for even better methods to help people create learning for all. He is married to Mette (the daughter of 2 teachers) and lives with their 3 children in Copenhagen, Denmark. For 15 years Rasmus Schiellerup has been working as a school leader but also as a self-employed educator. He gradu- ated as a teacher in 2001 and has worked in both public and private schools. Today Rasmus is the leader of his own speak- er agency consisting of 15 top keynote speakers. He travels the world as a speaker and educational consultant in both schools and companies. Rasmus is renowned for his mixture of storytelling and scientific facts and he is known as a spell-binding performer. He is married to a schoolteacher, Susanne, and they live with their 2 children outside Copenhagen. Kasper Myding is an expert of learning and pedagogical change. He works as a keynote speaker and educational consultant developing teaching methods and mindsets towards teaching. As a former secondary school teacher and vice principal Kasper is particularly focused on creating a meaningful link between science and everyday practice.

Eudokia Demetriou

Eudokia is a trained architect having graduated from The University of Nicosia’s Architecture School. Throughout her studies she went from being externally motivated by success and money to more intrinsically motivated following time spent in Athens. She quickly realized following her graduation that there is plenty of pain and suffering in the world and that through her training as an architect, she can offer more, especially to the homeless. Her awakening began the day she realized that all of us are responsible for these social problems and all of us should do something about it. So that is what she did. After her initiative to help out homeless people in Athens with small no-cost structures, everything else unfolded in front of her. She met people who had the same vision of making this world a better place, which made this movement more real and more possible. Since then she has traveled to South Africa to help homeless people build non-cost structures and helped build a classroom in Ghana with 40 other volunteers, an experience that verified to her even more so that the secret to being happy is in giving back and helping others.

Isabella Clegg

Isabella Clegg is an animal welfare scientist who specialises in understanding dolphins and their emotions. She pioneered research into dolphin welfare, discovering that we can test whether they are optimists or pessimists, and that they bond with familiar humans. She has degrees in animal behaviour, welfare and marine biology, and has years of experience with captive and wild animals. She has written dozens of publications, reports and book chapters which have been covered by the BBC, New Scientist and others. Isabella founded Animal Welfare Expertise, an animal behaviour and welfare consultancy for zoos, farms, NGOs and conservation projects. In her talk, Isabella uses findings from a new field called animal welfare science to show how animals adapt their optimism to achieve long-term "happiness". Can studying what makes animals happy help us understand human happiness too?

Micaela Birmingham

Micaela Birmingham is a creative producer with projects spanning public service sports and branded content for digital and television. Micaela won an Emmy Award as executive producer of a public service announcement for the 9/11 rebuilding initiative Imagine New York. She created the branded content studio at Some Spider Inc., home to SCARRY MOMMY the largest digital parenting platform reaching over 80 million users each month. Her team uses comedic storytelling to engage millions of fans for brands including Disney, LEGO, Chrysler, ABC and Netflix. Micaela has training in improv comedy from the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Peoples Improv Theatre. Her work has been featured in media outlets across North America including the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University and is a world-ranked triathlete. In the most burlesque way, Micaela will share how she lost her mind and found her soul in raising her children.

Nordic School Casper Rongsted, Rasmus Schiellerup, Kasper Myding

Casper, Rasmus and Kasper are education consultants dedicated to enriching and promoting Scandinavia's educational success with schools, teachers, parents and education systems around the world. At TEDxLimassol they will share the stage to present the Nordic School Teaching Approach. For more than 25 years Casper Rongsted has been working in education, learning and motivation. The last 10 years he has worked in his own company as an educational consultant, keynote speaker and writer of books and articles. He graduated as a teacher in 1994. Casper works with teachers, educators, trainers and leaders in both private and public schools and in companies all over the world. Casper brings theory and practice together in the search for even better methods to help people create learning for all. He is married to Mette (the daughter of 2 teachers) and lives with their 3 children in Copenhagen, Denmark. For 15 years Rasmus Schiellerup has been working as a school leader but also as a self-employed educator. He gradu- ated as a teacher in 2001 and has worked in both public and private schools. Today Rasmus is the leader of his own speak- er agency consisting of 15 top keynote speakers. He travels the world as a speaker and educational consultant in both schools and companies. Rasmus is renowned for his mixture of storytelling and scientific facts and he is known as a spell-binding performer. He is married to a schoolteacher, Susanne, and they live with their 2 children outside Copenhagen. Kasper Myding is an expert of learning and pedagogical change. He works as a keynote speaker and educational consultant developing teaching methods and mindsets towards teaching. As a former secondary school teacher and vice principal Kasper is particularly focused on creating a meaningful link between science and everyday practice.

Petros Dokos, Kostas Krinos Ancient Memes

Costas Krinos was born and grew up because he had no other choice and began creating memes because he can’t draw. He studied destruction of interior design, cheddar mashing, pick and roll and agonizing expressions. He has three masters but no degree. He wishes peace on earth and less censorship. He believes that poetry is for whomever cannot rap and that we are all human and we therefore all make mistakes. Petros Dokos was born but never grew up because he found a different choice, to pick answers for his childhood curiosity, from other talents. He studied science from a theoretical field of interest and, via technology, he found himself doing things that were irrelevant to his fantasy’s livelihood. To some people all these may sound poetic and he is in agreement; he is literally searching for the proof to realism. He is loud in actions and silent in words. Something like this.... He finds people less selfish, wishing it’s true but, in fact, it’s not. He believes that if there are more people living because of the madness they carry upon them, more of them will live enjoying their freedom.