Theme: Breaking Out of the Bubble

We are committed and dedicated to creating an event where participants are challenged to communicate their passions in an exciting and engaging dialogue. The format of TEDxColegioBilingueSantaMarta will allow speakers and attendees to digest and debate the talks and encourage the exchange of ideas and information among all participants.

Colegio Bilingue Santa Marta is home to groundbreaking change, extraordinary ideas, and remarkable people who come diverse community. We look forward to showcasing this brilliance and enabling great ideas to be put into action. TEDxColegioBilingueSantaMarta, therefore, is a unique opportunity for members of the Colegio Bilingue Santa Marta community and beyond to share their ambitions, ideas, and inspire the youth for our collective future.

THIS YEARʼS THEME - “Breaking Out of the Bubble”

Living in bubble is a natural state of affairs for human beings. People seek out similarities in their groups and tendency, people live in their own little insulate world.

This time we decided to pay attention on what is going on around and not to be naive to what is happening in the outside world. It is time to step out of the comfort zone and think more out of the box. Think new ideas, new mindset, and change for the better.

It's all about that change which starts with you!!!! - Breaking Out from the Bubble.

Colegio Bilingue Santa Marta Auditorium
Troncal del Caribe Urbanizacion, San Francisco
Santa Marta, Magdalena, 400071
Colombia

Fernando Cotes Uribe

Student Leader & Orator

Fernando likes the world the way it is, but thinks we could take care of it just a little bit better. His inspiration to speak out his idea on TEDx stage is our planet earth and he wants all of us to realize that some of the small things we do every day can be better.

Jonathan Burt

Educator & Humanitarian

Jonathan was born and raised in the UK where all of his studies were made. He has been an educator and humanitarian since 1999, working in the United Kingdom, Australia and at present in Colombia. He wants to increase the audience's awareness and consciousnesses of poverty - not how to solve poverty - but how in our daily lives, we can make more conscious decisions.

Juan David Torres & Kelly Perez

Entrepreneurs & Human Rights Activists

“The youth is the actual future, the generation that can start the change is us.” They are both entrepreneurs and human rights activists. They believe that the world needs young leaders who can wake up early and see the need for change. They have seen hope in the younger generation that inspire them to give all the motivation they need to start changing the world, starting here in Santa Marta.

Juliana de Las Salas

Student Leader & Future Diplomat

Becoming a Catalyst is the central message of the talk of our student leader and future diplomat. She believes that fighting for what is right is very important. Opening our eyes to the ruthless reality of the world and take actions for those injustices around us. All the children that she met throughout her Model United Nations history are her great source of inspiration.

Juliana Ramos Giraldo

Student Leader & Change Advocate

Juliana has grown to become aware of the diversity in the world and discovered the treasure that it means to every individual experience on this planet. She believes that it is through life of service that people bring out the most magical gifts to the world. It is through the exemplification of community values in the lives of people that are able to create fast moving forward societies in which individuals have the skills to upfront the biggest modern challenges. Her idea contributes by breaking the bubble of cultures. As individual find peace in the cultural and social boundaries that they have grown with. She wants to bring awareness that it is NECESSARY to step out of that bubble.

Maria Fernanda Paramo

Student Leader & Artist

Maria Fernanda describes herself as a really creative person who is good at drawing, painting, and sketching. Art is one of her passions and the most important thing for her. It has helped her develop as a person of integrity and it has also made her flourish in values and respect for the culture and other cultures.

Nataly Cotes Uribe

Student Leader & Aspiring Writer

Nataly gets her inspiration from dozens of dozens of people in so many different ways that to name one would be a disservice to the others. But if she had to choose a single person who inspires her the most every single day, it would be her mom. She taught her to be strong, and independent while being kind and caring

Veronica Diaz Granados

Lawyer & Youth Inspiration

She would like to transmit to the audience the importance of choosing or becoming a great boss. Our next speaker is a lawyer and passionate youth inspiration. Her role model and inspiration is her Dad. She would like to inspire everyone with her talk on finding your own career and making it successful.