Theme: Contrastes, tudo faz parte de algo | Contrasts, everything is part of something

No dia 2 de Novembro, na segunda edição do TEDxPeniche, vamos partilhar um momento único de histórias e conversas importantes que queremos que contribuam para a melhor compreensão do mundo que nos rodeia e inspirem a busca incessante por mais aprendizagens.
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On November 2nd, in the second edition of TEDxPeniche, we will share a unique moment of important stories and conversations, that we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the world around us and inspire the incessant search for learning.

Clube Recreativo Penichense
Praça Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
Peniche, Leiria, 2520-
Portugal

David Tan

Life coach and Osteopath @ Life Force

David Tan has been passionately exploring self-improvement and the art of healing for the past 25 years. He has taken care of over 40,000 patients from 80 different nationalities including top executives and professional athletes like extreme watermen and big wave champions Garrett McNamara and Hugo Vau who regularly deal with extreme stress. Both his passion for traveling and work took him through more than 70 countries where he researched the secrets of longevity and natural methods used by the different cultures to thrive. He will share some of his learnings and how combining ancestral knowledge with contemporary techniques, neuroscience, and integrative pedagogy makes it easier for people to relate to for integrating changes and new habits.

Diana Prata

Leader @ Biomedical Neuroscience Lab at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Lisbon

With visiting lectureship and research positions at ISCTE CIS-IUL, FCUL and King's College London - where she has trained for 12 years. In 2017, she won a Marie Curie Actions Prize for the "Most Promising Scientist in Innovation and Entrepreneurship", among other distinctions and awards totaling +€2M; and published +40 international articles. Her lab investigates the biology of human behavior, namely, of empathy, trust, and cooperation - aiming to improve the quality of the social life of psychiatric patients and, by raising awareness, of everyone. She is also co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NeuroPsyAI, a company developing diagnostic solutions for neurodegenerative illnesses combining neuroimaging and artificial intelligence. Coherently in the theme of social, Diana loves exploring the diversity of cultures as a globe trotter, and dancing, improv theatre, jazz singing and heated conversations with other human beings.

Fernando Esteves

Founder and director @ Polígrafo news channel

With a degree and postgraduate in Communication Sciences, he has taught journalism in several universities. An award-winning journalist, notably for his journalistic investigations into dubious business in the health sector, he presented the television program "Clube de Jornalistas". He is the author of several books: "The Almighty (O Todo-Poderoso)"; "Cercado - The Fatal Days of José Sócrates", one of the best selling non-fiction books of 2015, and "In Cold Blood (A Sangue Frio)", about the "Operation Marquês", where some of the most important figures of Portuguese society in recent years are investigated. With the emergence of social networks and the migration of media to these new channels of communication, new dynamics of how information is communicated are developing. There is a dilution of the gap between truth and lies (or manipulation) that leaves us wondering what will be the future of communication with the evolution of digital technology and what will be the consequences.

Marco Neves

Columnist @ Sapo 24

Marco was born in Peniche and lives in Lisbon. His friends always acknowledged his obsession for languages, being known as jack of all trades: translator, proof-reader, reader, talkative and author. He is also a father with the trade of a storyteller. Nowadays, he is a professor of translation in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, translator and director of the Lisbon office of Eurologos and columnist at Sapo 24. And Marco will bring to stage a lot of questions: How many languages are there in the world? And in Portugal? Why do we have so many languages? And what happens when one language dies? Will we, one day, be able to live in a world with only one language? On a journey around the world, from a dead language and advancing through the differences between languages, Marco Neves shows the link between language and human creativity.

Natalia Lombardo

Co-founder and Collaboration Coach @ The Hum

Nati helps groups to cultivate a collaborative culture through values-driven behavioral change. Her focus is the self in “self-organising": the beliefs, attitudes and behaviours each of us brings into any collective endeavour. Co-founder and Collaboration Coach at The Hum. Co-owner of Loomio and member of Enspiral. She enjoys drawing and learning about neuroscience. At TEDxPeniche she'll share what she has learned from 10 years of experimenting with new ways of working in radically decentralised organisations. Themes include: how collaboration, talking about your feelings, and shared power can change the world.

Raquel Hermínio

Anthropologist

Alumnus of ESTM / IPL Peniche and interacts with the local community in order to know it more deeply - it’s culture, identity, and memory and has written about its people in the book “Ser Ferrel” (To be Ferrel). She is coming to TEDxPeniche to make us think about her field of study, the tourism industry - its dynamics, development, challenges and impacts and all its dualities.

Richard Bartlett

Co-Founder and Director @ Loomio

Rich is one of the cofounders of Loomio, an open-source software tool for collective decision-making. He's a member of Enspiral: a network of self-organising companies who have been working without bosses since 2010. He's passionate about co-ownership, self-management, and other ways of sneaking anarchism into respectable places. His hobbies include very serious conversations about politics and existential risk. At TEDxPeniche he'll share what he has learned from 10 years of experimenting with new ways of working in radically decentralised organisations. Themes include: how collaboration, talking about your feelings, and shared power can change the world.

Rui Marques

Leader @ Instituto Padre António Vieira

Manager at the service of the common good, with roots in communication sciences and sociology. Passionate about complex problems, collaborative networking and bridge building. Always discovering (his) infinite imperfection and turning on little lights instead of screaming into the darkness. Rui will be bringing to the stage of TEDxPeniche: Can imperfection generate something very special? Can weaknesses and fractures bring something positive? Can you see the light better from the darkness? Can our pursuit of perfection be an excessive ambition, proper of Gods?

Sandro Resende

Founder @ Manicómio

Sandro holds a degree in Fine Arts. Has taught fine arts at the Psychiatric Hospital Center of Lisbon. Has curated and produced several group exhibitions within this institution. He has been directing major artistic projects since 2010 and is the founder of Manicómio (madhouse) - a project dedicated to the raw creation by artists and other creative talents who have experienced or experience mental illness. It aims to help demystify the stigma associated with mental illness, encourage employability of patients and promote their social inclusion. Sandro is coming to tell us the story of his 20 years of experience working at Hospital Júlio de Matos and how this path led him to found Manicómio. And Manicómio is a start. It’s honesty, sensitivity, and dignity through artistic creation. It's a wall-breaking attitude so that everyone fits.

Tiago Orato

Musical artist

Tiago Orato is from Torino, Italy but lives in Peniche since he is 6 years old. He works in a audio post production company for TV and Dubbing for Netfix and in his spare time he produces music, a career he wants to pursue since he was a child. He has national and international projects and is coming to TEDxPeniche to show a bit of his work, his story as musical artist and, who knows, debut some projects.

Wilson Alexandre

Artist

Wilson Alexandre is a Brazilian artist, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived and worked until June 2016 when he moved to Portugal. A self-taught artist and a keen surfer, Wilson's passion for the sea, nature and vibrant colours is evident in his work. As well as painting, Wilson devotes some of his time to an educational project called "Reciclar Brincando" ("Recycling Playing"), for which he creates functional objects and artistic structures from recyclable materials or items he has found on the street, at the beach or in the rubbish. For this ongoing project Wilson mainly works with plastic, raising awareness of the issues relating to this durable material, which poses a huge threat to the environment. AT TEDxPeniche Wilson is going to recreate one of his famous installations in a very special space.

Zhexuan Yang

Pianist

Zhexuan Yang is oficially chinese, but he was born in Portugal 9 years ago. His parents came to Portugal in 2002 (she was 13 and he was 14 years old). In 2009, they got married and started a family business, a known commercial space in Peniche. One year later they had their first son, Zhexuan, who, when he was 4, saw something in a Tom & Jerry scene that sparked his curiosity: an instrument with black and white keys! Zhechuan was not yet 5 when he started learning piano at the Stella Maris Music Academy with teacher Gerardo Rodrigues, where he currently continues his learning . Zhexuan is coming to TEDxPeniche on November 2 to fill up the room with music and to show us that, even though sometimes he gets tired, cries and wants to give up, as is normal with children (... but not only), the passion for what you do and for overcoming challenges prevails over everything! – à Peniche.