Theme: Ideas worth speading

We are celebrating five years of TEDx in Dornbirn.

Spielboden Dornbirn
Färbergasse 15
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, 6850
Austria

Angelika Humbert

Glaciologist

Angelika Humbert is a glaciologist working on ice sheet modelling at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Observations show that the ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic are changing rapidly. The glaciers at the edges of the ice sheets are now flowing more rapidly: this means that they transport more ice from the land’s interior to the ocean, which in turn causes the sea level to rise. To date, our studies have above all shown us one thing: in reality, the ice masses in Greenland and the Antarctic are changing more rapidly and dramatically than our models suggest – a cold, wet, multi-scale problem that isn’t easy to solve.

Catriona Morrison

Researcher

Catriona Morrison researches mainly in the field of language and memory, including language and memory development and issues relating to changes in cognition across the lifespan. Memory is essential for every move we make, so why is it that memory sometimes lets us down? Should we be concerned or might it actually be healthy?

Frank Blau

Data Architect

Frank Blau has been a Business Intelligence Data Architect for 15 years and has over 25 years of technical experience in database technologies. He is currently transitioning to role as a Senior Consultant at Ebcont-West in Hard, Austria. He has been a developer, architect, analyst and educator in a variety of vertical markets and technologies. Frank has also been a consultant to Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in the use and implementation of data warehouse architectures, unstructured data, metadata management and analytic presentation.

Fräulein Hona

Music

„Side by side we lie and wait for the old songs in our minds to subside….“ Fräulein Hona sounds incredibly Icelandic, like fleeting dreaminess and charming stubbornness at the same time. In the five songs of the Nowhere But Here, Kerstin Eckert, Johanna Schmid, Judith Prieler and Melanie Künz bring their art even more directly and unmediated to the point than on the equally celebrated previous recordings.

Jodok Batlogg

Technology

Jodok Batlogg is founder and CEO of Tree.ly – a climate-tech startup that rewards forest owners for storing carbon in their forests. Climate change is the biggest challenge of our times. And it is happening now. The next few years will be deciding and will have the greatest impact. Our mission is to ensure forest conservation through state-of-the-art technology and regional collaboration.

Ken Munro

Ethical Hacker

Ken Munro is a specialist in ethical hacking. He is able to hack everything – from hotel keycards, to a range of IoT devices, from wearable tech to children’s toys and smart home control systems.

Lorenz Weber

Entrepreneur

Lorenz Weber started his own business about three years ago during an easter vacation. He will tell us what made him watch car-wash videos at the age of 12 and invested hundreds of Euros in polishing maschines and the best cleaning products and tools. In the last couple of years he soent hundreds of hours cleaning cars and developing his business where he learned a lot through the different obstacles. For example, how to constantly improve the customer experience, how to protect my money from inflation and how other 15 year olds could apply his learnings to their ideas. Lorenz firmly believes that very different winds are blowing in Generation Z and he will tell us what these winds are about.

Moses Concas

Musican

Moses was born in Sardinia. From an early age he participated in theatre shows and showed a marked interest in music and art. From the age of fifteen he experimented with different instruments and new stylistic choices. At the age of 22 he began to play the harmonica, the same that his grandmother gave him when he was a child. Since then he has never stopped experimenting, composing, improvising with different instruments. His path naturally pushes him towards the stylistic choice of the beatbox harmonic, through a sort of “necessary and physical drive to transform the breath into a musical fact”, a real transposition of rhythm, sound and daily self-expression.

Nicolas Tschaikner

Designer

Nicolas Tschaikner is a user experience designer and founder of the Viennese design agency Superfluid. A large part of his work consists of presenting complex systems in a simple way and getting users of digital products to reach their goals as comfortably and quickly as possible. UX designers achieve this through a fundamental understanding of psychology and human behaviour. However, this understanding is also used to deceive and trick users, giving us an internet full of traps. Nicolas exposes manipulative design practices – so-called dark patterns – and explains how to avoid them.

Philipp Lederle

Startup

During the first Lockdown in 2020, Ines Nechi and Philipp Lederle co-founded Lellis GmbH. Together with a team consisting of hard and software developers, also including data analysts, they are developing products for the daily life of patients suffering from Parkinson’s. Lellis is an absolutely atypical startup facing a niche challenge that does not produce highly scalable software, in addition is not extraordinarily funded and its target is not a high potential billion dollar market. At TEDxDornbirn Ines and Philipp are going to talk about the challenging and rocky road of a hardware startup. Moreover, clarifying why it’s worth solving a social issue and how the global startup scene could be more efficient with frequently sharing lowlights and learning from each other.

Simon Oschwald

Medicial Scientist

Simon Oschwald from Zürich is the co-founder of Project Circleg. Project Circleg is an appropriate lower-limb prosthetic system designed for the needs of amputees in developing countries. By using recycled plastic waste in combination with simple production methods, the Circleg prosthesis can be produced locally and cost-effectively.