Theme: Shift Happens

It is the year of the Tiger, which stands for turbulence and change. Catastrophic pandemics, war and insurrection. Our world seems to be in a reset to a new global ecological, economic and social balance. Or is there more to it?

Deeper undercurrents of sentiments of freedom and fear and protecting what is own. Opposing rules that only apply to others, and that we ourselves do not respect have. The media stumbling over each other to share scandals, and people on to nail the pillory.

TEDxHaarlem is investigating the reset that is needed and is already underway. People who sentiment and sound the alarm, people who point out new opportunities and threats, people who translate the reset into creative expressions, people who have a new researching order or new tech nology, people who are committed to a reset of nature by to seek the connection, people who are just starting to change the world. People who are our inspiration with their reset.

De Philharmonie
Lange Begijnestraat 11
Haarlem, Noord-Holland, 2011 HH
Netherlands

Ahmet Türkmen

Artist and writer

Ahmet Türkmen (1975) wrote the book ‘Taboo’ about his addiction. Ever since he is clean (2010) he made it his job to support people in their recovery and sharing his own experience with addiction, stigmas, taboos and prejudices to create awareness and give hope.

Arjan Dwarshuis

Professional bird guide, writer and lecturer

Arjan Dwarshuis, a professional bird guide, writer and lecturer. He holds the current Guinness Book World Record for observing the largest number of bird species in a single year. In 2016, he launched his global “Big Year” and ultimately observed 6852 of the world’s roughly 10,700 bird species, setting a record that stands to this day. His year long adventure raised nearly 50.000 Euros for the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme. Arjan also starred in the award-winning documentary Arjan’s Big Year, and appears on radio, TV and podcasts. On May 4th ’23, his book about this adventure, ‘Een bevlogen jaar’ (2018), will be published in English by Chelsea Green Publishing under the title ‘The year that flew by’. His second book ‘Zomergasten, doortrekkers and overwinteraars’ received excellent reviews. He is a columnist for several magazines about nature, and as the ambassador for the IUCN NL Land Acquisition Fund he is committed to the protection of endangered birds across the globe.

Judith de Leeuw

Artist

Judith de Leeuw, also known as JDL street art, creates large- scale murals worldwide in order to draft attention to social issues. In a period of 6 years she managed to travel and work over 41 countries, including big parts of Europe, Asia and the United states. In 2021, JDL’s work was sold for a record of 2,9 million in cryptocurrency of which she donated one million to charity.

Jur Deitmers

Student and Philosopher

As an Economics and Philosophy student at Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL), Jur Deitmers joined the Visiting Undergraduate Student program at Harvard University (US) in 2016. In March 2017 Jur Deitmers got hit in Boston by a severe brain inflammation which subsequently revealed itself during spring break in Mexico. Due to this encephalitis his complete memory of 21 years vanished and never returned. Jur Deitmers fortunately managed to recover well with a lot of guidance and attention from the people around him.

Lex Paleaux

Author and writer

Lex Paleaux is an author and writer of screenplays for tv and theater. He got renowned after the release of his debute novel called Winterwater. In 2024 it will come to life in a national theater production. His latest work is called "When death sighs, I hold my breath…" A store about eight children in a psychiatric ward in the early 90’s.

Mariette van Huijstee

Expert in Responsible Technology | PhD in CSR

Mariëtte van Huijstee, PhD. thinks and speaks about corporate social responsibility and the impact of technology on public life. She works as a Coordinator at the Dutch Technology Assessment Institute, the Rathenau Instituut, where she leads a team of researchers studying and debating Responsible Technology. Dr. van Huijstee holds a PhD. in corporate social responsibility from the Copernicus Institute on Sustainable Development and Innovation.

Mariëtte van Huijstee

Mariëtte van Huijstee, PhD. thinks and speaks about corporate social responsibility and the impact of technology on public life. She works as a Coordinator at the Dutch Technology Assessment Institute, the Rathenau Instituut, where she leads a team of researchers studying and debating Responsible Technology. Dr. van Huijstee holds a PhD. in corporate social responsibility from the Copernicus Institute on Sustainable Development and Innovation.

Willemijn Kadijk

Teacher to professionals | Social worker | Researcher.

Willemijn Kadijk researches ideologies, polarization and radicalization. She works in the field as a teacher to professionals, a social worker and as a researcher.