PuraVida
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This event occurred on
February 27, 2014
San José
Costa Rica

All all other before, it will be about everything

Auditorio Nacional
Museo de los Niños
San José
Costa Rica
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Speakers

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Carolina Rodríguez

PhD in Psicotherapy, goes on stage in a persona, of a simple house maid and talks about looking inside yourself

Javier Garcia

nano-technologist from MIT talks about nanotechnology as the 21st century alchemy and talks about using nanotechnology to solve the worlds energy problem

Jody Steiger

PhD in Education, talks about using art as a learning tool

Bernal Céspedes

Educator, talks about using tablets in schools to teach/learn English, and in doing so changing the centuries old education model

José Zaglul

PhD economics, talks a bout the thin line that separates peace from chaos. Homes in on three fundamental values need to preserve peace

Roberto Artavia

DBA Harvard, talks about networking for sustainability

Raul Gomez

Orchestra Conductor, talks about collaboration as the driving force to reach new levels of excellence

Teofilo de la Torre

Engineer, talks about renewable energies and what need to be doe so we can have all our electricity come from renewable sources in the short term (next 7 years).

Leslie Feinzag

Gamer, talks about the strategies used by game developers to keep their users hooked, and how to use the same strategies in real life problems

Francesca Aguilar

Marketing specialist with large multinational. Talks about the special Olympics and what we should learn from the handicapped.

Alvaro Cedeño

Lawyer and diplomat. Talks about why the world should become bio-literate

Mariana Quesada

High School Graduate. Talks the de-materialized walking stick she developed to help the blind

Andres Mora

PhD Robotics. Talks about robots in our every day life

Pia Mancini

Political Scientist. Talks about using the Internet to improve democracy.

Organizing team

Roberto
Sasso

San Jose, Costa Rica
Organizer