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About Me

Educated as an architect, Arthur Turksma is 'into the internet' for almost 20 years. Running triptic, an internet agency based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, since 1997. The 20+ staff develops interactive experiences (sites, intranets etc) for mainly larger companies, hospitals and government. Projects range from an interactive digital museum with hundreds of thousands objects to social intranets for thousands of people. Arthurs passion for brainstorming and presenting lead to an addiction of watching TED talks. He co-founded TEDxBrainport in 2011, to turn his addiction into something usefull for the community of the Eindhoven region. He also mentored other TEDx events in the area.

Location:
Netherlands, Eindhoven
Current organization:
Triptic online communication
Past organizations:
TEDxBrainport
Current role:
Creative Director
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Concept & Idea Generation, Brainstorming, Creativity, Open data, TEDx, Entrepeneur, Web / GUI Design, UX Design, Internet strategy, presenting, curiousity
I am:
Architect, Brainstormer, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Foodie, Idea generator, Marketer, Parent, Technologist, Web guru
Associations:
MWG mediaprofessionals, PIBN
Languages:
Dutch, English, German
My website links:
triptic
Universities:
Eindhoven University of Technology
TED conferences attended:
TEDActive 2012
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Your passion. Peoples stories are fascinating, whether from factory workers or professors. I am curious by nature, and therefore always hungry for brain food.

My TED Story

Inspired by TEDTalks for many years, I decided to gather inspiring people to organise TEDxBrainport. It was an amazing journey, and great to see so attendees, speakers and organisers enjoy discussing new ideas worth spreading!

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  • TEDCred score: +8500.10 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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    A comment on Talk: John Hodgman: Design, explained.

    Jun 12 2012: What the video doesn't show is that hese were actually three very short, funny talks in between the other talks. Putting them together in one video is a lot less funny than the anticipation of seeing John Hodgman appearing on the stage for a 2 minute intermezzo. And then disappear again. It was a welcome break between the more serieus talks!

  • A reply on Talk: T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas

    Mar 20 2012: His talk made me cringe too, Jordi, I am European as well. But it does show the 'other side' of the spectrum. At TEDActive I had many heated debates over this talk with my fellow American TEDsters. I told them when the US is going to use more natural gas, some companies will thrive even more. in particular the European Shell, BP and the Russian Gazprom. They thought that was European-centric :)
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    A comment on Talk: Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

    Mar 6 2012: He is a very good storyteller. I was hooked from the first minute!

  • A comment on Talk: Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994)

    Feb 3 2012: Interesting to see his perspective of the future in 1994. Now almost 20 years later, technology moves even faster than Danny Hills thought would be possible. Makes me wonder: what will technology be like in 2024?

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