Youth@Barcelona
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Theme: Risk takers

This event occurred on
March 28, 2015
4:00pm - 8:30pm CET
(UTC +1hr)
Barcelona, Barcelona (ca)
Spain

Every major advance in human civilization has been made possible because someone was willing to get out of the comfort zone and challenge the status quo. Risk is part of every human endeavor and while some of the risks we all take may seem trivial, others make a significant difference in the way we live our lives.

At TEDxYouth@Barcelona we admire risk takers. In 2015 we want to celebrate the stories of young people who took the first step and have had the tenacity to keep going. Young people who power their ideas and initiatives with passion. Every. Single. Day.

L'Auditori
C/ Lepant 150
Barcelona, Barcelona (ca), 08013
Spain
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Albert Barqué-Duran

Albert is a PhD researcher in Cognitive Science at the Department of Psychology at City University London. His research concerns the application of mathematical and computational methods to modelling human cognition. Specifically, his research is about judgment and decision-making, behavioral sciences and moral psychology. Albert also has a M.S. in Brain, Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences from the Universitat de Barcelona and a BA in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He’s worked as a Teacher’s Assistant and Research Assistant in Decision Making and Behavioral Sciences. Albert is also an artist. He translates scientific concepts into surrealist illustrations and he paints his subjective interpretations of certain psychological concepts and the mind. Many have been published in the science column he writes in one of Spain’s national newspapers, El Periódico (Neurocàpsules). More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/albert-barque/

Amaia Arrazola

Amaia has a Degree in Advertising and Public Relations for the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and a Master Degree in Communication Design and Editorial Projects for Elisava School of Design. Amaia started her professional career in advertising, working for McCann Erickson Madrid for a couple of years. At 26 she decided to move to Barcelona and have a fresh start. She loves drawing, graphic design, typography, ceramics, embroidery, children’s stories, old stuff, weird stuff, UFOs, unicorns, the yeti, the color pink, the color purple, constellations, the right side of the bed, pizza, hamburgers, milkshakes and koalas. She has an imaginary dog. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/amaia-arrazola/

Daniel Castejón

Daniel began studying music when he was just four years old. Music has been a theme in his life that he has always come back to. When Daniel began his college degree in architecture at the ETSAB (Barcelona) his artistic vein was reawakened. A few years later, he began to focus more on his musical studies as well. At 23 he began teaching piano at the Betània-Patmos school and he also started training with Gorka Bartolomé with the clear objective of being accepted into a program for advanced piano studies. At 25 he was accepted into the Liceu Superior Conservatory to major in Piano studies with the renowned professor Alba Ventura. Daniel has been fortunate to have participated in masterclasses with some of the world’s foremost pianists such as Luiz de Moura Castro (2009-14), Paul Badura-Skoda and Leonid Sintsev as well as the pianoforte expert Arthur Schoonderwoerd. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/daniel-castejon/

David Andrés

International hockey player. When he was 20 years old, David dropped out of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya where he was majoring in Architecture and made a radical change in his life path. That very same year, he stepped into the kitchen for the first time, and started training with the best chefs in Catalonia: Xavier Pellicer, Jean Louis Neichel and Joan Roca. By 25, Jordi Cruz, the well-known chef of the two-starred Michelin restaurant ABaC, had deposited his confidence in him and David became his Sous Chef and right-hand man. David and his brother Xavier opened Somiatruites, a cultural and gastronomic project, in 2013. David applied to Young Chef 2015, a worldwide competition for chefs under 30 and won the regional finals for Spain and Portugal. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/david-andres/

Duna Homedes

Duna is the one of the co-founders of MULA, a collaborative project which searches to join old solutions, such as urban farms, with new problems, such as a housing shortage for young people. In the midst of the economic “crisis” the housing and unemployment issues made her reflect upon how to find practical solutions looking toward the past. With six other friends, she co-founded Urban Farms for Alternative Housing whose first project was to rehabilitate an old neglected country house in the Can Baró district of Barcelona. This once rural farmland that fed the city dwellers, is now a neighborhood on the outskirts fighting to keep its historical heritage. By applying an old solution- allowing the tenants to live there for free in exchange for the upkeep of the property- they are helping preserve the buildings and land. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/duna-homedes/

Georgina Regàs

Georgina finished her obligatory high school degree in 1950 and began working at the Amatller Institute of Hispanic Art. In 1953 she moved to London, and the next year she began working with Dr. Josep Trueta at the Nuffield Orthopedic Center in Oxford. She came back to Barcelona and began working with her brother Oriol Regàs. She then started a career in event planning and catering. In 1979, she founded “Confituras Barrios”, which made traditional jams, and then opened “Charcutería Barrios” in the beach town of Palafrugell, specializing in ready-made meals and catering. Georgina has given courses, workshops, conferences and masterclasses related to cooking and jams, as well as publishing books on these topics. In 2004, once she had retired, she created and inaugurated the Museo de Confitura, specialized in jams and marmalades in the village of Torrent, in the Baix Empordà. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/georgina-regas/

Jordi Saragossa

Jordi was born with the lens of his father’s camera capturing his first moments of life. At just 2, he was given his first camera of his own. While Jordi studied at the IFEC (Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya) he worked with the digital sports newspaper called Esportiu.cat. His photographs began to be published in Vèrtex magazine and in “Saragossa Edicions”. In 2012, after collaborating with a variety of successful projects, he decided to specialize in his true passion -mountain sport photography. That same year, Jordi was accepted to the prestigious Salomon International Team as a photographer. He’s photographed more than 30 competitions such as the UTMB (France-Italy-Switzerland), Kilian’s Classik (France), UROC (Colorado, USA), Chamonix World Championships (France), HardRock 100 (USA), BUFF Epic Trail (Catalonia, Spain), Tromso Skyrace (Norway), and The RUT (USA) among others. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/jordi-saragossa/

Josep Marc Mingot

Josep Marc is the co-founder of Arcvi, an analytic and strategic consulting firm focused on Big Data and Analytics projects. He is also co-founder of BCNAnalytics, a non-profit group of like-minded individuals that aim to turn Barcelona into a European hub for analytics and the co-founder of inversioninquieta.com, an online community around investment and innovation in the banking industry. Josep Marc worked at MIT (Boston, USA) as a research assistant in the Computer Vision Lab at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was also a member of the MIT Global Startup Initiative in Colombia, working as an organizer and teacher for the program, whose aim is to promote entrepreneurship in developing countries. Josep Marc has a Master’s in both Mathematics and Telecommunications Engineering from the UPC with the CFIS program. He also co-funded Academia Bruc and worked as a teacher’s assistant at one of the world’s most prestigious business schools, ESADE.

Loreto Nácar

Loreto has a B.S. in Psychology, and was always curious about how the human mind and brain worked. When she researched what her professors were working on in regards to language learning in infants, she was fascinated and applied to the Master’s program in Neuroscience. Currently, she is a PhD researcher in Language Acquisition of Bilingual Infants at Babylab of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, focused on development of categorization abilities during a child’s first months of life. She is especially interested in the development of these abilities in bilingual infants, taking both electrophysiological (EEG) as well as behavioral (Eye-tracker) measurements. She has been a visiting student at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Central European University in Budapest, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. More at http://www.tedxyouthbarcelona.com/events/2015-risk-takers/speakers/loreto-nacar/

Mamadou Saliou

Mamadou arrived in Barcelona at just 16 years of age, and lived in different centers for minors until he turned 18. At 17 he created the documentary “Had I known, I wouldn’t have come” and “Tomorrow, more of the same” in order to make public the plight of Senegalese immigrants coming to Europe. These documentaries have been shown for 3 straight years in a variety of public and private schools in Ziguinchor, his hometown. At 19 Mamadou got his first job in a bike rental company. The experience inspired him to start a new project called “A different Barcelona, on wheels”, which is a tour showing the less publicized social reality of Barcelona. At 21 Mamadou decided to start Diandé Africa, an educational project born from his experience, both as a user and a volunteer, in a wide range of social entities in Barcelona (Fundación Exit, Casal dels infants, Punto de Referencia, Mercé Fontanilles and Nexes). The project takes place between Barcelona and Ziguinchor.

Organizing team

Maria
Santolaria

Barcelona, Spain
Organizer
  • Ivan Bruque
    Technical Director
  • Lidia Plaza
    Public Speaking Mentor
  • Berta Vicente
    Photographer
  • Guillem Trius
    Photographer
  • Rosa Rodríguez
    Design
  • Ferran Pellicer
    Social Media
  • Sílvia Langa
    Design
  • Marina Herrero
    Design
  • Jana Milla
    Sponsorships
  • Bibian Ballbé
    MC
  • Santi Pozo
    Staff