TEDxYouth@Tallinn is a day full of talks and activities, to Youth by Youth. It is a day when you can let your imagination go wild, immerse yourself in art, think critically about issues and learn some science on the way.

School of Rocca al Mare
Vabaõhumuuseumi tee 8
Tallinn, Harjumaa, 13521
Estonia

Elisabeth Kaukonen & Marilyn Mägi

Poets

Elisabeth Kaukonen is a second year student of Estonian Philology at Tallinn University. Besides studying, she writes poetry, prose, and practices Estonian folk dance. Elisabeth has considered writing poetry her passion from a very young age, and her poems have been published in a „Värske Rõhk“- an Estonian literary magazine publishing the work of young authors. Marilyn Mägi studies history at the University of Tartu, and is soon about to become a three-time co-author of „Värske Rõhk“. In addition to writing, she finds time for Estonian folk dance and teaching sexual education. Ironically, she is not too fond of writing about history. She does, however love sandwiches, the Great Northern War, and Latvia. Elisabeth and Marilyn share a common passion for the beauty of words.

Aigar Vaigu

Physisist, science popularizer

Aigar Vaigu is a physicist and public spokesperson for science. His main work focuses on developing a standard for quantum communication, i.e he helps create a technical framework to make ultra-secure communication, based on the oddities of quantum physics, into a functioning application to use. Aigar is also the host, judge and challenge creator of the Rakett69 (www.rakett69.ee) TV show on national television.

Andra Siibak

Social Media Researcher

Andra Siibak, PhD, works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu on media studies. She has studied social media for more than ten years and published a lot of scientific articles. At the moment her focus is on the audience and privacy issues in social media.

Carl Tuulik

Musician

Carl Stefan Tuulik is a young musician with an extremely wide taste in music and choice of genres. He plays the sax and the bass guitar everyday in different bands and in addition to that, he also has lent a hand to songwriting and producing, the result of which will be released very soon. During the last months, Carl has also been a spokesperson for the message of humanity in the Estonian public sphere.

Francois Archanjo

Percussionist

François Archanjo grew up on Rio De Janeiro, where 22% of inhabitants live in favelas (slums). He started playing music instruments very early, taught by his father. At 13 years old he started learning percussion in a local social project that supported children of the neighbourhood to not get involved with the drugs and violence through music. After the first lesson he decided that was exactly what he wanted to do. Most youngsters in favelas die before they are 18 years old, he did not want to be one of them and he wanted to help like he was being helped earlier. The AfroReggae Cultural Group is the biggest "Social Project" of Brazil, active in more than 10 cities they give assistance to youngsters teaching percussion, dance, graffiti. After a lot of the work he did as a social worker using percussion as a ”tool”, at 26 years old he was the Cultural director of the DEGASE, Rio De Janeiro's youth prison system. François now lives in Estonia.

Jakob Rosin

Journalism student

Jakob Rosin has been blind since his birth. Despite his condition, he never says no to new challenges and things that at first seem impossible for a blind person. He likes to go jogging, travels alone, works on developing accessibility both in real life and virtual world, is a blogger and studies journalism at the Tallinn University. Jakob’s hobbies include audio production, listening to and creating music and spending time in good company.

Kaspar Korjus

e-Residency Program Director

Kaspar Korjus, is Estonian e-Residency team leader and program director. In 2015, Kaspar was voted as the #1 person in technology and finance in the Forbes Estonia "30 under 30" category. In 2011, having gotten a degree in Internet Business Management in England, Kaspar returned to Estonia as part of the "Talendid Koju" program.

Kristjan Jansen

designer

Kristjan Jansen is a designer and design teacher. He has worked in Skype and African Internet Group, had a role in the Praxis and Estonian Nature Fund projects and lived in Portugal and Brazil. Now he is back home in Estonia and is putting his skills to use to teach interaction design in schools across Estonia - a field which enables people to better interact with technology and vice versa.

Kulno Malva

Musician

The accordion, vocals and the rhythm of the body instrument sounds like a band but if you add a thrillingly groovy rhythm engine, it becomes a full orchestra! Kulno from Viljandi likes to play around with musical instruments but he does not shy away from more serene Nordic soundscapes either. Runo-songs, bagpipe tunes and newer folklore – in all of his songs, he is constantly searching for uniqueness in simplicity and minimalism and power in his music. Rhythmic but contemplative, original but nevertheless traditional! Power Folk from Estonia! Kulno Malva – accordion, vocals, body percussion

Mari-Liis Aru

Physics student, science blogger

Mari-Liis Aru is a physics student at the University of Tartu and an intern at the Tartu Observatory. Currently her focus is on studying very rare supermassive stars. At the age of 16 she built her own website http://sci-universe.com/, that started off sharing cool space pictures but a couple of years later she began blogging about astronomy and science innovations. “We live in a society that is completely dependent on science and technology yet most of us do not know anything about science nor technology. This is the reason why I want to share topics commonly regarded as difficult in easily comprehendible way. My followers' reactions have assured me that it works - my posts have provided inspiration to study sciences and to understand the ways the world works”. For now, Mari-Liis’s website has been recognized in the American radio show “Star Talk” by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Through the years Mari-Liis has started to appreciate the importance of the “address” of planet Earth in the Univer

Renate Rutiku

Cognitive neuroscientist

Renate Rutiku is a young neuroscientist, fresh off defending her Ph.D at Tartu University. Her everyday work consists of researching neuronal correlates and the brain activity related to the sense of vision. In layman's terms, she studies the formation of consciousness in the brain. Even though Renate discovered neuroscience by chance, it has now become the greatest passion in her life. This passion not only drives Renate onwards in her workplace, but also in other life situations - whether it be playing bowling or conversing over her fence with members of a religious sect.

Rovin Raie

Dancer

Rovin (17) is currently a high school student at Rocca al Mare School, who has a passion for performing in general and dancing. He has studied the art of dance for approximately three and a half years: the first 2 years at Tallinn’s Dance Academy and after that practicing independently. He specializes in dance styles such as popping, animation and tutting.

Silver Soorsk

Dancer

Silver Soorsk is a dancer with an engineering degree. He has not worked a day as an engineer, but he has danced for over 17 years. What started as a hobby soon grew into a passion and took over his mind and body alike. He started with social dances, but in 2002 found the Fine5 dance school and since then contemporary dance has been one of his passions and ways of self-expression. He has searched for the freedom to express himself from Estonia and from many other countries.

Taivo Pungas

Data scientist

Taivo Pungas is constantly looking for ways to better his life, using data - starting from efficient time usage to finding the best sleep schedule. He has worked as a data scientist at Skype and Transferwise and has a degree in informatics from Tartu University, where he also founded the mathematics and informatics society. Right now Taivo is continuing his studies in Zurich, studying computer sciences, and is also keeping up a blog where he discusses data science and personal development.

Zach Latta

Co-founder of hackEDU

Zach Latta is the co-founder and executive director of hackEDU, where he works to bring coding clubs to high schools worldwide. Before hackEDU, he built the backend architecture for Yo – an app with more than 3 million users. Before that he helped launch and grow a game to over 1 million users, reaching #1 in the games category on the App Store.