Theme: Creativity meets Technology

This January in Târgu Mureș, TEDx is celebrating the emergence of #innovation, technology and creativity. A full day of live speakers and engaging workshops!

HOW TO SPOT A CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST SPEAKER?

Good question, well put. The truth is, they are still rather exotic creatures – missionaries, strangers in a curious land, but we’ve got some excellent #speakers and trainers lined up for the next event. All of the four speakers of our Salon will attempt to present what happens when #creativity meets #technology !

Moderator: Ovidiu Oltean

For the first time this year, we are taking over the Grand Hotel on the 23rd of January to spread ideas, share thoughts… we have something #inspirational to express and isn’t it great that we’re sharing it all with you?!

Hotel Concordia
Trandafirilor, 45
Tirgu-Mures, Mureș
Romania

Camelia Cuibus

Cartoonist

Camelia Cuibus is a 2D animator/illustrator working at Stuck In Attic, a small independent game studio. They are planning on starting a crowdfunding campaign this spring, with their latest project, a point-and-click adventure game called Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure. In spite of her technical background in highschool, she always wanted to be an artist. She was a guitarist in a local band called Amberskin. She studied theatre directing in college and won first prize at the Inspired-Dramaturgy national playwright competition in 2009. At 21 she started drawing and started working in animation on the web series Luzarii de pe Electrolizei. She worked on the official music video for Pixies’ Another Toe In The Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-vzQwcf4c and Vlad Dobrescu’s Globul De Cristal video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADS9Pgeoc3g

Marius Grama

3D Printing Enthusiast

Marius Grama, the founder of 3D Creativity, has one big passion - 3D printing and 3D scanning. And the limit in 3D printing is the sky. This is the whole idea, that until 2020-2025 every person should own a 3D printer, so there will be no need to go to the store for the products, but everyone could create its own thing just by simply downloading a "mold" from the Internet. And imagine the amount of recycling and reuse... "Ladies, what if you could print the much desired shoe model, any model you want, and even accessorize it?" This is how much freedom the materials allow lately - most small statues are made out of ABS and PLA, but there are already materials that have glass like characteristics, others are flexible and others look like canvas. It is a whole universe of creativity in a little box. What if we told you, that with the 3D printing techniques, it is possible to scan and reproduce artifacts, like ancient vases and other utensils.

Peter Leeson

Consultant

Peter Leeson has over 40 years’ experience in the IT industry and 20 as a process improvement and quality consultant and advisor. He is currently the Quality Manager for White-Clarke Group, a global financial software company in the automotive industry. He is the founder and principle consultant of Q:PIT Ltd. Peter is a visiting scientist with the CMMI Institute (Carnegie Mellon University), as well as a certified lead appraiser and instructor for the CMMI® range of products and frameworks. He is a recognized speaker at conferences around the world. He is a regular visitor to Transylvania, where he has worked with many IT companies in improving their efficiency and effectiveness through a pragmatic approach to process and measurement. Peter is the author of “Orchestrated Knowledge”, in which he explains his principles of organization based on knowledge management rather than the traditional, hierarchical and patriarchal system.

Peter Szabo

Soloist

To describe Péter Szabó as handyman, gadgeteer, man-of-all-work is not enough, but in lack of any other expression we have to settle for these expressions. Profession: soloist at the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera. Long story short: an opera soloist who built and carved a wooden car – that is an amazing story! And, there is more to the story, as a few years ago he tried to save an entire village from “apocalypse”. Adding all these together, there is enough reason to get to know Péter Szabó more closely. He lives nearby Targu Mures, in Corunca, in a home he designed and built. Péter Szabó, was born in Targu Mures. He graduated school in his home town, he founded a family here. And as long as he is not captured by singing, he works here as a carpenter (more precisely, in Corunca). He was employed by several local businesses, where he helped designing all sorts of gatgets made out od wood, iron, plastic.