Theme: What's on the next page?

It is a university event organized mostly by students of Wroclaw University Of Economics.

Wroclaw University Of Economics, Poland
ul. Komandorska 118/120
Wrocław, Dolnośląskie
Poland

Agata Lubańska

Organizer and author of LARP events

One of the founders of Polish NGO called Liveform. She is organising larp projects for local community since 2011, and global - since 2014, when she became part of the crew responsible for worldchanging game College of Wizardry. Leader and feminist, her free time spends on affairs with game design, sometimes appreciated by wider audience.

Aleksandra Kunysz

Programmer, geek girl, mentor

Aleksandra organizes programming workshops for beginners. She graduated from WSB-NLU in Nowy Sącz and DePaul University in Chicago, where she learned how to be brave enough to be herself. Defending ideas requires lots of energy and hard work. She wants to convince everybody that being different is not only fulfilling, but also useful for the team and society.

Claus Raasted

Organizer and author of LARP events

Claus has been a professional larp designer since 2002, and has 20 books on larp to his name. He’s done larp projects for both churches, banks and worker’s unions, and has cooperated with institutions as diverse as the Greenland Institute NAPA, Charlottenborg Art Hall and Discovery Channel. Most of all, he’s a firebrand who believes in larp as a medium.

Joanna Pawluk

Businesswoman and entrepreneur

She is a businesswoman and entrepreneur, graduated from University of Wroclaw and University of Economics years ago. Winner of a Mindshare EMEA (company of WPP) program for Future Leaders. Now she is living and running her own businesses in the UK: global service that connects brands with Instagrammers (indaHash) and consulting biggest brands in automotive on their communication strategy across Europe. As the most important thing she esteem the fact that she is a philosopher at heart (with a diploma as well) that always asks difficult questions and challenges the status quo to inspire women to look for their own path.

Łukasz Srokowski

Teacher, trainer, educator, entrepreneur

Lukasz is a sociologist with a PhD, working with education for more than 12 years. He has delivered workshops and trainings for almost a thousand tearchers, acted as Chairman of the Odyssey of the Mind Polska foundation – the organization running the biggest NGO based educational program in Poland, acted as the coordinator of several large scale EU funded programs aimed at creating a better education, and now he's a member of the board for “Mala Uczelnia”, an alternative primary school, located in south of Wroclaw.

Marian Noga

Professor of Economics

Marian Noga is an economist, professor and former rector of the University of Economics in Wroclaw, Senator IV and V term of office, from 2004 to 2010 he was a member of the Monetary Policy Council. He is the author of over 120 scientific publications, including 4 monographs, an academic textbook and about 10 unpublished reports for the government. His research deals with the theory of economic growth with a particular focus on measuring social welfare issues, fiscal and monetary policy of the country in terms of economic conditions, the economic dimension of environmental protection. Currently Director of the Institute of Cooperation with Business in WSB in Wrocław and a university lecturer, an expert at the National Center for Science and the TVN economic commentator.

Michał Kasprzyk

The main organiser, founder and curator of TEDxWrocław

The main organiser, founder and curator of TEDxWrocław. He has been involved in this program for 5 years. He took part in TED and TEDx projects, running many workshops and working with massive number of people committed to the case. Professional speaker and expert in field of public speaking.

Tomasz Sielicki

Historian of transport

He is a historian of transport. For many years he has been researching and describing the history of public transport in the city of Wrocław, publishing articles, books, organizing exhibitions, giving lectures and talks. He is also dedicated to saving artefacts of the past: documents and historical relicts. He is the supervisor of the reconstruction of the Maximum type tram car from 1901. He wants to take part in TEDx because he wants to show how it is possible to keep the heritage for the future generations. History does not always end up in the trash. Sometimes it can be found in someone’s garden, like the gazebo made of an early 20th century tram car. The renovation of historical tram cars helps preserve a part of yesterday for the people that shall live tomorrow.

Wojtek Mazur

Entrepreneur

I am an ambitious entrepreneur who is remarkably successful at expanding an international company, a digital marketing agency, Elephate from Wrocław, Poland. Although I am young, I already have wide experience both as an employee and employer.

Ziad Abou Saleh

Sociologist, expert in interculturality

Raised in Damascus, lives and works in Poland more than 30 years. Loves Arabic features as well as Polish ones but there are also moments when he is ashamed because of them. Despite this moments he never felt ashamed on behalf of Arabia or Poland. He is grateful for possibility of knowing this two worlds, two countries. He himself is result of things that brings this two culture together as well as ones that differ them. He openly shows his affection to this two distant landscapes, met people, beauty of women, talent of poets. He will share with us stereotypes that he has contact with and the ones that affect his personal life, telling what is true and what is the myth in Polish-Arabic conflict of culture. Stereotypes about Polish and Arabic people reduce sharpness of vison and freedom of the way of thinking thats why he tries to notice a schematics in discusses and assessments to not be swayed by them. This is exactly to what he will encourage us today.