Flanders

Confirmed Speakers

• Jean-Paul Vanbendegem
  Philosopher and mathematician explains why creativity needs logic and vice versa
• Dos Winkel
  Under-sea photographer is a protector of our endangered oceans
• Bernard Lietaer
  Civilization needs a new operating system, and fast! Bernard proposes new and alternative ways of thinking about money and economy.
• Lara Alegria Mira
  Engineer on scissor structures
• Stijn
  Musician Stijn takes us on a synthetic dreamscape.
• Dan Brodsky
  Skydiver Dan tells his moving personal story as a professional and award-winning skydiver before, during, and mainly after a plane crash.
• Spiral Consort
  Spiral Consort is an Antwerp based ensemble playing an unusual instrument, the conch shell.
• Olivia U. Rutazibwa
  Journalist. She has an astonishing insight into Flanders, diversity, diasporas, multiple identities, Europe and North-South relations. She’ll discuss how to ‘decolonize the Western minds’.
• Aagje Beirens
  MyMachine is a unique project that offers students from primary, secondary and higher eduction the opportunity to collaborate to build their own dream machine.
• Tatjana Gürbaca
  Inspired and contemporary handling of Tsjaikovski with a strong sense of dramaturgy What is opera in the 21st century?
• John Hunter
  John puts all the problems of the world on a 4′x5′ plywood board and lets his 4th-graders solve them. He explaines how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches (spontaneous, and always surprising) go further than classroom lectures can.
• Reinhart Paelinck
  Engineers kites for energy production
• Opera Choir
  An open rehearsal
• Peter Woit & Tommaso Dorigo
  What is CERN doing? Can we laymen understand something about elementary particles? Did we find the Higgs boson?
• Molly Crocket
  Can pills change our morals? How stable is our sense of right and wrong? Neuroscientist Molly explains how imperceptible shifts in brain chemistry can change our moral judgment and behavior.
• Dez Mona Saga
  Together with BOX, Gregory Frateur plays us into our finale.
• Jamie Anderson
  Jamie introduces us to some unorthodox management Ideas…Mahatma Gaga or the Art of Followership
• Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
  His company Eastman shows us all about his non-hierarchical thinking on movement, body language and culture. (From their program "Babel")
• Catherine Van Holder & Ine Dehandschutter
  They explored the boundaries of digital nomadism. They’ll talk about the possibilities the internet is giving us to design alternative lives, about how to be a modern nomad in work, friendship & citizenship.
• Jee Kast
  Surprise speaker: a slam poet!