SmartCity, orașul inteligent, prietenos cu mediul și construit pentru cetățenii orașelor. Dacă privim fiecare Oraș vedem ca aceste orașe au fost construite în ultimul secol în favoarea automobilelor, în favoarea industriilor și nu în favoarea cetățenilor.Din cauza asta nu este de mirare că ne izbim acuma de o multitudine de efecte negative. Efec...

Ashley Slim Stevenson, also known as Slim Freedom, is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and street performer based in Chicago. For years she has displayed her talent in the subways of Chicago to support herself. Recently, her performances have gotten the attention of YouTubers who have filmed her songs in “The Tunnels,” as Ashley refers to them. M...

In seinem Talk spricht Stephan Josef Dick über die Art und Weise, wie Menschen miteinander leben und arbeiten. Er veranschaulicht das von ihm mitentwickelte Wertschätzer Ampelmodell. Darin werden verschiedene Stufen unseres Bewusstseins unterschieden und auf einfache Weise eine neue Perspektive auf die eigene Art möglich. Dieses Verständnis soll...

The structure of any speech and text determines its effect. Conventionally we speak in boring boxes, dangerous associations, or professionally in information pyramids. The “Reversed Pyramid” Principle turns the conventional structure upside down. This creates a kind of funnel with personal accessibility and argumentative altitude at the top, a b...

When Did Making Adults Mad Become A Crime? How School-Justice Partnerships Can Reduce Juvenile Crimes In 2003, Judge Steven Teske convened stakeholders in his county to create the nation’s first School-Justice Partnership (SJP) designed to dismantle zero-tolerance policies that increased school-based arrests by 2,700 percent of which 92 percent...

The world is changing very fast. Continuing globalization leads to Western companies looking for trustworthy outsourcing companies. That’s why the West is in desperate need for a country with a different taste. This country produces more international popstars per capita than any other place in the world. This country is called the Republic of ...

Many have called music a universal language. Annie Lynch Stevenson reflects upon how a musical collaboration on the other side of the world, in the southern Siberian, Russian Republic of Tuva, brought this saying to life for her.

Estás vivo y mientras eso pase, todo es posible; sin embargo, lo olvidamos porque caemos en la trampa de nuestros propios pensamientos, aquellos que solo hacen ruido en la mente sin llevarnos a ningún destino. Stephanie a través de su propia historia de vida, nos lleva a reZexionar que la única forma de cumplir nuestros sueños es conectando el C...

In California as we work towards electrification of our energy systems we must consider the impacts those systems have on existing ecologies and how we meet the demands for more electricity equitably. Stephanie Pincetl is Director for the California Center for Sustainable Communities and Chair of the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Progr...

Bees and drug dealers - are they the answer to world peace? Probably not; but by weaving science with story, Steven Villescas Jr. shares how one small change in our conversations with people who are different from us can turn the tide on false stories and rebuild trust.

Humanity faces several extinction-level events that could annihilate us in days not decades, but unlike pandemics and climate change, we now have the technology to completely prevent them. No stranger to disasters, former Navy Commander, engineer and author David E. Stevens trained to drop nuclear weapons. Highlighting the top three apocalyptic ...

Il contenuto è re, ma l'accessibilità deve essere regina: deve interessare tutti, perchè siamo tutti temporaneamente abili. Passando da tecnologie assistive, a design accessibile, al formato ePub, Michela di Stefano esplora l'urgenza di produrre e adeguare il web e l'editoria digitale a standard di accessibilità per tutti. Perché siamo responsa...

Stephanie D. McKenzie empowers humans to be superheroes in their own right. In a transparent, yet relatable talk, she shares a powerful paradigm shift in our understanding of "kryptonite" and provides an opportunity to unlearn beliefs around vulnerability and weakness. SPEAKER BIO: Multi-certified "SUPER Coach," Sozological™ healer, spiritual c...

Artistic Performance

Le piante sono fondamentali per la nostra vita sulla Terra, non un semplice sfondo verde

Danila de Stefano racconta il mondo della psicologia entrando nel cuore e nella mente di tutti gli spettatori riuscendo a valorizzare l’importanza della cura della propria mente.

Drumming together is not just fun, but enables communication between people, who wouldn´t usually communicate. In their creative talk, Ben Flohr and Steffen Wilhelmi transmit the joy, they experienced in their drum circles.

Anna and Harry are both seniors at Cape Elizabeth High School and have been invited to perform in this year’s Maine State Jazz Festival. They are passionate about music and have played in local venues as well.

Killer Whales off the Pacific Coast in the Pacific Northwest are in trouble. The chinook salmon they rely on for their main source of food are disappearing. Numbering nearly a hundred 20 years ago, their numbers have plummeted to just 72. A thousand miles away from the Pacific, rivers in the largest swath of wild country left in the lower 48 sta...

Have you ever felt that from the outside you look, and perhaps feel successful, but from the inside it feels empty? How much time do we spend on outer success and how much do we invest inwards? Neuroscientist Stephanie Bianchi and Life Coach Heidi Kusters are mindfulness facilitators and co-founders of Mindful Guatemala Foundation. Stephanie a...

Find out how it sounds, when a Mezzo-soprano and a Pianist play Chart Music.

Steffen and Daniel have complementary perspectives on disability and disease: Steffen has a disease called Myasthenia gravis, which forces him to sit in a wheelchair, while Daniel is a member of the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service and a former member of the Red Cross. They both know how important it is to actively interact with people with disa...

Many of us tend to debate political and social issues. Yet, to move past polarization and superficial “political small talk,” Steven proposes we need to reflect on our ideas and beliefs. In his talk, Steven shares how we can embrace our positionality and appreciate the influences this has on who we are and what we think.

Healthcare is on the brink of enormous change. Technology and rethinking healthcare design has the potential to transform the industry as we know it. Mission-driven young companies and next-generation technologies are entering the market in record numbers. Still, healthcare remains stuck and startups and other businesses that “don’t fit the mold...

Why make women live through two surgeries and the loss of their breasts when they could combine surgeries, using the actual tissue from the woman to replace her breasts? “We would like to spread the unique knowledge and techniques we have learned and have developed to give women a part of themselves back, as well as give them their lives back ...

In 2017, Stephan and Juan were two of the youngest Senior Managers in one of Canada's top banks. While achieving professional success in a foreign country felt really good, comedy was their true passion. The time then came to make a big decision: to continue living being comfortable, but unfulfilled, or to quit their jobs and pursue their dreams.

Two people from wildly different backgrounds challenge each other--and you--to examine biases, to share personal traumas and triumphs, and to take responsibility.

Social action, social enterprise and social innovation cannot flow of their own accord: they rely upon social infrastructure – the places and buildings that connect us. We want the audience to explore… 1 - Social Infrastructure as a driver of social cohesion and innovation 2 - The potential of Textile Mills to power social innovation 3 - Buil...

Empowering Informal Carers through Data-Driven AI

Micah Stevens, Luke Brodt and Shadrach Tuck perform live on the TEDxBoise Stage