Farah holds an MBA with concentration in Finance from Gust University in Kuwait. She is Head of Procurement for region Middle East at Siemens Energy. Working in an industry that is most predominantly Male driven, she is one of the few Women in the management team. Her motivation and stubbornness have enabled her successes in life-work balance.

What if the take away all major elements of the classic theater: building, tickets, silence, stage, actors, audience, decorations and even director? Vera Martynov tells us a story of a new theater and moves concept of the theatre forward.

Abdi Farah is a Senior Policy Advisor with the US Department of Homeland Security where he serves as a key expert and advisor. He will discuss the resilience it takes to succeed in a new land and the refugee character inherently rooted in the US.

Customer-centric strategies.

Esperanza es una chica muy apasionada, con una vocación social fuerte. Trabaja en una consultora para el Tercer Sector tratando de maximizar el impacto social de las empresas y ONGs. Desde hace varios años, es voluntaria en la Asociación Bokatas, realizando acompañamiento y ayudando a personas sin hogar en situación de calle. Nos hablará de cómo...

Pendant l’année scolaire 2018/19, Andrina Frey, domiciliée dans la région d’Appenzell, a effectué un échange linguistique au Lycée Collège de la Planta à Sion. Un début plutôt difficile, une forte motivation et un grand engagement sont les ingrédients principaux qui ont agrémenté cette année d’échange. Après avoir apprivoisé la langue, les gens ...

12 year old Stacey shares what living your dream means, from the lens of a young multi award winning author. She talks about how social scripts given out by parents and society have brainwashed children and restricted them from exploring different creative fields. Stacey talks about her journey in living her dream. The challenges she, her parent...

Farah Matalka is an activist that works to bring joy to people in Jordan. In her talk, she relates to the idea that the act of giving joy is a gift that keeps on giving her joy. From working with children in Ghana to helping people in her home country, Farah emphasized on how brining joy has been a great value to herself and most importantly to ...

A busca pela felicidade amorosa sempre esteve presente em nossa sociedade. O psicologo Matheus Vieira vem compartilhar seus anos de experiência para tornar mais fácil o entendimento sobre relacionamentos saudáveis, tornando pessoas mais seguras de si, e com certeza mais felizes!

The stigma that our local and global society still faces when it comes to openly talking about erectile dysfunction, masculinity and overall invisible diseases. I will share the duality of my own personal experiences as an alpha male on the outside, that was crumbling with confusion on the same identity on the inside. Ask any guy, erectile dysfu...

For refugees, finding a job and a new social network can be challenging. Refu Interim helps to close this gap, by providing them with volunteer jobs where they can make human connections, practice their language skills and discover their opportunities on the labour market. Also, we encourage companies to use their specific skills and talents as ...

Farah Mulla is a Mumbai based sound artist who explores various human interactions in relation to time, space, the visual and the aural. Her work has been heavily influenced by her background in science which is evident not only in her approach to her practice but also in her experimentation with different media – from installations to sound rec...

Cuando tenemos un problema y estamos conscientes de lo que ocurre, ¿por qué no cambiar? ¿Por qué no cambian las cosas? Vera nos dejará preguntándonos muchas cosas que nos harán cambiar nuestra vida.

Helena Vieira, especialista nas ciências da vida (biologia) e amante dos oceanos, fala-nos sobre como maximizar os recursos que o mar nos oferece e como uma nova abordagem à ciência do mar nos poderia ser útil para continuar a explorar, de forma sustentável, as “Uncharted Waters” que são os nossos oceanos. Partilha, também, quais as ações que po...

We all know that information is power, but what if you live in a country without a free press or regular access to the internet? You have to be creative and find nimble ways to help your community stay informed. That's exactly what journalists in Caracas, Venezuela are doing by delivering the news every weekday ... on public buses all over! In t...

Today, an episode of Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. Icelandic is an ancient and iconic language that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien when he wrote "The Lord of the Rings." But with the digital age, and the strict rules surrounding its grammar, Icelandic is losing ground all over the country -- specifical...

Researcher and teacher Fiona Veraa has researched the needs and experiences of first generation students, students whose parents have no experience in higher education. After having worked and studied in London, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong and Singapore, her cultural awareness was raised on how one can connect and build strong relationships in an i...

Sweet Sweet Moon, that’s first and foremost Vienna based multiinstrumentalist Matthias Frey. While his debut EP was shaped by a rather traditional guitar singer songwriter approach he has now accomplished to integrate his great skillset creating almost orchestral arrangements live on stage merly relying on a violin and his favourit sidekick – th...

It's 1988, and Somalis are fleeing the city of Hargeisa. People are trying to get out, trying to save their families and sometimes their things. But in the city's radio station, staff are packing cassettes and reel to reel recordings into a secret underground bunker. What's on them? A slice of the country's musical heritage, to remain for years ...

Let's say you go into labor in the back of a taxi. The traffic is so bad you don't know if you'll make it to the hospital on time. You make the obvious call to the local radio station -- which serves as an emergency hotline, lost and found, and community noticeboard all at once. Now a team of motorcycle police (trained as midwives!) is on the wa...

Através de um grande movimento, o Medita na Rua, Renata Faria mostra como é possível unir pessoas em vários lugares do mundo com o mesmo propósito.

In this performance, his unique way of experimenting with tunes in many regional languages is what gives it a magical, almost ethereal touch.

A Micaela Faria explica-nos como incutir a Resiliência nas crianças de hoje em dia, com a ajuda de uns amigos improváveis.

Carlos Ferri é o CEO do grupo Zapala, uma holding multinacional que atua em três setores: softwares, voltados para a área de logística internacional, recrutamento profissional e agência de intercâmbio – esta última por meio da empresa World Study, conta com cinco unidades na Austrália e três no Brasil. Atualmente, seu grupo está avaliado em R$ ...

How do you take something ordinary and turn it into the extraordinary? Farah Hourani shows you how you can not only achieve your dreams, but doing so by harnessing the talent of those around you to create collaborations and bring to life ideas that are anything but ordinary. Farah Hourani talks about the importance of collaboration to achieve yo...

In his unique talk which highlights some of the growing pains of data personalisation, Owen proposes a model which could revolutionize the way that personal data is leveraged, giving rise to the possibility of evolving our well known 'b2b' and 'b2c' models to a new 'c2c' way of progressing our economic behaviors. Owen is a consulting and techn...

It is human nature to rationalize things around us, so we condense aspects of who we are to make it easier to understand. The thing is, identity isn’t supposed to be an easy concept.

She is the one and only girl in Iran who attended winter olympics twice.She talk about the issues she is dealin with

In this talk, Vara discusses how to be a better debater and conversationalist through listening to and understanding your opponents' viewpoints.