Theme: "Sharing inspiring Stories"

TEDxFlanders will take part by sharing the live stream and introducing its first TEDxWomen
event on December 5, at Het Huis Happaert, right in the heart of Antwerp.

Around the theme "Sharing inspiring stories" our speakers will guide us through the way we communicate, what our jobs can bring us to, the force that lives inside of us all and how we can bring hope to others. Special attendees and acts will inspire and surprise this special evening and the launch of TEDxFlandersWomen.

Het Huis Happaert
Happaertstraat 25
Antwerpen, Antwerpen (nl), 2000
Belgium

Ana Yturriaga Saldhana

Head of Sector Stakeholders Management and in-house Consultants in the Learning & Development Unit. European Commission.

Ana Yturriaga Saldanha is currently the Head of Sector for Stakeholder management, internal consultancy/coaching and communication in the Learning and Development Unit (Directorate of Talent Management , Human Resources, European Commission). Ana has worked 20 years in the Commission dealing with external relations, accession negotiations, human resources and communication and has a background in Political Science and Journalism. She is heading a team of internal consultants and coaches whose objective is to help the Commission deliver its political objectives while fostering the engagement and wellbeing of its staff.

Ben Caudron

A sociologist passionate by people and technology and how they shape our world.

Ben Caudron is a sociologist, passionate about people and technology. Since 1993 he has been actively involved in the development of digital media. Ben is a lecturer, author, opinion maker and provides strategic advice to companies.

Leen Steyaert

Health supervisor and naturopath

She leads you through supporting holistic treatments to the world of self-healing people. In this way you become aware of your own strength to heal your body so that your body energy can flow freely again which restores and optimizes your health.

Liesbeth Dillen

Former CEO trainee IKEA Belgium

Amid the rising customer expectations, she takes your team to success with people centric strategies and roadmaps, inspire future proof leadership and business, bring positive changes with perspective shifting keynotes. +20 years at IKEA worldwide and later as independent strategist honed her to work with business and people-oriented mind simultaneously, and to combine long-term thinking with short-term actions. She started “She Works With Wo-men” project in 2007 to empower diversity of thoughts. In life, she choses to follow my heart - a choice that brought her to a mission - create a better tomorrow for leaders and businesses, starting today.

Sabine Clappaerts

daretodreamproject.org, a South-African project inspiring girls to live their dreams.

Sabine has Belgian roots and an African soul. She partners with people and organizations in journeys of personal and professional change. Sabine founded Dare to Dream in 2013 based on the belief that every girl on earth deserves the chance to make her dreams come true. Her motto with the project? "If you get, give. If you learn, teach."

Stephen Weller

Director of Communications. IFRA. International Fragrance Association

Our sense of smell is directly connected to the brain’s limbic system where our sense of memory and our emotions are stored. That’s the reason why fragrances are so uniquely able to trigger our memories and stimulate our emotions. And why the satisfaction of so many of our needs, wants and desires depends on the fragrance industry’s sense of curiosity, creativity, responsibility and purpose.