Theme: Shaping the future

Torsdag 8 oktober kl. 17.00 - 20.00 sker lanseringen av TEDxYouth Stockholm med eventet “Shaping the future” på Fryshuset. Ett event skapat av unga som i klassisk TED-anda lyfter Ideas worth spreading. Målet är att inspirera unga att ta sina intressen till nästa nivå och samtidigt förändra Sverige och världen till det bättre, inom teman som rör innovation, entreprenörskap och unga.
Syftet är också att inspirera makthavare, näringslivsprofiler och andra vuxna att ta vara på ungas potential och inse vikten av att lyssna till och investera mer resurser i unga.

Unga talare kommer att berätta om sina erfarenheter och resor, hur de har gjort för att kunna försörja sig på det de älskar – även om det inte fallit inom ramen för samhällets normer.

TEDxYouth Stockholm vill skapa en plattform där generationer kan mötas, vilket i stor utsträckning saknas i Sverige. Vuxna pratar ofta om unga istället för med unga, vilket Negin Azimi, verksamhetsansvarig/ projektledare för TEDxYouth Stockholm anser är en förlust för Sveriges utveckling. Vuxna behöver fler unga förebilder och unga behöver kompetenta och kloka vuxna omkring sig därför är det viktigt att näringslivet och andra makthavare tar sin tid och kommer till eventet.

Fryshuset
Mårtensdalsgatan 2-8
Stockholm, Stockholms län, 120 30
Sweden

Dana Pourkomeylian

Law student & Board member of Swedish Youth Council

Dana Pourkomeylian is one of Sweden’s most successful upcoming young politicians. Unlike many of her peers she has built her political career straight from her own ideas and organisations, rather than from the platform of a political party. Her political commitment started at a young age when she realised that the social, racial and economical injustices that affected her one day also would affect her eight year younger sister, something she could not accept. She is today at 22 years of age the founder of Sweden’s largest non profit educational fair 2012, Sweden’s largest political think tank for young people, board member of The Swedish Association of Youth Councils and The Youth Representative of Sweden in the European Union. She has won numerous awards and recognitions for her work with youth rights and is also an established political writer and lecturer, making frequent appearances in the Swedish press concerning issues on gender equality, racism, law and democratic legitimacy.

Jonathan Sparr

Artist & Rapper

TEDxYouth Stockholm - Shaping the future Stockholm, Sweden 2015-10-08

Lorentz Tovatt

Spokesperson of Young Greens of Sweden

TEDxYouth Stockholm - Shaping the future Stockholm, Sweden 2015-10-08

Sofie Lindblom

Global Project Manager Innovation Spotify

Sofie Lindblom is an Innovation Expert, Diversity Champion, Speaker, and Writer. She a M.Sc in Engineering and Media Technology from Linköping University, Sweden. Sofie currently works as Global Manager for Innovation at Spotify. She has a big passion for the startup ecosystem, this has lead her to board positions in Womengineer, Silicon Vikings and most recently Business Sweden. In 2014 she received Microsoft's award "IT girl of the year" for her work to break down stereotypes and inspire more girls to choose a profession in technology. In the same year she founded her own company Sofster for passion projects and consulting. 2015 she gave two TEDx Talks and in 2016 she was on Swedish business magazine Veckans affärer's list of super talents, awarded one of the top 111 most influential women in Business, on Shortcut magazine's list of most up and coming people in Sweden and most recently awarded “Digital Influencer of the year”.