Theme: Attention Please!

Today, people use a great variety of communication methods for many different purposes. Storytellers are determined to create media with meaning, technicians are bringing new ways of communication to the table and scientists are delivering astonishing insights that help us engage in a whole new way of communicating. From feature films to citizen journalism, from social media and online video to old school print, from video games to the art of sound; their work is exciting and worth spreading.

De Vorstin
Koninginneweg 44
Hilversum., Noord-Holland, 1211 AS
Netherlands

The Leonids

Music Collective

The Leonids is a collaboration between Sonja van Hamel (ex-Bauer), Tessa Douwstra (Orlando, Wooden Saints), Viktor van Woudenberg (Wooden Saints), Ralf Pouw (Orlando, Sir James, vanVelzen) and the electric string trio West Side Trio: Vera van der Bie, Annie Tangberg and Isabella Petersen (Metropole Orkest, Martin Fondse Orkest).

Charles Arthur

Journalist + Writer

Charles Arthur is a contributing writer for the Guardian. He was previously the Guardian’s technology editor for nine years, and before that covered science, technology and health at the Independent. He has written ‘Digital Wars’, a book on Apple versus Google versus Microsoft and the battle for the internet.

Diana Matroos

News Host

Diana Matroos first started out as an editor at RTL Nieuws and has been a news host since 2004, both on radio and tv. In this position, to her everything comes together: the stage, the dynamics of the news, and the interaction with people. Diana will share her personal story. She is Surinamese, she is Dutch and she is the face of a commercial channel. How was her journey, the choices she has made? And how does she see the current state of diversity in Hilversum?

Graziëlla Hunsel Rivero

Singer

The Spanish Surinamese Amsterdam singer Graziëlla Hunsel Rivero started singing when she was five. All through her youth, she sang at shows all over town. She participated in the Soundmixshow, where she became fourth. Even though she received many invitations to join the music industry, she chose to finish school first. After graduating high school and finishing her degree in Spanish at the university of Amsterdam, she started working as a Spanish teacher. Her pupils signed her up for The Voice of Holland #5, where she was coached by Marco Borsato. Next to singing, Graziella and her mother take care of the Surinam cultural heritage by setting up the project Den pikin fu switi Sranangron 2000. She played The Queen of Paramaribo in the play based on the book by Clark Accord, in 2011. In that same year she produced The Grand Ladies of Jazz in the Bijlmer Parktheater, which was sold out.

Hans van Dormolen

Imaging Specialist Metamorfoze

Hans van Dormolen is an active participant in the conservation of the Dutch national archives through Metamorfoze, the Netherlands’ national programme for the preservation of paper heritage. The programme is now used world wide. The Metamorfoze programme is situated in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands).

Hisko Hulsing

Director + Animator

Hisko Hulsing majored in painting and animation at the art academy of Rotterdam and graduated in 1995. He has made illustrations and storyboards for over a hundred advertising- and production companies. He has directed and animated television leaders for MTV and Dutch broadcasting companies, and he has created comics which have been published in Eisner and Zone 5300. In 2012 Hisko was invited by Disney Studios, Dreamworks and Blue Sky Studios to present his film Junkyard to the artists. And in 2013, he made more than a hundred oil paintings on canvas to serve as backgrounds for the hybrid live-action/animation documentary The Last Hijack, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2014. In 2014, Hisko Hulsing and his team of animators made large animated sequences for Montage of Heck, the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain, directed by Brett Morgen. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be theatrically released by Universal Pictures worldwide.

Michael Salu

Creative Director

Michael Salu is an award-winning creative director, writer, art editor/critic and occasional artist. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a range of literary publications and his most recent story appears in the inaugural edition of Freeman’s, a new literary journal which also features writing from a number of top writers including Haruki Murakami, Dave Eggers and Helen Simpson. Salu now runs a multi-disciplinary creative consultancy (salu.io) which produces narrative driven creative work across platforms and is one of three partners of the visual culture online magazine and consultancy American Suburb X. He’s currently working on scripts for film and television and is a co-founder of the cross-disciplinary art event series Local Transport.

Michiel Verweij

Motion Graphic Designer + Singer-Songwriter

Next to his work as a Motion Graphic designer, Hilversum-based Michiel Verweij is a passionate Singer-Songwriter. He started playing the guitar when he was 14 years old and he has been playing in different bands ever since. Michiel is working on writing songs for an E.P. to be released later this year.

Oliver Davies

Lecturer + Videogame Designer

Oliver Davies considers himself lucky enough to have worked on some of the biggest selling games of the 1990s, at companies such as Rare and Sony, before embarking on several years of freelance writing and design. Here he built up a huge degree of experience in pitching and business development. Since 2002, he has also been working in education and trying his best to inspire a new generation of game developers. Davies: “I’m a huge believer in the power of positive thinking – that possessing the right mental attitude is one of the key separators between those who achieve their dreams and those who only dream – and I gain great satisfaction from helping others to unlock their potential and be the best that they can be.”

Rian Bester

Broadcast Operations Advisor

Rian Bester has been in the broadcast technology industry for over 15 years. Born in South Africa, he obtained his Honours Degree in Engineering from the University of Pretoria. He moved to The Netherlands in the year 2000. Bester works with 4K technology: 4K Ultra HD devices deliver four times as much detail as 1080p Full HD, that’s eight million pixels compared to two million pixels. What does that means in terms of potential image clarity, texture and photographic emulsion? Is this a new image born? Stars such as Beyonce, love it. And guess what, TEDxHilversum will be the first TEDx event filmed with the 4K technology! Don’t miss the experience!

Rolf Schrama

Athlete

After his career in the financial world, Rolf Schrama decided to become a sailing athlete. In 2013, Rolf was selected as a member of the Dutch paralympic sailing team. He made his debut at the Delta Lloyd Regatta in the 2.4mR and on the Skud 18, together with Sandra Nap. He travels the world with the sole purpose to train and to sail at international races. Rolf is preparing for the next Paralympic Games, in Brasil in 2016. Rolf inspires others with his story about living with a handicap, acceptance, perseverance and passion. In the Youtube video's "Groots" and "Grootser" you can see how Rolf prepares himself to compete at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.

Sander Veenhof

Hands-on Futurist + Creater of Interactive Experiences

Sander Veenhof is a hands-on futurist, creating interactive experiences to explore scenarios for a speculative but highly probable future. By staging events in a parallel reality that can be accessed with “AR” or “VR” viewers, his projects reflect on our gradual transformation into cyborgs living in an interconnected world of material, data and last but not least: people. Stepping beyond the obvious functionality of emerging hard- and software, his work addresses and pre-emptively fixes technosocial problems related to a future reality which will no longer be called augmented nor virtual.