Theme: Open the Box

This event is the second standard TEDxSaku event.
The venue is at 1340 meters in height and the audiences moved to the venue by a reserved carriage called "Koumi Line".
We have 2 past speakers as staffs and 1 past speaker as an audience this year, which bring us intimate atmosphere .

Vegetaball With
412-1, Nobeyama, Minamimaki villege
Minamisaku-gun, Nagano, 384-1305
Japan

Kenichi Takamizawa

Farmer and creator

Kenichi has devoted his life to growing tomatoes in Nobeyama heights, where most farmers have no doubts about choosing to pursue large scale lettuce cultivation. At an altitude of 1,350 meters above sea level, “Kumono Ueno Tomatoes (Tomatoes Above the Clouds)” taste vividly sour and super sweet. Some say he’s eccentric, but let us listen to his story about why he always smiles when facing his field.

Kenji Tanaka

a hardware engineer, a board member of NPO Mechatronics & Robot Craftworks

Audience speaker, who volunteered as an impromptu speaker onsite from the audience

Maki Iijima

a medical clerk

Audience speaker, who volunteered as an impromptu speaker onsite from the audience

Masako Ikeda

Researcher in forest ecology, artist

As a daughter, a wife, a daughter-in-law, and a mother, Masako is busy caring for her family. Whenever she finds time in the early morning, however, she rushes to the forest to continue her research work. She overcame her illness with the help of the forest, and it made her decide to turn to it from the scientific perspective of ecology. In her darkest hour, she felt safe only in the forest. Both from her own experience and a scientific perspective, she will give us new insights on the relationship between human minds and the forests.

Moegi Kazama

First-year student at Shinshu University, Faculty of Education

“All grown-ups were once children - although few of them remember it.” (The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Do you still have a childlike mind? Moegi, a 19-year-old girl, still remembers that all grown-ups were once children, and she too was once a child. She hopes never to lose her childlike mind. She doesn’t pretend to be an adult, and sees the world through the eyes of a child. Understanding what a childlike mind really is, she will recommend some “fun and cool play” for children. And she will tell you how children really count on adults all the time.

Natsuhiko Watanabe

a first year student at Shinshu University, Faculty of Education

Audience speaker, who volunteered as an impromptu speaker onsite from the audience

Ryugo Yanagimachi

a fourth year student at Shinshu University, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology

Audience speaker, who volunteered as an impromptu speaker onsite from the audience 柳町竜吾さん　信州大学繊維学部4年生（オーディエンススピーカー）

Tetsuji Inaba

Human Resource Consultant, EDAYA Pro Bono, Executive Director of Committee for Developing Ethical Men

Yu Kosuda

Cram school teacher

Yu works for a tutoring school in Tokyo. He is a tutor of the school and also a big brother to all the pupils. Although many Japanese parents expect tutoring schools to help children achieve good exam results, he spares a lot of his own free time to help each child develop their personal goals. He is going to talk about the basis for the "Dream Support Meetings” that he practices at his workplace.