Theme: Youth and Innovation

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

Muzeu Kombetar
Tirana, Tiranë, 1001
Albania

Vullnet Sanaja

Vullnet Sanaja is the executive director and co-founder of Anibar, which organizes one of the fastest growing festivals in Kosovo that is organized every year in Peja since 2010- “Anibar International Animation Festival”. Through his professional life, Vullnet tried to bring together arts and nature. From 2009 till 2012 he worked with ERA GROUP where he was involved in many project regarding the environment and culture such as ‘Sustainable Mountains Education Center’, Glocal Europe Kosova, PROfusion, EKOsovo, and ‘Responsible Living Promoted through Comics’, that aim to engage the youth in projects that interconnect visual arts, music therapy, games and artistic skill development in general in respect to age groups. Lately, Vullnet has been elected as a member of the Kosovar Cultural Forum's council.

Gent Thaci

Gent is an activist of free software and open source, as well as an active part of NGO FLOSSK, aiming to promote open systems in Kosovo. Gent is an ambassador of the Linux-based distribution called Fedora, and also a representative of the Firefox browser Mozilla. His latest project involves the creation of a collaborative multi-functional space called Pristina Hackerspace.

Milena Harito

Minister of Innovation and Public Administration, Milena Harito studied Information technology and holds a PhD in Communication and Information Technology from Paris VI University, France. Harito’s career started in the Institute of Information Technology, as Research Fellow in 1989 and later continued in France where she held leading positions in some of the most prestigious companies in the field.

Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano is a well-known Italian writer and journalist. During his long career, Saviano makes use of the journalistic reporting style mixed with the prosaic one to tell the story of “Camorra” by exposing its territory and links with the business world. However, this time Saviano comes to Tirana to be part of the Innovation Week and to speak at TEDxTirana Salon about a different subject and under a totally different light. In his talk he would address youngsters and motivate them to break away from static conventions and build a new reality