FontankaRiver
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Theme: City of the Future. From a dream to reality

This event occurred on
September 4, 2016
6:00pm - 10:00pm MSK
(UTC +3hrs)
Санкт-Петербург, Sankt-Peterburg
Russia

How will our lives and everything around us look in 10,20...50 years?

What yesterday seemed like a crazy and a futuristic idea is slowly becoming a new reality today. Tomorrow it will already be something usual and common for each one of us, residents of urban cultures.

But how close is the concept of "city of the future" to the reality?

TEDxFontankaRiver will become a place where all those ideas will be discussed, processes simulated and products prototyped. A handful of selected speakers will become our guides into the future, allowing us to open out minds, to imagine what might happen to life in big cities.

The goal of TEDxFontankaRiver is to let the audience discover and rethink technological advances, innovation, human life and coexistence. We want to share crazy and futuristic ideas and inspire new ideas and cooperation.

Au Pont Rouge
набережная реки Мойки 73
Санкт-Петербург, Sankt-Peterburg, 193267
Russia
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Speakers

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Andrei Dragunov

Dancer
Born deaf Andrei Dragunov has managed to set on a fast growing career path of a hip-hop dancer. Visualizing music through his inner sense of rhythm Andrei has already built an impressive track record of successful dancing projects. His has been participating in various dancing TV shows in Russia, Ukraine and the USA, which gained him nationwide recognition and hundreds of thousands loyal fans among which there are many physically challenged young people. Andrei also does quite a lot of social work giving back to the community through various motivating workshops and interactive activities with people who have hearing disabilities, proving by his own example that impossible is nothing. “Dancing is the air that I breath…Being deaf is not an obstacle for me…Love for dancing and 100% committment to what I do is all that matters”

Evgenia Timonova

Natural Scientist
Having dual major in biology and psychology Evgenia fused both parts of the knowledge she has gained at the university and dedicated her career to the unconventional studies of wildlife, the assimilation of animals within growing urbanization and behavioral trends of fauna today. In 2013 she has launched her own YouTube channel “Vse Kak U Zverei” (Just Like Animals) which has grown ever since to an over hundredthousand-subscriber community. Evgenia has a big fan base with followers from all over the country who look forward to each upcoming episode of her program. In her TEDx Talk Evgenia will share her thoughts on what she thinks is going to happen the urban wild life. It is well known that cities are getting bigger gaining more dominance over the nature, forcing it to step back. However, when there is no more room to retreat, wild animals face a choice between extinction and counter attack, an extinction is not their favorite course of events.

Marina Khudykh

Music Teacher
Rachmaninoff Russian Conservatory of Paris graduate, Marina Khudykh started teaching music back in 2001 while still a student at the Music Academy. In 2013 she founded her own Resonances Music School in Saint-Petersburg while taking classes from a famous pianist Sofya Gulyak at Royal College of Music in London, UK. The year of 2014 has brought a lot of media recognition for Marina ever since she has launched the Yellow Piano project first in Saint-Petersburg, and later in London, UK. In December 2014 she was admitted to Trinity College London. Having renamed her Resonances Music School to Marina Khudykh School of Music Marina opened its international branches first in London, UK (February, 2015) and then in Paris (May, 2015). Throughout her career Marina performed with norwegian band Casa Murilp, the singer Anna Bo and others. She has also numerous joint initiatives with Russian Museum, Hermitage, Moscow Railway Station, People needs People within her YellowPiano project.

Mikhail Shishkin

Designer
Born in Saratov, Mikhail has moved to the city of Saint-Petersburg as a student, and now he successfully combines his roles as a professor at the Saint-Petersburg State University, a mentor at the Creative Studio IKRA and director at SHISHKI Branding Agency. Being a person of art, he believes that when choosing a city, not only basic advantages are considered but also the overall feeling of contentment and common values are of importance. In his TEDx Talk Mikhail will expand on whether it is possible to build a city around an idea.

Oleg and Ilya Dyatlov

Science Students
Oleg and Ilia are twin brothers. One could think that they are just typical 10th-graders in high school. But in reality not. Four years ago they visited FabLab for the first time. That visit has changes their lives and put them on a fast self-development & engineering track. In June 2014 they have received a honorary diploma for Skolkovo. In February 2016 they have created and designed a "Neuro Car" project - a car the moves with the help of neurointerface. They are involved in multiple other engineering and design projects.

Pavel Pravdin

IT Entrepreneur
Being an IT-entrepreneur with an impressive track-record of successfull startups, Pavel now is a co-founder an a director of the eHealth project called Welltory. Among other things, Pavel also is a member of the the WebReady committe, expert committee of Ingria startup-hub and the Startup development fund.

Roman Khazeev

Legal System Analyst, Consultant
Multidisciplinary specialist, Roman Khazeev has been successfully applying his analytical skills and knowledge in various fields from architecture to timber industry and legal system. The concepts developed by Roman have been fundamental for the development of various IT-systems and business approaches. Along with his primary work, Roman has been giving workshops and lectures at various conferences and university classes.

Timofey Glinin

Neurobiologist
Scientist and researcher, Timofey has spent many years studying the field of the Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Having come up with thr idea for his start-up, he launched a crowdfunding campaign in June 2016 which helped him to raise money for his product, neurostimulator Brainstorm. In his TEDx Talk Timofey theorizes on the extent to which the full potential of human brain could be discovered. He substantiates his theories by his own findings and invention.

Timofey Kvachev

Internet Marketing Entrepreneur
Having been in the internet marketing industry since 2000, Timofey is now a head of the TRINET.Group internet agency, which enters Top-10 best Russian SEO companies. He has several publications in business magazines and newspapers and is a member of the RUNET Award Experts Committee. Being among the TOP 100 Tagline All Russia Internet Market Key People Ranking, Timofey also works as an Internet Market consultant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. Throughout his career Timofey has also proved himself as a key speaker at a number of conferences.

Valeriy Spiridonov

Engineer
Ardent engineer and tech scientist,Valeriy has been in the software development industry for over 10 years now, and is a strong advocate for the issues of infrastructure adjustment and social integration for disabled people. Valery has a big community with loyal followers of his achievements who also show their support for his upcoming surgery in 2017. Valeriy is going to be the first person on the planet to participate in the head transplant surgery perfomed by Sergio Canavero.

Vladimir Mlynchik

Energy Entrepreneur
Having founded his energy startup back in 2009 while still a tech student at Polytechnic University, Vladimir stormed into the energy sector business with full force building the company which today operates with the full cycle of energy projects - from electrical grid designs to the hipot testing. The company's clientele of over thousand companies now includes such big names as Alexandrinsky Theater, LUKOIL, Gazprom, IKEA, Sberbank. Impressive financial indicators is not the only interest of Mlynchik. Together with his team he is currently working on the R&D project for the energy sector of the Russian Federation having recently presented the bill on Energy Efficiency at the Parliament.

Organizing team

Antony
Tikhonov

Organizer

Amaliya
Ilyasova

Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
Co-organizer
  • Arina Bobrova
    Team member
  • Fatima Sultygova
    Marketing/Communications