Theme: (Dis)Connect

TEDxAUCollege could not be more proud to present its 2017 event, '(Dis)Connect'

On March 7th, starting at 18:00 guests are welcome to join a night of inspiration as a selection of speakers share inspiring ideas on a wide range of topics. With our theme, (Dis)Connect, we want to dare people to take a step back, re-think, re-assess, and finally re-connect. This can be a scary and challenging process, but is indeed a crucial step in order to achieve innovation. Our speakers will thus present innovative solutions to entrenched issues. Stay tuned as we announce the list of speakers.

TEDxAUCollege is an independently organized TED event run by students that aims to expand the TED experience not only to their fellow students, but to everyone in the Amsterdam area. If you want to learn more about what TED and TEDx are, what their aim is, visit www.ted.com or our website at www.tedxaucollege.com.

Tickets to the event are €22,50 which includes a catered meal, goodies, entertainment, and of course, an unforgettable experience. You can reserve your ticket via this link: http://tedxaucollege.com/disconnect/. After you reserve a ticket you will be placed in a waiting list.

Due to the limited spaces available, this does not necessarily guarantee you a ticket, so do not postpone reserving your spot by purchasing the ticket! Tickets are first-come first-serve. An e-mail will be sent to you with payment details, and all the information you need will be given to you through e-mail once you sign-up.

We cannot wait to see you there! We hope you're as giddy as we are!

Pathé Tuschinski
Reguliersbreestraat 26-34
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1017 CN
Netherlands

Carina van Leeuwen

Forensic coordinator in the Cold Case team of the police force

Carina van Leeuwen worked as a surgical assistant in several hospitals in the Netherlands and abroad until she joined the Dutch Police in The Hague in 1991. After several years in the uniformed service, she became one of the first female forensic investigators. Since 2006, she works as a forensic coordinator in the Cold Case team of the police force of Amsterdam. Besides advising other investigation teams throughout the country in solving Cold Cases, she took action to identify a large number of unknown dead buried in Amsterdam. That initiative was followed in the rest of the Netherlands.

Carolin Vahar-Matiar

Development Studies

After having focused her Bachelor thesis on development, Carolin became very aware of the shortcomings of advertisement against poverty. She is currently working for NewMotion and volunteering for UNICEF.

Cees Hamelink

Professor of International Communication

As the divides between individuals, countries and groups are getting stronger and stronger across the globe, paths diverge and start to constitutes threats to our very planet. There is a need to heal and reconnect across these gaps, and international institutions responsible for this are now at stake. Cees Hamelink appeals here to our generations to disconnect from these institutions and how they work to invent new solutions, using innovation to create adapted structures.

Cornelia Dinca

Founder of Sustainable Amsterdam

Cornelia Dinca is the founder of Sustainable Amsterdam, which functions as a platform for new initiatives and approaches in the field of sustainability.

Ingeborg van Beek

PR and Communication Consultant

Imagine being diagnosed with an incurable disease. What would you do? Your life will turn upside down and you tend to rush through all the good experiences. Our brain directs what we do, such as walking and talking. But people can completely lose their perception of time. “Time cells” in our brains cause this change, but how does this work?

Kees Klomp

Consultant, Mentor, Entreprenuer

After having been introduced to Buddhist teaching, Kees Klomp decided to quit his job and use his business skills solely to help humanity - not hurt it. A lot of companies try to corporate with respect to human and environment. Kees Klomp goes a step further, and focuses on business that create an increase in wellbeing and happiness. He accompanies purpose giving start-ups, such as Mobile Factory: a start-up that developed a method to transform rubbish to sort of ‘lego’, which can be used to build temporary houses in disaster areas.

Koen Wessels

Education developer, teacher, and writer

When thinking about ways to make an impact on the educational system, Keon Wessels alwyas wondered his role within this system: A teacher? A curricula developer? An educational consultant? But then he thought, why choosing one? Koen Wessels is one of the initiative takers at the Bildung Academie, an educational institution that attempts to foster empathy, imagination and a strong moral sense amongst students.

Laura Hassler

Musicican, cultural anthropologist, social activist

Conflicts and wars grow as fear is used to propagate hatred. Laura Hassler argues that the divides this way existing between populations and individuals can be overcome using empathy. As a musician, she explains how music builds empathy and how this can be used as a tool to help heals the wound left by war.

Marlies Schijven

Surgery professor, expert at gaming and technology applied to healthcare

Professor Marlies Schijven (born in 1969) researches the field of mHealth, Simulation and Serious Gaming. On the 28 th of October 2013; she was the first surgeon livestreaming an abdominal operation to YouTube directly using GoogleGlass. She is program leader and EU lead researcher of the OR Black Box™ system. She is the Program Chair on e-Health of the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU).

Martin Klein

Medical Neuropsychology Professor

Martin Klein received the Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation and Society for Neuro-Oncology Award for Excellence in Quality of Life Research in 2001 and the National Brain Tumor Foundation/Tug MgGraw Foundation Caregiver Research Award in 2008. His current research aims at determining the brain mechanisms underlying frequent symptoms (e.g., neurocognitive deficits, epilepsy, fatigue, depression), the prevention of treatment effects on neurocognitive functioning, and on behavioral or pharmaceutical symptom treatment in primary and metastatic brain tumor patients and in oncological patients undergoing neurotoxic treatments affecting brain functioning. Within the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Martin Klein is responsible for neurocognitive testing as part of the clinical trials initiated by the EORTC Brain Tumor Group.

Peter Knoope

Counter Terrorism Expert

Peter Knoope, expert at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, will present us his reasons why young people join political violence. His work with the UN, NATO and the EU, together with his travel experiences to countries where terrorism is imminent, enabled him to grasp the complexities of the problem.

Saga Norrby

Social Science Student at Amsterdam University College

First year student at Amsterdam University College, Saga Norrby is the founder of the website Bitfrbit (www.bitfrbit.se) which outlines the most important choices people can make to make the world thrive. Mainly interested in the environment, she started looking at sustainability from a broader point of view through her interdisciplinary studies in Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Timothy Noël

Assistant Professor

Since 2014, Timothy Noël has been serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Flow Chemistry. Recently, he received a prestigious VIDI grant (NWO) and he coordinates the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ETN program “Photo4Future”. As assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he is currently working on new ways in which science can solve the environmental issues we are facing today... with a leaf.