Theme: Intelligence having fun

True innovation prospers in the environment of encouraged creativity, which can be achieved only where joy of discovery and failure of experiment are celebrated with same positivity and playfulness.
How can we apply this principle everywhere we are - family, school, work and most importantly - whole education system? How can we embrace fun in thinking, creating, learning and even failing?

To answer that, TEDxVilniusED* will bring together 7-13 year-olds, teachers, parents and education enthusiasts to discuss, challenge and refine education. We will merge fun and deep concentration, theory and practise, technology and art, success and failure, knowledge and obscurity.
During one-day workshops and lectures, together with experienced educators, innovators and scientists we will tease minds-on and hands-on approaches and will wrap them into playfulness - the inevitable component of future learning.

Minds-On. In this part we will explore how to THINK and LEARN. We will learn how to encourage and boost our creativity and imagination, using reflection, empathy, resilience and other ways to provoke and train our minds. We will achieve it through different workshops as well as listening to TED-format talks.

Hands-On. Here we will learn how to CREATE and DO. Children will actively engage in practical workshops, which may involve topics such as making, coding, photogrammetry, kinetic sculptures, wearables, data art, food technology among many more others. At the same time, adults will have several workshops organized specially for them on similar topics.

TEDxVilniusED will be a day full of creativity which we will experiment with through engagement and playful practice. Because as once said and thousand times proven, “Creativity is intelligence having fun!”

Vilnius Tech Park
Antakalnio 17
3rd building
Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, LT-10312
Lithuania

Subtilu-Z

Musical Storytellers

For the last 10 years, these four guys have been telling unusual musical stories. Stories, which are gathered from all corners of the world, where all the listeners and performers become story characters, living unexpected scenarios. Laurynas Vaitkus (playing tenor reed), Povilas Velikis (accordion), Dmitrijs Mihailovs (accordion) and Vytautas Švažas (percussion) experiment with unheard sounds as well as with popular songs in order to surprise, explore and express themselves and others around.

Subtilu-Z and kids

For the last 10 years, Subtilu-Z has been telling unusual musical stories. Stories, which are gathered from all corners of the world, where all the listeners and performers become story characters, living unexpected scenarios. Laurynas Vaitkus (playing tenor reed), Povilas Velikis (accordion), Dmitrijs Mihailovs (accordion) and Vytautas Švažas (percussion) experiment with unheard sounds as well as with popular songs in order to surprise, explore and express themselves and others around.

Angelos Chronis

PhD Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Angelos’ main research interest lies in the integration of simulation, optimization and performance drive in the design and fabrication process with a deeper expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) but he has worked across many fields including virtual & augmented reality, interactive installations, 3D scanning, spatial analysis and parametric design. Angelos is a PhD Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, as a member of the Innochain network. He teaches at IAAC and at the Bartlett School of Architecture of University College London. Previously he has been working as an Associate for the Applied Research + Development group at Foster + Partners. He holds a diploma of Architecture from the University of Patras, Greece and an MSc in Adaptive Architecture & Computation from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL. He is a registered Architect both in Greece and in the UK.

Colin Powell

Assistant Principal/PYP Coordinator at Vilnius International School

Born in the United States, Colin has grown as a third culture kid. He has lived in nine countries so far and appreciates how his experiences abroad have developed his adaptability, flexibility and commitment to knowing different people. Colin has been teaching for the last 12 years and has become interested in school leadership. He is now the Assistant Principal/PYP Coordinator at Vilnius International School and his interest and enthusiasm focus on building dynamic learning communities based on the idea that what we expect from children we must also expect from adults. This means that schools must embrace repeated models of learning.

David Palhazi

Project Manager at SignAll Technologies

David Pálházi works as a project manager and as an official soul-supporter in a startup called SignAll Technologies. With his colleagues they set themselves the goal to make the world more accessible and more livable for deaf, open the gates for deaf through a sign language translator. During the work David finds out more and more space, where technology and accumulated knowledge should create great things for deaf people. One of the biggest area is education. David began his university studies at Budapest University Of Technology and Economics studying Engineering Management, Environmental Management specialization. He finished Master's degree in University of West Hungary, graduating from Agricultural Engineering in Environment. In education David focused on management approach, livable environment and people management.

Harry McCann

Founder at Trendsterpress.com

Harry is an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Kildare, Ireland. At the age of 15, he founded his first business - Kid Tech. Over the space of sixteen months, he went on to teach over 800 kids to code all around Ireland. In 2014 he founded the first Digital Youth Council in the World, which he is currently Director of and since 2013 has been working with government and industry to make sure young people are influencing the future of the STEM sector in Ireland and Europe. Harry has spent the last two years working on several startup ideas and taking on advisory/board roles in the Irish government, and some of the biggest multinational businesses in the World. His most recent business venture is Trendsterpress.com which he founded in January 2016, and it is currently one of his main focus.

Marius Narvilas

Technology Teacher at Vilnius Jesuit High School

Marius Narvilas is a technology teacher in Vilnius Jesuit High School and a board member of the Association of Technology teachers in Lithuania. He is also a lecturer in the Education center of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Recently Marius has been awarded as the most innovative art and technology teacher of the year in Lithuania. He is also the co-author of five Technology textbooks and methodological recommendations.

Marjo Kyllonen

Acting Head of basic education division in the city of Helsinki.

Dr Marjo Kyllönen is the acting head of basic education division in the city of Helsinki. She is responsible for the basic education services for approx. 38 000 pupils in the whole city. She holds a PhD in Education and has a degree in primary and early childhood education and has worked as a pre and primary school teacher before her appointment to administrative work 2001. She has also been appointed to various committees on national level among other issues national core curriculum work, pupils welfare, pupils assessment. On city level she’s in the lead for curriculum renewal and implementing the Future School concept in Helsinki.

Teresa Lamb

Design Engineer

Teresa Lamb is a designer, technologist, and crafter living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work focuses on the intersection of craft and emerging technology through wearables and soft circuitry. She is passionate about designing and developing the future of tactile interfaces while preserving traditional techniques. Teresa graduated with her master’s degree from Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in Spring of 2016. Her thesis project, Cyberknitics — a wearable that generates music from the rhythm of knitting — seeks to answer the question, “will cyborgs knit?”.