Youth@PiataEnescu
x = independently organized TED event

Theme: Aspire to Inspire

This event occurred on
June 10, 2017
2:00pm - 8:00pm EEST
(UTC +3hrs)
Brașov, Brașov
Romania

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Kronwell
Bulevardul Gării 7A
Brașov, Brașov, 500203
Romania
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Chef Foa

Chef Foa is one of the most famous chefs in Romania. With over 17 years of experience in the kitchen, Chef Foa is Executive Chef for Flavours Food Design and sets his fingerprint on catering events as well as daily menus in Flavours locations. Chef Foa was part of the local jury team of Master Chef and is Street Food Ambassador in Romania.

Florin Munteanu

Florin Munteanu is the initiator of a youth training program for a scientific career in the field of complexity, a program that involves the harmonization between emotional intelligence and rational intelligence. The nationwide NEXUS network comprises universities, high schools and general schools in order to ensure the continuity of the educational process, complemented by a special cognitive development and initiation program needed to develop the intuition and transdisciplinary integration of information taken from the environment. At the same time, he is the founding president of the Center for Complex Studies - UNESCO Center, initiator of the NEXUS research programs and coordinator of other research projects such as the complex study of the Vrancea geodynamic area - Romania and Réunion - Indian Ocean or unconventional technologies (design and realization of equipment in the field of plastic deformation of metals by magnetic impulse, laser cutting of materials, magnetic control of electric arc to plasma welding, etc.).

Medeea Petrovan

Medeea is 27 years old and is the co-founder of Excelsum Consulting, a company that provides integrated development services for SMEs: accounting and tax consulting, audit, evaluation, management consultancy and assistance in accessing and implementing projects with a grant. So far, she has been involved in coordinating and implementing over 45 projects. Because she believes in the young people's power to change the future, her favorite initiative remains the one of the academic debates projects dedicated to high school youth (Dezbatem Romania! And Braşovul Dezbate!), through which, in the 8 editions organized so far, over 1000 young people in Romania, 75 teachers and 40 high schools participated. In addition to volunteering, she loves the classical guitar, which she has been studying for 8 years, singing, mountain trips, traveling and fitness.

Mihai Grapa

Mihai Grapa, the architect of the largest urban regeneration project in the country, Coresi Business Park, brings to TEDxYouth @ PiataEnescu a complex story about his profession and its results, about the broken wings of the IAR Braşov Factory and about education. Architect, husband and father of two children, born in Cristian, graduate of the "Grigore Moisil" High School of Informatics in Brasov, "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, member of the Romanian Architects Order and a person actively involved in the development of his community where he decided to return. Mihai is an example of perseverance, success and courage.

Mikey Hash

It all started in 2011 when he began with "Doza de has". He was one of the first youtubers from his home country, starting from zero in a niche that was not developed at all in Romania. The positive feedback determined him to continue, and after 5 years, in 2016, he was the first Romanian vlogger with more than 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Mikey did not stop here and continues the project, always trying creative and innovative things.

Sebastian Burduja

Sebastian Burduja is Managing Partner of RISE Consortium, a global investment platform dedicated to Romania's development. He has worked as a regional development expert for an international financial organization, concentrating his work on Europe and Central Asia. He has also been a consultant to Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a strategic consulting firm specializing in global development solutions. He also worked at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, at McKinsey & Co., at the National Endowment for Democracy and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs. He has published various articles on democratic consolidation in Romania and is the author of the book "Between Hope and Disillusion. Democracy and Anticorruption in Post-Communist Romania ". It was included in the Forbes Romania magazine's Top 30 under 30. He is the co-founder and honorary president of the Romanian Foreign Students League, founding member of the CAESAR Foundation (Center for Access to Expertise of Romanian Students and Graduates) and President of the PACT Youth Platform. He is a graduate of a double Master in Business Administration and Public Policy at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, and holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science at Stanford University. At this moment he is a PhD student at the Academy of Economic Studies (ASE) in Bucharest.

Vlad Macelaru

Vlad Macelaru is 24 years old and is from Brasov. After graduating from Andrei Saguna High School in 2012, he decided to go beyond the borders of the country, in the Netherlands, where he focused on business and management. In the third year of college, he decided to leave Europe to study Japan's society and culture in a six-month exchange program in Tokyo. The abroad experience made him curious and passionate about technology, but he always had in mind turning back home, being so far from his origins. At the end of his studies he became a volunteer of the Romanian Foreign Students League, where he provided support through mentoring projects for young people who want to study in Europe. He is currently based in Bucharest, where he channels his energy to find and bring together people who support and contribute to digitization projects. Amongst the basketball matches he plays whenever he has some free time, he also participated in the development of software and hardware for business and non-governmental areas, winning competitions including NASA Space Apps Challenge Romania. Vlad likes to smile to people through information and opening.

Vlad Marian (Vladinsky)

In the last six years since being a full time visual artist / painter, Vladinsky has managed to achieve a form of expression that defines a very close connection with his interior. The journey began somewhere in 2011 with a series of abstract paintings through which the artist managed to achieve a visual, motionless balance, through which the viewer enters a world of imagination, finding an entire universe. After two years, he drew the attention of several galleries, especially from the USA, through which he managed to get one of his works on the set of the successful TV series Mad Men. The artist sees this as a journey through which he discovers a series of images that can challenge the viewer in a pleasant way, the latter not knowing exactly how to associate the absorbed image.

Organizing team

Alex
Nagy

Brasov, Romania
Organizer

Mihaela
Maris

Co-organizer