Theme: Growth

Everything gaining attention is growing
This year TEDxApeldoorn takes you on a journey within the theme of "Growth". We pass different aspects of growth. At the social and social level, but also in the scientific field. Just off the beaten track, but always with attention. Because all that gets attention grows. Are you traveling with us?

Theaterloods
Radioweg 1
Radio Kootwijk, gemeente apeldoorn, Gelderland, 7348 BG
Netherlands

Adel Albaghdadi

Founder of WE organization

Adel calls himself a "Change Maker" because he makew the conscious decision daily to shift his boundaries and be part of the solution; not the problem. He believes in possibilities. From that belief, he strives to create a more meaningful, transformative and sustainable change for a better well-being of all. He sees a society based on core values that encourage us to be constructive, productive and peaceful, and at the same time embrace and cherish diversity. For that het founded WE Organization. The WE Organization is a young, socially conscious and action-oriented initiative aimed at developing different projects which are aimed at different segments of society. These projects focus mainly on combating xenophobia, developing new links and promoting social integration.

Esmee Priem Kes Visser

Students at Vathorst College

Kes (16) and Esmee (17) are both students of Vathorst College in Amersfoort. It is a public school for contemporary education. Kes was born on May 21, 2001 and is currently in 4 VWO at Vathorst College. She likes to read and make puzzles. Esmee was born on December 27, 1999 and is from Leusden. She is currently in 5 VWO at Vathorst College. Esmee likes to go out, but is also a fanatic (beach) volleyball player.

Gerhard Jäger

Gerhard Jäger is founding father of ABC Studios

ABC (ART BASICS for CHILDREN) is the brainchild of Gerhard Jäger. When he became a father, he went in search of stimulating books and play materials for his growing son as an indirect visual guide to the arts. This book collection, in which culture and education are central, grew to the extent that he wanted to share it: with other parents, but with teachers, librarians, educators as well, and last but not least, with other children. The most interesting ideas from the numerous books were selected and transformed into play and workstations: small islands where children and adults, individually or together, could get started using their imaginations, senses, hands, etc in a fun and creative way. And of course they could also rummage in the books where it all started. In this way the interactive ABC studios were born.

Jan-Paul de Beer

Co-founder of Springlab

Jan-Paul de Beer (33) is a social entrepreneur and innovator. His mission is to bring back mobility in a playful way in daily life. He does that with his social company Springlab, with which he developed the Tovertafel for people with dementia and the FietsFlo, a playful green golf system for cyclists. His driving force is to make mobility easier and more fun with innovation and entrepreneurship for myself and others.

Janneke Stegeman

Dutch theologian, specializing in the Old Testament

Janneke Stegeman was born in 1980 in Woudenberg. She studied Theology at the Free University. In 2014, she graduated with the dissertation 'Decolonizing Jeremiah: Identity, Narratives and Power in Religious Tradition', about the role of conflict in the development of religious tradition. Janneke works as a theologian at The New Love, a debate center in Amsterdam. She is one of the founders of GENOT, the Society for Immoral Theology. In 2016 she was named Theologian of Fatherland.

Matthijs Schouten

Professor at the Universities of COrk and Galway (ireland) and professor at Wageningen University

Matthijs Schouten (1952) studied biology, Celtic language and Literature, Religious Sciences and Oriental philosophy. After his studies, he worked for a long time in Ireland. He has been working at Staatsbosheer since 1992 as an ecologist and philosopher.

Ruud Knaapen

Ruud Knaapen is one of the first founders of horse training in the Netherlands and established Wind Organization Development in 2004.

"How can I know that I grow and live in tune with my potential and my task in society?" For Ruud Knaapen, the answer to this question came from a rather unexpected angle: the world of horses. He discovered how horses can help identify someone or resonance with his or her destination. In 2005 he started the Wind Training Systemic Horse Coaching; a training for professionals who want to integrate the systemic work into depth in their current practice. He is currently focusing on the development of full-width systemic thinking in various areas in the Netherlands, Belgium and Brazil. The first international systemic training with horses will soon start.

Yuen Yen Tsai

Yuen Yen is game developer, facilitator en visual thinker

Yuen Yen is an independent entrepreneur. She works as a game developer, facilitator and visual thinker. She calls herself a disorderer and searches for unconventional matches between question and solution. The passion for play has started during her work at the government, where she has been able to develop "serious gaming". As a self-employed entrepreneur she wants to move through her borders.