In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

Het Concertgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1071 LN
Netherlands

Nationale Ballet Academy

The Dutch National Ballet Academy (NBA) led by artistic director Jean-Yves Esquerre is the affiliated school of the Dutch National Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company. They currently have about 140 pupils and students from Holland and abroad. Some of their international students come from top schools such as l’École de Danse de l’Opéra National de Paris, the English National Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, Canada’s National Ballet School and La Scala ballet school in Milan.

Anthony Heidweiller

Anthony Heidweiller: a baritone, operamaker, creator, inspirer and promoter of innovative opera concepts. Concepts such as participation and community arts are central to much of his work. In 2001, he set up a Youth Opera Festival (YO! Opera) to introduce opera to young people. I In 2008, Yo! Opera was awarded the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds prize for art education.

Beerend Hierck

Beerend Hierck studied biology and carried out a PhD on the role of retinoic acid and integrins, primarily α6ß1 and α6ß4, and laminins in heart development. As a postdoc, he studied the role of DGCR6, one of the genes involved in DiGeorge Syndrome, on the development of the heart. In 1998, he was appointed assistant professor with prime research interest in the relationship between shear forces and endothelial function. He is also involved in teaching Anatomy and Developmental Biology to Medical and Biomedical Science students. June 9, 2010, he was awarded the Prof. Dr Tammeling Prize, which is annually given to the "best teacher of the LUMC".

Cha-Hsuan Liu

Dr. Cha-Hsuan Liu is a university lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University. Currently she teaches Youth Study, Multicultural society and Health in society. Her work focuses not only on Diversity sensitivity and Health but also on other interdisciplinary studies, such as Education and Innovation Sciences. She has several articles, book chapters and books published, including a series journal papers in Chinese language about Dutch Education System. Dutch newspapers, NRC, published a column article in 2017 discussing the high education performance among Asian migrants based on an interview with her and a collection of stories of Asian migrants in the Netherlands.

Frank de Wit

Frank de Wit works as a manager customer & user experience with the ANWB.

Iliass El Hadioui

Iliass El Hadioui, professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, studies the relationship between street and school culture.

Ivan Words

Ivan is a spokenword artist, musician, songwriter and host

Kleine Mo

Mo is a 12 year old boy from Leiden who has been travelling around the Netherlands to meet succesfull Dutch Moroccans.

Liam Tjoa

Liam Tjoa (20) started a snapchat campaign for the NOS in the summer of 2015 after managing multiple online projects.

Minka Bos

Minke Bos is a freelance journalist and education/concept developer. She founded 'War in my neighbourhood' in 2015.

Niels Huismans

Niels Huismans is an enterprising professional who works as a Business Developer at FastFlex. There he has his focus on strategic workforce issues and organizational development. Furthermore he is also the founder of Marketives, where he helps entrepreneurs and their companies with strategic challenges. Since 2014 Niels is also a local councilor in Alphen-Chaam.

Rolf Winters

Rolf has his professional roots in the corporate world. His incessant drive to understand and make better use of human potential led him to found his own leadership consulting firm at the age of 30. The next 10 years he travelled Europe as boardroom consultant and coach, working for some of the largest corporations in the world. Through his in-depth experiences with leaders and decision making at the top of the corporate pyramid, Rolf also gained an insight into the stranglehold our established structures have on organisations and their leaders; the damaging effects of their short-term focus and their lack of a holistic vision. He started searching for a different perspective and a key to renewal. When he was exposed to the leadership principles and the way-of-life of the Anishnabe (first Native Americans), he felt he had found that key.

Rudayna Abdo

Rudayna has a bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies from MIT, a master’s degree in Urban Planning from McGill University, and is a graduate of Amsterdam’s THNK School of Creative Leadership, an executive program promoting transformational thinking, innovation leadership, and venture design to build human-centered systems for a better future.

Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes

Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes is the founder and lead architect of AKKA Architects. Stephanie is a young visionary architect, who operates beyond the nowadays-restrained realm of architecture. A strong advocate of value created through cross-disciplinary interactions, Stephanie believes that the most sustainable innovation will happen at the intersection of different fields. AKKA’s projects span over the educational, commercial, corporate, public, private and governmental field. AKKA is driven by the vision of Architecting Interaction© that investigates how we can design contexts that foster human interaction in its different forms.

Thijs Homan

Thijs Homan: Professor in implementation and change management. He was promoted in 1989 for his research on the role and position of top managers in large coöperations in the Netherlands.