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).

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Denmark

Anne Dvinge

As a music advocate, PhD and entrepreneur, Anne Dvinge is the founder and managing director of Low-Fi: an online peer-to-peer marketplace that brings people together for home concerts. She believes that music should be understood as a verb, as it is not something we do passively. Music is an activity, and the audience members are active participants, when “musicing” together with the artists.

Christine Stabell Benn

Christine Stabell Benn is a medical doctor and professor in global health. By studying real-life effects of vaccines in Africa, she has found that vaccines do much more than protect against the target disease; they have so-called non-specific effects. In most cases, they come with an added bonus of increased resistance against other infections than the target disease. If we take that into account, we can save hundreds of thousands of lives every year just by using the existing vaccines smarter. Christine argues that we should not only study vaccines' effects on the target infection, but also ask the often ignored question: what is the impact of vaccines on overall health?

Elisabeth McClure

Elisabeth’s research background is in children and media, where she has studied how babies and toddlers use video chat (like Skype) to interact with their remote relatives. At TEDxAarhus 2018 she will look closer at creativity in children and adults. She will ask the audience to re-examine their assumptions about the way creativity changes from childhood to adulthood. Specifically, she wants to look deeper at the assumption that children are creative geniuses, and that growing up kills that creativity.

Fatima AlZahra’a Alatraktchi

Researcher and entrepreneur Fatima AlZahra’a Alatraktchi has a PhD in nanophysics and molecular biology. She has conducted research in the intersection between nanoengineering, microbiology and medicine for 6 years. According to Fatima, bacteria live in communities just like humans. They have families, they talk, they plan their activities and sometimes even cheat each other. Fatima developed a nano-sensing technique capable of capturing very small signals that bacteria use to communicate with each other. The tool can be used to diagnose

Lars Schmidt

Photographer Lars Schmidt has more than 20 years of experience as an international photographer. In 2017 he spent six weeks at the Syrian border talking to hundreds of Syrian families about their lives, daily struggles and the escape from the war zone. This resulted in a photo exhibition, lectures and teaching materials for Danish school kids - all in collaboration with teacher and writer Maren Elise Skjerlie Gilling.

Lone Mørch

Lone Mørch is an award-winning author, photographer, speaker, and explorer whose work lives at the intersection of art, body, identity, culture and change. A Danish native, she has for the past 25+ years traveled, lived and worked in various professional capacities in Asia, Europe and USA. She’s the founder of the photo atelier Lolo’s Boudoir and has helped more than a 1000 women find healing and celebration through photography. In her newest book, Embody, she examines the light and shadow in women's minds, bodies and psyches in prose and photos. Her photos and essays have been featured in Danish and American magazines, such as InStyle, Cosmopolitan, People and Huffington Post.

Maren Elise Skjerlie Gilling

Teacher and writer Maren Elise Skjerlie Gilling spent six weeks of 2017 at the Syrian border talking to hundreds of Syrian families about their lives, daily struggles and the escape from the war zone. This resulted in teaching materials for Danish school kids, lectures all over Denmark and a photo exhibition in collaboration with photographer Lars Schmidt.

Melanie Rosen

Melanie Rosen is a researcher and lecturer in philosophy at Aarhus University’s Interacting Mind Centre, where she explores the science of dreams. According to Melanie, in dreams we experience not only bizarre worlds of our own creation, but also unusual changes in mind and body. By looking closer at our own dreams, we can feel what it’s like to be someone else due to the altered states of consciousness that commonly occur.

Mikkel Frost

Mikkel Frost is an architect and founding partner of the architectural office CEBRA. He worked on designing iconic Danish buildings such as the Iceberg, a prize-winning housing project in Aarhus, and Experimentarium, a well-known science center near Copenhagen. At TEDxAarhus 2018 Mikkel shared how he explains abstract architectural ideas through simple hand drawings. He believes that if you can't tell a story on a single piece of paper, then you are either doing too much or it is too complicated. Interestingly, some of his watercolours have been acquired by the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin.

Sune Lehmann

Sune Lehmann is an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark, where he works on understanding the mathematics of complex networks. In 2013 Sune handed out a thousand cell phones to freshmen at his university to study social networks and mobility. By analyzing the data from the cell phones Sune discovered a new way to extract insights and advance the field of social networks.

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Dancing group

Vaev feat. Marius Nielsen

Vaev is all about the melodies found in nordic folk music Using traditional instruments and electronics, the details in the grandiose, uplifting and melancholic tunes are explored and enhanced.