Theme: Recharge

We have been forced to stop our lives for 12 months until now, obliged to live with ourselves, facing the insecurities that the ever changing world poses in front of us. Some of us are hoping to come back to normality, others have given up to the new reality we are living in, others just put their lives in stand-by.

With this event we want to discuss, recharge our batteries, learn and build a new normality which starts from the well-being of individuals, from the awareness that each of us counts and can make a difference.

One year after the first ever lockdown, the young community is still animated by a strong desire of changing the reality, and the aim of this event is to bring together individuals whose actions and ideas offer recharging and new perspectives on the world.
The theme of the fourth edition of TEDxLuiss will be RECHARGE.

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Federico Dragogna

Federico Dragogna was born in 1982 in Milan, he has always been engaged in music-related jobs: he worked as journalist, event organizer, producer and musician. In 2005 he founded his own record company. He is the guitarist of the italian group “I Ministri” and, due to his writing skills, he is also the author of the band.

Federico Massa a.k.a Iena Cruz

Federico Massa aka "Iena Cruz", is a Brooklyn based artist from Milan Italy. Globally recognized large scale Mural Artist, highly regarded for his signature mural designs, commissioned to him for his unique style of drawing and painting, using untraditional and unusual combinations of media and technology to express a message on preservation and social-environmental justice issues like climate change. Federico Massa’s area of expertise is a long journey of enormous study, effort and commitment to truth and excellence of his art as an Italian artist and designer. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Federico studied set design and fine arts, learning and exploring innovative techniques.

Francesco Cicconetti

Born in 1998 in Rimini, after his studies at the Liceo Linguistico, he then graduated in languages at the University of Urbino. Few years ago, he began the gender transition process that allowed him to feel more confident with himself. When we asked Francesco about his divulgative job, he said “I have always told my story on social media without pretense. Over the years this activity of mine has become more and more important to others and to me, until a sort of mission was created in me: to talk about transition as a common life path, similar to many others. A great ability to communicate, without filters, with which he raises awareness of the issue through social media and also through his podcast on Spotify in which he reads his poems. An example of rebirth, recharge and perseverance, together with great communication skills that lead him to reach 73.1K followers on Instagram. He constantly raises awareness of diversity, acceptance, and discrimination, which are often too present in our society and are silently and unconsciously accepted.

Great Nnachi

Great Nnachi is a professional pole vaulter born in Turin from Nigerian parents. She is sixteen and has done the Italian Record of pole vault, however her record has been recognized only after a legal fight with the federation which, thanks to her coach Luciano Gemmello, she won. In fact, Great has not the Italian Citizenship and this caused many problems to her career. In 2020, she was named an Ensign of the Republic.

Imen Boulahrajane

Born and raised in Varese, proud of her Moroccan origins by father. She was the only foreign girl in a town of 5 thousand inhabitants in the province of Varese. Initially experienced as a limitation, it will become a resource that will bring her closer to politics and to wanting to explain immigration, economy and international politics in a simple way.

Jill Morris

Born in Chester, Jill studied modern languages at Southampton University (MA) and Warwick University (MPhil). She entered as part of the diplomatic corps in 1999. In 2011 she became Chief of the Anti-Proliferation Department in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. From 2012 to 2015 she acted as Director of the Department for European Affairs in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Currently Jill Morris CMG is the British Ambassador to Italy and non-resident British Ambassador to San Marino. She is the first woman to actually fill this role. One of the youngest British women to head a prestigious embassy like the one in Rome.

Lorenzo Kruger

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Luigi Cavanna

Born in 1953 in Piacenza, Dott. Cavanna graduated at the University of Pavia in 1978, summa cum laude, and subsequently specialised in Haematology (1981), Internal Medicine (1986), Medical Oncology (1989), and gastroenterology (1993) at the University of Pavia. At the moment, he is the appointed Director of the Department of Oncology and Hematology at the Hospital of Piacenza. Dott. Cavanna is also member of several scientific associations, among which the American Society Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the European Society Medical Oncology (ESMO), the European Hematology Association (EHA), the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) and the Associazione Italiana Oncologia Medica (AIOM). His clinical and scientific activity is documented by hundreds of papers mainly published in international Journals and presented at national and international congresses. Moreover, he is the author of 264 scientific international publications and of 8 scientific books. Although he has been actively involved in research for over 25 years, it is only recently that his name has appeared in the international press. Actively involved in the front line against Covid-19 in his city Piacenza, one of the hardest hit by the disease, Dott. Cavanna approached the emergency from a different point of view. His task force, set up in the early days of the pandemic emergency, to create rapid intervention teams able to operate directly at houses of the patients, has been taken as a model for combating the virus, not only in Italy but throughout the world, arriving to be featured in Time magazine.

Marta Bertolaso

University Professor of ''Philosophy of Science and Human Development'' at the University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome and Adjunct Professor at CCBIO (University of Bergen). She is also currently a member of the ''National Bioeconomy Coordination Group'' for the Ministry of Ecological Transition. She has won numerous fellowships for several international universities and very prestigious research centers such as Pittsburgh (PA, USA), Exeter (UK), IHPST in Paris. In addition, she is an External Faculty member of Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) for Evolution and Cognition Research,Vienna, Austria. In 2018 she published ''Philosophy of Cancer: A Dynamic and Relational View'' and new 2021 ''Digital Ethics''. Her expertise in philosophy of science, applied science, and philosophy of complex organisms has led her to collaborate in many interdisciplinary areas: from scientific to philosophical to digital ethics. Currently, her work is based on understanding adaptive dynamics in living systems and how digital transitions are affecting those dynamics and shaping our understanding of human work and enterprise.

Rossella Migliaccio

Rossella Migliaccio was born in Naples and grew up in Milan. After graduating from Bocconi University, she began working in the world of advertising and fashion publishing. She moved to London where she obtained her international qualification as an Image Consultant and began working with private clients and companies throughout Europe. She has taught at institutions and academies including the Milan Polytechnic and the Sole24Ore Business School. She is a member of the Association of Image Consultants International and founded the first institute in Italy dedicated to image consulting, Italian Image Institute, with an all-female team. She is a trainer and consultant for international brands and has become a point of reference for public figures and influencers. Her books Armocromia (Vallardi, 2019) and Forme (Vallardi, 2020) are an authentic publishing case. Fundamental is her work on the themes of female empowerment, inclusivity and body positivity.

Sara Di Luca

Born in Naples but now adopted by Rome, Sara is currently studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Luiss Guido Carli and in September she will continue her studies at Sciences Po Bordeaux, where she will obtain a bachelor double degree. She has always been interested in dramatic arts and tried her hand at theatre, which has given her the desire to communicate and, most importantly, the great resourcefulness that distinguishes her as a person and as a student.