Couldn’t make it to the event in person? Find a compilation of the eye-opening speeches below.
Descriptions of each video provided by TEDx via YouTube.
With this performance of Sequenza 3 by Berio, we notice the voice in different colours of expression. This leads us to the question: what is singing all about and how it can improve our health and wellbeing? Mariette Lentz is a Luxembourgish soprano who studied educational science and Italian literature. Her career as a soloist has taken her to concerts and festivals throughout Europe, India and China. She produced several cds devoted to French impressionistic song and chamber music. She made contemporary vocal music her favourite and teaches singing and art of opera at the conservatory of music of the north in Ettelbruck. She is a member of the Kammerata Luxembourg.
Three magical pillars make life unique and exciting. This talk challenges every person to reinvent and rediscover themselves in order to become their very best, one day at a time! Tessy’s unique perspective comes through the lens of a young woman, activist and former princess with a hint of military adventure. Tessy is a Social Entrepreneur, Activist, and Mother who was part of the Luxembourg Royal Family for 13 years . She is the Founder of the consultancy ‘ Finding Butterflies Consultancy Ltd’ and Co Founder of the NGO Professors Without Borders. Moreover, Tessy is an ambassador for UNAIDS and spent five years in the Luxembourg military, during which she was deployed to Kosovo as a peacekeeper and only woman of her draft. She was named “Leader of the Year 2019” by the Leadership Academy in Luxembourg and received an Honorary Doctorate for her work in education.
“I don’t understand dance. What is it about? Is it even art?” If you’ve ever asked yourself one of these questions, this talk is for you. Dancer and choreographer Elisabeth Schilling offers a step-by-step guide to unleashing your creativity in the experience of art. Elisabeth Schilling is an award-winning and critically acclaimed dancer and choreographer. She regularly performs in international productions and has danced for over 35 choreographers and well-respected companies. Elisabeth tours her own work extensively. She received numerous choreographic commissions including institutions like Tate Gallery of Modern Art London, Museum of Applied Art Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxembourg.
We touch plastic more than we touch our loved ones and we seemingly cannot live without it, says entrepreneur Leslie Maliepaard. Maliepaard talks about how recycling is failing us and that plastic is not necessarily bad but it’s more how humans use and dispose of it that is the problem. Luckily, Maliepaard has an insight into how change happens just by changing consumer’s behaviours, we are able to have less plastic in the Ocean by using less plastic in the first place. Leslie is the founder of The Planet Calls (www.theplanetcalls.com), a non-profit organisation focused on discovering and commercialising innovative technology solutions that solve issues such as marine plastic pollution. Entrepreneur, angel investor and WBAF Senator for Ireland, Leslie is passionate about solving problems with a circular plastics approach. “Change needs to happen, however it won’t happen with one person doing one thing. The idea needs to spread. We need to do better”
An up close and personal perspective of an American, female, professional soccer player living in Europe on the state of women’s soccer around the world. The conversation centers around the development as a world class goal keeper, the journey traveled to end up being a professional athlete, and the differences between American and European leagues. Where opportunities meet desire, determination and preparation are chronicled in the discussion. Bryane Heaberlin is a 26 year old American professional soccer goalkeeper currently playing in her 3rd season for Division 1 of the Bundesliga in Germany for 1. FFC Frankfurt, she previously played two seasons for Turbine Potsdam. In 2016 Heaberlin graduated with a Bachelors of Science from the University of North Carolina, playing four years, and in 2012 winning the NCAA National Championship. She has represented the United States on the under-20 Women´s national team and won gold with the team at the 2012 CONCACAF U-20 Championship and 2012 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
A rich journey through key life events - mainly fuelled by female contribution and empowerment - the evolution of thinking diversity until transforming it into inclusion and translating it into the business environment to make it the ‘sine qua non’ ingredient to success. Peter was born in 1970 in Amsterdam, lives with his family in Luxembourg and has been active in the financial industry after he completed his studies. After a career as Equity Trader Peter has transitioned into general management as COO and is currently EQT’s co-head of Fund Operations and head of Fund Management, with full responsibility for the EQT Fund Management platform that next to Luxembourg, has (legacy) locations in Guernsey, London and Amsterdam.
Entrepreneurs have learned to tackle fear. They approach fear differently from how they view stress, take action, build an internal drive, and see problems as opportunities. We’ll explore ~5000 applications of aspiring entrepreneurs to the LaunchX program, the speaker’s founding story, and the psychology of stress and fear. Anyone can learn the powerful capacity to tackle fear that can be life-changing with these lessons from successful entrepreneurs. Laurie is the Founder of LaunchX, an entrepreneurship program for high school students, plus did mechanical engineering at MIT and got her MBA from Harvard Business School. She previously worked at MIT’s entrepreneurship center where she built and ran the entrepreneurship center maker space, developed and taught an EdX course in entrepreneurship, and designed and taught MIT’s Intro to Making class.
We are living in an unprecedented era of development in science and technology, and the expansion of our society beyond this planet is within reach. Human settlement of the Moon and Mars in the coming decades is increasingly realistic. Days before departing on a location recce to Antarctica, theoretical physicist, Dr. Adriana Marais talks about the first phase of her Off-World initiative to develop research and technology for a sustainable and #ProudlyHuman future on Earth, above and beyond. Dr. Adriana Marais is an award-winning theoretical physicist, Mars One astronaut candidate and founder of Proudly Human. She is an internationally renowned speaker on exploration-driven innovation, director at the Foundation for Space Development, faculty at Singularity University & Duke Corporate Education and a member of the South African government advisory task team on the 4th Industrial Revolution. Dr Marais will head the Off-World simulation experiments, bringing her research expertise to the projects and guiding the selected crews through the expeditions.
Cities are gridlocked and air quality in many cities is already at crisis point. New mobility services are entering the market and promise to improve traffic and quality of life, but cities are not following the speed of innovation. Putting a regulatory framework in place that adapts to the pace of the constantly innovating mobility sector is a challenge. It is time to change! Tamy Ribeiro is a Brazilian entrepreneur and founded her first company at the age of 22. After 13 years of experience in online travel, Tamy moved to mobility when she joined Wunder Mobility, helping the company to identify opportunities and partnerships that amplified its expansion from 1 to over 100 cities.
