1

TEDx Bucharest 2012

ABOUT

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

About TED

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).

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

2

TEDx Bucharest 2012

TEDxBucharest Driven by meaning

ABOUT

In 2009, the international TED community received some great news: from now on TEDsters all over the world will be able to step away from their computers and bring the online TED experience live, on stage, by attending their local events. Bucharest made no exception, so TED fans from this region have been welcome since to TEDxBucharest – your local TED event. We do this because we are avid TED fans and because we are hooked on ideas and projects that bring value to our local community.

Today we celebrate the fourth edition of TEDxBucharest, an event that has inspired and motivated thousands of people so far, creating bridges between businesses, being the starting point for numerous projects and collaborations between smart, motivated people that want to bring positive change to their community. And this year we’ll make no exception: TEDxBucharest has set up just the right recipe for success containing the right speakers, guests, atmosphere and space to get you in that special state of creativity, inspiration and motivation that keeps driving all of us forward.

This year, we wanted to challenge you by asking “What drives you?” Is it money, fame or recognition? Or maybe it’s something deeper like the value you bring into your local community or something like creating impact and positive change. What meaning do you give to your existence? And what keeps you going when all odds are against you? We figured that TEDsters are the most suitable community of people that can guide us towards a brilliant answer.

3

TEDx Bucharest 2012

ABOUT

Meaning is the single, most important quest in our lives, but finding it is only the beginning. TEDxBucharest 2012 – Driven by Meaning comes to show the great extent to which brave people can create positive change while following their true desires, principles and values. It is our testament for this changing world that we could be so much better off, provided that we have the right intentions at heart. It is with these thoughts that we invite you to take advantage of TEDxBucharest, be comfortable, but out of your comfort zone and experience TEDxBucharest in all its magic.

TEDx Bucharest 2012

4 PARTNERS

Under the high patronage of thePresident of theChamber of Deputies

Strategic partners

Partners

5

TEDx Bucharest 2012

9:00 - 10:00 Check-in & welcome coffee

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction

10:15 - 12:15 Breaking Barriers with: Adrian Lobontiu Krishan George Horia Galatanu Andrei Tudose Benoit Montreuil Marcus Orlovsky

12:15 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 15:15 Profiling the Future with: Florin Paun Chris Worman Pierre Bortnowski Andrei Pogonaru Irina Bogdan, Tudor Cosmatu & Andrei Raducanu

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 - 17:15 Shifting Paradigms with: Alexandrina Hristov Nick Thorpe Oana Raluca Ghiocel Anca Echim & Cristiana Ionescu Ionut Florea & Ana Hogas

17:15 - 18:00 Coffee break

18:00- 19:30 Outside and Beneath with: Tom Andreassen Paul Dicu Teo Aurora Simionescu

Cocktail & networking space

AGENDA

6

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Irina is in the midst of a highly rewarded and prized musical career. She focuses her singing around jazz and Romanian music. Irina promotes her love for jazz through her discography, performances and even educational programs for children. She is also part of famous cembalist`s Marius Mihalache Band. She leads the musical journey into the discovery of jazz.Having graduated Acting school, in the class of George Ivascu, Irina’s heart was always dedicated to music. Playing the piano since the age of 5, she fell in love with jazz after studying with the famous Anca Parghel. She is now regarded as the most expressive young jazz singer.

Bassam is a citizen of the world, having come to Romania five years ago, with the purpose to set up new offices for the software company he worked for. After almost leaving school in order to become a shepherd, he finally graduated as an Electrical and Electronical Engineer, and got a job at a Lebanese telecommunications company. After one year, he and four of his colleagues left the mother company to set up a new one, thus starting their professional adventure. Bassam has travelled all over the world since, developing his business and himself. This nomadic lifestyle happened to suit his natural predilection to travel and explore new cultures and societies. Following up to many years of intermittent leaps around the globe, he felt the need for a more dedicated yet soliciting mission, so he opted for Romania.

Bassam Gemayel

Irina Sarbu

HOSTS

macheta

9SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Krishan George

Adrian Lobontiu

Krishan has abandoned his corporate career to follow his own eclectic range of projects. He first came to Romania and started a mozzarella factory. Nowadays, he is located at SimpleWorks, near Rupea, Brasov where he has an organic buffalo farm that has recently moved towards implementing regenerative agricultural systems known as permaculture systems. An underlying objective of all the projects is to demonstrate the real value of natural processes and the food derived from these. His work also revolves around discovering unexpected curative abilities of certain food products.

Dr. Lobontiu has more than 18 years experience in surgical practice in France and 15 years experience in the medical device industry in Europe. Presently based in San Francisco Bay Area, he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Surgeons (SAGES) and a member of the French Surgery Association (AFC). He is also part of the Executive Management Team at EndoGastric Solutions. As one of the fore-runners of robotic surgery and minimally invasive surgery, Dr. Lobontiu is providing leadership and vision in pioneering less invasive incisionless surgery. Moreover, he is a recurrent guest speaker and key-note speaker at international conferences and congresses and an internationally published author.Dr. Lobontiu earned his Medical Doctor Degree from the University of Medicine Targu-Mures Medical School, his Specialty in Surgery from Pierre et Marie Curie University of Medicine in Paris, France and is a Graduate of Stanford University School of Business, CA, United States of America.

10 SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Horia is currently Product Manager at Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere. This product allows TV subscribers to receive their already paid for content on their computers, mobile devices or game consoles. By using it, a TV station like CNN can create a site or an app that can seamlessly verify a user’s entitlement and give access to premium content that was not allowed in the online space before. His team was rewarded by the Academy of Television, Arts & Sciences with the Primetime Emmy Engineering Award Plaque for remarkable accomplishments in engineering of emerging technologies. Horia is confident that this is just the beginning and that his project will move forward and help bring more quality TV to the internet. It’s about letting you enjoy your favorite TV show anytime, anywhere and on any device.

Andrei has founded deliveringlife through which he aims to break people’s daily routine and make them more conscious towards their “now”. He seeks freedom, challenges and looks to inspire others into believing in themselves and in their potential to live up to their dreams and aspirations. Andrei believes in a changing world that will encourage people to be as they have the potential to be: extraordinary, relaxed and inspiring. Having previously spent five and a half years in Germany, he returned to Romania as the challenge had seemed an appropriate one. He dares people around him to face their core values and acknowledge them through their behavior. Live in the present is one value he holds dear!

Andrei Tudose

Horia Galateanu

11SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

As Director of Bryanston Square, Marcus is mainly focused on (re)creating schools and other education spaces in the UK, regarding both appearances and content, in order to generate more appropriate environments where our future leaders can grow and be educated according to their potential. He loves challenging labels like “impossible” and strives to create results that seem “rather obvious” after implementation. He is a thinker, a doer and a speaker, known for his ability to enlighten and entertain.Marcus is passionate about creating better learning environments, focusing on the way teaching and learning takes place and the design of buildings and services to enable it to take place.

Marcus Orlovsky

Benoit holds the Canada`s Research Chair in Enterprise Engineering and is Professor at Université Laval. His main research seeks to help businesses and value creation networks perform better in our fast moving and evolving world. His concepts and methodologies are at the crossroads of computer science, logistics, strategic management and systems engineering. He has introduced an imposing set of paradigm-challenging leading-edge contributions such as virtual cellular manufacturing systems, fractal and holographic factory organization, industrial microcosm, network enterprises and the tetrahedral business design framework. He has also been awarded as 2011 Rainmaker of the Year for introducing the ground-breaking Physical Internet and spearheading the International Physical Internet Initiative towards efficient and sustainable interconnected logistics.

Benoit Montreuil

12

TEDx Bucharest 2012

NOTES

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

15SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Chris came to Romania as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 2006. Since then he has become involved in a variety of projects ranging from rural to community development and started Romania’s first community foundation – a model focused on developing local resources for local projects led by local people. He has established and built the Romanian partner to TechSoup and these days he spends his time working on technology for social change processes which harness Romania’s amazing IT&C resources for the greater good. One of their latest projects, ReStart Romania has gathered more than 140 ideas of websites focused on pushing the internet for offline social change. Chris is driven by Romania’s potential for social growth and he is dedicated to offering guidance and tools for those leaders who want to bring it out.

Chris Worman

Dr. Florin Paun is New Business Deputy Director at ONERA – France National Aerospace Research Centre, in charge with Technology Transfer and International Business Development, defining programs & new partnership policies based on complementary knowledge, cross supporting offers, mutual intellectual property valuation, joint spin-off, risk sharing co-development. He obtained an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston 2007 and has an extensive business development experience out of the aerospace domain, especially in emerging East-European markets. Paun has been quoted in multiple international newspapers including: The Aerospace Testing Magazine, Les Echos, l’Usine Nouvelle and Air & Cosmos. He succeeded in launching a cultural revolution inside ONERA by simply applying rules he learned from MIT Sloan.

Florin Paun

16

TEDx Bucharest 2012

SPEAKERS

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Andrei returned to Romania where, driven by a strong passion for business and entrepreneurship, he founded a couple of the stronger Romanian Private Equity Funds. He also started Good.Bee a service focused on “banking the unbanked”. It provides financial products as well as the technology and literacy needed to access them. For instance, it provides microloans, mobile banking access to these loans and financial education to make the most out of the microloans. He was also part of the Ministry of Economy, mainly responsible with attracting foreign investments in Romania.Andrei is a keen debater and snowboarder and considers his views to be Libertarian and Cosmopolitan.

Andrei Pogonaru

PRISPA is the first and only Romanian team qualified at Solar Decathlon 2012, the most important worldwide contest to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. Placed 9th among the participating teams, PRISPA has been recognized as blending affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency. They believe that new architecture should combine tradition with contemporary technology. They also believe in a greener and more sustainable future for Romania.

Pierre Bortnowski will be joining TEDxBucharest 2012 on behalf of PRISPA, a team of 45 students from architecture, polytechnics, constructions and arts, to share the story of their adventure.

Pierre Bortnowski

17SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

A singer and a painter, Alexandrina chose art as her favorite means of expressing herself. Having finished the Music, Theater and Arts Academy in Chisinau, Alexandrina puts a lot of emphasis on the quality of her artistic works that are inspired by her own being and her feelings. Without limiting herself to a single genre, or even language, Alexandrina promotes freedom and authenticity throughout all her creations.

Among the artists who influienced Alexandrina’s style are PJ Harvey, Björk, Morcheeba, and, above all, Tori Amos, with whom she believes she has in common the joy of playing the piano and the sensitivity of her lyrics, which may at times seem senseless.

Alexandrina Hristov

All of them graduates of “Ion Mincu University” and of the Dessau Institute of Arhitecture, they founded the T_A_I group (Technology_Architecture_Innovation), connected by their common interest in digital design and in sharing different sofware and programming knowledge. They now aim at sharing their digital tools and knowledge to the world through national and international trainings and workshops on parametric design and generative architecture.

Parametric design represents a huge leap in the quality of architecture since it is no longer bounded by tools anymore, it designs and creates its’ own tools. And it’s basically about planning and implementing change in the world around. To the human enterprise of design, parametric systems bring fresh and needed new capabilities to explore the possibilities inherent in a design idea.

Irina Bogdan, Tudor Cosmatu & Andrei Raducanu

18

TEDx Bucharest 2012

NOTES

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

21SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Nick is an award-winning writer and journalist, a contributor to the Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent and BBC Radio among many others. His stories have included Russian elections, Bolivian coca wars and a 2500-mile voyage to Easter Island on a boat made of reeds.His latest book, Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go (Little Brown, Jun 2011) is the story of his year-long quest to find balance and fulfillment by sampling everything from naturism to monasticism, Buddhism to ballooning.

Oana is a documentary filmmaker based in Boston, USA and Bucharest. The natural world and the connection between man & nature has always been close to her heart and nowadays she is producing a feature documentary on the origins of the bear cult, together with fellow TEDster Cristian Lascu. Having previously produced a documentary about the old history of the Bucegi Mountains with Boston University professor Dr. Robert M. Schoch, she is already an award-winning media producer, consultant and screenwriter.

Oana Raluca Ghiocel

Nick Thorpe

22 SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Anca and Cristiana are fundraisers, having become so after leaving the corporate sector to join the NGO one. With around 20 years of experience between them, they promote a business thinking based on friend-raising, also founding Dreamcatchers, the first Romanian fundraising agency, in the process.

Ana and Ionut are two architects with a twist: they have recently become the first Romanian motorcyclists to complete a tour of Africa. 420 days, 55,000 kilometers, several cliff-hangers and many engaging human encounters later, they return to Bucharest with a much enriched view of the world. Their expedition was part of the project “Into the World”, an initiative launched by them, in 2010, with the purpose of promoting independent exploration.

Ionut Florea & Ana Hogas

Anca Echim & Cristiana Ionescu

Having started as a professional photographer, Tom is now deeply involved in social work, both in Norway and in Romania. In his daily job he helps troubled children & youth who are victims of drug abuse, sexual harassment and others. His impact on Romania is made through Hand2Hand, the NGO he founded back in September 2000 that supported Romanian youngsters with education in recent years. This is regarded as the most important contribution they can have - an education and a hope for work in the future. Their goal is to increase their projects so they can help as many as possible for a future with hope for a job. Tom is also devoted to bringing people together to leverage on the power of networking.

Tom Andreassen

23SPEAKERS

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Paul is an ultra-marathon runner, having already completed the Sahara Marathon and Des Sables Marathon (the World’s toughest marathon) twice. He also benefits from these competitions as journeys of self-discovery and self-improvement. Running for the “Inima Copiilor” association, he promotes them wherever he goes and is dedicated to their cause.

Paul is also a martial arts teacher for children, practicing them himself, since 1986. He also considers himself as being a very lucky person, since he succeeded in everything he wanted to do.

Aurora is an astrophysicist who has already been widely publicized and awarded for her research so far, which mainly revolves around physics of the hot plasma in clusters of galaxies (the largest virialized objects in the universe). Currently being an Einstein Postdoctoral Research Fellow (at Stanford University), she comes to TEDxBucharest to give us her thoughts on how big the Universe really is. She is also a mentor for Tech School, a robotics and astronomy contest seeking revolutionary applications.

Teo is arguably one of the most popular Romanian stand-up comedians, having been together with Café Deko, in the past and with Club99 nowadays. He constantly seeks to raise the bar on his performances, while challenging his audience to go past the obvious and really use comedy and their sense of humor as a way of life. After all, as he says it: “we are all here to have a good time!”

Teo

Paul Dicu

Aurora Simionescu

25

TEDx Bucharest 2012

Strategic media partners

Media partners

PARTNERS

27

TEDx Bucharest 2012

PARTNERS

Friends

România

.roPozitiva-

Supporters

Promoted by

ministerul culturii sipatrimoniului national

,

,

28

TEDx Bucharest 2012

NOTES

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................

...............................................................................