Xavier Rosset: 300 days alone on an island

TEDx Geneva2009 - Sometimes it’s all about Science

Xavier Rosset is a 33 years old Swiss adventurer. To find him, you usually need to leave the cities and go to the edge of a lake, the middle of a desert, or on a mountain. This modern adventurer has produced documentaries from more than twenty countries. In his latest project “A Glance on the World”, Xavier brings a reflection …

Claude Marshall: Sports, giving refugee youth their lost childhood

TEDx Geneva2009 - Sometimes it’s all about Science

As a volunteer consultant to the UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), Claude Marshall helps develop and find support for sports projects for refugee youth, mainly in mass refugee camps or settlements around the world. He, as well, seeks financial support from individuals and corporations for refugee assistance in education, healthcare and housing. Mr. Marshall joined the UNHCR in 1993, after …

Jan-Mathieu Donnier: 360° imagery systems and applications

TEDx Geneva2009 - Sometimes it’s all about Science

Jan-Mathieu Donnier is beneficiary of a master degree in international relations and an other in communication and media science. He is co-founder of GlobalVision Communication sàrl, a pioneer business in the field of 360° imagery. At TEDxGeneva he will briefly outline the evolution of photorealistic immersion technology in the past years and talk about forthcoming projects and evolutions toward 360° …

Frederic Kaplan: Are Gesture-based Interfaces The Future of Human Computer Interaction

TEDx Geneva2009 - Sometimes it’s all about Science

Frederic Kaplan, engineer and specialist of artificial intelligence and new interfaces, worked ten years for Sony, before joining the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He is co-founder with the designer Martino d’Esposito of OZWE, a company that produces and commercializes the objects they invent together. His research has led to about a hundred scientific publications and his prototypes …

Louis Palmer: When the whole world talks about energy and climate crisis, it is time to show the solutions! (Solartaxi)

TEDx Geneva2009 - Sometimes it’s all about Science

In 2004 Louis Palmer started the solartaxi project. Since his childhood he wanted to go around the world without polluting and destroying planet Earth with fossil fuels. With the help of four different Swiss universities he managed to build the car, find supporters and sponsors and take off for a 18 month tour across 38 countries. He wanted to show …