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In 2014-2015, Dr Tawfik Jelassi suddenly found himself in the spotlight. A respected academic, he was given the opportunity to become a Minister in Tunisia’s transition government. He presents, with humour and insight, the challenges he faced as he entered the high-stakes, high-risk world of politics. He shares the lessons of leadership he learned as Minister of Higher Education, Scientific …
Virtual Reality is a burgeoning industry that is generating much excitement in tech circles. Bruce speaks about his personal experiences with shared virtual reality, the surprises and epiphanies along the way, and the impact it can have on human communication at this early stage. Bruce Wooden is Head of Developer Relations at AltspaceVR, a virtual reality interactive communications platform …
Global inequality is becoming more complex and is increasingly harder to bring to the attention of the general public. In this talk, Bibi takes you along on the journey of the phone that is designed to give us access and understand complex stories about our economic system and the way it connects us all. After completing her Master’s degrees in …
Kaspar takes you through the journey of e-Residency, which is perhaps one of the most important government experiments in the 21st century. The experiment started nearly 20 years ago after Estonia decided to become a fully digital society and issuing to every resident a digital identity. In his talk, Kaspar shares how e-Residency has taken the next step to enable …
In this talk Susan invites you to ask some big questions about money. Where does it come from, who gives it power, and is it possible to create your own? She will talk about a currency she co-founded in Brixton, London, and also some other experiments with money throughout history. Susan Steed is an economist who has worked in various …
Digital citizenship is an intriguing but still very abstract idea with a dark past and great potential. A journalist who has followed youth Internet safety and citizenship for nearly 20 years, Anne Collier looks at what this phenomenon is and offers five ways adult society can actually make it viable for what we call ”digital citizens,” the heart of digital …
Et si gérer une équipe en entreprise comportait les mêmes challenges qu’un jockey/driver avec ses chevaux de courses? Tous doivent maintenir la performance de leurs « poulains » tout en manageant leur stress, sans tomber dans les travers de la performance artificielle. S’inspirer de la gestion des équidés permet, selon Pierre Février-Vincent, de résoudre l’incohérence, si ce n’est l’absurdité, de …
In this emotional and moving talk, Samia Tawil shares her personal experience of becoming an independent hybrid artist, going beyond the established codes of the music industry. Insisting on the need to remain true to oneself, she shares her views on the link between art and social and political commitment, and the significance of what being an artist is to …
Ayant voyagé et travaillé dans plus d’une centaine de pays, Claude Béglé est un témoin privilégié de notre monde en pleine mutation. Ayant eu la chance d’observer ce phénomène à travers divers prismes — celui des multinationales comme des institutions caritatives, à la fois au plan politique, économique, sociétal et philosophique –, il nous partage sa vision d’une globalisation à …
This amazing engineer explains how we are continuously bombarded by radiation from space. He shares his idea of developing an open source networked detector for these cosmic rays, creating a massive cosmic ray telescope and empowering citizens to take part in the scientific process. Inspired by a TED talk, James Devine started the CosmicPi project to design and build a …
