TEDxBonn 2018

TEDx Bonn goes SAVE THE WORLD
At this year’s TEDx Talk in the Telekom Design Gallery we brought together international experts from the worlds of science, technology, art and from society at large who provided altogether unusual answers to the question of how we want to live. They are all courageous enough to think outside of the box and they inspire people worldwide. Innovative thinkers, creative minds, unusual experts in the futuristic ambience of the Telekom Design Gallery.

TEDx Bonn took place as the visionary harbinger of COP24 in Poland. In association with the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany, Deutsche Telekom and SAVE THE WORLD e.V. on Saturday, 17 November, at 7.30 pm in the Telekom Design Gallery.

SPEAKERS 2018

Alanus von Radecki is head of the Competence Team Urban Governance Innovation at the Frauenhofer IAO and head of the innovation network "Morgenstadt: City Insights". In addition to his activities in project coordination and management, his work focuses on urban governance, systems analysis and complexity research directly related to urban systems. Von Radecki has been working closely at the interface between urban institutions and the private sector for many years. Parallel to his role at Fraunhofer IAO, he is the lead expert for the URBACT network SmartImpact and advises cities such as Stockholm, Manchester, Eindhoven, Porto, Dublin and Zagreb on the transformation of the governance system within the city administration and beyond. In 2017 von Radecki founded the Smart City Marketplace BABLE and currently acts as CIO.

Sander Chan is a political scientist at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and adjunct assistant professor at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. Sander is an advocate for global governance towards a greener, fairer and resilient future for all. He currently conducts research on the role of networks, non-state and local actors in global sustainability and climate change governance.

Conny Runner. As author of the Critical Campaigning Manifesto, Peng co-founder and political scientist, he explores new tactics and strategies of political influence through art, hacking and activism. As a "master of civil disobedience", the Berlin activist collective Peng! draws attention to social grievances with satirical actions and advertising campaigns. Together with Peng, Runner has already posed as press spokesman for Google and Vattenfall in spectacular actions without being asked, started a weapon recall in the USA on behalf of Heckler and Koch, and organized a drop-out club for secret service employees. His works have been shown at the Berlin Biennale and the Athens Biennale, among others, and in 2018 he was awarded the Aachen Peace Prize together with Peng.

Data scientist Elma Hot Dervic loves both, science and bees. In 2016 she founded BeeAnd.me, a monitoring system for bees, and supports beekeepers with state-of-the-art technology to master the traditional challenge of beekeeping. The intelligent monitoring system measures the amount of collected honey, the health of the bees through sound, local humidity and temperature. The data analysis informs beekeepers when something happens to their bees. Elma Hot is enthusiastic about the numerous possibilities of data mining and would like to draw attention to the life-threatening situation of bees and prevent their extinction. BeeAnd.me has been awarded as an innovative project with impact by the World Summit Award.

James Yarker is co-founder and artistic director of the British theatre company Stan's Cafe (Birmingham). Their radical productions regularly tour Europe and beyond, helping audiences see the world around them from a new perspective. Last year Yarker showed his installation "What When / Was Wenn" at the World Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn. This installation impressed as a "silent demonstration" and showed protest signs of the last hundred years. James regularly works with schools on creative learning projects, is asked to teach at universities and premiered in England on 27 October with Stan's Cafe's new big show, "The Capital". He will travel to Bonn by train from Birmingham, but otherwise does not feel that he is doing a great job "Saving the World".