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Caroline Gabriel |
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How progress in the developed world can be self-limiting. Caroline will tell us why the last will be the first.
Caroline Gabriel is the co-founder and research director of Rethink Research Associates, a London-based analyst firm that specializes in operator business models using emerging technologies. Her research focus is on advanced wireless technologies such as WiMAX, LTE and 4G, and on the economics of the quad play. |
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Catherine Verfaillie |
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Bad news for the children of baby boomers: if we hurry up, we may be living even longer.
Catherine Verfaillie. Before she became the rockstar of stemcell research Catherine was the first Director of the University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute in 1999. In 2006, she came back to Belgium to become the director of the Interdepartementaal Stamcel Instituut at the K.U.Leuven. |
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Clayton Schaefer |
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Clayton Schaefer is responsible for property mapping for titling programs. He has published several papers on the role of land rights in post-conflict stabilization and development. He is co-authorPublished by Palgrave Macmillan and is author of a forthcoming study on Zimbabwe's land crisis. Clayton is the co-founder of the GlobaLand Group and the son of Peter Schaefer. Father and son recently shook the world of aid by asking the "9 billion $ question".
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Conrad Wolfram |
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This is one of the two legendary Wolframs about the secret empire called Wolfram Research.
Conrad Wolfram is the brother of Stephen Wolfram. Every decade the Wolfram family changes the world of science: Mathematica, New Kind of Science and now Wolfram Alpha, which Nova Spivack opined that "it could be as important as Google". Conrad is a prominent proponent of the reform of maths education by greater use of information technology. |
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Dambisa Moyo |
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The world resounds with her name. Moyo on life and death of European Aid.
Dambisa Moyo is a Zambian economist and bestseller author of Dead Aid (2009) which became a New York Times bestseller. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She also has an MBA in Finance and Bachelors degree in Chemistry from American University in Washington D.C...
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David McCandless |
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How does it feel to write a book everyone is waiting for?
One of the most awaited for books in the world of Design is David’s The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia which will be out in the US (Harper Collins) Nov 10th 2009 and in Europe February 4th 2010. David’s passion for visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words. “I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!” |
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Djamel Laroussi |
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Who is the greatest left-handed guitar player in the world?
September 23, 2009 a movie was aired in France called "Number One"( Zakia Tahiri’s) and everyone was asking the same question: who played the enchanting music ? The Paris Virgin Media Store had the answer: it was Djamel Laroussi, son of an Arab from Oran and a Kabylian-Berber mother, one of the world’s greatest guitar players who recently played for the Pope and was nominated UNESCO ambassador of Music.
Listen and weep: http://www.djamellaroussi.com/ |
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Jack Klaff |
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Jack Klaff is a multi-award-winning solo artist, writer, actor and director. He has held four Visiting Professorships at Princeton and was Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Starlab, Brussels. His books have included 'Bluff Your Way in the Quantum Universe'. His most recent London stage success was in 'Stockwell' (2009). |
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John Engel |
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Author and movie producer John Engel has worked in Hollywood with such luminaries as Brian De Palma, Tim Burton, Neil Jordan, Martin Campbell, Joel Schumacher, and others. Life’s circumstances led him to re-invent himself as a Belgium-based writer, turning an idea out of left field into a pretty uncommon project (“UNCOMMON SOUND”), proving that a crazy idea without a business model can see the light and thrive today. He’ll tell you all about it in five minutes.
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Marc Millis |
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He is NASA's most forward thinker.
Have you ever wondered when we`ll be able to travel to distant stars as easily as in science fiction? This is the man to ask. Marc is the founder of the NASA "Breakthrough Propulsion Physics" (BPP) Project. Marc just published The Frontiers of Propulsion Science...
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Marc Van Montagu |
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For him it is all about seed technology. Seeds empower.
Belgian molecular biologist; former Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) who almost single-handedly founded the discipline of plant genetics. He believes that the difference between rich and poor is a matter of seeds...
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Michel Bauwens |
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This man lives in a far-away land where his servers are. He is the expert on pirate politics.
Bauwens is a peer-to-peer theorist and the founder of the P2P Foundation. He has been an analyst for the United States Information Agency, knowledge manager for British Petroleum, editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine Wave. He advises the Vatican on technology...
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The Pope of Digital Technology will spend 24 hours with us.
He is well-known as the founder of the MediaLab at MIT, the Wired columns and his book Being Digital, but his latest effort, the One Laptop per Child project, may prove his most ambitious: manufacturing the XO, a wireless Internet-enabled computer costing roughly $100 for the poorest children in the world...
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Niels Meulman |
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How do you introduce a living legend?
Niels Meulman's initial recognition came as 'Shoe' within the international rbellious graffiti culture at the end of the 1980's. In the nineties he was one of the designers who shaped MTV Europe. He has become infamous because of the new art form calligraffiti - a merging of calligraphy and graffiti. Meulman’s designs and artwork are part of the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the San Francisco MOMA, The Museaum of Modern Art. |
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Noam Perski |
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First he worked for the bottom billion, now he caters for the top. But his heart is still down there.
Noam Perski worked for the International AIDS society until 2009 when he founded Jameslist in Sweden, the world’s first truly transparent luxury marketplace. He has a great idea how to marry education investments and carbon credits. |
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Paul Collier |
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From 1998 to 2003, Collier was the director of the World Bank’s Development Research Group. His book The Bottom Billion identifies the four traps that keep the 50 poorest countries mired in poverty, and outlines ways to help them escape, with a mix of direct aid and external support for internal change...
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Paul Hamilton |
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The attendees of TEDxBrussels will see a map of Africa they have never seen before, in fact nobody has. Where does the grid start, where does it stop, where are the sea cables, where are the micro beams... it is all in there.
Paul Hamilton possesses the lost skills of cartographers. He maps fibre and satellite infrastructure against the evolution of international bandwidth. For TEDxBrussels he made this special map about wireless electricity in Africa. Never seen before.
http://www.africabandwidthmaps.com/trans_africa_large.html |
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Paul Romer |
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Stanford economist Paul Romer believes that to address the big problems we'll face this century -- insecurity, harm to the environment, global poverty -- ne w technologies will not be enough. We must also speed up the discovery and implementation of new rules, of new ideas. Radical ones: charter cities...
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Pedro Brugada |
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Everyone in cardiology knows the Brugada Syndrome. This is the man it was named after.
This year top football player Anthony Van Loo suffered a heart attack during the game. He fell down, died and jumped up again, alive. Pedro Brugada had implanted a defibrillator which diagnosed the arrhythmia and autonomously administered a jolt. The Brugada syndrome is the last clinico-cardiologic entity described in the 20th century...
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R. U. Sirius |
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The Counter-culture icon of San Francisco on a bold mission to make Brussels 'outcool' any European city.
He is best known as the Editor-In-Chief of Mondo 2000 magazine from 1989–1993, the flagship of Cyberpunk. Sirius was candidate in the 2000 U.S. presidential election for The Revolution Party. He is a regular columnist for Wired News and San Francisco Examiner, and has also written for Rolling Stone, Time, Esquire and other publications. His latest book (2009) became an instant bestseller in the LA musical underground: Everybody Must Get Stoned. Rock Stars On Drugs. |
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Sergei Krasnikov |
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Apparently it is a question of time.
If Time Travel will ever be possible, it will be the Russians that come up with it and it will mostly depend on this man from Saint Petersburg. Krasnikov is best known for his contributions in theoretical physics, specifically the development of the Krasnikov Tube and its applications in causality, closed timelike curves and hyperfast travel. He is Russia’s debunker: he believes in very little...
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