True inspiration and a lot of interesting discussions!

I kväll så anordnades TEDx Stockholm - Redefining Innovations på Kulturhuset i Stockholm.

Vi var ett förväntansfullt gäng människor som hade samlats i Kulturhusets lokaler i kväll - med bakgrund från bland annat teknologi, utbildning, näringsliv, politik, konst/design, media mm.

Kvällens talare delades in i:
(1) Redefining Innovation
(2) Think, Make, Learn
(3) Tomorrow's world

Vi fick möjligheten att lyssna på Jenny Almsenius och Carolina Wallin Pérez.

Kvällens moderator var Gustaf Josefsson.

Talarna från scen var:
1a. Catarina Mota "Catarina is co-founder of openMaterials.org, a collaborative project dedicated to DIY experimentation with smart materials, and altLab, Lisbon’s hackerspace. She has taught numerous hands-on workshops on hi-tech materials and simple circuitry with the goal of encouraging people with little to no science background to take an interest in science, technology and knowledge-sharing."

1b. Alicia Gibb

1c. Waldemar Ingdahl

2a.  Mark Smith "Mark is Professor of IT product development in the School of Information and Communication Technology at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah in 1983 and spent over 20 years at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. His current teaching and research activities at KTH are in architectures and interdisciplinary realization methods for future IT devices and platforms, and in context information measurement especially for use in mobile systems and enterprise applications."

2b. Emma Rose Metcalfe "Emma Rose is co-founder of HowDo - a new social app and platform to capture and share the knowledge of the world. She is a designer working mostly with services and human centred design, though her work has ranged from designing a future experience of opera for the New York Opera to exploring interdisciplinary research with Molecular Scientists."

3a. Erik Kruse "Erik is an expert in consumer demands, industry and social dynamics, and forecasting ICT evolutionary trends. He works as Strategic Marketing Manager & Networked Society Evangelist at Ericsson's Networked Society Lab. He spends his time on company strategies and conducting research into future trends and requirements. He is the co-author of The Networked Home, and author of A Journey to the Third Place, based on research among early adopters of information technology. 

3b. Soki Choi "Soki has a blended background as reseacher, entrepreneur and pianist. She holds a Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet, a Master of Science in Economics from Handelshögskolan and has been researcher at Harvard. She founded a pioneering company developing mobile applications in Europe and Asia. Today, she advises Sweden’s largest healthcare restructuring project, driven by an untiring will to “cure the healthcare system”.

3c. Folke Tersman "Folke is the Chair Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University. He has previously worked at Auckland University, New Zealand, Gothenburg University and Stockholm University. In his research, Folke has focused on, among other things, questions about the viability and desirability of supranational forms of democracy. He was the leader of the research project “Democracy Unbound”, which was funded by the Swedish Research Council, between 2004 and 2008, and is the author of Tillsammans (“Together”), Bonnier Existens, 2009. In this book, Folke explores the possibility of responding to the global environmental problems by reforming the existing supranational political institutions"

Dessa talare tillsammans med TED Talks egna stjärnor fick mig allt att tänka en del.

"Where good ideas come from" by Steven Johnson

"Building blocks that blink, beep and teach" by Ayah Bdeir

"Demand a more open-source government" by Beth Noveck

Tack till TEDx Stockholm teamet!