Hugo Schotman

Atheist, Business adviser, Connector, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Global soul, Single, Social entrepreneur, Startup, Technologist

Hugo Schotman is a Dutch guy living in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a Product Manager, and Leader. Hugo has lived and worked in several countries, collaborated with and befriended people from many different cultural backgrounds. TED community involvement: Hugo is TEDster since TEDGlobal 2005, he is a TED Translator, founding member of TEDxZurich and Organizer/Licensee of TEDxZuriberg. http://tedxzuriberg.com/ TEDxZurich talks on ted.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_b_glattfelder_who_controls_the_world.html http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_t_hoen_pool_medical_patents_save_lives.html http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_wernicke_1000_tedtalks_6_words.html http://www.ted.com/talks/nicolas_perony_puppies_now_that_i_ve_got_your_attention_complexity_theory Examples of personal achievements: * Front-End architecture for the first full-service online stock trading platform in The Netherlands, 1999. * Early contributor to the community that started Podcasting. * Becoming an internationally certified ski instructor (including off-piste guiding) next to my regular career. * Serving as a member of the board of a student organization. * Regular and ad-hoc volunteer work. Hugo has over 25 years experience working in IT, consulting and technology (startup) firms with a strong focus on Internet applications and User Experience. Hugo grew from being a consultant and developer on client-server projects to User Experience designer, and product leader on Internet/mobile projects.

Digital products. Learning new things thoroughly. Quality. Complex things made simple. Skiing. :-)

Around the world and at TED there are many people who know how to do - and make - things "right": who have successfully solved problems that still have to be solved in many parts of the world. I am optimistic that eventually, this will trickle up to the entire world population. Those ideas - the ideas about how to fix things - are worth spreading! Let us work on accelerating the adoption of the right ideas.

AI, Mobile app development, product management, skiing

I am currently on the TEDxZurich team, and I am the Licensee and organizer of TEDxZuriberg http://tedxzuriberg.com . I'm one of the founders of TEDxZurich and I was responsible for the production (stage, presentations, Audio/Video) and contributed to several other sub-teams until 2014. See: http://tedxzurich.com At TEDGlobal>Geneva 2015 I had the pleasure to lead a team of several swiss TEDx organizers to organize a day of pre-conference activities for TEDx organizers from all over the world. I have translated and reviewed translations for several TEDTalks. I've attended several TEDx events including TEDxAmsterdam, TEDxZug and TEDxCERN. I organized a viewing party for TED2010 which brought 10 people together who hadn't previously met. I contributed to the TEDxWorkshops at the TEDs and TEDx's I attended and at the TEDxSummit in Doha. TEDGlobal 2005 in Oxford got me hooked on TED. I connected several speakers and attendees to other people in my network. TEDGLobal 2007 was my introduction to Africa. Afterwards I climbed up Kilimanjaro with other TEDsters.

Since many people know I have a technical background they sometimes don't expect me to have creative qualities too.