Past TEDx event

TEDxRotterdam

Raising the bar

Took placeMarch 29, 2019
LocationRotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
FormatStandard
When we host TedxRotterdam on the 29th of March 2019, it will be the fifth time there will be a TEDx in Rotterdam, for us a time to celebrate this landmark. The first two were organized by other teams of volunteers, but no less important in where we are now. And we would like to acknowledge the wonderful job they did before us. The last three has been more or less been organized by the same group of volunteers. The theme for this year is "Raising the Bar” It is in peoples nature to do better and to be better than before. If you look at a city as vibrant and colorful as Rotterdam, Raising the bar is something we try to incorporate in our day to day actions. Raising the Bar Being better, trying to improve, not to impress someone else, but an internal challenge to make you look within…. Within yourself, your company, community and city and always try to elevate your thought and ideas. This year will feature speakers that have risen to the occasion and have shown above and beyond, that raising their bar, is a foundation for the most wonderful ideas worth spreading. They have done so by evolving, growing, searching, being open being critical because that is was raising the bar means to us. It’s a journey but it can also be an epiphany or a collective thought.

Speakers

Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.

  • Adilson Neves

    My name is Sebastian Mennes, and I paid twice for my lifestyle with both a burn out and a depression. I started as an entrepreneur, managed my companies but did not manage to manage myself, and it took years to find a balance”

  • Henk Ovink

    Water gezant

    water as leverage for climate action

  • Ilfa Siebenhaar

    Together Laura and Ilfa started using bacteria to colour clothes, using something that does not affect either environment or people. They experimented with sound waves and petri dishes on speakers, the result is amazing.

  • Ismail Aghzhanay

    As an 8 year old he was placed in special class and as 23 year old he started studying to become a teacher. Believe in kids because they are the future.

  • Jean-Marie Molina

    When young people today are unable to fulfill their goal, they experience an existential crisis. We are raising the trophy generation who believe failure should be avoided at all costs but that is not what life is about!

  • Kristian & Elma Raynor & van Boxel

    The city of Rotterdam was made for cars, but this was not so in older times. So Kristian and Elma decided to get people on the streets again. With a type of acupuncture approach they are changing the city’s buildings one by one.

  • Laura Luchtman

    Together Laura and Ilfa started using bacteria to colour clothes, using something that does not affect either environment or people. They experimented with sound waves and petri dishes on speakers, the result is amazing.

  • Laura & Ilfa Luchtman & Liebenhaar

    Together Laura and Ilfa started using bacteria to colour clothes, using something that does not affect either environment or people. They experimented with sound waves and petri dishes on speakers, the result is amazing.

  • Laura Luchtman Ilfa Siebenhaar

    Together Laura and Ilfa started using bacteria to colour clothes, using something that does not affect either environment or people. They experimented with sound waves and petri dishes on speakers, the result is amazing.

  • Melanie Roche

    Hollistic healer

    Affecting the world from the inside out

  • Sebastian Mennes

    My name is Sebastian Mennes, and I paid twice for my lifestyle with both a burn out and a depression. I started as an entrepreneur, managed my companies but did not manage to manage myself, and it took years to find a balance

  • Wesley Dos Santos

    Tinkhustcularity is made up of three components. Tink = tinkering. Just doing something like playing, Hust = hustling. A hustler is someone trying to make a living out of his/her tinkering. Cularity = circularity, growing by giving back.

  • YMP

    I realised that spoken word can be boring if you have to listen to it for 20 minutes, so I turned to theater. Now I work with those people will think of as outcasts, but I don’t see them that way. I’m really grateful that I can be the leader of these kids.

  • YMP YMP

    I realised that spoken word can be boring if you have to listen to it for 20 minutes, so I turned to theater. Now I work with those people will think of as outcasts, but I don’t see them that way. I’m really grateful that I can be the leader of these kids.

Organizing team