Past TEDx event

TEDxSkolkovoChange

Took placeApril 3, 20137:00 PM - 9:30 PM (GMT+4)
LocationSkolkovo, Moscow, Russia
FormatTEDxChange Simulcast
Live Broadcasting of TEDxChange 2013 - TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates and hosted by Chris Anderson, TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. There also will be some local speakers at TEDxSkolkovoChange.

Speakers

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

  • Nickolay Kononov

    Editor-in-chief at Hopes & Fears website – a storyteller for Russia's Internet generation looking to start their own businesses. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism (Lomonosov Moscow State University), worked as a reporter for Izvestia and Capital Evening. He wrote about business being a Senior Correspondent for the Expert Magazine and then worked for the Russian Forbes for seven years. Author of ‘God Without a Car. 20 Mad Men That Made Business In Russia From Scratch’ (The book was in Short list of the "NOS" Literary Prize 2012) and ‘Code of Pavel Durov. The Real Story of VKontakte VK.com and Its creator’.

  • Peter Fedichev

    Peter Fedichev, Ph.D. is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Quantum Pharmaceuticals. Peter is a former assistant professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Innsbruck University, Austria). He is the author with over 40 scientific papers. Dr. Fedichev earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He worked at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics in Amsterdam and the Institute for Molecular Physics at Kurchatov Institute (Russian Research Center, Moscow, Russia).

Organizing team