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App for TEDxRotterdam
TEDxRotterdam has launched an amazingly practical mobile app that will be useful, maybe even crucial, to make the most out of your TEDxRotterdam experience. The app is free downloadable via m.tedxrdam.nl and provides you with… more
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Arjen Weijers & Laurens de Groot
Weijers and De Groot are more than just campaigners fighting against whale slaughtering and the seal hunt. They lead the way by constantly exerting pressure on governments and sailing on board of Sea Shepherd ships… more
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Bernice Notenboom
Notenboom is more than just a fervent traveler who is passionate about fighting climate change. Her extreme expeditions are blazing a path by placing focus on the tipping points of the world’s climate. She became… more
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CEO for one day
CEO for one day is a research and leadership transformation program to spread ideas. On October 13th, 20 selected excellent students will swap seats with a top executive and chair the board of a high-ranking organization. 20 inspired students will share their ideas worth spreading with their organization for one day.
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CONNY JANSSEN DANST
Janssen is more than just a talented woman heading one of the most prominent modern dance troupes in the Netherlands. She leads the way by creating site-specific works on typical Rotterdam locations like the roof… more
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David Middendorp
Middendorp is more than just a talented choreographer trying to cater to a broad public. He is creatively mixing modern dance with animation and has already performed before the large audiences of Lowlands, Oerol and… more
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Eelco Blok
Blok is more than just a professional businessman leading a company that offers telecom services, ICT, internet and TV to more than 40 million of customers. He leads the way by promoting a top sports… more
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Filip Jonker
Jonker is more than just an artist making striking art works because of his refreshing choice of materials. He leads the way by continuously going in search of adventure and not being afraid to approach… more
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Giel Beelen
Beelen is more than just one of the most popular radio personalities in the Netherlands. He leads the way by championing the less fortunate through both radio and television. Beelen uses his need to go… more
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Haiyan Wang
Wang is more than just a Chinese native sharing her knowledge about Asia with big enterprises. She leads the way by calling attention to a changing global reality and the centrality of cultivating a global… more
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HipHopHuis, with Rosanne van Sandwijk
HipHophuis is more than just a studio where young people can pop, beatcreat, Bboy or ladyhop. HipHophuis leads the way by providing more then 400 young people from Rotterdam a lively meeting place where they… more
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Ilco van der Linde
Van der Linde is more than just a campaigner for world health and peace. He leads the future by focusing on tangible, positive action to realize peace bottom up and run by young people in… more
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Jan Kees de Jager
De Jager is more than just a politician using his expertise in economics to serve his country. In these times of worldwide financial crisis he leads the way by strongly representing the Dutch financial politics… more
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Joost Conijn
Conijn is more than just an artist and an adventurer; he leads the way by filming the untold stories of people he encounters in places which are not very often visited. From riding a reclining… more
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Kees Moeliker
Moeliker is more than just a scientist; he leads the way by promoting research that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. With his writings on remarkable animal behavior, he shows that curiosity… more
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Lineke Sneller
Sneller is more than just a strong businesswoman sharing her IT knowledge with her students. She leads the way by emphasizing the role information technology plays in leadership changes. Although some may experience the latest… more
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Mariëlle Rijkaart
She is more than just a cellist turning her passion for classical music into business. She leads the way by creating interesting cross overs with modern dance and performing for a world audience at Sjanghai… more
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Marijn Berk
Berk is more than just a clever young businessman. He leads the way in creating clean portable power sources for mobile devices and making mobile products truly mobile. Berk designed his own patent-pending charging technology… more
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Marjolijn van Heemstra
Van Heemstra is more than just a poetic journalist. She leads the way by being the first to have her debut collection of poems presented not only in print, but on YouTube as well. The… more
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Max Westerman – host
Besides covering most important American news stories of recent decades, he leads the way by infusing his reportage, television programs and books with humor and other story-telling techniques that make them interesting for a mass… more
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Merijn Bolink
Bolink is more than an artist with a profound interest in renewing the arts; he leads the way by demonstrating how ideas just happen randomly and in large numbers, both in and outside the domain… more
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Mikko Hypponen
Hypponen is more than just a cyber crime expert helping firms and governments to protect their soft- and hardware. He leads the way in defending the world’s networks from malicious software and cyber crime. Hipponen… more
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Ming’s Pretty Heroes & Red Limo String Quartet
Ming’s Pretty Heroes is more than just a talented band choosing to be outside the musical mainstream. They will lead the way by performing at TEDxRotterdam, giving a unique show together with the Red Limo… more
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Patrick Verwijmeren
Verwijmeren is more than just an expert in the field of finance. Being one of the youngest associate professors in his field he leads the way by striving for improvements in corporate governance and stressing… more
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Rob Wijnberg
Wijnberg is more than just a journalist; he leads the way by expressing the value(s) of future generations and defending absolute freedom of speech. Our world is facing enormous energy problems with fossil fuels becoming… more
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Roos Jonker
Jonker is more than just a musician willing to go down uncharted paths in the making of very personal music. She is multi-talented, singing, playing the piano, guitar, harp and saxophone and already performing with… more
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Rosanne van Sandwijk, with HipHopHuis
Van Sandwijk is more than just a musical talent with a golden voice. She leads the way by making interesting crossovers between opera and popular art forms, trying to win the hearts and minds of… more
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Sander Veeneman
Veeneman is more than just a recorder of the still and moving image. He leads the way photographing and filming people growing up in famine-stricken areas, and raising awareness of people’s own responsibility to do… more
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Sander Veenhof
Veenhof is more than just an artist who knows how to handle computers. He leads the way by using his considerable knowledge of emerging technologies to shape works of art that extend our spatial perceptions… more
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Scarlet Mae
They are more than just a group of young energetic jazz lovers producing nice and slow songs for a broad audience. They lead the way by funding their debut album through crowd funding and not… more
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Stephanie Francke Quartet
Francke is more than just a talented jazz musician playing up-tempo jazz and blues with her band Stephanie Francke Quartet. She leads the way by introducing jazz and blues to a younger crowd and participating… more
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Steven van der Hoeven
Van der Hoeven does more than just try and forget his tragic past. He leads the way by making people aware that it is possible as an adult to pick up the pieces of a… more
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Suleiman Bakhit
Bakhit is more than just a clever media producer; he leads the way by creating superheroes, providing the Arabic youth with inspiring role models and bringing positive change to the Middle East. Revolutions, massive resistance… more
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Willem-Paul Brinkman
Brinkman is more than just a researcher delivering intricate studies, which are only interesting for his peers. He leads the way by developing so-called VRET-systems and combating phobias with avatars and virtual reality. Having a… more
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Zangmakers
Zangmakers is more than just a group of passionate professionals combining their individual musical talents and skills. They lead the way by sowing musical awareness and passing it forward because they truly believe singing can… more
