Speakers & TEDTalks « TEDxNorrmalm

Speakers & TEDTalks

	Ulf Boman Ulf is a future strategist, member of Society for Organizational Learning and member of the advisory board to The Swedish National Heritage Board. He has worked with organizations such as the International Energy Agency, the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In his talk, Ulf talked about the shift from the modernistic city of the 20th century, where living, working and recreation were separated, to the post-modernistic city of the 21st century, where these functions are integrated. He also discussed what the ever growing city might mean for the future, and how densification and sustainability are key factors in the transition from urban sprawl to ”greendencity”.
	Danica Kragic Danica is a Professor of Robotics and Computer vision at KTH and leads the multidisciplinary Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS). CAS develops artificial robotic systems as assistants to people for everyday tasks in everyday environments. In her talk, Danica discussed why it is difficult to make robots use their visual and tactile senses and interact with the environment in the same ways humans do.
	Victoria Olausson Victoria has written the awarded book Green Communication and has given numerous lectures on the topic. She is also a project manager for WWFs Earth Hour (March 27 at 8.30pm). In her talk, Victoria examined and discussed green communication. She went over several aspects, ranging from mechanisms involved in societal shifts to how to meet the needs of green target groups. She also discussed the key to success for a green brand, and how to move from concern to action.
	Olle Torgny Originally industrial designer MFA, Olle has worked in several creative and strategic fields like usability, branding, graphic design, communication and strategic change management. In his talk, called “From Form to Sense – Experiences from the post industrial shift, multi dimensional design and the people involved”, he discussed how companies handle the development and design of products, offerings and other expressions of their enterprise. He also suggested what the future creative team will look like and how its members will approach their collaboration.
	Peter Ueda Peter is a medical student at Karolinska Institutet and business student at Stockholm School of Economics. In team with two of his classmates, he is running an epidemiological research project in Enugu, Southeastern Nigeria, evaluating the link between malnutrition early in life and health outcomes in adulthood. In January 2010, 40 years had passed since the end of the Nigerian Civil War and the subsequent famine of Biafra. In his talk, Peter described the health legacies of this nutritional disaster. Exposure to the famine in early life appears to have affected the health of the now grown up Biafra babies. Furthermore, he discussed the implications of the findings in the developing world.

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