We are super excited to introduce our first speaker Maksim Izmaylov to you! He is a serial entrepreneur with the background in software engineering and law. Maksim believes that blockchain and other technologies can help us create a better world, e.g. reduce inequality.

At TEDxTUBerlin he will talk about Blockchain vs Inequality.

Alonso Burgos was born in Mexiko City and came to Berlin to study Comparative Literature and Political Science at the FU Berlin.

At TEDxTUBerlin he will talk about the importance of stories and of knowing how to look at them.

Fouad Al-Noor has a masters in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology from the University of Southampton. He worked as a research assistant at Imperial College London before joining Entrepreneur First. He wrote his thesis on paper-based medical diagnostics using image processing. He was born in Iraq, grew up in Norway, has lived in the UK for more than 10 years and worked in the USA.

Benedikt Kau is a student of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Freiburg and Maastricht with a focus on neuroscience. With two friends he founded the initiative WhyEurope e.V. Their aim is to communicate Europe differently. By what they call Positive Populism they are spreading simple, concrete and emotional messages over social media networks.