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.

Annemarie Botzki studied Politics and Government in the EU at the London School of Economics and went on to cover energy and climate policies as an energy reporter in Brussels and London. Inspired by covering the UNFCCC 2015 Paris negotiations, she started work at the Berlin based solar street start-up Solmove, where she manages national and international projects.

At TEDxTUBerlin she will talk about the The power of Solar roads: How innovation can solve the climate crisis.

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.

Marion Waller is passionate about cities and environmental issues. She works as an advisor to the Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning and architecture and has been the lead advisor on several competitions that have promoted ecological architecture in Paris. She has published her first book in 2016, called “Natural artefacts” about ecological restoration and the ways of re-inhabiting nature.

At TEDxTUBerlin she will talk about Why nature is our cities’ future. 

Thién D. Nguyen builds products and services around the theme of making technology more accessible to humans. He is an industrial engineer from TU Berlin who is obsessed with data exploration and automation.

At TEDxTUBerlin he will speak about How Innovators predicted our future and what we can learn from their mistakes.

Daniel P. Görtz is a Swedish sociologist and “theory artist”. He holds a PhD in sociology from Lund, based on an ethnographic study of ethnicity’s role in the Swedish police, and he currently lives and works as a writer who seeks to turn social theory into an art form. He is co-founder of the think-tank Metamoderna and one of the key influences of the Swedish political party “The Initiative” which started in Stockholm in 2017.

At TEDxTUBerlin he will talk about the Confessions of a Renegade Scholar.