Interview with Niaz Bayati How was your experience with TEDxOdense? I was very nervous and a little skeptical to begin with. When I agreed to be a part of TEDxOdense, the main concern for me was whether there were any rules for what I was allowed and not allowed to say. Luckily this was not the…

Interview with James RogersCan you tell me about your overall experience at TEDxOdense last year?I found it really intellectually invigorating to be perfectly honest, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, especially behind the scenes. All the speakers engaged really well with each other, I made some good contacts after the event, and going on…

Interview with Beatriz Hernandez de FuhrCan you tell us about your overall experience at TEDxOdenseWomen last year?I have one word to describe it: It was flawless. Everything went perfect. From the moment I arrived to the moment I left the following morning. I had a coach from the TEDx-team, Ofelia Edery, who showed me around,…

Interview with Jenifer Clausell-Tormos Thank you so much for meeting with us! Can we start by hearing a little bit about your overall experience at TEDxOdenseWomen last year? Yes, it was an incredible experience! It was my dream to be a TEDx Speaker. I have been watching TED Talks for many years and I have always found…

The sung and unsung voices TEDxOdenseWomen was an initiative that began last year following several years of successful TEDxOdense-events, as women on the team behind TEDxOdense wanted to expand and go beyond what the ordinary TEDx Event could cater to. From this desire, TEDxOdenseWomen was born and is now returning for the second time, this…

TEDxOdenseWomen – a small piece in a larger puzzleDenmark is often referred to an egalitarian utopia in many countries and cultures. It has a flat hierarchical structure, where the arbitrary distance from citizen to elected official is rather short for a traditional Western country. There are many things we can be proud of: Denmark was…

TEDWomen—History and FurtureTED as a concept and conference was founded in California in 1984 to create a platform devoted to spreading worthy ideas, condensed into concise and powerful talks of no more than 18 minutes. The thought was, that any idea worth spreading could and should be pitched in that time. The focal points of…

Interview with Uffe Madsen—sitting by those facing (the edge of) life and deathCan you tell us a little about your overall experience at TEDxOdense last year?Personally, it was a huge experience. At first I thought, what on Earth am I going to do here? But then I was so greatly assured by Adam [Montandon, TEDxOdense…

Interview with Kay Xander Mellish—bringing (the edges of) people and culture closer togetherCan you tell us a little bit about your overall experience of being at TEDxOdense last year? I think it was really fun being at TEDxOdense, because there were so many other interesting speakers around. You know, we speakers tend to hang out…

Interview with Andreas Okholm— (going to the edge of) what is possible with airborne wind energyCan you tell us a little bit about your overall experience at TEDxOdense last year?First of all, it feels like a long time ago. Back then, I guess I prepared quite a bit. There was a lot of work in…

Interview with Alexander Mathiasen—using computer science to increase (the edge of) human understandingCan you tell us a little about your overall experience of being on the TEDxOdense stage last year?On the day, you wake up and you’re really nervous. Fortunately my talk was early in the day, I was the second speaker, so I didn’t…

Interview with Irina Antonescu— exploring (the edge of an) unknown territory as a pharmaceutical researcherCan you tell us a little bit about your overall experience as a speaker at TEDxOdense last year?It was fantastic, it was one of the best experiences that one can have giving a talk. As researchers, we’re often going to conferences…

Interview with Bjarne Wædeled – the man with the shattered memoryAfter a successful career as a businessman, Bjarne lost his job and wife – and couldn’t figure out why. Years later he had a stroke and was taken to the hospital. Here the doctors revealed to him that the reason things had been going downhill…

Interview with Sérgio OliveiraSérgio Oliveira is a business developer at Khora Virtual Reality, Denmark’s leading Virtual and Augmented Reality production house. He was also a speaker at TEDxOdense 2017. In his TEDxOdense talk, Sérgio explained the magic of a childhood memory, and how virtual reality is being used today to record your memories in the…

Interview with Jacob Nielsen – We Want Children to Have the Ability to Create New TechnologiesJacob Nielsen is an Associate Professor specializing in robotics at the University of Southern Denmark. He was also a speaker at TEDxOdense 2017, where together with his colleague, Jørgen Christian Larsen, he talked about their joined project Teknologiskolen, that teaches…

Behind the scenes of TEDxOdense 2018 – organizing an event with passionate volunteersImagine all the things you never got around to doing… maybe because you were afraid, or you just never got the chance. Passioneering is an opportunity to go out and pursue your passion through volunteering! Learn more about passioneering in this interview.My name…

Interview with Pia TasiorPia Tasior is a human resources “Good Karma” officer. In 2017, Pia gave a TEDxOdense talk about her award winning workplace – and about how to go from management to freedom.One year after your TEDxOdense talk – where are you now?I have since become 100% self-employed at my company Good Karma Officer.…

3 reasons your boss should buy your ticket to this year’s TEDxOdense event!Do you and your colleagues want to bring new ideas worth spreading to your company? TEDx events spark deep conversations and connections, and you’re in luck – there’s one happening right here in Odense! Here are 3 arguments that will convince your boss…

Doors will open for registration at 12:00. From 12.30 to 13.00 you can find your favorite seat. Everyone arriving later than 13:00 will NOT be let inside during the first talk and will have to wait until the next speaker is being introduced by the host. TicketYOU MUST BRING YOUR TICKET, either printed or on your…