Lars Johansson-Kjellerød

Few Norwegian leaders dare to hire outside the norm. Lars Johansson-Kjellerød has made it his business idea. Former broker manager Lars Johansson-Kjellerød got bored with the financial sector. He started his own IT company and employs only people with Asperger syndrome or autism. Come join us at TEDxArendal to hear Lars talk about the new […]

Teo Härén

Teo Härén is an author and speaker on Business Creativity. He has worked in over 25 countries and has inspired hundreds of thousands of business people to become more creative. In 2015, Teo was selected by The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise as one of Sweden’s most entrepreneurial persons, and he has also been picked – […]

Karen Bit Vejle

Karen Bit Vejle has a lifelong passion for creating stories in paper – known as ‘psaligraphy’ – a passion that has made her a globally recognised artist. Karen’s magnificent artwork sells for top money and is on display in galleries around the world. When she was just five years old Karen Bit Vejle made her […]

Gunhild Carling

Follow Gunhild Carling on her journey through the history of jazz trombones, and hear her mimic some of the iconic heroes of this instrument. An upbeat, fun, and inspiring talk about the instrument, as well as the history around it. An old-school jazz artist of astonishing ability, Gunhild Carling combines her extraordinary talents on the […]

Runar Jarle Wiik

Filmmaker Runar Jarle Wiik has travelled extensively and in recent years his interests have led him to focus primarily on documentaries addressing the plight of indigenous peoples. Runar has spent the last 4–5 years developing his own documentary “No word for Worry” tells the story of the Moken people of the Mergui Archipelago in the […]

Dag Berild

Antibiotic resistance is rampant in the world, and we are moving towards the dark ages when it comes to curing something as simple as a cut or a wound. Hear one of the leading experts in the field of resistance talk about what the problem is, how we can handle it and what humankind should […]

Shaun «Shonduras» McBride

Shaun McBride, aka «Shonduras», is Snapchat’s first home-grown celebrity and one of the first people to make money from his intricate and personal Snapchat art. With his long, curly hair tucked under a backward baseball cap, McBride has his six younger sisters to thank for his ongoing digital success. Using creative illustrations to communicate with […]

Anita Schjøll Brede

Anita Schjøll Brede, CEO and co-founder of Iris AI – an Artificial Intelligence that will read all of the world’s science and help us connect the dots – will discuss AI, self-driving cars, 3D manufacturing, genomics, robots, colonization of Mars, personalized medicine, and the general craziness of frontier technology that can be used to make the […]

Ruganzu Bruno Tusingwire

In 2013 Ruganzu Bruno was about to give a TEDx talk about his Eco-art, in Sudan. Unforeseen events led to the government shutting down the event before he was given a chance to speak – and the presentation was lost. Through the newly formed TEDx brotherhood and friendship, TEDxArendal worked together with Ruganzu and the […]

Catharine Fay

As Catharine Fay watched a rocket soaring into space from her uncle’s backyard near the Kennedy Space Centre as a child, she never envisioned that one day she would have the opportunity to make materials for aircraft and spacecraft for NASA or be part of the space exploration program. The most exciting part of her […]