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 […]

Bård Fossli Jensen

Bård Fossli Jensen believes in nurturing the partnership between doctor and patient. He finds it fascinating to observe, that with gentle reassurance and communication when a child is ill, how both the child and their parents are able to find coping strategies they didn’t know they had. Bård considers his most spectacular medical achievement was […]

Peter Stavrum Nielsen

Ever heard of Peter Stavrum Nielsen? Think of a drummer. Okay, think of a drummer who makes rhythms with his own body. This is Peter. He finds rhythm in things we never even thought of. Just two weeks after graduating from the Royal Music Academy in Silkeborg, Danish drummer Peter Stavrum Nielsen landed a dream […]

Sissel Morken Gullord

Sissel Morken Gullord is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and artist, that is known as a passionate performer on the goat horn. She was headhunted to play this mystical instrument for both Disney’s ”Frozen” and the TV series ”Lilyhammer”, and has won awards and grants for her creative work. Often used as an artist for performances on […]

Kaj Török

What does the future look like for us consumers? Will you eat red meat in 2030? Can we travel to and from our office each day and still achieve a carbon reduction? Is vacation by plane a luxury, or did technology solve the emission problems? Kaj Török works at Futerra Sustainability Communications, and is an […]

Pål Karlsen

TED talks are all about learning fun new things on topics you do not usually think about… so are you prepared to be baffled? Then let Pål Karlsen inspire you with his expert knowledge about the porcini mushroom! You might know it can be used in food, but did you know it has a lot […]

Jan Arild Svello

With the obesity epidemic that is currently going on in the western world, fitness and weight loss have become the focus for many of us. But what new ways are inventors coming up with, to get us up and moving? “Activetainment” is a true innovation story about merging virtual reality, social experiences online and… working […]