Anita Schjøll Brede – 2016

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 – 2016

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 – 2016

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 – 2016

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 – 2016

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 […]