Dutch Princess Mabel van Oranje, Christine Meindertsma and Marcel Dicke will speak at TEDxAmsterdam.
Amsterdam, 13 October 2009 – The program of the TEDxAmsterdam conference is quickly taking shape. The organization of TEDxAmsterdam revealed 3 new speakers today. Dutch Princess Mabel van Oranje is the Chief Executive Officer of The Elders. The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. Besides Mabel van Oranje, Prof. dr. Marcel Dicke, an ecologist with a special interest in the relation between plants and insects, and young designer Christine Meindertsma will also speak at the conference. Under the slogan ‘Breakthrough’ TEDxAmsterdam brings the brightest thinkers and the most inspiring ideas together in the areas of technology, entertainment, design, art, science and business.
Chairman Jim Stolze is excited that he can introduce another three remarkable speakers after Kevin Kelly, architect Bjarke Ingels. Louise Vet, Wubbo Ockels, Frans Timmermans and Jacob Gelt Dekker. “Because of the wide variety of speakers we can truly claim that TEDxAmsterdam will be the conference that will gather international opinion leaders to be inspired, gain new insights and talk about future breakthroughs in both the scientific and the social field.”
Mabel van Oranje
Mabel van Oranje is the Chief Executive Officer of The Elders. The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. In 2005, the World Economic Forum named her one of its Young Global Leaders.
Prof. dr. Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke is an ecologist with a special interest in the relation between plants and insects. The central theme in his research is the way that plants define the lives of insects. For example, there are plants that spread special fragrances if they are attacked by caterpillars. The fragrances attract predators of the caterpillars (like ichneumon wasps) as a sort of bodyguards for the plant.
Christine Meindertsma
Young designer Christine Meindertsma started her own studio, Flocks, after graduating the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Meindertsma explores products and raw materials in unusually thoughtful ways. For her first book, Checked Baggage (2004), Meindertsma purchased a container filled with a week's worth of objects confiscated at security checkpoints in Schiphol Airport after 9/11. She meticulously categorized all 3267 items and photographed them on a white seamless background. Meindertsmas second book, PIG 05049 (2007), is an extensive collection of photographic images that documents an astounding array of products that different parts of an anonymous pig called 05049 could support. With this book, Meindertsma reveals lines that link raw materials with producers, products and consumers that have become so invisible in an increasingly globalized world.
Currently Meindertsma is in the race for the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009.
Go to www.tedxamsterdam.nl for more information.
Chairman Jim Stolze is excited that he can introduce another three remarkable speakers after Kevin Kelly, architect Bjarke Ingels. Louise Vet, Wubbo Ockels, Frans Timmermans and Jacob Gelt Dekker. “Because of the wide variety of speakers we can truly claim that TEDxAmsterdam will be the conference that will gather international opinion leaders to be inspired, gain new insights and talk about future breakthroughs in both the scientific and the social field.”
Mabel van Oranje
Mabel van Oranje is the Chief Executive Officer of The Elders. The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity. In 2005, the World Economic Forum named her one of its Young Global Leaders.
Prof. dr. Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke is an ecologist with a special interest in the relation between plants and insects. The central theme in his research is the way that plants define the lives of insects. For example, there are plants that spread special fragrances if they are attacked by caterpillars. The fragrances attract predators of the caterpillars (like ichneumon wasps) as a sort of bodyguards for the plant.
Christine Meindertsma
Young designer Christine Meindertsma started her own studio, Flocks, after graduating the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Meindertsma explores products and raw materials in unusually thoughtful ways. For her first book, Checked Baggage (2004), Meindertsma purchased a container filled with a week's worth of objects confiscated at security checkpoints in Schiphol Airport after 9/11. She meticulously categorized all 3267 items and photographed them on a white seamless background. Meindertsmas second book, PIG 05049 (2007), is an extensive collection of photographic images that documents an astounding array of products that different parts of an anonymous pig called 05049 could support. With this book, Meindertsma reveals lines that link raw materials with producers, products and consumers that have become so invisible in an increasingly globalized world.
Currently Meindertsma is in the race for the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009.
Go to www.tedxamsterdam.nl for more information.
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