In the spirit of ideas worth spreading we created the TEDxEskilstuna.
A special thanks for our speakers,
Daniel Mendoza
Åsa Öberg
Nina Bozic
Kristin Axelsson
Gustav Borgefalk
Tove Wikström
and of course our attendences <3
A very special thanks also for our TEDxHosts who made this happen.
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Speaker at TEDxEskilstuna, Gustav Borgefalk: Taming the force of contests
Can you change the world with contests? Gustav Borgefalk, founder of Studentcompetitions.com believes so. For hundreds of years, contests have been used to drive innovation, to identify talents and push human imagination forward. Contests makes us perform far beyond our limitations and push ourselves to results we thought was impossible. We unleash creativity and focus our attention to solve specific problems.
Gustav is a web entrepreneur and contest nerd. After having participated in hundreds of contests and seen what a good challenge could do to increase people’s motivation, Gustav started his global contest company out of college. At Singularity University / NASA he further explored the future of contests and learned how these can be applied to tackle the grand challenges of our time.
Today, Gustav helps governments, companies and Universities to solve their greatest challenges, using structured contests and challenges as the tool. At this talk, he will introduce the concept of contest-driven processes, and his vision of how contests one day will be used to solve all of mankind’s most pressing issues: create world peace, send men and women into outer space and cure cancer.
Can a society develop in a positive direction when citizens daily get negative information about the problems in the world from media? Can children and young
people have hope and faith in the future when every headline they see is cases of violence, misery and despair? And is it really true that nothing good happens in the world?
Good News magazine is designed to be a break in the media noise. A break in which the purpose is produce optimism and confidence.
Because if we ever may have access to all the negative and never, or rarely, leave space to highlight all that is good, we lose hope and confidence. Without them, the society can not develop.
On TEDxEskilstuna, Daniel Mendoza, founder of Good News Magazine, will talk about the importance of focusing more on the solutions, social innovations, the need to provide role models and everyday heroes.
Speaker at TEDxEskilstuna, Nina Bozic: The Art of Innovative Mindset
Today everyone talks about the power of innovation and how everyone in the company has to be super creative and innovative every day. On the other hand many companies, despite of their continuous innovation efforts, putting in place an innovation process and pouring money into it still struggle to create a truly innovative culture. So what are the key pieces for making the innovation mindset puzzle work in a company? Have you ever thought that performing artists have been using ´innovative mindset´ as the core of their ´business´ much longer before innovation became a buzz word in business? What can we learn from them that could help us better understand and support innovative culture in companies? At TEDxEskilstuna, Nina Bozic will guide us through “The Art of Innovative Mindset” to find out more about it!
Only on TEDxEskilstuna, 26th April, 2012 at Studio, Mälardalens University, Smedjegatan 37!
TEDxEskilstunaSalon #2
March 28, 2012, at Mälardalen University
Smedjegatan 37, Eskilstuna
TEDxEskilstunaSalon #1
March 7, 2012, at Munktell Science Park
