The speakers at TEDxLundUniversity are courageous, curious and passionate. They break conventions, explore the world around them and do not care for authority. They give their audience new perspectives on life, and with their stories they challenge our entrenched ideas about the world. The audience can expect to be both provoked and inspired.

Lund University is an arena where open and inquiring minds can meet to discuss our world and the human condition. However, if unexpected collaborations and new ideas are to come about, we need more than just a research perspective. We need meeting places at a university where curious individuals with completely different experiences can meet and inspire and challenge one another. TEDxLundUniversity will be such a platform. For more information about Ted and TedXLundUniversity, visit www.tedxlunduniversity.com

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Confirmed Speakers

Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker is a multiplatform catalyst who works collaboratively with artists, academics, and thought leaders to change the way people think about identity, culture, and power. Her books include Black, White and Jewish, Baby Love, Black Cool, One Big Happy Family, and What Makes a Man, and she has participated in projects with the Estonian Ministry of Culture, The Fundazione Merz, The Walker Art Center, Universal Pictures, Viacom, and NPR. She is the co-founder of Third Wave Foundation and Write to Wellbeing, and a very popular lecturer around the world. Time Magazine named her one of the most influential leaders of her generation.

Andreas Ekström
Google knowledge, Google money, Google power
Did you google today? Most likely you did. The people of the world google almost 40,000 times per second. We gather more information than ever – but so does Google.
Journalist Andreas Ekström wrote a bestselling book about Google, and is one of Sweden’s leading commentators on the digital revolution. His talk will give you a mindblowing perspective on the knowledge, money and power the world has surrendered to very few hands.

Marie Dacke
Biologist Marie Dacke is an award winning speaker who among other things studies how insects – with brain volume smaller than the size of a rice grain – can navigate in the dark. The frustration not being able to experience all the sensory realms that nature has to offer is a driving force behind much of her research.

Mette Hoffmann Meyer
Filmmaker and TV producer Mette Hoffman Meyer from Danish Broadcasting Corporation is executive producer of Why Poverty?
To create a global dialogue Why Poverty? commissioned eight documentaries from award-winning film makers and 30 shorts from new and emerging talents. The films tackle big issues and pose difficult questions. The films were shown around the world in November 2012 on more than 70 national broadcasters.

Mathias Osvath
Have you ever thought about how utterly strange it is that you, a material entity, can do just that: think? Have you ever considered how you, and all other animals around you, seem to violate the laws of physics; how the future which do not exist appears to influence your current actions? Did you know that complex thinking have arisen independantly several times during the evolution? And have you ever though about what type of cognition an intelligent extraterestrial would have?
Mathias Osvath is a cognitive zoologist who studies the minds of great apes and crow birds. He is the founder of several research facilities aiming at understanding the principles of complex cognition. His talk will give you very few answers on some of the most complex scientific questions of today, but it is guaranteed to give you some mind-boggling perspectives.

Anders Wilhelmson
Today, a staggering 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. Anders Wilhelmson has created one solution to the problem, the Peepoo toilet. His talk will tell the story of going from a well-know architect to the founder of a company that sells toilets to the world’s least known.

Ann Heberlein