TEDxArendal 2015 is live for the 3d time, and we are ever looking forward to spread great ideas in our region of Arendal - South Norway.

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Arendal Kulturhus
Arendal
Arendal, Aust-Agder, 4801
Norway

Anne Grethe Solberg

Anne Grethe Solberg is a Sociologist (PhD) and is passionate with gender and innovation. She inspire women to take higher positions to obtain gender balance in management. She believes that it is amazing what a body can handle

Ibrahim Mursal

Ibrahim Mursal is a Norwegian/ Somali/ Sudanese filmmaker and media consultant. He is also a youth counselor who works with refugees and asylum seekers. Ibrahim is one of the people behind TEDxKhartoum

Jan Arild Svello

A co-founder of "Activetainment" - A company that makes indoor exercise as fun and energetic as the outdoors. By creating ebove™, a unique training concept that combines exercise and gaming he has been one of the key figures to rethink the most engaging, entertaining and realistic indoor exercise experience in the world.

Jon-Frede Engdahl

Jon - Frede Engdahl started his entrepreneurial career by establishing a design firm together with a colleague in the back seat of a car. Today he workes with "Maaemo" - a Michelin star winning restaurant in Oslo, which focuses on being 100% ecological.

Jonas Brenna

Jonas Brenna is an award winning producer behind the international hit documentary series «Sweatshop – deadly fashion». Currently a buyer and producer with Norwegian news giant Schibsted/Aftenposten.

Jonathan Brill

Jonatan is the creative director at "Special Projects Agency". He identify emerging technologies that will change the way clients do business and prototype the product opportunities they enable. Acting as a management consultant, product designer and executive on a broad range of physical/digital projects for funded startups and Fortune 50 companies - his clients include: US Government, five of the top 10 brands in the world and dozens of startups. This work has ranged from longterm technology forecasting to C-suite strategy consulting to product planning/design to hands-on prototype and execution management across multiple continents.

Kaj Török

Kaj have been working with sustainability communications since 1996. From strategy to practice.he loves to facilitate processes around trust, communication and sustainability, while building meaningful brands and trustworthy organizations. He specializes in sustainability communication, Trust management, Sustainability Management and group facilitation.

Nils-Henrik Stokke

Nils Henrik is a self-declared "start up junkie", that has excelled at creating business-ideas and seen them come to life. He is among other things a main person behind the massive 1300m2 hub for innovators, executives and growth companies in Stavanger "innovation dock", Norway - But his accomplishments stretch far beyond that and are to many to mention!

Pål Brekke

Pål Brekke is an international recognized solar physicist and public outreach expert with many years at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In particular his multimedia lectures have been acclaimed around the world. He is a very good communicator used to appear on TV and radio

Pål Karlsen

Pål is both a filmmaker and an avid mushroom enthusiast! He travels the world to document, study, learn - and pick - porcini mushrooms, and has joined us to tell some of the fascinating facts about this fungus that people in northern Italy every autumn sacrifice their lives in trying to find .

Sissel Morken Gullord

Sissel Morken Gullord is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and artist, that is known as a passionate performer on the *goathorn*. 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 in special occasions such as openings and ceremonies, Sissel knows a thing or two about capturing an audience with her amazing sounds.

Tone Ellefsrud

Called "a colorful crazy nurse” by some - and wanted dead by others. Tone is a dedicated person that sold everything she owned to go help other peoples abroad. She has worked with human aid for many years - and seen war and terror up close.