Theme: Winning Solutions for the 21st Century

What is TEDx Hochschule Luzern all about? It is about experiencing new ways of thinking and embracing innovative, inspiring ideas. Analogously, this year’s theme is “Winning Solutions for the 21st Century” which encompasses the discussion of questions such as:

How can you create self-sustainable homes?
How can you circumnavigate the globe with a car powered by solar energy only?
And how can worms take over the world?

By doing so, TEDx Hochschule Luzern provides a platform for creative minds to present unique ideas to overcome the challenges we face today. Therefore, speakers share their personal stories and provide insights into their causes and their ideas worth spreading.

Hochschule Luzern, Hans Lütolf-Auditorium
Zentralstrasse 9
Luzern, Luzern (de), 6003
Switzerland

Erich Fässler

Worm Pope

Erich Fässler is co-founder of the Swiss start-up „WormUp“. WormUp creates practical and stylish compost systems for households and communities. Organic trash is being recycled to create mineral-rich fertilizer with the aid of worms – the Redbull for your own plants on the balcony or inner courtyard. Erich is thus driven by nature’s diversity and intelligence. As an environmental engineer, Erich is responsible for the small heros’ well-being.

Helen Bos

Artist

He­len Bos is cur­rently study­ing as an ex­change stu­dent at Hochschule Luzern and is study­ing Il­lus­tra­tion and An­i­ma­tion. She is fas­ci­nated by print­mak­ing, human/animal anatomy and dif­fer­ent cultures/languages around the world. She claims to feel hap­pi­est when on the road hitch­hik­ing. With a read­ing book, sketch­book and mu­sic in hand, every place in the world feels like home.

Idonae Lovetrue

CEO of Demi­urge Tech­nolo­gies AG

Idonae Lovetrue is the founder and CEO of Demi­urge Tech­nolo­gies AG, a cut­ting-edge Swiss ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence startup. Demiurge’s mis­sion is to ben­e­fit the mankind with ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence tech­nolo­gies and to bring hu­man­ity to the uni­verse. Be­fore Demi­urge, Idonae was the prin­ci­pal in­ves­ti­ga­tor of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence at Van­tone Group, where she was re­spon­si­ble for com­mer­cial­is­ing cut­ting-edge ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts for Van­tone GREAT Cities, a 50-bil­lion-CNY, 10-year project of build­ing replic­a­ble and sus­tain­able smart cities. She was awarded a BE with ho­n­ours in In­dus­trial En­gi­neer­ing at Tian­jin Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­sity, an MFA in Vi­sual Art with na­tional schol­ar­ship at Jiang­nan Uni­ver­sity, an MS in In­no­va­tion Man­age­ment at Brown Uni­ver­sity and is a Stan­ford GSB Ig­nite alumni.

Jack Vincent

Sales Advisor, Business Storytelling, Killer Presentations

Jack Vincent is a professional keynote speaker not only delivering edgy content, but high-energy speeches. He helps companies to sell more effectively and supports leaders in equipping their sales force with the right system and skills to win more business. Jack’s second book, „A Sale is a Love Affair,“ was the Number 1 New Release in Sales in February 2014, and he has made this link when training and coaching people in the art of connecting love and sales. Moreover, he teaches them how to stay memorable by using the hot concept of storytelling.

Jens O. Meissner

Professor for organizational structures, innovation and risk management at Lucerne University for Applied Sciences and Arts

Louis Palmer

Sustainability Pioneer & Motivational Speaker

When Louis was an 11-year old boy he had a dream: „As a grown up I will travel around the world in a solar car!“ Twenty years later, he has dedicated his work to motivating people to think about and do their part to save the planet. Without any personal financial resources, he set off to make his childhood dream come true – driving more than 54.000 km and crossing 38 country lines. Thus, Louis is a real sustainability pioneer.

Simon Marti

Social Entrepreneur

When Si­mon fin­ished uni­ver­sity, he could not find any­thing he was truly in­ter­ested in. He needed to find his own path. In a flash of sheer in­spi­ra­tion, he founded the project «Ac­tive Asyl». Us­ing re­cy­cled lap­tops, Ac­tive Asyl or­ga­nizes on­line courses for refugees. By pro­vid­ing refugees with the right tools, Ac­tive Asyl em­pow­ers refugees and cre­ates op­por­tu­ni­ties for them. Si­mon be­lieves in the refugees’ enor­mous po­ten­tial and wants to take his first step to­wards chang­ing the world.

Tigran Petrosyan

PhD Students

Orig­i­nally from Ar­me­nia, Tigran Petroysan is cur­rently pur­su­ing his doc­tor­ate in physics at the Uni­ver­sity of Bern. His re­search spe­cial­izes in op­toa­coustic imag­ing, a bio­med­ical imag­ing modal­ity find­ing its way to clin­ics and hos­pi­tals. His per­sonal and pro­fes­sional ex­pe­ri­ence in bio­med­ical imag­ing brought him to the idea that re­search and fur­ther de­vel­op­ment in the field may re­place what many doc­tors do.

Walter Gjergja - Shi Xing Mi

Shaolin Master, Trainer, Adviser, Apeaker and Writer

Walter has been studying the martial art Wushu and the Shaolin philosophy Chan since the age of 13. He spent many study stays in the Shaolin monastery spanning over a period of 15 years in order to become one of the very few real Western Shaolin Sujiadizi Wuseng. He has been the protagonist of many magazines and newspaper articles, numerous international events and several television documentaries (BBC, Discovery Channel, Disney XD, Italia1, CCTV). Today, Walter is a Shaolin Master, trainer, adviser, speaker and writer.