Theme: The First Step

As the event is the first TEDx University format in the state of Hungary.Wee came up with a theme called The first step.The main aim was to connect the local active community in Hungary with the International students and make an impact through inviting a brilliant speakers from different cultures.

Lovarda Theater
Debrecen, Kassai út 26, 4028
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Debrecen, Debrecen, 4028
Hungary

Arthur Keleti

Currently residing in Budapest and South-east Asia, Mr. Arthur Keleti is an IT Security Strategist and the Author of the book “The imperfect secret” – a book of cyber-secrets. He is the Founder of ITBN, The National Day of IT Security also the President of the Voluntary CyberDefence Collaboration. Mr. Keleti is a Talk Show member, CyberSecurity Expert at DTM radio and podcast program. His interests lie in the social-psychological and Cyber-security aspects of personal and organizational secrets.

EHAB Medhat

Currently residing in Doha – Qatar, Mr. Ehab Medhat is an Architect and a Self development trainer. He holds a BA degree in Architecture since 2006, and has a 7 year experience in Architecture and Interior design and an experience of 18 years in Self development. Over the course of his career Mr. Ehab has trained over 6000 trainees in the Middle East.

Harlan Cockburn

Harlan Cockburn, 66,UK Currently residing in Budapest, Harlan Cockburn has a First class honors BA in Fine art painting. He has always been self-employed, working in both video and music production, on both sides of the camera and microphone. After moving to Hungary, he re-started his acting career and also became a food photographer, with 7 books currently on sale. His most recent work includes the completion of his second novel – centered around the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Mr. Harlan has held Creativity Workshops in many countries, with a wide variety of people: prisoners, teenagers, and business people.

Johnny Issaq

Johnny Issaq, 32, Israel Currently residing in Haifa and Budapest, Johnny is an MD Ophthalmology resident and the Founder of VisitMe™. The way Dr. Johnny graduated from the Medical University of Debrecen was definitely unique and his experience was far from ordinary. Whilst enjoying his time spent in Debrecen, he mastered the hungarian language, excelled in his educational performance through receiving his Cum Laude degree and developed VisitMe™, a brand celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and is well known among international students in Hungary, currently operating in Debrecen, Szeged and recently in Pecs as well.

Mohamed Mahdi

Mohamed Mahdi, 37, Sudan After graduating as a medical doctor from the University of Debrecen in 2004, he gained a postgraduate degree in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. After training in infectious diseases, his fascination with the human immunodeficiency virus led him to pursue a career in academic medicine, particularly in the field of retroviruses, in which he has currently achieved a PhD degree in HIV. His research is focused on studying the susceptibility of HIV to antiretroviral drugs, in addition to exploring new therapeutic potentials that may help tackle the viral infectivity and the long standing AIDS pandemic. Along with his supervisor Prof. József Tőzsér, he has proudly established a prominent HIV research group in Hungary, a group that is steadily expanding, with the aid of new enthusiast medical and doctoral students.

Oshri Cohen

Oshri Cohen, 28, Israël Currently living in Debrecen, Oshri is a Medical student from Israel. He served as a Lieutenant in the IDF and promoted a liberal and open minded way of work in his field unit. He spent the last few years living in London, being exposed to a multicultural environment. Nowadays Oshri is working on his new global project, a non-profit organization which gives a discreet online support to homosexuals living in countries which promote anti-gay agenda.

Rohan Krishnan

Rohan Krishnan, 19, India Currently residing in Debrecen, Rohan Krishnan is a second year Medical Student at the University of Debrecen, and a former TEDx speaker. A self-proclaimed skeptic, who has a penchant for all things that involve debates, coffee and pocket watches.

Tibor Somogyi

Tibor Somogyi, Hungary Currently residing in Budapest, Tibor learned the basics of being an entrepreneur from his father, and so he obtained a degree in Commerce and Marketing. Growing up and socializing in an entrepreneurial environment led him to establish his own company, an online private teaching site, that has more than 100.000 students per year. Since then, the start-up world and business development have been his passions.

Zoé Vajda

Zoé Vajda, 21 , Hungary She is currently a Bioengineer Bsc student at the University of Debrecen. She is from the capital city of Hungary, Budapest, but now she lives in Debrecen. According to her, she has always been the „lazy one”, someone who always just floats in life and never really does anything significant. However, two years ago she decided to change everything about her way of life: she has gotten accepted to the University of Debrecen as a state-scholarship- student, has moved from her home town and from her parents, has gotten 2 good jobs in marketing and started to make her own living from zero.

Zoé Zoé

Zoé Vajda, 21 , Hungary She is currently a Bioengineer Bsc student at the University of Debrecen. She is from the capital city of Hungary, Budapest, but now she lives in Debrecen. According to her, she has always been the „lazy one”, someone who always just floats in life and never really does anything significant. However, two years ago she decided to change everything about her way of life: she has gotten accepted to the University of Debrecen as a state-scholarship- student, has moved from her hometown and from her parents, has gotten 2 good jobs in marketing and started to make her own living from zero.