Theme: FOCUS

TEDxISTAlameda continues to provide the scientific community and students from Lisbon with access to innovative practices, ideas and opinions that are shaping our world. In 2017, our theme is FOCUS. This theme translates TEDxISTAlameda's team mindset, as our constant need for innovation forced us to redefine our methodology of work with the purpose of bringing to our audience inspiring and motivating content in a more focused and conscious way. Deep down, we want our local community to focus on discussions that truly matter. We strive to present simple, but bold, ideas which reflect personal perspectives of humans looking to make a dent on our local community.

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Instituto Superior Técnico
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Lisboa, 2715-311
Portugal

Les Crazy Coconuts

Musician band

They are as original as surprising, and to the rhythm of Adriana Jaulino’s shoes, Gil Jerónimo and Tiago Domingues they complete a concept that joins tapdancing and new pop song trends in an union more than perfect. From rock to dance, Les Crazy Coconuts surprise at live shows and have been praised by the jury of Festival Termómetro as best nacional group in 2014, and by Antena 3 as one of the top three new national bands in the Concurso Nacional de Bandas. Besides having played at the spanish music festival Monkey Week, at Coliseu do Porto and being booked for many music festivals in 2015 (from Indie Fest to NOS Alive) their journey had just begun and their homonymous record, launched in the end of 2015, rose to success with the singles “Belong” and “Speed Shoes”. They have continued on track with many booked concerts and festivals, and are now booking shows abroad.

Daniela Ribeiro

Artist

Artista angolana nascida em 1972, Daniela vive entre Angola e Paris a criar e a exibir a sua arte. Daniela explora a relação entre o presente, o passado e a condição humana através do uso de componentes tecnológicas entrelaçadas com imagens do mundo antigo e natural.

Filipe Jeremias

Teacher

Aquele que muitos chamam de louco, é apenas e só um comum mortal com uma missão muito específica neste mundo. Este líder, coordenador, timoneiro - são muitos os nomes que lhe dão - procura ser, na realidade, um verdadeiro agente de mudança, tocando e transformando as vidas daqueles que com ele se cruzam. Acredita no verdadeiro potencial de todo e qualquer ser humano, acredita no poder das relações, no amor e num mundo melhor. É um construtor de utopias que faz acreditar. Sonhar de olhos fechados é bom, mas saber sonhar de olhos abertos é bem melhor. Ele é dessa espécie de humanos que gosta de fazer da noite dia e de trazer o sonho para a luz do sol.

Francisco Azevedo

Student

Francisco Azevedo é um estudante que valoriza o conhecimento como fim em si mesmo. Defende as suas convicções veementemente e não é indiferente a nenhum assunto da sociedade, olhando-a de forma crítica. Vê na universidade uma ponte para o conhecimento e complementa-o com um olhar mais abrangente de interesses como a música, a escrita, a literatura e as interações humanas. Sempre observador não deixa passar os pequenos detalhes que corroem a sociedade e prima em expô-las pois acredita que qualquer tema deve ser abordado sem receio. Interessa-se pelos problemas da comunidade estudantil e por discutir possíveis soluções.

François Pachet

AI Researcher, Musician

François Pachet is a researcher in artificial intelligence. He is particularly concerned about how AI can boost creativity in music, and other artistic domains. He has been director of Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, where he led the music research team. His research on style modeling (the Flow-Machines project) led to the first AI-based generation of a mainstream music title using artificial intelligence (Daddy’s car). He is now director of a research lab at Spotify in Paris, where he designs the next generation of AI-based creation tools for artists. He is also a semi-professional musician, and composer of pop and jazz albums.

João Couvaneiro

Teacher, researcher

João Couvaneiro é especialista na integração das tecnologias em contextos educativos. Foi reconhecido como Apple Distinguished Educator e nomeado para o Global Teacher Prize. Foi Professor Coordenador da Escola Superior de Educação Jean Piaget de Almada, de que foi diretor e onde leciona desde 1996 em numerosos cursos, com destaque para os de formação de educadores e professores, e também no Colégio dos Plátanos e no St. Peter’s International School. Autor de capítulos de livros e artigos científicos publicados em revistas nacionais e estrangeiras, é investigador integrado do Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa. Exerceu funções de Técnico Especialista, na área da educação e formação de jovens e adultos, no Gabinete do Secretário de Estado da Educação. Mantém uma ativa intervenção cívica e política.

Joe Paton

Principal Investigator at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

As undergraduate, Joe studied the organization of central pattern generators in the nerve cord of the larval Manduca sexta caterpillar at Tufts University and genetic determinants of cell fate during development in Drosophila melanogaster at Harvard Medical School. After university, Joe moved to California to work as a research technician at Stanford University studying neural mechanisms of vision and decision making. In 2001, Joe moved back to the east coast of the U.S. to start work towards his PhD at Columbia University where he studied the neural mechanisms that underlie learning to predict rewards and punishments. In 2008, Joe received his PhD with distinction and joined the Champalimaud Foundation’s research programme, where his laboratory studies the neural circuit mechanisms of cognitive processes. He is currently a principal investigator within Champalimaud Research, at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal.

Miguel Rodrigues dos Santos

Student

Miguel Rodrigues dos Santos estuda Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores no Instituto Superior Técnico. Ouviu pela primeira vez falar da moeda virtual Bitcoin em 2013. Acompanhar o desenvolvimento deste ecossistema começou por ser um hobby, mas rapidamente se transformou no início de uma jornada através desta revolucionária área da tecnologia - a tecnologia de blockchain. O impacto social e tecnológico desta tecnologia são hoje uma das suas principais áreas de interesse científico.

Mistah Isaac

Musician

Mistah Isaac is a DJ, producer, beatboxer, poet, songwriter and singer. Born in Luanda, he arrives to Portugal at the end of the nineties, where he collects inspiration and vinyl records since 19 years old. In his collection one might find funk, soul, jazz, world music, reggae/dancehall, hip hop and other candies that make this artist unique and with an above average eclectic music style. Last year he did a tour that went to countries such as Brasil (São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Trancoso, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro), Italy, Germany and Holland. This year he recorded a music video in the city of Berlin of a song he wrote in São Paulo, at a municipal theater.

Tomás Mello Breyner

Traveller, Yoga teacher

Tomás Mello Breyner was born in Portugal, in 1988. His life changed when he moved to New York and dedicated himself to the study and practice of yoga. Ever since, Tomás has travelled the world searching for knowledge on the art of living. India is where he spends most of his time, and it’s where, close to the great masters, he learns yoga as well as meditation. He is now certified by the International Yoga Alliance and owns in own yoga studio in Comporta, Portugal. Tomás is a visionary, adventurer and passionate about life. To him, every day should be lived as if it were the last. These characteristics are what lead him to start the project “O Pequeno Buda”, in 2015, that has the purpose of teaching meditation in schools. He is the author of the book "O Pequeno Buda - the importance of teaching meditation to children", he is a speaker, having already been invited to do several talks in companies, festivals and congresses.