Theme: Trends of Tomorrow

❌ The new edition of TEDxESADE is taking place next 3rd May 2018 at the Fusion Point of the ESADE Sant Cugat campus. 💥 Prepare yourself to be amazed by the 9 awesome speakers who will be participating in this edition to share with us everything about the topic of “Trends of tomorrow”. 🌍 You will be delighted with the talks of the speakers, which come from really different backgrounds and will be talking about the latest topics of today and tomorrow.

ESADE Business School
Avenida Pedralbes 60-62
Barcelona, Catalunya (ca), 08034
Spain

Christoph Kastenholz

ESADE Alumni (2013) Lara Daniel and Christoph Kastenholz are the CEOs and Co-Founders of Pulse Group, the globally leading Influencer Marketing agency with offices in Hamburg, Germany; New York, USA; Milan, Italy and London, UK. Growing rapidly from inception in 2014 to a team of over 70 today, Pulse Group has become the market leader in its industry. It operates through Pulse Advertising as an advertising agency and Pulse Management as talent management. Working with the most relevant social media influencers around the globe, Pulse has established itself as leading partner of brands including LVMH, L’Oréal, PUMA, BMW, Unilever, Ferrero, FIAT and many more. In 2018 Lara Daniel and her Co-founder Christoph Kastenholz were recognised by Forbes as one of the “30 under 30” leading young entrepreneurs in their industry.

Guillaume Vaslin-Reimann

Founding his first company at 21 years of age, Guillaume cut his teeth within the start-up community, riding the rollercoaster of funding, exits and innovation. Inspired by concepts of agile development and design thinking, Guillaume went on to co-found the ethical fashion brand, VIRTŪ, now producing garments across Latin America under fair conditions. His most recent project, Delcayo supports social entrepreneurs around the globe and works to promote conscious consumerism.

Heinrich Popow

When he was just 9 years old, doctors amputated Heinrich’s leg after discovering a form of bone cancer developing in his left fibula. Far from deterred, the sport-loving youngster began his track and field career in 2001. Since then, Heinrich has gone on to win 27 medals at the Paralympic Games, World and European Championships.

Jordi Quoidbach

Professor Jordi Quoidbach is an expert in emotions and decision-making. His work highlights novel perspectives for increasing happiness and helping individuals make better personal and professional decisions. His research has been published in journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Science, and is often covered in popular media such as CNN, BBC, and The New York Times.

Lara Daniel

ESADE Alumni (2013) Lara Daniel and Christoph Kastenholz are the CEOs and Co-Founders of Pulse Group, the globally leading Influencer Marketing agency with offices in Hamburg, Germany; New York, USA; Milan, Italy and London, UK. Growing rapidly from inception in 2014 to a team of over 70 today, Pulse Group has become the market leader in its industry. It operates through Pulse Advertising as an advertising agency and Pulse Management as talent management. Working with the most relevant social media influencers around the globe, Pulse has established itself as leading partner of brands including LVMH, L’Oréal, PUMA, BMW, Unilever, Ferrero, FIAT and many more. In 2018 Lara Daniel and her Co-founder Christoph Kastenholz were recognised by Forbes as one of the “30 under 30” leading young entrepreneurs in their industry.

Marie Skara

During her work with Innovation Norway in Kenya and South Africa, and FK Norway in Mozambique, Economics Master Marie Skara researched financial development across the African continent before mapping out the fintech industry of Eastern Africa. She discovered that fintech is not only transforming the financial sector, it is also changing the lives of ordinary people.

Meme Dacay

Despite serving as the Chief Operating Officer in one of the largest biotech companies in the Philippines, Meme maintains a shock of green hair, abhors the classic office pantsuit, and goes against the grain of every corporate guideline in the book. Discover how she manages her company, whilst preserving her personality, in the modern world.

Ousman Umar

Having endured the desert, the mafia and the thundering Mediterranean Sea on in his journey from Ghana to Spain in search of education, Ousman arrived in Barcelona at age 17. With his own arduous endeavours igniting a passion for helping students in his homeland, Ousman founded the NASCO Foundation, an NGO which ships open source computers to Africa.

Pedro Aznar

Pedro Aznar holds a PhD in Economics and Business Management from Malaga University and a Degree in Business Management from Barcelona University. His main fields of expertise are analysis of the economic situation (with special reference to the economies of Spain and Europe) and the economic analysis of Tourism.

Scott Sundvor

With an engineering degree from MIT, Scott Sundvor is the founder of Nima Sensor, the world’s first consumer tech company built specifically to help people with food allergy and food health issues. Nima uses antibody-based chemistry to test samples of food for the proteins found in gluten or peanuts. Scott was named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” for 2018.