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Hultsfred
Sweden

Jörgen Bodner

With more than 30 years of theatrical experience, as an actor, a director and as a speaker and storyteller his speeches are always highly appreciated. He has worked at Dramaten, Riksteatern, Uppsala Stadsteater and Örebro Länsteater. Jörgen's driving force is to balance passion and reason and the will to tell and with the use of humour create trust. The knowledge of the voice, body and storytelling is the governing idea in Jörgens professional life. His goal is to mediate that speaking in front of an audience can be an pleasurable creational experience. Jörgen finds Oxymorons (a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms) interesting. A speech is a story, let's find that out.

Peter Gerdehag

Photographer, movie producer, lecturer and author, works with an altruistic mind. Peter has a long experience working close to nature in his eager to get the perfect picture. He is engaged in documenting non-profit local history association?s work preserving the countryside in which they live. He feels that the forest owned by someone is also the forest of mine and every ones to protect. Who can own a landscape is a question on Peters mind. The movie Hästmannen (The Horseman) has several times been rewarded with "Best picture". In his work he sees himself as the mouthpiece of the ones who have no voice regardless if it is a bird, flower or a human.

Jan Govella

Jan is an environmental engineer, an environmental educater and speaker who also is active in the Nature Conservation Society with 180.000 members. He has decided to dedicate his life to try to save the planets all living creatures, mankind, animals and plants to our next generations. A possibility who can only be realised if the people of the world unite against greedy, corrupt systems and people with power. His mission is to present the newly founded world movement NOOW (Now Organise Organisations Worldvide). NOOWs task is to unite all the good organisations in the world who works socialy, economically, ecologically and morally for sustainability. The goal is to be represented in EU and a membership in UN. NOOW, the organisations organisation, for humanitary, artistic and environmental forces will be a heavy actor to speed up sustainable decisions.

Lasse Gustavson

One of Scandinavias most appreciated speakers and author of the book "Leva vidare". His speeches is like a rich brew that creates acceptance and sets peoples inherent potential free. With a mix of life experience and knowledge from studies in mental training, group- and leadership development, internal leadership, resilience and esoteric his message becomes clear. After a dramatic accident in the early eighties Lasse has made a fantastic comeback. Due to experiences during his, for two months, unconscious state after the accident Lasse has been searching for descriptions of near-deth-experiences, making his knowledge in that subject esoteric. To mediate knowledge is as obvious as breathing. To breathe out you need to breathe in. Lasse speaks full of insight about how you can mobilize the courage to see your true self and what it feels like to meet yourself. Carpe Diem - Seize the day.

Daniel Johansson

Daniel Johansson is a doctoral student in industrial computer science and studies how the musical industri is affected by the shift in technology that now takes place, foremost when it comes to processes of distribution. He participates in the European researchprojct P2P-Next, is managing director of Trendmaze, an IT-company that analyses music and media online. He also writes for the music industry paper Musikindustrin.se. Daniel is co author to the book Gratis? om kvalitet pengar och skapandets villkor, in which he in an essay writes about the future of music and internet.

Bodil Jönsson

One of Sweden's most popular and acknowledged professors who in a philosophical but down-to-earth way helps us catch not only the spirit of the times, i.e. the cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual and poitical climate, but also the own situatedness here and now as well as the anticipations for the future. Originally an experimental physicist, she is now professor emerita (area: rehabilitation engineering and design) at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. She is well known by a wide audience through television and radio programs and through her books, among them "Ten thoughts about time"/ "Unwinding the clock" (English and American versions, respectively), 1999. Her follow-up books "We learn the way we live" (2008) and "Ten years later" (2009) (these are so far only in Swedish) reveal the tensions between a 24 hours' on-line accessibility to everybody and everything on the one hand side and a strive for concentration, depth and meaning on the other. To gain life experiences through bits and pieces has other long term consequences than those through wholes and contexts.

Niclas Mårdfelt

Niclas life is dedicated to understand individuals tendency to change. He spends hours a day in further education and through his adventures he learns more about perfomance, teambuilding and taking responsibilty. He is the first Swedish person ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowingboat and that is just one of his adventures. Niclas has a wast experience from different branches of trade and as a IT-analyst he wrote reports that Microsoft, IBM, Intel and other companies made strategic decisions from. The knowledge from different branches of trade is mixed with experiences from adventures which gives invaluable knowledge of how to make organisations more competative or healthy. Niclas has been nominated in Eventakademins "speaker of the year" . His lectures has been seen by over 50000 people in Sweden and in Europe.

Dag Ström

Patient safety planner and paediatrician with over 20 years of experience in managerial positions from different parts of Sweden. Dag puts patient safety at first and was newly recruited to Kalmar county council. The aim is to shape their healthcare system to one of Europe's most secure together with all of the staff in the organization.Prior to that he was the project leader of the National commitment to increase patient safety. As project leader he travelled all over Sweden giving lectures in an interactive and captivating mode. His message was clear; every county council makes mistakes that cost work, resources and patient suffering. At TEDxHultsfred Dag will tell that everything is possible to design safe healthcare. He will also reveal whether you as a patient can feel safe in Swedish healthcare.

Fredrik Svensson

Fredrik Svensson is one of Swedens most hired and appreciated lecturer within subjectfields as thoughts on future, influence of globalisation, creativity, learning, school, worklife and youth. Fredrik managed as a principal, without one hour of work at a school, reverse the downward trend at a catastrophic municipality school in Botkyrka to a schol that has attracted a lot of attention. Fredrik has written three books concering future, creativity and rethinking and is involved in a series of projects concerning the "new learning" at Rektorsakademien. His lectures is characterized by humor as well as deepest seriousness things that makes the enjoyment of listening hover between laughter and thoughfullness. At TEDxHultsfred Fredriks intention is to highlight whether young people born after the year 1980 has talents that we born before the year 1980 mostly don't see and if we see them mainly forbids as something that "don't fit in". Categorizing the talents to "don't fit in" makes us vulnerable in the era of global complex developement. "Fredrik is truly regarded as one of the great leaders and visionaries in education in Sweden", (Aron Solomon, Think Global School, Chicago).

Putte Svensson

Managing director of Rock City, Hultsfred, rewarded entrepreneur. Rebel at the base and musiclover with natural instincts for developement from strong non profit roots, growth forces into business world. If you want something done you have to do it yourself. Putte Svensson and his friends founded the Rockparty association in 1981, they booked the band they wanted to see play live by themselves and people came to the events. One day they couldn't deside what band to book so they booked them all - the birth of Hultsfredsfestivalen. Now there is Rock City, a building where science, education, business world and culture flourish along the artery of the house: Rock City Road. The first 12 employees have increased to 70. In the house there are many different companies. Engagement, creational forces, non prestigious work, sustainability and trust have had decisive influence for Hultsfred and Rock City. Today Rock City is a real magnet of developement and an international meeting place.

Paul Folkesson

Vision For All (VFA), represented by Paul Folkesson, optometrist, president of the Swedish Optometric Association, board member of VFA. Have been on VFA-travels in Peru and Bolivia. Paul will present VFAs work from inside as board member and volunteer in VFA travels and work days. VFS is a non profit organisation who wants to make it possible for people, in need of glasses, to study and work. VFA works with the most poor people that has the greatest need of measures by an optometrist. Theese people have no possibility to pay for an vision examination or glasses. VFA collects, measures and washes better used glasses in Sweden and then travel to far end places to give the glasses to people in need.