Theme: Tipping Point

TEDxFukuoka 2020では、”Tipping Point”（転換点）というメインテーマの元、常識にとらわれず自らの力で道を切り開き歩み続けるパワフルなスピーカーとパフォーマーの方々を迎え、価値あるアイデアを発信・共有し、広めます。
当たり前に存在していると考えていた目の前の世界が、突然変わってしまう出来事が今年起こりました。それをそれぞれのTipping Point(転換点)と捉えるとどうでしょうか？多様なバックグラウンドを持つ方々の経験や考えを通して見る私たちの世界とは、どのようなものになるでしょう。好奇心を揺さぶる様々なTEDxTalksを生で体感し、参加のみなさまのインスピレーションを共有できるこの機会を是非お見逃しなく。

This year’s TEDxFukuoka2020 theme is, “Tipping Point”. The event features 14 incredible speakers who each embody the passion and inspiration behind TED (technology, entertainment and design), to share their inspiration and ideas with you online in Fukuoka, and the world! This event will be not only broadcast live via streaming video online, but there will also be opportunities to discuss and interact with speakers and other participants online.

Online
Chuo-ku
Fukuoka, Hukuoka, 810001
Japan

Anne Crescini

Educator, Writer

Anne Crescini is most well-known for her bilingual blog, アンちゃんから見るニッポン、which has thousand of readers all over Japan. In her blog, which she writes in Hakata dialect and English, she writes about language and culture, using personal experiences and observations from her 20 years in Japan. Anne has also written 5 books about her passion—Japanese language and culture. ranging from Japanese culture. Anne lives in the city of Munakata. She is working hard to plug her awesome city in her role as Munakata Goodwill Ambassador. In her rare free time, she enjoys playing the shamisen and wearing kimono. She is totally crazy about Japan.

Hideo Kinoshita

Artist, Shinto priest

Fukuoka native Hideo Kinoshita graduated from Tokyo Zokei University with a degree in sculpting. He then completed Shinto studies at Kokugakuin University. In his art, he uses mankind and prayer as sources of artistic inspiration and works to blend the two. He has become a priest in order to study prayer since finishing his studies. He is currently a priest at Kashii-gu shrine.

Hirokazu Okano

OKANO Co., Ltd. President

After graduating from Meiji University School of Political Science and Economics, he established a human resources consulting company, and at the age of 26, he purchased his head family’s Hakata Ori weaver company, which had been in the red for 13 years, and successfully turned it into a profit. He is also a director of Fuudo Co., Ltd. which produces artists, and an advisor to the Lee Sanpei kiln, which is inherited from the founder of Arita-yaki. He learned about the global success stories of luxury brands that originate from Western traditional crafts and got tips on how to revive traditional crafts. Currently, he has stores in Hakata Riverain and GINZA SIX, aiming to build the first global brand in Japan based on Hakata weaving technology.

Justin Teoh

Video marketer

Justin Teoh is a speaker, author and business owner based in Shimokitazawa in Tokyo. He is the creator of the Video Rockstar Bootcamp, the Thought Leaders Intensive and the Heroes Collective. His signature programs have been taught by trainers in 15 countries around the world to over 19,914 students. A book co-authored by Justin, "Viral Video Heroes," recently became an International Bestseller. In his spare time he loves surfing and snowboarding, dancing with his daughter and trying new rice cracker flavours with his wife.

Maharu Tashiro

Professional Kendama player

Maharu Tashiro is a professional kendama player, lives in Fukuoka. He started playing kendama when he was 7 years old.He became the finalist of Catch&Flow2017/2018/2019.Now he is 12 years old and he ranked 5th in Kendama World Cup 2019.His kendama practice usually last 2 hours on weekdays and whole day on weekends.He keeps brushing up his skill.You CAN'T miss his wonderful performance!

Makoto Ayunaga

The label-less person

Kyoto-born Makoto Ayunaga became an All-Japan Champion snowboarder while attending Doshisha University, ranking 20th in the world. While serving in the first-class international flights as a CA, she became a certified member of Japan Sommelier Association. After various and illustrious career as a networking business professional, photographer, and a hospitality consultant, she became the CMO of an AI developer, as she supervised in the market development and service direction of a dialogue AI company. However, the profession she professes she loves the most is “being a mom.”

Miki Igarashi

Science edutainer, visiting researcher of the University of Tokyo

Miki Igarashi has organized many science shows and science classes for kids, and her famous show, known as “Dancing Science Show”, flavored with hip hop, has attracted large amount of audience. What brought her into the science world is the experiment generating the rainbow she saw while young. In 2018, she was awarded “Girls in STEM Contest 2018” Runner-Up prize, honoring individuals or groups who practice science education for girls, from the Nissan Global Foundation. In addition, she has broadened her activities both domestically and internationally, including speaking at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Women's Conference WAW! (World Assembly for Women), holding STEM workshops in the United States etc.

Shinya Kiyokawa

Sound designer, producer

Shinya Kiyokawa is a Sound Artist with the concept of “Super Language” to pursue new possibilities of music. He composes music involving sounds of nature. In 2011, he produced ”Xylophone in Forest” which was a television commercial of NTT docomo TOUCH WOOD, and he started expanding his career worldwide. As he has acted as a general producer of “Yu-Enchi Project in Beppu city” in 2017, he has been extending actively his expression except composition.

Shogo Ochiai

Philosopher, Hacktivist

Shogo Ochiai is the founder of Cryptoeconomics Lab(CEL). He supervises “O'Reilly Co.’s Mastering Ethereum Technology”. Influenced by Nakamoto Satoshi and Vitalic Britain, he started a research and development of “Smart Contract” in 2016. As a part of CEL Co., he made great achievements of Layer-2 technologies and CryptoLaw area, and then he started dao4n.org as his ambitious non-profit project. His former research field is like below. [Tech & Math] zk-S[NT]ARKs, Rollups, Optimistic Virtual Machine, Shardings, Casper FFG, ChainLocks [Econ & Law] DeFi and Law [Poli-sci & Logic] Democracy and Formal Verification

Shogo Shimura

Psychiatrist, Magician

Shogo Shimura, also known as, “Magic Doctor”, is a psychiatrist and magician. As a child, he began practicing magic tricks and became fascinated with optical illusions and “mind tricks”. In 2012, Shimura won the World Magic Seminar Teens Contest Championship title in Las Vegas. He studied psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Keio University to research the science behind “mind tricks”. He currently holds mental training events all over Japan that integrate magic tricks with psychiatry. Shimura is a representative director of the Japan Institute of Cognitive Science and a member of the Olympic Committee training staff. He serves as a mental coach for gymnastics and canoe slalom athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Tatsushi Momen

KOO-KI Co.,Ltd. president, video director

Tatsushi Momen is a video director and the president of KOO-KI Co.,Ltd. He was born in Ishikawa prefecture. After he left Kyusyu Institute Design before graduating, he established KOO-KI Co.,Ltd. with other voluntary members. He plans and directs music videos, commercials, openings for games, TV show packages, and video for events. He creates his work with a cute, light hearted, and fun taste. They often direct and edit their own work. They keep working with the desire to create more entertaining videos.

Yayoi Oguma

Education reformer

Her abysmal scores on English-language proficiency tests shocked Yayoi Oguma. Instead of giving up, the girl who dreamed of becoming an interpreter transformed herself into a model for every clueless speaker of English in Japan, devising a 42-step approach to linguistic mastery. Three years later, Yayoi was linking Japan and the rest of the world across fields such as economics, industry, environment, medicine, entertainment and politics. She now counts self-help guru Tony Robbins, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Horst Ludwig Stormer and big-league CEOs among her clients, and her motivational and “super speedy learning” seminars earn a 99 percent participant satisfaction rating.

Yumika and Yuriko Uno

The Project of Canola blossoms

Yumika Uno started a project named "The Project of Canola blossoms". Yuriko, her younger sister had helped her project for 10 years since she was 5. The project aim to re-invigorate the Ropponmatsu area after Kyusyu University moved with planting canola blossoms. When the Great East Japan earthquake happened, she expanded the "Oichini Movement". It was the project which they send canola blossom's seed contain a wish to victims.Yuriko covered a water source in south Aso only which was dried up by Kumamoto earthquake and offered information how the water source revived.They are devoting to realize a social business plan for more revival of their loved Minami-Aso village.

Yusuke Engeorge

Saga prefectural civil servant

Yusuke Engeorge is known as "the most innovative civil servant in Japan". He believes in having a "hands-on approach" to every task, even in fields that are unfamiliar to him. With his determination, he led the medical emergency revolution in Saga prefecture by successfully introducing ICT systems to its doctors and ambulances. His project, "Information Network that Saves Lives" is in elementary school textbooks and was featured on the TBS Television program. Although he faces many internal obstacles as a government official, he enthusiastically approaches new challenges. He is currently venturing into the realm of space technology, and he eagerly anticipate new opportunities to serve his community.