News: TEDxMaastricht – The Future of Health
Monday April 2, the second edition of TEDxMaastricht was held. The focus for this event was healthcare and how it will develop in the near (and far) future. The Theatre at the Vrijthof was filled to the brim for a all day program featuring talks from a Medicine-Man, via on-stage…
TEDxEutropolis 2012
Just before Christmas 2009 Egid van Houtem and myself got word from the TED organization in New York. TEDxEutropolis was officially licenced. Right there and then we said to ourselves that TEDxEutropolis should become truly Eutropolitan, travelling the different cities in Eutropolis. And so we did. After the first edition…
Darth Vader on TEDxEutropolis
I did a serious attempt to invite Darth Vader as one of the main speakers on TEDxEutropolis. Because I believe he is the perfect TEDx speaker. Why? He combines everything TED stands for and more since he represents the best in Technology, Entertainment and Design. United in one iconic character and possibly…
The Rise of TED
TEDxEutropolis is back! SocialBeta is taking the second edition to Hasselt on the 4th of February. There it will be realized with CreativeClass and a group of TED enthusiasts. When we started in Heerlen in 2010, TED was an insider movement, only a few were aware of it’s impact and…
Open Call Eutropolis publication
We challenge designers, urbanists, photographers, reseachers and other disciplines to imagine a city called Eutropolis. New concepts are needed to shape the future of the Rhine-Meuse region. Eutropolis is one of them. A strong one too. The term not only refers to the Greek polis, meaning citizenship and city, but also to…
