This conference aspires to present a unique opportunity to bring together Geneva’s academic and non-academic realities while stimulating the spread of varied viewpoints on contemporary issues affecting our society.
This years theme, Seeds of Change, focuses the actions one takes in the present to create lasting change in the future. It focuses on targeted innovation across any sector or field of study- be it the arts, technology, science, social justice, politics, or business- to guide us towards a better tomorrow, inspiring further progress along the way.
Morning Sessions
Time: 9:00 – 12:00 CEST
Hosts: Jessica Peery Viggers, Project Manager, TEDxGVAGrad and Daniela Wildi, Head of Events, TEDxGVAGrad
| Poetry Performance Jeremy Chavez, Slam Poet |
| Desperately seeking people, not aesthetics Claude-Emmanuel Hiol, Student, Geneva Graduate Institute |
| In War and peace: What we can learn about reparation from survivors of sexual violence Esther Dingemans, Executive Director, Global Survivors Fund |
| Fight like a strawberry Margherita Pallottino, FNS Fellow, Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
| Building a New Relationship with Fear Brian Moscioni, Student, Geneva Graduate Institute |
| Poetry Performance Snigdha Agarwal Srinivas, Student, Geneva Graduate Institute |
| Lessons I learned from history: Helping babies survive in low resource settings Thomas Berger, Senior Medical Advisor, NEO FOR NAMIBIA |
| The sight-stealing worm: Searching for a cure for river blindness Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease, DNDi |
