TEDxStockholm Catalysts 2023

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15 April 2023 14:00-19:00Musikaliska Kvarteret

Experience the inspiration of a live TEDx event!

A catalyst is an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action.After a three-year break from large-scale live events due to the pandemic (speaking of significant change agents), TEDxStockholm is back and ready to bring you a day filled with Ideas Worth Spreading - through brilliant speakers, thought-provoking conversations, and mind-blowing performances.

Our eight unique, inspirational speakers are ready to share how catalysts have impacted and inspired their ideas - and how to ignite the spark that leads to transformation and growth in our own personal and professional lives. Join us for an enlightening and thought-provoking day as we discover new ways to become catalysts for positive change.

The event is in English!

Scroll down to see the full event line-up and schedule, read more about the speakers and artists, and how to find our venue.

Full line-up

Roshanak Fatahian
host

Roshanak believes in the power of communication and creativity to impact people. She works at NORD DDB, Sweden’s largest advertising agency and is the co-founder of All of Us, a network championing diversity in the creative industry. She has been awarded for her work in diversity and inclusion multiple times, amongst them Role model of the year and Super communicator (Superkommunikatör).

Melanie During
vertebrate paleontologist

As a child, Melanie was an outsider, collecting fossils and devouring books - and she decided to embrace it.

That's why she studied earth sciences and delved into extinct life forms. Now, she's a vertebrate palaeontologist and currently working on her PhD in Uppsala.

She is interested in extinctions and adaptations and everything in between.

Chris Rodriguez
product owner

Chris believes that life is not here to just hand us success, but rather to present us with challenges that make us grow. And the way to do so is to dare to try and fail fast.He walked away from his job as an aerospace engineer to explore what he truly wants to do: coaching people. With 10 years of work experience, he's changed careers over 10 times.In 2020, Chris was laid off due to the pandemic. Losing his job felt like losing himself which led him to question his own self-worth. Through self-discovery, unemployment taught him a valuable lesson: that he's more than just his resume and his achievements.He's a learner at heart and lives life with curiosity. His motto in life is: “When I’m 70 I still want to ask myself, what do I want to become when I grow up?”

Peter Mattsson
elite sports manager

Peter is the Managing Director of #elitesports2030, a joint project of the Swedish Sports Confederation, The Swedish Olympic Committee, and the Swedish Paralympic Committee, which was formed to increase the funding put into Swedish high-performance sports, and to strengthen the support for high performance athletes and teams.#elitesports2030 aims to attract funds from government and commercial partners as well as to increase cooperation with academia and innovators. The project ultimately is designed to increase the competitiveness of the high-performance programmes run by the National Governing Bodies of sport in Sweden.Peter has an extensive background in high performance and is also heavily involved in sports related research. Peter holds a Master of Arts in Educational Management from Uppsala University.We are excited to bring Peter to our stage!

Jessika Sillanpää
grief counselor

Have you ever been asked "How are you?" And you automatically answer "Good! How about you?" When you KNOW it's not the whole truth. This is what Jessika became an expert at when her whole life turned upside down in a few minutes in the biggest trauma of her life in 2012. Today, Jessika has gone from believing that her emotions and her voice were a weakness, to having it as her biggest strength under the name, Jessikasstory. Last year Jessika became 1 of 9 finalists in the Global Young entrepreneur of the year 2022 in the Business for good award and represented Sweden and Scandinavia in the Netherlands. As a public speaker in the child and the relatives' perspective of a crime, consultant and certified in greif recovery she prevents crime, exlusion and mental illness in the society.

Tobias Wahlqvist
communication strategist and media producer

Tobias Wahlqvist is a dedicated multi-talent who has been running his own communication and media production business for over 20 years. Tobias is driven by a healthy academic complex and always seeks to learn something new about everything (except sports and accounting).Over the years, he has also been a concert photographer, run an art gallery, and written a book. His topic today will be a thought-provoking one to say the least!

Nickole Li
systems designer

Nickole is a systems designer in the game industry by trade, and enjoys picking systems apart to see how they work. Through her career, she worked on game IPs ranging from Ghost Recon to Battlefield and Minecraft. After working for Ubisoft Singapore, she moved to Sweden to work at DICE and now Mojang. Apart from seeking to understand how people may influence their odds in life, she is currently looking into the ways AI will revolutionize lives.

Revin Baban
music industry professional

Revin Baban is a true music enthusiast and industry expert with over 15 years of experience. Having held significant sales and marketing roles at renowned entertainment companies such as Warner Music and Activision Blizzard, Revin has gained valuable insights and diverse experience. For the past five years, she has been running her own artist management company, focusing on artist development. Revin brings a distinctive perspective as both a generalist and specialist, dedicated to dismantling obstacles while empowering up-and-coming and established artists. She is committed to acknowledging music fans for their contributions and supporting their passion for music.

Lova Unge
human rights lawyer

Lova Unge is an experienced lawyer with a particular interest in human rights, anti-corruption and sustainability in general. Lova started focusing on human rights already during her studies back in 2007. She has spent around 15 years working at top-tier law firms in an international environment focusing on labour law, business and human rights and other areas. During this period (while on leave of absence), Lova also spent almost two years in Peru working for human rights organizations and for the United Nations, including the International Labour Organization, and around a year at Sweden’s development finance institution working with sustainable investments. Lova is currently working as an expert within human rights and anti-corruption at the Swedish-based company Scania, which is a world leading provider of transport solutions present in more than 100 countries. Lova’s mission is to contribute to driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system.

Louis Pax
music artist

Louis Pax (loo-wee-pax) is an independent pop band from Malmö, doing music professionally since 2014 when they won the Swedish leg of Emergenza. The band consists of two brothers and their childhood best friend. They all play instruments and compose and produce their music themselves.They’ve played over 130 live shows - in Sweden, the USA, Taiwan, Canada, and Japan. Their first independently released single, Motion received more than 1,6 Million streams on YouTube. The band has once opened for Usher (!) and on April 15th, they will be premiering songs from their upcoming E.P “In case I don’t see ya!” on our stage at Musikaliska Kvarteret

Pixelgrooves
music artist

Meet PIXELGROOVES aka Per Olov and Servando Barreiro.Inspired by digital art, music technology, computers, DIY and many years of tinkering before, they started their collaborations in 2019 while being both resident artists at the creative space Rumtiden Idea Lab in Stockholm. Evenings of testing new hardware and software often turned into improvised audiovisual jams.In summer of 2022 during Futureless Festival they got the chance to do their first public improvised audiovisual performance, which happened to be seen & heard by the curators of the piksel festival in Bergen, Norway, where they ended up performing in November 2022. And now they're coming to our stage!

Expect synth infused sounds, electronic beats and highly reactive visuals.

Schedule

14:00

Registration and mingle

We open our doors at 14.00, the doors to the main stage open at 14.30.

It's free seating so come early if you want to grab the best seats.

1h 0m