Award Pitch: Daniel Haven

Flexible Exams  What drives Daniel Haven is making online education fully flexible and available to everyone around the world. The problem is, that to get accreditation a lot of institutions still require online students to physically attend an exam. To solve this problem, Daniel founded ProctorExam, a digitalised platform that allows online students to also…
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Award Pitch: Michel Visser

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Act: CUT_ & Co

Act: CUT_ & Co Improvisation on Bam Bam  For the closing act of the TEDxAmsterdamED 2016 event, the audience are first treated to a live rendition of ‘Honey and Pearls’ from the Amsterdam electronic music duo, CUT_. Then, to inspire the audience to keep innovating, CUT_ are joined onstage by Mark Dodsworth and classical percussionist…
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Jacquelien de Savornin Lohman

‘Faalkracht’ (The Power of Failure) Jacquelien is 82 years old. She has been a lawyer, a professor and a senator, but at a high age she embarked on a completely new career path: she became a performer. In this piece (in Dutch) she shares her story through song and dance and even gets the audience…
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Act: Iris Penning

Verder dan vandaag  Iris Penning is a young Dutch singer and songwriter. She was a finalist of the music contest De Grote Prijs van Nederland, performed in the music temple Paradiso Amsterdam and participated in the travelling music festival De Popronde. Often cheerful, sometimes obscure, and above all with a focus on the lyrics –…
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