ProgramBridging the Gap06 Dec 2018

I am honored to be entrusted with this event and movement that is created by a group of amazing volunteers. I want to wish you a wonderful time, and I hope that you will be inspired throughout the evening, make connections with someone whom you have not yet met, and be called to ignite new actions.

TEDxAmsterdamWomen hosted one of the first TEDWomen events in 2010. Since then, the annual conference gathers over 450 thought leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and storytellers throughout Amsterdam, as they learn from enlightening speakers, exchange ideas with like-minded professionals, and connect with a global community.

Tonight, we present to you our ninth edition which focuses on the theme: Bridging the Gap.

The gender gap proves we do need feminism. Indicators in health, politics, economics, and education show the gap is widening. Women and men around the world are taking action, raising their voices in a wave of protest. Change is coming. It’s time for equal pay and equal say. It’s time for a world that reflects women, too. Inequality won’t disappear overnight, but we can make strides when we band together. By sharing big ideas that spark a fire in others, we’re creating a movement. Idea by Idea, woman by woman.

Throughout the program, you will hear stories by our inspiring speakers who are bridging the gap in politics, science, art, design, fashion, dance, music, technology, global issues, and sports.

Marian SpierFounder TEDxAmsterdamWomen

Introduction

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16.00 — 16.45 Welcome 17.00 — 18.50 Block 01 speakers & entertainment19:00 — 20.00 Dinner20.10 — 21.50 Block 02 speakers & entertainment21.50 — 23.00 Drinks

Rutger Groot WassinkDeputy Mayor for the city of Amsterdam

As a Deputy Mayor for the City of Amsterdam, Rutger works closely

Femke Halsema, bridging the gap when it comes to important social issues

prominent member of Dutch political party

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GroenLinks, serving as the party’s group chairperson in the Amsterdam city council.

Democratisation, and Diversity.

Aldith HunkarPresenter

worked as an independent journalist. She moderates (international) conferences, leads debates, writes, and creates audio/visual productions emphasizing equal rights, equal opportunities and social cohesion, which links perfectly with our TEDxAmsterdamWomen event theme. Aldith is an independent thinker, loves traveling and has an open mind and an adventurous spirit.

Aldith Hunkar is a self-proclaimed global freestyle multimedia journalist, with 25 years of experience in mainstream media and over 14 years in journalism for Dutch TV news outlets. She started her television career in 1994 as a children’s news presenter and

(camera journalist) in the Netherlands for the regular news. Since 2007, Aldith has

Sjaan FlikweertDancer, poet and theatre-maker

Alice Wielinga

Dr. Yamini J. Singh

Marjan van Aubel

Artist

Winner Pitch Night, urban and transport planner

Inventor and solar designer

took the risk to travel through Pakistan to give a glimpse into the dangerous lives of Pakistani children. She won various awards and was nominated for her art projects on these cultural and social topics.

Dr. Yamini J. Singh works on sustainable cities and gendered urban mobility. Traditionally, our transport had been centered around the commuting needs of men. According to the Indian-born and Netherlands-based Yamini, this gender-gap

key life-opportunity activities like education,

Inventor and solar designer Marjan van Aubel promotes, in collaboration with scientists, engineers and institutions, extreme energy

domestically integrating solar cells that mimic the process of photosynthesis in plants, she adds a double function to objects and puts them to work. In 2012, the award-winning

employment, medical and recreational facilities. The solution is for cities to create an urban environment that not only allows women to continue their travel patterns that are already sustainable, but that also encourages men to make their travel more sustainable as well.

designer graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MA in Design Products. Her work has been exhibited at various world-class institutions, including London’s Design Museum, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and New York’s MoMA.

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Alice Wielinga her work is an imaginative blend of documentaries, art and commercial photography. In 2004, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost, and

project ‘Time Lapse in Beijing’ in 2011. With colourful and detailed images Alice explores the complex reality of North-Korea. Another project, published at the end of 2017, she

Dancer, poet and theatre-maker Sjaan Flikweert discovered spoken word poetry as a creative outlet in 2009. She has since performed as a spoken word artist in several countries in- and outside of Europe, and was recognized nationally when she won the Dutch spoken word competition ‘SPOKEN’. Her ambition is to contribute

to the development of oral traditions in the Netherlands via her raw, honest, and physical spoken word performances. Sjaan performs her art at diverse settings, from intimate venues, to crowded festivals, and large theatre productions.

Dr. Sachiko ScheuingCo-Chair of the Brussels FEDMA

Diem Do

Ivana Setiawan

Minchenu Maduro

Startup Award

Startup Award Pedagogue, trainer and motivational speaker

people with handicaps etcetera and have successfully helped train them and help them get a job (IT) companies / startups.

Sachiko combines theoretical and practical experience to manage Acxiom’s European

and compliance activities.

Venopi is an online marketplace where users can list their spaces for anyone to browse and book. Using the sharing economy model, existing businesses can make their spaces available for emerging businesses and entrepreneurs to rent on a short-term basis. As a software developer, Ivana Setiawan knows as no other how to take

improving team spirit and group dynamics, helping to create a learning environment that inspires. She is specialized in the topic of didactics, so she certainly knows how to encourage others in their learning process – whether she’s working with a healthcare professional or a rebellious teenager. In

a proactive attitude towards the sharing economy, encouraging activities that will

entrepreneurship and sustainability.

the future, she hopes to make a change in the Dutch education system. Her goal is to provide the crowd with new insights, excitement for the future, and positive energy.

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Diem Do developed Code Gorilla as a social enterprise that teaches software development to unemployed people and helps them get a job at (IT) companies / start-ups. It is her mission to make IT education available to everyone and provide companies with valuable tech talent. They work with people who are unemployed, from single moms, refugees, 50’s plus,

The Japanese Dr. Sachiko Scheuing is the Co-Chair of the Brussels-based Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing (FEDMA). Alongside this, she is the European

that provides data and technology for marketing purposes. With more than 20

intelligence, and as a former chief analyst,

Graciella van Hamersveld & Chantal van der Velde Startup Award

Jomecia

GAPDance artist

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By the age of 10 Jomecia started studying at Lucia Marthas Institute for performing arts. In 2010, she graduated with a bachelor in performing arts and immediately landed her

BLAZE, performing with some of the biggest names in hiphop and streetdance. She has since travelled the world, dancing for X-factor, Nike and Heineken and touring with artists like Diana Ross, Armin van Buuren and Lionel Richie. She aims to bridge the gap between European and African art in

connection to both cultures.

someone after they have passed away. The founders’ personal experience with digital legacy inspired Closure. Aiming to unburden relatives and subscription companies. They are the central contact point for relatives and for companies, saving costs and painful confrontation in an often emotional time.

Re—constructFashion brand

The female creators of the fashion brand Reconstruct want to show young creatives of the new generation how much can be achieved through collaboration and hard work. Previous collections have been presented during Copenhagen and New York Fashion Week and have been published on several fashion platforms such as Vogue.

com. The team behind the brand aims to stay true to themselves and want to promote a lifestyle which goes beyond the current fashion system of robotic followers.

BRIDGING THE BREAK

Jessica GyasiWinner Pitch Night,

Roos Wattel

Nadia Nadim

Bibian Mentel Spee

Accessibility consultant

Striker for Manchester City

Dutch atlete, author

in sign language. Today, 16 museums in

language provided by trainees of ‘Musea in Gebaren’. Roos was born deaf but studied at regular schools and thanks to this upbringing, Roos feels part of both the deaf and the hearing community. She is proud to be a deaf person and inspires others to create an inclusive society, together with her.

her platform “Model for Models” – aimed at empowerment, inner beauty, and self-worth of girls and young women – Jessica puts the knowledge she obtained into practice.

Born and raised in Afghanistan, Afghan-Danish Nadia Nadim knows as none other what it means to build a new life in a new country. After the death of her father at the hands of the Taliban, her family decided to escape Afghanistan, as it was not a safe place for a family of six women. They found their way into Italy and Nadia eventually

Bibian Mentel Spee is a Dutch athlete and author and the founder of the ‘Mentelity Foundation’. With this she realises projects that improve the lives of people who are physically challenged. Chasing her dream of becoming a professional snowboarder didn’t go without a struggle. On her way to the Olympic games in Salt Lake City 2001 she

found herself between the hills and trees of Denmark, the country she now calls home. Excelling in football Nadia quickly rose to the highest ranks of women’s football in the country joining the Danish National Team and and has since then proudly represented her country 73 times.

lost her leg due to bone cancer, a disease that came back nine times the last eighteen years. She never gave up and won the World Championship seven times, and three Paralympic gold medals. With her books, foundation and story, Bibian wants to inspire people to never give up on their passions and to live life to the fullest.

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Roos Wattel aims to bridge the gap between hearing and deaf people as an accessibility consultant. To achieve her goal, she started her company ‘Wat Telt!’ in 2014. To improve

who are deaf or hearing impaired, Roos works closely with other organisations. In 2015, Roos created the ‘Musea in Gebaren’ (Museums in Sign). With this program, she trains deaf people to be museum guides

Jessica Gyasi is a Dutch model, writer,

She started her professional modeling career at age 15, which changed her life completely. During her early years of modeling she experienced the same kind of “otherness” that she had experienced as a child: being black in a white-dominated world. This made her feel insecure, but her

Symone D. SandersStrategist and CNN Political Commentator

Ingrid van EngelshovenMinister of Education, Culture and Science

Kennedy School. Through her experiences in politics, Symone possesses the skills to provide perceptive analyses on political and social issues, which have been featured on

News and NBC. Currently, Symone is the Principal of the 360 Group LLC where she provides strategic communications guidance to organizations and individuals, and helps

social problems.

During her studies; Public Administration & Public Policy and Dutch Law, van Engelshoven was already into politics and has been a member of D66 ever since. Her childhood in Belgium made her aware of the consequences of being a “foreigner”, but it also gave her the opportunity to look at the country with a perspective of an outsider.

She has worked on topics such as equal opportunities in the Dutch education system and the improvement of women’s economic independence. In 2015 she won the ‘Els Borst Network Inspiration Award’ in honour of her years of work for D66.

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Kovacs Musician

the greats is on the verge of making her a sultry superstar. Her second album ‘Cheap Smell’ is one of the most open, honest and inspired future soul albums of the decade.

Sharon Kovacs is an enigmatic phenomenon who has forged her own unique path through life’s devious twists and tangles, and entranced the globe with her wicked allure. Her 2013 EP ‘My Love’, was an instant European hit, and in 2015 her debut album ‘Shades Of Black’ charted in 36 countries, and hit #1 in her Dutch homeland. Kovacs’ bare-hearted soul with distinct touches of

Symone D. Sanders has an impressive career. During the US elections of 2016, she served as national press secretary for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. This made her earn her place in history as the youngest presidential press secretary on record. Rolling Stone magazine listed her as one of 16 young Americans shaping the 2016 election. In the spring of this year (2018), she served as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the

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Carine de Meyere

Lauren Kiraly

Our theme Bridging the Gap, has a multilateral translation and is a global challenge. Through leadership by example, within our partners’ organizations, we can demystify and transform the gender bias, bridge various gaps and overcome deeply

So to all of our partners, a huge thank you for your trust and continuous support!

And to all present today — ask yourself what do I do to bridge the gap? Am I myself the change I wish to see in the world?

Thank you, volunteers, for donating your time; thank you for your passionate drive,

your belief in the power of women.

team’s hard-work and vision. And may you be moved, inspired and challenged.

For me, the root of success has always been about creating collaborative partnerships, in

is constant opportunity for growth through inspiration.

In April, 2019, TEDxAmsterdamWomen will

Leadership Study trip to Silicon Valley. We’ll deep-dive into the gender bias, diversity and inclusion discussion, as we visit various companies and seek inspiration from the venture capital world and their investments in female entrepreneurs. We also created mentoring bootcamps with Accenture. It is this kind of collaborations that I am proud of, and aim to continue developing.

What an honor it is to be a part of TEDxAmsterdamWomen – a movement which started over nine years ago, and has radically changed the way Amsterdam orients to women. To be able to say that you and I were a part of this, is a privilege.

Many individuals, both women and men, have made today possible, including our 35+

January, and have spent hundreds of hours imagining this day. The meaning of Bridging the Gap, the collection of speakers, the overall experience. Every moment has been carefully curated and designed with purpose.

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Operational Director TEDxAmsterdamWomen

Director Partnerships & New Business Development TEDxAmsterdamWomen

By sharing big ideas that spark a fire in others, we’re creating a movement. Idea by Idea, woman by woman. Marian Spier

Founder TEDxAmsterdamWomen

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