This page lists the short summaries of previous TEDxDanubia events.
The TEDxDanubia 2010 program was intensive and energizing, gradually evolving from a range of rational and emotional talks to an amazing whole day spiritual experience. We would like to thank everybody who joined us in starting a new, open-minded community of thinkers and doers with a positive mindset.
Photographs are available on the TEDxDanubia Flickr channel.
We have received several reviews from mainstream and social media alike. We have also generated considerable activity on both Facebook and Twitter.
The program of TEDxDanubia 2010 (held on 27 January 2010) consisted of the these talks, performances and sessions:
7:30–8:30 Registration
8:45–9:00 Why Are We Here?
9:00–10:10 A World We Could Live In
We embark on our journey as we glimpse into a world of our possibilities, into a world that would simply make more sense, and a world that is quite possible…
The Surprising Science of Motivation – Daniel Pink (
-Talk*)
Social Psychology – Paszkál Kiss
Stepping Out of the Moral Matrix – Jonathan Haidt (-Talk*)
Yesismore, rabbit hole and architecture – Ádám Hatvani
Designing Living Spaces – Bjarke Ingels (-Talk*)
10:10–10:50 Conversation Break
10:50–12:50 The Spirit of Change
If we want something different, we need to change and make change. But what is the nature of the change we need? How do we start? What is the direction?
The Fabric of Reality –Albert László Barabási
What the Future Holds… – Mindboggling Science – Juan Enriquez (-Talk*)
What Makes Us Happy? – Martin Seligman (-Talk*)
The Hungarian Psyche – László Mérő
On Practical Wisdom – Barry Schwartz (-Talk*)
Leading Beyond Authority – Márton Svékus
Powerful Art and Science of a Changing World: Time-lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss – James Balog (-Talk*)
12:50–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Building a Better Future
Our journey continues as we now open the tool box: powerful ideas, perspectives and techniques we could use to do what we do in a different and better way…
Living Technologies – Dr. Rachel Armstrong
Triple Accounting: How to Merge Human, Corporate and Financial Values – Michel de Kemmeter
From thermograph to poetry bean (Medialab practices) – Melinda Sipos
Intellectual –> Property –> Right? – Dr. Zoltán Ormós
Strange Meeting – Linda Kovács–Márton Fenyvesi Duo
Going “GREEN”: Passive House and a Hay School – György Mihály
Pigcity – Sustainable Utopia – Sándor Finta
15:30–16:20 Conversation Break
16:20–18:10 A Different Point of View
And what if we changed our mindset? How could we look at our usual world from a vantage point that reveals new meaning and opens new doors?
Wake up... Half of It is Gone! – Zsolt Hetesi
How the World Sees Us? – Attila Marján
Wikipedia About Hungary – András Vicsek
Where Religions Connect – István Tasi
Success Through Failure – Ulrich Kiss SJ.
Healing Power of Tales – Ildikó Boldizsár
18:10–18:50 Conversation Break
18:50–19:50 Unto the Magic Carpet (evening session)
Finally… let yourself drift, be enchannted and inspired by remarkable stories, pictures and music.
Photos and Tales of Unseen Worlds – Balázs Gárdi
Budapest Bar
Pasta e Basta, Instinct and Business… – Peter Zwack & Izabella Zwack
20:00– … talk – food – drinks
* Screened -Talk videos in English, with Hungarian subtitles.
Most other talks were in Hungarian. Simutaneous translation to English was made avalable for non-Hungarian speakers.