Ideas worth spreading - TEDxBrno

Pavel Fajt is a drummer, music composer, educator and producer. Guest of many prestigious music festivals and stages around Europe and overseas. He is most famous for his work with Iva Bittová. In his latest solo project DrumTrek Pavel Fajt connects multiple genres and combines percussions with electronic effects, toys and his voice.

She currently teaches courses focused on molecular & cell biology and on bioethics at the Institute of Experimental Biology of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Having been interested in the area of ethical aspects of biomedical research since her studies, Renata co-founded the University Centre for Bioethics. She won a Fogarty International Center of the NIH scholarship thanks to which she participated in the educational programme Research Ethics in Central and Eastern Europe.

During his 7 year stay in Brno, he created a team of 20+ nationalities, processing in 16 languages. Ratnesh has now created a company, Indoeuropeans, to create new cultural ties between a Rural Indian village and an Urban European town, through community development projects.

Prof. Zoja Mikotová is an artist, director, choreographer and educator. She has been engaged in directing, choreographing and mime in a number of Czech theatres and in Hungary, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and USA. She has become famous for the success of her Theatre of the Deaf and of her students and graduates at national as well as international festivals.

Kateřina Šedá - Barák jsme nenašli, je v Temži

Kateřina Šedá is an acclaimed Czech artist. In 2005 she received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and in the following years she exhibited at the Renaissance Society in Chicago (2008), the Mori Museum in Tokyo (2010) or in Tate Modern in London (2011), among others. In her projects, which she often undertakes in the surroundings of her hometown (in small villages or on a city's peripheries), she attempts to bring the local people together.

Jakub Dvorský - Nezávislé hry

Jakub Dvorský is a Czech game designer and visual artist. Among the most notable projects are the short games Samorost, Samorost2, The Quest For The Rest, Questionaut and Osada, the full-length game Machinarium and the design for the feature puppet film Kooky by Academy Award-winning director Jan Sverak.

Tomáš Turek - Smysluplnost rozhlasového vysílání pro mladou generaci

Tomáš Turek (*1979) is a music programme director and editor-in-chief at digital public radio station - Radio Wave. He has been preparing music programme of Radio Wave for more than five years. He also writes about music for several magazines and papers. Music is his passion and he frequently travels abroad for further music inspiration.

Aleš Zemánek - Motivační paradoxy

Manufacturer of lay bikes. In 1997 seeing a lay bike changed his life. He started to ride a lay bike in the same year and in 1999 he constructed his own one. That became the cornerstone of his newly founded company which currently produces 11 models and exports lay bikes to approximately 25 countries, from Japan to USA. He is also a pioneer of lay bikes wider use. Aleš was selected for the "Dvanáct odvážných" (The Brave Twelve) TV documentary series focused on entrepreneurs who had chosen their own paths.

Milan Knezevic - Síla bodu nula

Milan Knezevic is a vet interested in travelling, photography, philanthropy and yoga. Milan has been travelling around the world helping people, animals and nature. Today, he is a locum vet in London.

Oldřich Botlík - Ještě že děti neučí mluvit škola!

Oldrich Botlik (* 1951, Zlin) graduated from the Charles University in Prague with a PhD in Mathematics and has been earning his living as an educational consultant for the past twenty years. He participated in implementing a new system of financing primary and secondary education and the ExTra grants scheme for innovative teachers and schools.

Radim Polčák - Information fetishism and the art of forgiving

Head of The Institute of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, panelist of the .eu ADR arbitration court for .eu and cz. domain names, a regular guest speaker and lecturer at law faculties and legal education institutions all over Europe and the USA.

Vladimír Franz - Soustavně upadající víra ve vzdělanost

Vladimír Franz is well-known Czech music composer, painter and educator. Currently lecturing at Faculty of Theater, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He mostly composes music for theater, radio and film. Vladimír Franz was six times awarded Alfréd Radok prize for best theatric score. Another prize from The Theatre Newspaper he won together with Jiří Suchý for their operetta The Temptation of St.Anthony.

Monika Barton - Tři a půl příběhu ze Southlandu

She has twelve years of multinational corporations management and more than ten years of human resources consulting (intrabusiness, leadership, motivation, coaching) experience. Monika has found her new home in Invercargill (New Zealand), where she works as a senior lecturer and programme developer at The Southern Institute of Technology.

Rod Paton - Lifemusic: Putting the hum into human!

For the past 25 years he has been developing the use of creative music as a community resource and is the founder of the Lifemusic™ method. he shares his time between the seaside village of Pagham in West Sussex and Brno teaching improvisation, composition and community music at University of Chichester and leading improvisation sessions at JAMU.

Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová - Co musí umět expert v terénu?

Prof. Zuzana Derflerová Brázdová is the head of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, where she focuses on nutritional assessment, development of methods of assessment, children's nutrition in emergency, public health nutrition, and food and nutrition policy. She participated in a number of national and international nutrition projects in areas of crisis from Russia to Kenya.