Almost half of the workforce, or 47%, is expected to be completely replaced by advances in technologies by 2040. Causing chills, this research doesn’t sound crazy, nor weird. It is already becoming reality!

In his speech, The Turning Point: Career Navigation in a Disruptive Marketplace, one of our speakers will discuss how one small decision became his turning point opening unforeseen avenues for career growth. He will share the implications for navigating today’s disruptive marketplace with certainty towards a better future!

FOUR letters describe the nicest place in the world: HOME! It is the only place in which everything is just . . . right

This place was taken away from one of our speakers and with it, big parts of his family and friends. Experience the turning point when one of our sympathetic speakers as he cleans up the myths of what it means to be a political refugee and find out how he found a new HOME.

Imagine suffering from gender dysphoria. What would your life be like? How would society view you? How will people behave towards you? Your friends? Your family?

Take a personal journey with one of our speakers on Oct 28, discover the turning point and understand the impact our society has and how we can make it a place with true freedom of expression.

Whatever the goal you would like to achieve most, it wouldn’t matter without the building block of any worthy achievement. That one things that wraps everything together and gives sense that you are where you dreamed of. Or even further where even your wildest dreams couldn’t have taken you… HAPPINESS

On Oct. 28 one of our speakers will engage in pursuit of happiness and show you how positive psychology can help us to achieve this #goal and how she has turned her career path around to help people every single day to achieve happiness.

What would be TEDxEBS without a magician!? Pierre Manu ignited a tradition by amazing the audience last year with his performance and lifted the bar very high for this year.

The show will be inspired by The Turning Point. One that drove our speaker from being a regular student to travelling the world and becoming an illusionist with his own TV show and a model. Let’s share some magical moments together!

What if you can dive in a world merging yours with the digital, creating virtual realms that appear so immersive that your brain can’t distinguish between what is “real” and what is not. Mere holograms of your personal avatar suffice when it comes to you being somewhere else or attending any meeting at any location worldwide.

If you think that these kinds of occurrences only appear as plot elements within sci-fi movies or books – well, guess what, you are wrong. The future has already arrived… today.

Living in the most international, connected, and free world in history, we rarely live outside of our known world. We naturally oppose to change. We fear it because we are programmed to do so. Change.

Change is hard, against our nature, but what would cause a turning point in someone’s worldview? What type of event could be powerful enough to change the way someone thinks about the world around them? From experience as a special forces officer in the German Army, to working in Russia and commuting from Germany, our speaker has had encountered many turning points. He changed the way he understood ethical and moral standards across culture, the way he understood tolerance, the power of will, and the media.