Students of IE University organize a TEDx event at the campus of Segovia

A group of students of IE University, with the patronage of the Student Office and the Department of Extracurricular Activities, have organized the first event of TEDx that will take place on the campus of Segovia.  This coming Saturday the 16th of March, approximately a hundred people will congregate at the Campus of Santa Cruz la Real to attend the event TEDxIEUSegovia, an organized day of talks and inspiration based around the theme of “The fallacy of security”.

The seminar is of special significance due to being officially licensed by TED, the prestigious non-profit organization dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading”.  TED was born twenty-five years ago as a four-day conference in California and has since become an entity which has collaborated with international leaders and thinkers to support ideas that can bring important changes to our planet through multiple initiatives.   Among the illustrious figures who have given TED talks are individuals such as Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and Gordon Brown.   The TEDx variant of these events is a series of seminars and conferences organized at a local, independent level, which search for people all around the world who are willing to share an experience similar to TED itself.

At IE University seven speakers will be showcased, all experts in their professional fields, ranging from innovation to entrepreneurial spirit to labour conditions.  The organizers of TEDxIEUSegovia are certain that this will be a unique and enlightening experience due to the combination of brilliant presenters with the attendance of an academic community characterized for its innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.   “We are convinced that this fusion will result in many surprising new ideas”, proclaim the students, who point out that TEDx IEUSegovia has as its objective to “provide the university community with a new platform for dialogue through which ideas can be shared and disseminated”.   Over the course of the event, the importance of taking risks in order to make progress in the changing of the 21^st century will be a recurrent theme.

The following is a listing of the speakers on the agenda:

Javier de la Cueva

One of the most influential lawyers in Spain, Mr. de la Cueva received his bachelor’s degree in Law and Masters in advanced philosophical studies at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.   In his hands have been the defense, among other cases, of Ladinamo (in which Copyleft was first recognized in the courts), of Sharemula (in which it was decided that linked websites to files hosted by p2p networks are not considered guilty of a crime) and the cases of the “Pablo Soto” p2p networks.   Creator and main impulse of Open Procedures, an initiative the first action of which was to mount a lawsuit against the then established digital standards, Javier currently dedicates part of his time, in addition to his labours as lawyer, in organizing and programming diverse technological projects such as the Open Legal Ontology system, a catalogue on Opengov.es and designing “Praeter Orwell”.   Additionally he is a speaker for, and user of, GNU / Linux since 1998 as well as a systems administrator under this operating system since 2003.    He writes his scripts in Python.

Carlos Piera Sierra

CEO of Delivering Happiness Spain.   This company started out as a movement which began in the United States in the hands of Tony Hsieh, founder and CEO of Zappos.   After the sale of Zappos to Amazon for 1,200 million dollars, Hsieh wrote the book “Delivering Happiness”, which went on to become a best seller and sparked a national, and then international, social initiative.   The book recounts how Hsieh instated the concept of happiness itself as a business model in Zappos and how this idea skyrocketed the company to great levels of success, achieving more than a billion dollars in annual sales.

Víctor Sánchez del Real

An innate entrepreneur and expert in communication, founder of “Elocuent”, as well as professor and mentor at the Founder Institute based in Silicon Valley, Mr. Sánchez possesses ample experience in the areas of advertising, marketing and journalism.   With Elocuent, he has attempted to apply all his experience and reflections about the communications market in order to help provide a more personal branding of companies and entrepreneurs. 

Slava Polonski

Extraordinary student, entrepreneur, and winner of various prizes, these are just some of the characteristics of Slava, a current Masters student at Oxford who started the “Ivy City Network” in order to develop a network and platform for intellectual exchange and collaboration with the goal of democratizing global opportunities.   He was named Best Young Entrepreneur of the United Kingdom in 2012.

Carlos Polo Gil

Young entrepreneur, computer engineer and with experience as a consultant, Mr. Polo created the company “NTS” at 25 years of age and is the founder of “Doocuments”, a virtual tool for sharing VIP documents on the internet.

José Ballesteros 

Previous Marketing Director of 3M, he is a holder of a MSM from the University of Boston and a firm believer in organizational change.   José Ballesteros has developed an exclusive teaching method in the areas of communication, sales, and in personal development and relations known as VESP (translated roughly as Methods for the Personal Improvement and Evolution).   Through this platform, Mr. Ballesteros has managed to spark the fires of change in many organizations and companies.   He is an avid student of motivation, the human mind, and the principles of success.

Jeroo Billimoria 

A social entrepreneur credited with founding six organizations, among them “Aflatoun”, which in turn became a global movement affecting more than 700 000 children.   Mrs. Billimoria was selected as Ashoka Social Entrepreneur in 1999 and has received the Schwab Grant for social entrepreneurialism in 2001 in addition to many other such awards due to her work.   She also contributes to the project “How to change the World” of David Bornstein, a non-profit and highly successful written publication noted for its initiative in social entrepreneurialism around the world.   She has written several educational books for children as well as academic publications regarding the management of non-profit organizations.    She is the founder and director of Child and Youth Finance International.

Spectators to the event can not only listen to the stories of these impressive individuals but will also be able to enjoy music by Salvador Beltrán, named upcoming hot artist of 2012 by the radio show Cadenal Dial.

At TEDxIEUSegovia there will also participate the founders of two of the most successful European recruitment and internship platforms, Ivy City Network and Tyba, both of which will set up a small kiosk in the main cloister area of the Campus.

About IE University 

IE University represents an extension of the educative model of IE but with an undergraduate focus, offering centers in both Segovia and Madrid and providing an innovative selection of bachelor’s degrees with the possibility of continuing on to a master’s program.   With more than 1100 students from nearly 80 nationalities guided by an integrated faculty of almost 400 national and international experts and professors, IE University teaches undergraduate programs in both English and Castillian Spanish in the areas of : Business Administraion, Architecture, Biology, Communications, Law, Finance, Psychology and International Relations.

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