TEDxRueSaintGuillaume

Speakers

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• Anne Nivat

  War Journalist

• Assa Traore

  At 31, Assa Traoré is the mother of three children. Before her brother Adama's death on 19th July 2016, she was a specialized educator. Today, she devotes herself entirely to her brother's cause.

• Fred Tan

  He was born in Singapore where reality was far from Hollywood's "Crazy Rich Asians". Before a Masters program (and French pâtisseries) brought him to Paris, Fred lived in China, England, and the USA. Fred's story is one of social mobility and painful psycho-emotional memories. One such memory is him being admitted to a hospital after attempting suicide a year ago−something he is still grappling with, wants to end the stigma around and has allowed him to exponentially better understand others. A political analyst, policy-shaper, and avid volunteer, Fred's actions are driven by data and inspired by other similar intimate experiences.

• Jean De La Rochebrochard

  Jean de La Rochebrochard is Partner at Kima Ventures, the investment fund financed by Xavier Niel. Kima invests in 2 to 3 startups a week and manages a portfolio of 500 companies. As an individual, Jean raised a hundred million Euros for more than 30 startups during the different stages of his career. He is on board several companies including Zenly, Payfit, Sourced and ibanFirst.

• Louis Derungs

  This is a story of incredible resilience, energy, courage, creativity and will. Imagine 15 000 volts going through your entire body: this is what Louis Derungs lived at 20 years old. Following this accident that burnt 50% of his body, both his arms were amputated - but this did not stop him from following his passions: he biked his way through Oregon, went bungee jumping and took part in the hardest marathon on the planet: the "Marathon des Sables" to name a few. He went on to study artificial intelligence, neurosciences, psychology and philosophy and, pulling all those resources together, created a novel approach in Digital Healthcare that could revolutionise the way we conceive mental health; a passion that he's invited to share in many worldwide events and that he will share with us at our TEDx conference.

• Mani Doraisamy

  Mani Doraisamy is a hands-on technology architect and the founder of Guesswork - a vertical machine learning service that focuses on mining customer information. Prior to Guesswork, he co-founded OrangeScape, where he created 2 cloud products: Visual PaaS and Kissflow - the top workflow app on Google Apps Marketplace.

• Olivier Giraud

  When he was only 8 years old, Olivier Giraud told his mother his biggest dream: becoming a comedian. She laughed! In 2001, Olivier moved to America to become a restaurant manager in Palm Beach, Florida. 5 years later, he came back to Paris to try his luck on stage. How to Become A Parisian in One Hour premiered on May 10th, 2009. To date, Olivier Giraud has performed this show 1700 times and attracted close to 1 million spectators in France ! In his talk, Olivier will share his experiences, and of course, be ready for a good laugh!

• Sarah Durieux

  Sarah Durieux is director of the French branch of Change.org, the world's largest online petitions platform. Specialist in citizen mobilizations, digital strategies and e-reputation, she has also worked for various NGOs such as the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, the WWF or SOS Children's Villages.