Candies for your brain 

JOKE PLUIJM

Super Woman in daily life

We (and our society) expect so much from ourselves. Getting everything done on your to do list, every single day, again and again.. And does it make us happy? No! So why do we hold on? Why is it so hard to let go of expectations?

STEFAN GERGELY

The first step

The hardest part of achieving your dream is taking the very first step. The best way is to actually leap in. Stefan can show you how.

LAURENTIU GHITA

We live in Two Worlds!

Laurentiu will give us a glimpse into how we make decisions; why, in some cases, we take some decisions and not others; and how to influence and nudge other people’s decision making process to attain our own goal.

YICONG CHEN

Machine and Art

Piyuesh shows us how Jugaad enriches your creative brain. What are the essentials to develop and nourish a Jugaad brain? Here’s a demonstration of some Jugaads in normal life.

PIYUESH MODI

Jugaad

Piyuesh shows us how Jugaad enriches your creative brain. What are the essentials to develop and nourish a Jugaad brain? Here’s a demonstration of some Jugaads in normal life.

Rik Konings

Connecting the dots

A life full of challenges brought Rik Konings from sailing in a submarine, to a year in hospital and eventually 8 years in prison to a life full of joy while Juggling three balls empowering people with creativity.

Paul Andrei

Forced Creativity

Paul’s #BRAINCANDIES is about finding creativity in the right place at the right moment. The difficulty of being creative or finding it, tells you, whether you are in the right room.

Jan Smits

Public vs Private

Jan’s #BRAINCANDIES tries to connect the role of the division between public and private in the use of social media in a democratic society. Hannah Arendt is his principal inspiration. In this way Jan hopes that the audience will be triggered creatively to rethink their own position towards the massive invasion caused by the smartphone into our daily live, house and body.

Noud de greef

Musak

Noud was the chosen one to improvise a talk at #BRAINCANDIES 6. If you are looking for a way to connect deeper with the people around you, listen to his inspiring #BRAINCANDIES.

Ram Ramachandra

What am I?

What is your identity, it is where you are from, where your parents are from, what language you speak……or just which movies you watch? In this shrinking world is it possible to be unique? Ram wants to give you his (funny) bit on what makes us all different and yet the same.

RANIL VAN PEPERSTRATEN

Be a superhero, use your superpowers

Ranil is using the power of Breakdance to build a scene in his country of Origin, Sri Lanka.

Peter Bijleveld

Fight or Flight

The fight-or-flight response is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event or threat to survival. This unconscious instinct is without thought. However if you could choose, what would you do? 

Hans Kokhuis

Creativity comes in different flavours

Hans's #BRAINCANDIES is about creativity. He will present 6 ways in which we enact this instinct, and which are all creative in their own way. Knowing this will improve communication and collaboration.

ANDREA SCHRIJEN 

Atelier Menz

Andrea is an inspiring social designer who decided at the last moment to share with our community her passion for her work and her dream for Atelier Menz. A place for creatives to connect with people from difference background.

Luis Ferreira

Sensing Technology

Our senses dictate the way we perceive the environment around us. Everyday they are bombarded with huge amounts of information, and dealing with it is not an easy task. It is possible to control how and what we see, touch, hear, smell and taste?

CAMILLA SPADAVECCIA

Migration and Development

Camilla's talk is aimed to rethink the relations between migration and development. Migration is necessary for the well-being and the sustainable development worldwide! You will see the migration in a different way.

Arjen Heus

Transition

Arjen was the chosen one to improvise a talk at #BRAINCANDIES LIVE SESSION 5. If you are looking for someone with a plan to make spaces more human, while bringing people together.

JONATHAN KNEGTEL

Everyone is Awesome

It really is true that anyone is able to do anything? Reinforcing the fact that you create your own luck. Failing often and failing fast all while staying awesome. Our first #BRAINCANDIES surprise speaker Jonathan comes back one year later to share, once again, his awesome awesomeness!

FINN VOSSEN

One Quarter

"Just like many of my friends, I am 25 years old, well-educated, have a great family and awesome friends, I travel the world and can do anything I want, but still something is Missing....why?". Finn talks us through her quarter life crisis.

Tom Huizer

The Age of Collaboration

During an expedition in Greenland, Tom experienced the real power of collaboration and here at Camp Earth we need to experience it as well. Listen to his engaging #BRAINCANDIES.

CRISTIAN BOSCHERI

Breaking and Superpowers

From creativity to community building, after 10 years of Breaking, Cristian will share what social innovators can learn from bboys and bgirls. Cristian is one of wedoWE co-directors and runs the wedoHIPHOP division. 

Vasiliki Koutrouli

The Opposites in life

With her #BRAINCANDIES, Vasiliki makes us experience the importance of finding a balance between the opposites. Enantiodromia, as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus would say.

IMMANUEL GEESING

The Power of Storytelling

Immanuel’s #BRAINCANDIES is all about storytelling. He lets us experience how we can convey our messages in order to become a legend.

Rob van den Brand

Save energy. Save the world. It's easy.

Good news! There is a huge possibility for energy savings that most people overlook. And no new technologies are needed for it. Each of us only needs to take an important decision. Listen to this talk and find out what it means for you.

ANDRÉ BADJEBEIR

We Are Skilled

We Are Skilled is the new kid in town when it comes to co-creating and collaborating outside the classroom. Going from a offline journey to an online experience for students and businesses. We guide that process. That's what we do.