Report TEDxTilburgU

The first four presentations of TEDxTilburgU are over. The theme of the day is ‘Refreshing our information society’. A company of 100 people is seated in the auditorium of building Cobbenhagen, mainly consisting of staff and a few students. They were selected after an application procedure for which they had to send a motivation letter.

Koen Becking, president of the Executive Board, opened the meeting by welcoming everybody in the room and the live-stream viewers. In Utrecht and Delft a group of people is also watching the presentations of Eric Postma, Dirk van der Veen, Marco van Beers and Tim van Cromvoirt. The intended streaming in Boston was cancelled due to hurricane Sandy.

Postma talked about Social Signal Processing, a discipline he also teaches. With the program Cert he showed what the emotions of Mitt Romney were during the first presidential debate with Obama, at the time of his congratulation to Obama for his wedding day. Van der Veen indicated that e-health is a good development for the future. According to him, it assures better care support and is cost-reducing. Marco van Beers told something about his design objects with which he can guarantee interaction and intimacy between sick people and their closed ones. Tim van Cromvoirt talked about the way he creates art objects with a biological perspective by using technique.

After the break, Hille van der Kaa told us about the shift from the journalistic ethics to the individual. Every individual now has made their own personalized media landscape. Geert Mul said that we lived in the library Bale, where there is infinite information supply. Ton Withagen called for competence matching instead of cv-matching.

The KUBBIK award went to Luc Missorten, CEO of media company Corelio.