Onze Sprekers

About the speaker: Talitha Muusse is the only person in the Netherlands younger than 30 who has a seat in the board of a large organization and is set to break the glass ceiling for young people who have the energy and the ideas to make change happen, but lack the position to do so.

Ann Demeester (Bruges,1975). The Flemish Ann read German Philology and worked at Art Centre The Apple and W139 in Amsterdam and at museum SMAK in Ghent. Since the first of February she is managing director of het Frans Hals Museum / De Hallen in Haarlem.

As a teenager, Ricardo Lieuw On was packing groceries when he knew what he wanted to study: he wanted to learn about learning. He picked up a study in psychology and learned how to reduce his learning time from 3 hours to 1 hour on the same piece of content. He gained the same knowledge in 200% less time. And specially for TEDxHaarlem, he shares the secret of his technique.

nne is a second year student in Business Studies. Last year she swopped universities: from the crowded lecture rooms of the Free University of Amsterdam to the more personal contact at the University of Utrecht.

Edward Molkenboer calls himself ‘a professional bon vivant’. But that’s only since he started pouring coffee for the lonely elderly. Before that time he owned two companies, but at some point felt a personal bankruptcy. From the urge of doing good for others he set up the foundation Goed doen voor een Ander (= Doing good for someone Else) Through his online calendar Bezoekouderen.nl, everybody can plan a coffee meeting with an elderly person to spend a little time and have a good chat, laugh or learn from each other! On stage, together with Edward, was Mrs Van Huis (98) who lost her entire family. She says: “Being alone is not much fun. You need someone who actually talks to you, and who answers all your questions. Sometimes there were days when I did not see anyone. No one. Loneliness is best solved by making contact. And good advice is what I want to give you in return.”

Kirsten Ziesemer is a molecular archaeologist and TEDxHaarlem speaker who explores the past through biomolecules preserved in human remains. Her research focuses on ancient DNA and the oral microbiome, particularly dental calculus—one of the few biological materials that fossilises during life. As part of the interdisciplinary research project NEXUS 1492, she studied the impact of European colonisation on Caribbean populations after 1492, shedding light on changes in health, diet, and environment. With a background in Biomedical Sciences and Human Osteology, Kirsten combines biology, archaeology and forensic science to uncover what earlier generations can still tell us today.

Professor Pim Haselager was watching a football game and didn’t want to leave the room for a beer. He said to himself: If I had a robot he could bring me a beer, so I don’t have to miss the game”. But he didn’t have one. And then he realized something and said to himself: “What if I had one, and he said I had too many beers already? Did my wife program it? Or my employer or my insurance company? Maybe I don’t want the robot after all and just skip the beer”. But the robots will come and therefore as a professor in robotics at the Radbound University in Nijmegen, he researches the moral side of robots.