Hello friends,
UPDATE: Here are some videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLADJSjJ03wMkNQI_B0ARgzqgO5NZnOtpL
Before we get started I’d like to thank everyone involved into organizing this event, and I hope we’ll get many other events related or not to IT, I think communication is the key to get to that next level we’ve kept talking about all day long. Don’t think you’re smarter than someone, but if you got an idea that’s burning you inside out, just make it happen, start by small steps and then it will lead you to some kind of lesson learning.
The bio of all the speakers is on TEDx Chisinau official site: http://www.tedxchisinau.com/speakers/
The photos are taken from https://www.facebook.com/TEDxChisinau photos and from Victor Buzu’s FB album.
Elena Pahomova – There will be no future
An interesting topic for opening of the event – actually the main idea what Elena Pahomova was presenting is that today is the base for our future, we don’t need to wait until it happens with us. Future is happening now, we model it day by day, so we should live as today dreamers, changing something today, living better today, etc. Another good piece of advice for young journalists was “don’t try to chase big money, work for experience, this is why you got here in first place.”
Octavian Ticu – Bankrupt state with elite sport
Octavian Ticu presented a very good info about the idea of meritocracy and that it is mostly applicable to sports, because we know for sure who is the best one there, there are seconds, kilograms, kilometers, etc. He also talked about one little village in Moldova: Grimancauti, this village with a population of 4200 people, gave us (moldovan) 3 Olympic medalists and a lot of champions in box. Also he compared the years when the most progress is done, and these are the years before and after the USSR period in Moldavian history. He also expresses the idea that as a community, as a state we are not yet ready, we don’t have conditions to raise champions in team sports as football, basketball, and others, because the team is a micro community with all its strengths and flaws. This is why we fail in these types of sports. In several words a very good presentation I’d advise you to watch it on YouTube when available.
Onorica Banciu – Get out from the game
Onorica’s insights on our Moldavian budget are very interesting, she indicated several numbers, which seemed very outraged when measuring the price and the value. Getting as an example a simple Moldovan family from a village she presented some of the day-to-day problems and expressed an interesting idea: “Don’t wait until government will give you something, remember when it does, it means that government first took from someone something and than gave that to you”, so basically when you’re doing great, government is putting pressure on your business, when you’re doing bad it will give you some money so you could still be at least on the edge. So don’t get into the game of protesting without changing anything yourself - stop, innovate, create something new and the changes will come.
Dave Erasmus – Is giving good for you ?
Alex Cosmescu – Do you exist ? Really ?
Alex gave the most confusing talk, at least for me. The idea is interesting but not the one that I like, so basically the idea is that life is a union of emotions, feelings, stresses, and many many other things, that we can’t control. Basically life is just happening. And this is why it is not fair to say that you have to suffer more or less than someone else, because life’s just happening want it or not, you can’t change it. Anyway I think this talk enlarged a little bit the common pattern for a TEDx speaker.
Eugen Boico – Remix your way into the future
Once again I loved the presentation. For a beginning artist, designer there is this idea of being unique, that is like a trigger in their mind. But what is the easiest path to express yourself as a creative artist, the answer is simple, that is remix. With loads of data generated every minute on our planet, there is extremely low possibility that you’ve created something unique that was never created before you. But get a piece of art, a track, something that you like a lot, and improve it with your ideas and thoughts, and this way you shouldn’t invest a lot to progress in this area. Remix of course isn’t the only way, but it is the simplest and the most effective one for a beginner. Watch the presentation on YouTube when available.
Ruslan Cojocaru – Happiness 2.0
Unfortunately I just arrived after the lunch at the end of the presentation, but I got the idea of being positive in everything you do and to succeed you need two components: the passion about the project, the passion about what you do, and the other one is the team. Get the perfect team and when you got it experiment with it to do it better. I hope I’ll get more ideas from YouTube watch.
Maria Gaidar – Changing system from the inside
Maria is talking about being an opposition activist in Russia, and than suddenly things changed when she became vice-governor in the social sector of Kirov region. She talks about her problems and how she tried changing the system from the inside, not breaking it but step by step changing the attitude of the people towards politicians, by listening and making reforms where needed and possible. When asked if she thinks a single person could make the difference, she is a strong believer that a single person can do a lot of things using different tools and techniques.
Chad Rogers – Tweeting isn’t enough
Chad Rogers is talking about tweeter and Facebook and other social media that is used by lots of people, what he’s saying about it that you need to be active for sure, but not on social networks because sharing some link or clicking the “Like” button isn’t an action, it is just an excuse for doing nothing. He also says “Remember why everyone hates politicians ? They keep talking but they are taking no action. The same might happen to you”. The word introduced by Chad is “slacktivism” 
Jennifer Brush – Moldovan Youth: Bricks into the foundation of the peace
Jennifer Brush is Head of the OSCE in Moldova. She’s talking about the Tighina bridge that can play the key factor of Moldova’s future if opened. There’s a plan of creating a series of European roads from Kiev to Istanbul – Corridor IX and Moldova is right into the center of this road – this road means prosperity and wealth and growing economics, now the bridge is closed because of our past conflict with Transnistria. Also she notice that there’s another organization that involves multiple countries in Danube zone which is also somehow interested in developing the transport routes, and Moldova can get the benefits that comes with that. She’s asking us at least to show to the governors that we’re aware of this problem. Let’s say it straight - I didn’t know about such plans and such organizations till Jennifer told us about those. Now that we’re aware of it what will change ? She answers that at least if this would be on 5th position in the social polls that would be great, and may be our governors will do something about it.
Dorin Dusciac – Nuclear physics danger comes from ignorance
A hilarious guy, he’s a research engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission near Paris. He’s talking about the formulas and the concepts with such an ease that it is truly pleasant to watch him, plus he’s always making jokes. For example he explained about Roentgen and Sievert and than he said “So now everybody knows the difference between Roentgen and Sievert? Right. The Roentgen has beard, and Sievert hasn’t”. Than he talks about the myth that the wine is protecting us from the radiation and that is not correct because wine protects us only from one element in the radiation specter. Also he talks that if we fly pretty often than that dose of 1 mSv can be achieved pretty fast. For example if you get 7 flight of 7 hours you get the dose of radiation that is already higher than the yearly limit. Thanks Dorin, for a great presentation!
Dmitry Volosin – Live projects
A serious person with a big experience in internet portals. A lot of ideas here, ok for starters he enumerated some of the components of a successful project: obsession, enjoying the project, accepting failures/deaths of the project. He says first projects are like calf's teeth but when those fall, from these small projects can grow big projects with a base already. On the question “Is it normal to lose obsession from time to time ?”, he says that it’s normal because we aren’t robots and these periods of sadness and desperation happen from time to time, but if you lost for good you obsession than sooner or later your project will die. “You should be on fire with this idea, like Jeanne d’Arc… but that isn’t the best example” 
Best of wishes.
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