Adrain Chesser
TEDx Speaker, Fine Arts Photographer
“My grandfather was a preacher and my family wanted to have another preacher, so I was trained to be a preacher, but I was gay, so that really wouldn’t work. So I chose to be an artist instead”, Adrain Chesser, Fine Arts Photographer, describes his background. The limitation? “It’s being self-motivated. Keeping yourself moving is the biggest challenge.”
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Erika Lust
Erotic Film Director
“Who are the main characters? Why are they meeting? In what circumstances? In what locations?” The creating of erotic films is a process that Erika Lust is dedicated to. But there are also challenges, being an Erotic Film Director: “They are still adult movies and some people still have a problem with the adult aspect of it.”

Frans von der Dunk
Professor of Space Law
“I’m working in a field of activities that is constantly developing. Every few months a new development happens and as a lawyer you need to think about that from different perspective.” As a Professor of Space Law Frans von der Dunk is teaching and educating classes. Often, when he’s got some time on his hands, he does some research on that field as well. “In term of soft skills you need to be open minded and be able to openly discuss philosophy and culture with professors from all over the world.”

Josh Grigsby
Curator CITYx
“Not only don’t be afraid to fail, do it intentionally. You can’t learn anything, you can’t succeed until you know how to fail”, Josh Grigsby would tell his 14-year-old self. What it takes to do his job as Curator at CITYx for TEDx? “Curiosity. Curiosity to the point, that it makes you willing to say things to people that might embarrass you or ignore boundaries.”
Gabriella Chihan Stanley
Social Media Content Strategist
I’m TEDxVienna’s “Twitter lady”. I take care of the content strategy for Twitter. My job consists of a daily research routine about the latest developments in technology, science, design, architecture, video gaming, amongst other fun topics, followed by structuring this research and squeeze it into the spectacular amount of 140 characters. It´s all about composing a dialog which aims to simulate the way we associate the end of one thought with the beginning of another to, in the end, reach the moment of “aha!”. It's also about offering food-for-thought in exchange for original approaches to knowledge through combining areas of interest in exciting ways, like shared neuroscience & gastroenterology, or robotics and consciousness hacking.