Join us for for a special screening of a Ted Talk given by Jochen Wegner at the the TedSummit 2019. With nearly a million views online, this talk discusses a social experiment set up in Europe, described as a “”Tinder for Politics”
Hang around with us after our screening for a casual night of mingling with the rest of our community over Happy Hour drinks.
Admission is FREE
RSVP via: lavender@thehive.sg
Why you should listen
Jochen Wegner never thought he could make a living out of writing, yet ultimately he found himself editing Zeit Online, one of Germany’s major media websites. With a team of 150, Zeit Online delivers around-the-clock information about breaking and developing stories, distinguished by deep reporting and data visualizations. Zeit also hosts a number of Germany’s most popular podcasts.
By taking journalism beyond reporting and into the realm of real-time discussion, Wegner is creating tools that could change the political climate by encouraging wide varieties of people to engage in public discourse. His “My Country Talks” platform organizes personal, one-on-one conversations between people from all over the ideological map, inviting them to find common ground between viewpoints that are at first seemingly irreconcilable.
