Florian Dirkse
Reviews
"I am still flabbergasted by the whole event and especially by your talk, our participants were really, really impressed by your story and were discussing it over lunch on the next day. It will be great to have you again at our other events or inspirational lectures."
Maria Peeva
community program manager
Climate Kick
About Florian Dirkse
Florian Dirkse had a dream. In fact, a lot of us have it, we share it but most of us keep on dreaming and don’t do much about it. He sailed around the world with a good friend for 2 years. They made the 8 episodes docu for Dutch TV, Zee, Zout en Zeilen. That trip around the world, gave him another dream, to clean our oceans. Together with Boyan Slat he started The Ocean Cleanup. Today, he continues to combine his greatest passions, sailing and cleaning the oceans and started his own company, Zeildromen.
Speaking
Travels from:
Netherlands
Language:
Dutch, English
Fee range:
from $800 up to $1500
Topics
How to fulfill your dreams
Florian Dirkse sailed around the world with a good friend for 2 years. They made the 8 episodes docu for Dutch TV: Zee, Zout en Zeilen. That trip around the world, gave him another dream – to clean our oceans. Together with Boyan Slat he started The Ocean Cleanup in 2012. Today, he continues to combine his greatest passions, sailing and cleaning the oceans and started his own company, Zeildromen.
Cleaning our oceans from plastics.
Florian is The Ocean Cleanup Co-founder. Together with Boyan Slat he started The Ocean Cleanup in 2012. He will tell more about the first 3.5 years creating this startup. from zero to a millions of Dollars project.
Media
Books
The Green Miles
2 friends sailing around the world to spread the important role of our oceans
Reviews
Maria Peeva
community program manager, Climate KickI am still flabbergasted by the whole event and especially by your talk, our participants were really, really impressed by your story and were discussing it over lunch on the next day. It will be great to have you again at our other events or inspirational lectures.