Created by Pia Vemmelund's travel company, Momondo, "The DNA Journey" is a short online film that has been watched over 500 million times. Pia believes travel opens up our mind to other people and that knowing who we are based based on our DNA, our biology, helps to open our mind to these others as well. In this talk, Pia explains the reasons for making the film, shows us the film and then discusses what it all has meant to the participants, to her own company and to herself. This is a journey to tolerance; we are all family in some ways.

Former top-level swimmer Pia Vemmelund has over 25 years of experience in the travel industry and runs the online travel and meta search website Momondo: “Everyone in the world should be able to travel, to meet other people and experience other cultures and religions. Because traveling opens your mind!”

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx.