TEDxBermuda
| TEDxBermuda | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | General conference |
| Country | Bermuda |
| Inaugurated | April 2011 |
| Organized by | Committee |
| Filing status | Non-profit |
| Website | |
| http://www.tedxbermuda.com | |
TEDxBermuda is an independently organized, licensed TED conference, held each year in Bermuda since 2011.[1]
Main Events
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| 23 April 2011 | Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute |
| 15 October 2011 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 13 October 2012 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 19 October 2013 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 4 October 2014 | The Fairmont Southampton |
Featured Speakers
April 2011
Jonathan Vaughters - CEO of Slipstream Sports / Manager of UCI WorldTeam Cannondale-Garmin http://www.slipstreamsports.com/
Keith Caisey - World Renowned Percussionist / Ethnomusicologist
Dr. Michael Lomas - Senior Research Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences http://www.bios.edu/
Captain Paul Watson - Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society http://www.seashepherd.org/
Ob Sisay - Head of Africa Research at FM Capital Partners http://fmcapitalpartners.com/
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez - Attorney - Center for Constitutional Rights http://ccrjustice.org/
Tiffany Paynter - Spoken Word Artist
Alan Gilbertson - Managing Director of FoodBank South Africa http://www.foodbank.org.za/
Daniel Lieberman, PHD - Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/danlhome.html
Dr. Neil Burnie - Director of The Bermuda Shark Project http://www.bermudashark.com/
Graham Foster - Sculptor / Painter http://grahamfoster.com/
October 2011
Lawrence Sass - Associate Professor at MIT's Department of Architecture
Mike Ramsdell - Documentary Filmmaker
Pen Hadow - Polar Explorer
Joy T. Barnum - Bermudian Vocalist / Songwriter
Larry Mills - Bermudian Builder
Ryan Legassicke - Contemporary Canadian Artist
Tony Ruto - CTO of Within Technologies Ltd
Dickson Despommier - The Vertical Farming Project
Jeffrey Masters - Co-Founder of the Weather Underground
2012
Jessica Lewis - Bermudian Paralympian, on making it to London 2012
John Sculley - former CEO of Pepsi-Cola and Apple Inc. on “Medicine and the Cloud”
Ross Stein - a geophysicist and one of the world’s most cited experts on earthquake science, who will explain how we can better forecast and manage the threat of earthquakes
Sossina Haile - a professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Caltech who is working towards a carbon-neutral world by turning CO2 into fuel
Norman Seeff - a world-renowned filmmaker and photographer who has dedicated much of his life to better understanding the creative process
Hanli Prinsloo - freediving record holder and conservationist, on human connection to the sea: “I am Water”
Peter Bentley - on “Embracing Chaos”—why science must learn from the randomness of nature
Eric Barnhill - Juilliard trained pianist doing a PhD in Medical Physics on “Therapy Through Music”
Felix Tod - renowned producer on “Saving the Music Business, a Performance”
K Gabrielle - Bermudian singer
Alan Burland - Chairman of Bermuda Sloop Foundation, on "Education: Back to the Future"
KASE - Bermudian rapper
2013
Jinichi Kawakami - Japan's Last Ninja
Arlene Brock - Bermuda’s Ombudsman
Robert Lustig - Beating the Odds Against Sugar
Natalie Kuldell - Synthesizing Change: Garage Genomics
Andrew Park - TED Animation Guru
Chip Yates - World’s Fastest ePilot
Bren Smith - 3D Ocean Farming
Rafael Grossmann - Google Glass Surgery
Hip Hop Fundamentals - Teaching Physics Using Breakdance
Jeremy Gilley - Peace One Day founder
2014
Ishrat Yakub - Motion Activated
Oliver Steeds - The Future of Exploration
Jason Healey - Saving Cyberspace
Adjoa Andoh - What Determines Who You Are
Uzimon/Daniel Frith - From Novelty to Enterprise
Charles Hoskinson - The Future Will be Decentralised
Lauren Bowker - Intelligent Textiles
Weldon Wade - Diving With a Purpose
Elizabeth Stokoe - The Conversational Racetrack
Stephan Johnstone - Progression
Carl Lipo - Easter Island: Lessons from One Small Island to Another