TEDxBermuda

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TEDxBermuda
StatusActive
GenreGeneral conference
CountryBermuda
InauguratedApril 2011
Organized byJohn Narraway, Sophie Mathew, Niklas Traub
Filing statusNon-profit
Websitehttp://www.tedxbermuda.com

TEDxBermuda is an independently organized, licensed TED conference, held each year in Bermuda since 2011.[1]

Main Events[edit]

Date Venue
23 April 2011 Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute
15 October 2011 The Fairmont Southampton
13 October 2012
19 October 2013
4 October 2014
10 October 2015
25 March 2017
6 October 2018
5 October 2019

Featured Speakers[edit]

April 2011

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

October 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 expert on earthquake science, who discussed how to better forecast and manage the threat of earthquakes
  • Sossina M. 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 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 - 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

October 2013

October 2014

October 2015

  • InMotion - Interconnected
  • Martijn Berger - It's a Happy World After All
  • Tom Gage - The Powerplant in Your Driveway
  • Martha Dismont - I Have the Best Job in the World
  • Michael Frith - Drawing Inspiration From One's Environment
  • Radhika Nagpal - Taming the Swarm
  • Clilly Castiglia - The Roar of the Crowd
  • No Strings - When Puppets Speak, Children Listen
  • Yesha Townsend - Home
  • Barrington Irving - Creating the Next Generation of Explorers
  • Stuart Lacey - The Future of Your Personal Data - Privacy vs Monetization
  • Bryan Davis - The New Spirit of Innovation

October 2019

  • Joan Higginbotham
  • Richard Browning
  • Domhnaill Hernon
  • Harry Yeff aka Reeps One
  • Jonna Hiestand Mendez
  • Dr. Thomas Boothby, Ph.D.
  • Dr. Kelly Lambert
  • Alexander Rose
  • Ed Christopher
  • Oliver Rajamani

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home". tedxbermuda.com.