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Digital Literacies for the Apocalypse
Dr. Doug Belshaw is a Researcher/Analyst at JISC Advance, where he advises on issues around open education and innovation. His talk will centre on the nature of education in the 21st Century, and the dangers that threaten us if we choose to ignore the opportunity for change.
More...The Beginning of the End of a Free Internet?
An award-winning writer and journalist, Heather Brooke’s latest book, The Revolution will be Digitised explores how the internet is transforming society. At TEDxWarwick she will discuss the tectonic shift in security services around the globe that aims to put an end to the free internet.
More...Obliquity: How Complex Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly
Whether it’s happiness, wealth or something else that we’re after, John Kay, a leading economist, Visiting Professor of Economics at LSE, and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, will explain the notion of obliquity and why the happiest people are not necessarily those who pursue happiness.
More...Lean, Mean and Green
In this talk Dr Kerry Kirwan will be exploring the secrets behind the sustainable race car.
Kerry is an Associate Professor at WMG, University of Warwick. He specialises in sustainable materials and was recently involved in building Eco One, an environmentally friendly racing car made from recycled materials.
People, Power and Area – How the Laws of Physics Constrain Our Sustainable Energy Options
David MacKay, expert on environmentalism and information theory, is the Chief Scientific Advisor of the Department of Climate Change, Professor at the University of Cambridge and writer of the critically acclaimed book Sustainable Energy - Without the hot air.
More...Africa Is Poor and 5 Other Myths
Simon Moss is the co-founder of the Global Poverty Project, an education and campaigning organisation working towards the end of extreme poverty. At TEDxWarwick, he’ll be busting 6 common myths and sharing some little known facts about how the world is changing for the better.
More...Floating City Apps
Koen Olthuis is the founder of Waterstudio.NL. In 2007, TIME Magazine named him as one of the most influential people in the world. Koen is currently involved in developing floating projects in Dubai, the Maldives and China. At TEDxWarwick Koen will reveal how his Floating City Apps will change the landscapes of tomorrow.
More...Inputs :: Outputs
Ludic Rooms is a digital arts collective, the brainchild of artists Dom Breadmore and Ashley Brown. Their work encompasses a series of innovative cross-disciplinary collaborations that explore the role that technology can play in the transformation of spaces. All of their work is interactive; the audience work as co-creators of the piece.
More...Innovation Begins at Home
This IBM Master Inventor will describe how he turned his house into a living lab for his work on integrating the Internet of Things with his passion for saving energy and home automation. The very same principles are now moving beyond regional levels.
More...Dhaginatak
Jon is a UK based percussionist with over 20 years experience of world percussion. In this solo multi track performance, hands move between Indian, African & Arabic drums, while toes control a laptop based recording studio. A dynamic and innovative performance in which ancient musical tradition meets modern technology.
More...Implants & Technology – The Future of Healthcare?
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading. Kevin’s research includes a link surgically implanted into his nervous system. His current research involves deep brain stimulation to counteract the effects of Parkinson’s disease and the uses of grown neural networks.
More...Giselle Weybrecht is the author of The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green Business. She aims to educate the next generation of business leaders about sustainability issues, whether these be students or business executives. She is a dynamic speaker and also writes on sustainability and business issues for a variety of publications including The Economist and Forbes.
More...Fishing for Creative Education
Philippa is the writer and producer for What Took You So Long, a guerrilla filmmaking organisation that travels around the world in search of untold stories and unsung heroes. Her talk will focus on WTYSL’s new project, ‘Fish Tank’, which aims to democratise and demystify filmmaking.
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Speakers at TEDxWarwick 2011
Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish writer and political commentator. He writes regular columns in the Turkish media and appears regularly on Turkish television. He occasionally writes for American newspapers and magazines as well. His forthcoming book, An Islamic Case for Freedom, will be published in early 2011.
More...Owen Daniel is a performer, entertainer and mathematician. At a young age he developed a passion for magic, leading him to be a finalist in the Magic Circle's Junior Close Up Competition at the age of 13. For the last 4 years he has been studying mathematics at the University of Warwick during which his theatre career has been on hold, however he has been known to come out of hiding to do occasional shows and talks.
More...Caroline Fiennes is Executive Director of Global Cool, a highly innovative charity which encourages greener living. Global Cool doesn‘t presuppose that people are interested in carbon, climate or the environment. Instead, they ‘sell’ green lifestyle choices by making them appealing. They use social networking, film, fashion, music and entertainment to reach and inspire people to change, and highlight the fun, adventure and cost benefits of green lifestyles.
More...Tim Harford is the author of ‘The Undercover Economist’ and writer of weekly column in the Financial Times, ‘Dear Economist’. Recognised for his entertaining and light touch approach to economics, Tim Harford renders the ‘dismal science’ accessible to all by revealing the economic ideas that underlie everyday experiences.
More...Professor David Hargreaves teaches at the Applied Music Research Centre at Roehmapton University. His recent interests include the development of musical preference and style sensitivity, the use of computers in music education, as well as peer collaboration in musical composition.
More...Kevin Kallaugher’s is an editorial cartoonist for ‘The Economist’ magazine and his recognizable cartoons have appeared in more than one hundred publications worldwide. He has won numerous awards throughout the past thirty years, including the Nast Prize in 2005 and the Gilray Goblet for Cartoon of the Year in 2004.
More...Noam Kostucki is a Social Entrepreneur who challenges the way business and charities operate. He has co-founded Seeducation & SeedPro through which he has trained, coached and consulted for thousands of people from numerous organisations like Yale University, Tata and UnLtd. He is passionate by education and believes that everyone can make money from doing good.
More...The WSJ calls Futurist, Author and TheFuturesAgency CEO Gerd Leonhard "one of the leading media-futurists in the world". Gerd is considered a thought-leader and global influencer in the media / content, technology, marketing & communications, telecom, and cultural industries, with a client list that includes many leading global companies.
More...Dr. Michael McMahon is a macroeconomist who teaches both undergraduate and graduate level macroeconomics and applied econometrics at the University of Warwick. He is an advisory member for the UK Higher Education Academy's Economics Network - a body which promotes the more effective teaching of economics. Was employed by LSE and New York University, as well as Bank of England and Central Bank of Ireland.
More...Dr. David Lloyd Owen is the founder and Managing Director of Envisager Limited. Dr. Owen is one of the world leading experts on the water and waste water industry, with over 20 years of experience in advising governments, corporations and investors on water related matters.
More...Charlie Price from the social enterprise Aquaponics UK, explores the role aquaponics can play in the future of our collective food supply.
He provides an insight into both the applications for aquaponics but more specifically a new approach to urban agriculture, turning wastes into resources and transforming disused urban spaces to provide not only food, but resilient communities.
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