After months of hard work, we’re coming down to the wire with the organization for TEDxWaterloo, finally happening next week on February 25 at the Gig Music Hall in downtown Kitchener – and we’re definitely super excited!!!
On a personal note, it’s been quite the journey for me from my initial blog post on a possible TEDxWaterloo event last summer, to opportune meetings with an amazing group of people who are equally as passionate about ideas worth spreading. Credit for putting TEDxWaterloo together really has to go to the entire team of volunteers behind the event, who have collectively given hundreds of hours of their time, energy and commitment towards making TEDxWaterloo a success.
Our diverse range of speakers, all of whom are well recognized and respected in their fields, are also giving us their time and energy because they truly believe in sharing their ideas and experiences with the broader community.
We will be live webstreaming the entire event beginning 2pm EST on February 25 at www.tedxwaterloo.com. All of the TEDxWaterloo Talks will be made available online after the event.
For more information on TEDxWaterloo, please visit: www.tedxwaterloo.com
TEDxWaterloo Speakers
Terry O’Reilly – Advertising visionary and host of the CBC award-winning radio series “The Age of Persuasion“.
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Philip Beesley – Professor at Waterloo Architecture creating vastly complex ‘living’ environments that can breathe and feel.
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Raymond LaFlamme – Founding Director of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing whose insight changed Stephen Hawking’s mind and theories about our universe.
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Paul Saltzman – Beatles photographer and two-time Emmy Award winning film & television producer-director.
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Caroline Disler – A master of translation with working knowledge of ancient languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Edomite, Ancient Hebrew, Egyptian, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek.
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Madhur Anand – Internationally recognized scientist, poet, and professor of Global Ecological Change at the University of Guelph.
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Michael Sacco – Chocolatier and social entrepreneur promoting the diversity of production of organic cacao through a structure defined as “horizontal trade”.
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Darren Wershler – Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic.
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Marty Avery – A connector and catalyst whose strategic approach offers remarkable insight into the human side of business.
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal – New York Times best-selling children’s author, radio host and creative filmmaker.
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Below is a video segment of Jaclyn and I discussing TEDxWaterloo that appeared on the Waterloo Region Record website, courtesy of Philip Bast.
The full interview with Chris Meidell of Waterloo Tech TV can be found here.
