Speaking

Speaking Requests

Renjie is a passionate and engaging speaker, and speaks frequently at conferences and workshops on a wide variety of topics such as: social entrepreneurship, leadership, team building, community development, student engagement and social media.

For all speaking requests, please feel free to get in touch!

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

2013

March 27, 2013 - Host, TEDxYouth@Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Previous Speaking Engagements

2013

March 21, 2013 – e-Business Laurier presents: Appervising in partnership with Togethr, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

March 20, 2013 - Southwood Secondary School chasingHOME Coffee House, Cambridge, ON

February 7, 2013 - Presentation on TEDxYouth@Waterloo, Kitchener Youth Action Council, Kitchener, ON

February 7, 2013 - Student Leadership Conference 2013 hosted by Mad Hatter Technology, Waterloo, ON

January 28, 2013 - Panel Discussion on Social Entrepreneurship, Masters of Social Work (MSW), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

January 19, 2013 - Panel Discussion on ‘Launching your Social Enterprise’, Social Spark, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

2012

December 27 – Presentation on TEDxCranbrook, Rotary Club of Cranbrook, Cranbrook, BC

October 22-23 – Panel Discussion, Future Fund Design Lab, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Kitchener, ON

September 7-8 – Workshop, Business Model Generation, Fostering Global Resilience Working Group, International Summit of Youth In Care 2012, Toronto, ON

August 5, 2012 – Host, Kids’ Program, Toronto’s Live Mars Curiosity Landing Party, Toronto, ON

June 14, 2012 - Workshop on ‘Practical Lessons from TEDx: The Power of Bringing People Together‘, Waterloo, ON

June 2, 2012 - Pilipino American Unity for Progress (UniPro) Summit, New York City, NY

April 16-20, 2012 - Co-host, TEDx Action Lab: Curating the Best of TEDxTalks, TEDxSummit, Doha, Qatar

March 21, 2012 – Host, TEDxWaterloo Livestream @ The Chrysalids Theatre, Waterloo, ON

2011

December 16. 2011 - Facilitator, Think Again! Rotman I-Think | The K-12 Integrative Thinking Initiative, Toronto, ON

November 20, 2011 - C3 Conference: Connect, Collaborate, Create., Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

October 2011 - CHANGE inc., Waterloo, ON

September 2011 – Meeting of the Minds #ManilaMinds, San Francisco, CA

July 2011 – Angel Investor Pitch Presentation Judge, INDEV 308: Social Entrepreneurship, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

July 2011 – A Crisis of Democracy in the United States Today? (Graduate paper presentation), XVI International Summer University, Kőszeg, Hungary

May 2011 – AEGEE Szombathely-Kőszeg (Presentation), European Youth Week, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, Hungary

May 2011 – Food Riots in Latin America – Our Global Food System: A Framework in Crisis (MA Graduate Programme), ISES-Corvinus University of Budapest, Kőszeg, Hungary

March 2011 – Where Am I From? A Third-Culture (TCK) Perspective Growing Up in the United Arab Emirates (MA Graduate Programme), ISES-Corvinus University of Budapest, Kőszeg, Hungary

2010

December 2010 – Environmental Consequences of Industrialized Beef Production (MA Graduate Programme), ISES-Corvinus University of Budapest, Kőszeg, Hungary

July 2010 - Social Media: Building a Professional Online Identity (Workshop), PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise, Thunder Bay, ON

July 2010 – A Call To Leadership (Opening Keynote Address), Global Young Leaders Conference, Washington DC

April 2010 - Ignite Waterloo Workshop, Waterloo, ON

March 2010 - The 100 – Episode 2 (Podcast), Kitchener, ON

March 2010 - Social Entrepreneurship Exchange (Pitch Competition), Kitchener, ON

March 2010 - Ignite Waterloo (Presentation), Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum, Kitchener, ON

January 2010 - Global Citizenship Conference (Workshop), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

January 2010 - EpCon EPIC Technology Conference (Presentation), Waterloo, ON

2009

December 2009 - Time for Change with Nick Petten (MC and co-host), Toronto, ON

October 2009 - ReThink Waterloo (Workshop), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

July 2009 - Opportunities to Create Social Change (Workshop), Waterloo, ON

April 2009 – Guest Lecture on Social Entrepreneurship, Northern College of Applied Arts & Technology (Online Distance Education)

February 2009 – Securing Sponsorship (Presentation), KW CultureCamp, Kitchener, ON

2008

November 2008 - Securing Sponsorship (Workshop), 2nd Conference on Social Entrepreneurship,
Laurel Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Waterloo, ON

October 2008 – Guest Lecture on Social Entrepreneurship with Andrew Dilts, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON