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TEDxBermuda

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TEDxBermuda

Status	Active
Genre	General conference
Country	Bermuda
Inaugurated	April 2011
Organized by	John Narraway, Sophie Mathew, Niklas Traub
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

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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

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April 2011

Jonathan Vaughters - CEO of Slipstream Sports / Manager of UCI WorldTeam Cannondale-Garmin http://www.slipstreamsports.com/
Keith Caisey - Percussionist / Ethnomusicologist
Dr. Michael Lomas - Senior Research Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
Captain Paul Watson - Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
OB Sisay - Head of Africa Research at FM Capital Partners
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez - Attorney - Center for Constitutional Rights
Tiffany Paynter - Spoken Word Artist
Alan Gilbertson - Managing Director of FoodBank South Africa
Daniel Lieberman, PHD - Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Dr. Neil Burnie - Director of The Bermuda Shark Project
Graham Foster - Sculptor / Painter

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