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TEDxMcGill 2011 Final Schedule
9:00 AM – Registration 10:00 AM – First session: Diverge & Expand Jordan Moody: ”A Conversation with Time” Morgan Wienberg: “Will You Choose to Destroy the Web?” Craig Silverman: “Why Failing is a Great Way to Build Trust” Alain Tascan: “From Under the Big Top to the Streets” Christian Elliot: “A Revolution Is A Mouse [...]
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Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Craig Buntin
Craig Buntin: “Redefining Success: Pre- and Post-Olympics” Craig Buntin has been on the competitive figure skating scene for more than two decades. One of Canada’s top pairs skaters, Craig was a member of the Canadian national team from 2003 to 2010. Along with partner Valerie Marcoux, he was three-time Canadian Champion, winning multiple medals on [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Matt Brightman
Matt Brightman: “The Framing of Art as an Economic Engine” Matthew Brightman is a serial entrepreneur. At the age of 17, he founded his first venture – a “clandestine online news blog” – in response to censorship of the Milton Measure, the high school newspaper where he served as Editor-in-Chief. The blog received 5,000 unique [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Joshua Kyle
Joshua Kyle: “Outdated Technology: Waste or Opportunity” Growing up in rural Quebec, Joshua Kyle is a fourth year student working towards a undergraduate degree majoring in Materials Engineering and a minor in Technological Entrepreneurship at McGill University. Building upon a program he started in his hometown that returns computers dropped off at the local recycling [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Alex Pritz
Alex Pritz: “An Exploration of Cross-cultural Education Through Film and Media” Alex is a third year McGill student studying in the School of the Environment. Involvement with the student film collective Developing Pictures drew Alex to Haiti and Kenya, where he started his career as an amateur filmmaker. Since then, he has gone on to [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Pinny Gniwisch
Pinny Gniwisch: “The Boy That Could” Pinny is recognized globally as a great thinker and expert in social media, online marketing and merchandising, and is widely sought after as a speaker on ecommerce and online branding with his warm and engaging speaking style. Under Pinny’s leadership as a founder and the EVP of Business Development, [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Michal Gomel
Michal Gomel Blank: “Community Building Peace Building Community Building Peace…” Michal Gomel Blank is a graduate of the McGill Middle East Program and sees social justice as the path to stability and lasting peace. She has focused on empowerment and social policies that support equal participation of minority groups in a multiethnic state. Michal’s field [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker: Claude Theoret
Claude Theoret: “Measuring Zeitgeist and the Digital Future of the Humanities” Claude Théoret is an astrophysicist with expertise in the management of innovation. One of the founding members of McGill University’s astronomy department, Claude was ranked first in the astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellowship competition in Québec. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Collège [...]
Read moreTEDxMcGill 2011 Speaker : Marc Rowland (w/ Brent Skagford)
Marc Rowland (w/ Brent Skagford): “Yes, And: An Improviser’s Guide to Collaborative Creation” Marc Rowland is a performer, teacher, director and manager at Montreal Improv. An improviser down to his genetic core, he has been involved in the art of spontaneous story-telling for over half his life and that proportion steadily increases with time. He has [...]
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