Webcast TEDxCERN - Breaking the rules

Friday 9 Oct 2015, 14:00 → 19:30 UTC

Maxwell Auditorium (ALBA Synchrotron)

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CERN is hosting its third TEDxCERN event on 9 October and will take place on Switzerland. This year will be an eclectic group of speakers who bring us ideas which break the rules.

TEDxCERN's speakers include Niel Gershenfeld -Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms who explores the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds-, Rachel Amstrong -material innovator from Newcastle Univeristy- or Michael Bodekaer -founder and CTO of Labster- among others.

Each talk will introduce new visions for new world and will inform us how innovations in our present can change our future.

TEDxCERN website

Programme TEDxCERN_Schedule_Programme.pdf

Session 1 Rule-breakers

1 Tim Dixon

proposes that science embrace people power

2 Linda Liukas

writes about coding for children because it is this era's literacy need

3 Giham Kamel

sheds new light in the Middle East through scientific collaboration

4 Michael Bodekaer

revolutionizes science education through 3D virtual labs

5 Madeleine Lancaster

grows brain organoids to discover what makes us human

6 S. Matt Liao

discusses how different neuro technologies can affect personality

7 Imogen Heap

sculpts music with Mi.Mu gloves

16:15 Break - Networking & Interactive experience

Session 2 Visionaries

8 Rachel Armstrong

innovates and designs sustainable solutions that promote new transferrable ways of thinking

9 Jeff Frost

merges visual and auditory art forms to create vast reverse light paintings

10 Edda Gschwendtner

accelerates particle physics to create smaller colliders

11 TED Ed animation

The origin of gold might be on Supernovas

12 David Lunney

he now hangs around CERN’s radioactive beam facility ISOLDE, transmuting lead atoms into gold.

13 Sean Follmer

transforms the way we interact with each other through electronic devices

14 Aleksandra or Donkey Drones (not confirmed yet!)

15 Neil Gershenfeld

redefines the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds, making personal fabrication of prototypes possible

16 Vikki Stone

brings love into the programme with songs about particle physics and physicists