BournemouthUniversity
x = independently organized TED event

This event occurred on
February 25, 2015
9:00am - 5:00pm GMT
(UTC +0hrs)
Poole, Poole
United Kingdom

TEDxBournemouthUniversity was a great success. There were 12 speakers who managed to inspire the audience, to provoke people's imagination and to teach them something new. The theme of the event was called Creativity Illumination and all talks were brought around that subject.

The event was described as professionally organised, fun, inspiring, different. There were three sessions 70-90 minutes each with 30 min breaks in between. Refreshments were provided on each break and hot buffet for the lunch break which was 1 h long.

Favourite moments:
When Bryce Dyer showed the picture of a zebra riding a motorbike chased by a jaguar
When Kaisa Kangro made a note of how the nation is obsessed with Richard Branson
When Miroslav Lucan revealed such intimate insights into his art
When Skyler Shah reminded the audience that when yo dear to dream, dreams do come true
When the audience appreciated all three TED videos we showed (I've picked up three of my favourite ones)
When Zornitza Yovcheva showed us how too much technology can go on our way
When Tom Bates made Elena, the Licensee, go on stage with him
When Miles Russel for the very first time in my life made people understand what archaeologists really do
When Garry Junkuhn lied down at the beginning of his talk and made everyone else lie down towards the end of his talk
When the jazz band (Tsetso Sirakov ft. Dougall Taylor & JJ Stillwell) played their nice piece and surprised the audience by bringing a huge amount of instruments to and out of the stage
When Howard Napper showed that we can reverse our aging process by simply making small changes in our daily lives
When Nuno Almeida told the sweet stories of the lady who didn't want to see any paper after having used a tablet for a month
When Neri Karra demonstrated how success can be achieved no matter what your background is

Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole, Poole, BH12 5BB
United Kingdom
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Speakers

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Bryce Dyer

Dr Dyer has lectured within product design education for over 15 years. His current research interest is with the perception, design and development of technology used in sport. As a designer, he has undertaken consultancy roles in design projects ranging from award winning safety signage for the RNLI to designing prostheses used at the 2012 London Paralympic Games. Bryce has won several prizes for his work. Some of these include the prestigious Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture at the 2013 British Science Festival plus Times Higher Education Award Nominations for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology’ in 2012 and ‘Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year’ in 2010. He has also won a Vice-Chancellors Award for excellence in 2011. In 2014, he was appointed as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dougal Taylor

Garry Junkuhn

Garry is a responsive, dynamic, passionate coach, who uses both his gift of perception and his grounded business knowledge to get the best out of you. He is a co-founder of an innovative children’s rainwear company and continues to share his knowledge within his business strategy company and as a speaker, SEIS Seed Mentor review panellist and Young Enterprise Volunteer.

Howard Napper

Howard is a lifestyle practitioner and a popular yoga teacher who has sold close to four million yoga DVD’s over ten titles. He has collaborated with several big brands including Kellogg’s Special K, GMTV, Boots and WH Smith. Howard has also co-authored a bestselling book, and writes for a number of magazines. He is often seen on TV and is the host of ITV2’s Simply Yoga with Howard Napper.

JJ Stillwell

Kaisa Kangro

Kaisa graduated from Bournemouth University two years ago and started her own creative company for children’s rainwear straightaway. Her sister designed wellingtons which can be painted and coloured by the children themselves, and Kaisa is the business brain behind it.

Miles Russell

Dr Miles Russell is a senior lecturer in prehistoric and Roman archaeology with over 30 years of experience in archaeological fieldwork and publication. He has conducted fieldwork in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Germany, Sicily and Russia. He is director of Regnum and co-director of the Durotriges Project, both investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period across SE and SW Britain. He gained his doctorate, on Neolithic monumental architecture, in 2000 and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. Miles is a regular contributor to TV and radio including Time Team, Timewatch, The Seven Ages of Britain and Stonehenge: what lies beneath. He has authored 13 books including Piltdown Man: the Secret Life of Charles Dawson, Monuments of the British Neolithic: the roots of Architecture and Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain.

Miroslav Lucan

Mirek is a designer and a photographer specializing in Illustration, Automotive/Marine art, Architecture and Coastline photography. Based in Bournemouth, he has been showcasing in many European countries, as well as here in the UK. Many of his projects have been published in magazines, internet blogs, BBC website to name a few. He works closely with collectors and professional clients. While working on many different projects, Mirek found that his signature style in minimalist, clear composition, with high attention to detail.

Neri Karra

Neri Karra is a fashion entrepreneur, academic director and author. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is the Founder and Creative Director of her own Italian leather accessories brand, prized for its outstanding quality and craftsmanship. She is also the Founder of boutique consultancy firm specialising in providing one-on-one consulting, executive training, and educational seminars in fashion and luxury business.

Nuno Almeida

Founder CEO of Nourish, Nuno is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building sustainable global technology ventures. Nourish is a product design company, focused on providing innovative, disruptive solutions to support social and health care services in adapting to changes in demographics and policy. Founded in 2012, the company's first product is a 'cloud-based' care plan solution and a collection of tailored apps to enable joint care delivery, to empower NHS and Local Authority social care commissioners in delivering patient centred care, and tackling chronic disease at scale.

Skyler Shah

The phrase, ‘The sky is the limit’ is a fine example of underestimating your potential to Skyler; who on a daily basis works with ‘incredible and inspiring individuals’ to achieve the things they have only dreamed they can do. Creating, ‘Unique, Mind-blowing, Life-changing Intensives’ Skyler takes his clients on adventures, doing and creating amazing things to positively shake their world, and destroy their limitations. As a Success Coach, he believes the most powerful way to do anything is to come from where you're going, to begin by having fun, being fulfilled and truly happy; a place where all of those who work with him start their journey. Whether it’s creating purpose, living at 100%, earning more, or working less. Nothing is impossible. To share this knowledge, Skyler has dedicated himself to serving others, so that they too can experience this reality in their own lives.

Tom Bates

Over the past 10 years Tom Bates has become a recognised pioneer in Peak Performance Coaching, creating and applying fast easy and accessible performance enhancing techniques to elite sport based on the science of psychology. Tom's wealth of coaching experience in Sports Psychology & Coaching Sciences at National & International level has enabled him to apply cutting edge research to helping athletes, coaches and teams to achieve success and be at their best when it matters the most. Tom specialises in enhancing mental and emotional performance to create and sustain a supreme optimistic spirit and self-belief. As well as working in elite professional sport, Tom also assists senior executives, managing directors and corporate teams through his executive coaching and leadership business programmes. During these workshops and meetings Tom works to engage, stimulate and inspire thought provoking leadership principles through focusing exclusively on the ‘management of self’.

Tsetso Sirakov

Tsetso dedicated his life to music and he currently studies jazz piano at Middlesex University with some of the best players in the UK. He started playing the piano when he was 7, and studied Gadulka for almost 2 years as well. His creative energy has always been balanced between Jazz, contemporary music and Balkan music. Tsetso had the chance to meet some of the best musicians in his native Bulgaria from both genres and benefit from their lessons.

Zornitza Yovcheva

With a background in Geo-Information Science, Zornitza moved from designing web-based virtual globes to focus on improving the experience with smartphone Augmented Reality, during her PhD at Bournemouth University. This cutting-edge research was awarded 1st Prize at the Designing Mobile Augmented Reality workshop, at the Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) conference in Germany, 2013. Zornitza is part of the Augmented Reality Standards community and the Commission on Use and User Issues at the International Cartographic Association. Zornitza's passion is collecting and transforming qualitative and quantitative data into actionable insights, which help businesses improve their digital presence and services. With in-depth knowledge of all stages of a user-centred design lifecycle, Zornitza believes that each product and service can deliver an exceptional experience, if we focus on the actual needs and requirements of our customers

Organizing team

Elena
Dimitrova

B Ournemouth, United Kingdom
Organizer
  • Maya Walters
    Designer
  • Leroy-Winston Scott
    On-Stage Host
  • Liga Kalke
    Project Manager
  • Kate Popova
    Head of Operations
  • Nikolay Zorov
    Video & Production
  • Teddy Bellamy
    Finance
  • Salome Kiknadze
    Stage Planner
  • Alex Bradley-Stocks
    PR & Copyright
  • Noviana Mona Chandra
    Head of Promotion
  • Nikolay Zorov
    Video & Production
  • Signý Jóhannesdóttir
    Photography
  • Yawer Ahmad
    Video
  • Tom Stoker
    Video
  • Hannah Mellows
    Video