Theme: The Innovative Attitude

TEDx UWE will be the first held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, taking place on Saturday 23rd January 2016 With the theme of "The Innovative Attitude" the event will have 9 inspirational speakers on the day covering different perspectives of innovation, its importance and the key role it plays towards our future. It is important we raise the awareness of innovation but also how our mindset is crucial in ensuring innovation is sustained.

TEDx UWE will celebrate the amazing work that is happening in the local area but also the work happening at the University. TEDx UWE would love to see you all there, getting involved with the brilliant work that’s going on in Bristol and we invite you to join our new community.

Tickets are now on sale for £10 - which includes lunch and drinks throughout the day. These tickets can be purchased on the entrepreneurial society page:
https://www.thestudentsunion.co.uk/soc/Entrepreneurs/

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University of the West of England
Coldharbour lane
Bristol, Bristol, City of, BS16 1QY
United Kingdom

James Brown

James Brown, five time Paralympian. James has been a competitor all his life and is still competing now at the age of 51! Before his final few months of preparation for Rio's Paralympic Games, he’s coming to TEDx UWE to share his story with us.

Jim Duffy

Jim Duffy, Chief Executive Optimist of the world’s largest free business accelerator, Entrepreneurial Spark, will speak about how you can polish your leadership lens and adopt an action based mentality of personal growth, achievement and success.

Joe Ryan

Joe is a product designer and creative technologist. Coming from a game design background his passion for furniture making has inspired him to design a new form of movement input that is set to revolutionise the way people interact in virtual worlds. Joe the founder of VRGO and will be talking about his journey from creating an idea to producing a tangible object.

Jonathan Winfield

Jonathan is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Bristol Bioenergy Centre. Over the last eight years he has worked extensively with microbial fuel cells, a technology that employs bacteria to make electricity.

Lindsay West

Lindsay is founder of Values Coach UK and author of "Coaching with Values".

Mike Crooks

Mike is the Head of Innovation at Mubaloo Innovation Lab. He joined the mobile consultancy and enterprise app developer, Mubaloo in 2013 to establish a new division focusing around BLE beacons named MiBeacons.

Poku Osei

Poku Osei is the founder of the youth social enterprise, Babbasa which provides services that support aspiring young people from mostly Bristol's ethnically diverse and disadvantaged inner city communities, to pursue their professional aspirations.

Sanja Dogramadzi

Sanja has been developing medical and assistive robotics research at Bristol Robotics Laboratory for the last 7 years. Her research builds upon her PhD and is focusing on use of robotics technologies in healthcare settings. The work is multi-disciplinary and involves working with clinicians, users and companies integrating several engineering and computing disciplines including robotics, mechanical engineering, control, optimisation and medical imaging. Robotics expertise for healthcare applications is a combination of many skills developed over years working with professionals in different fields. Understanding clinical requirements and limitations is an integral part of the research expertise. She is the Medical Robotics Theme leader in Bristol Robotics Laboratory and has been awarded funding in the range of £2.4M since 2009, currently supervising/managing a team of 15 post-doctoral and doctoral researchers and junior lecturers.

Tony Parraman

After a short spell in the RAF, and travelling around Europe, he went back into education and studied for an OND and HND in engineering. He has had a breadth of experience as a design engineer, teaching english in Japan, a design technology teacher to developing a small building company. He now works as the head of sponsor liaison at the Bloodhound project. Tony has worked for the Bloodhound project for the past 7 years, from its very early beginnings back in 2008.

Ze Nunes

Founder of MACH Acoustics. Ze is an inspirational leader and passionate about the role of acoustics in improving the built environment and committed to sustainability as a fundamental principle of good design. A proven innovator, he relishes in the interdisciplinary challenges of great architecture, always ready to break with convention in the quest for better answers.