Theme: Revolution

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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Clare Brass

Clare Brass is the head of SustainRCA, a centre for sustainability at the Royal College of Art. Her research focuses on how to merge sustainability and design to generate solutions to social and environmental challenges. At TEDxImperialCollege, she will share her ideas with the audience in a talk entitled ”Biocentric design: What happens when you design with nature as a key stakeholder?”

Fotini Markopoulo

Fotini Markopoulou is a hardware tech designer and theoretical physicist. She is co­founder of doppel, a wearable tech company that uses cutting­edge research in psychophysiology, the study of how the mind and body affect one­another, to create technology that changes how we perceive, feel, and behave. Prior to doppel, Fotini was a founding member and faculty at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, one of the premier institutes on the frontiers of theoretical physics.

Geoffrey Baldwin

Dr. Geoff Baldwin is a Reader in Biochemistry in the Department of Life Sciences and Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (CSynBI) at Imperial College London. He has spent his career at the interface of the physical and life sciences. He has been one of the advisors of the very successful Imperial College iGEM teams over the last few years. He has also been responsible for developing the training pipeline of synthetic biologists at Imperial College, having established the final year undergraduate module that is taught across the Life Science and Bioengineering Departments, and being Director of the MRes in Systems and Synthetic biology. He has been involved with setting up the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation where he has an active programme of research in DNA assembly, part characterisation, circuit design and implementation.He also has an active programme of research and commercialisation around the use of protein nanocages as drug delivery vectors.

John Pendry

Prof. Sir John Pendry is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College London and is one of the pioneers in the field of metamaterials. These are engineered materials with properties not found anywhere in nature. He is most well known for his work on the “cloak of invisibility.” He has been awarded numerous awards such as the Newton medal for his research and in his talk, Prof. Pendry will tell us about the science of invisibility.

Nathalie Pettorelli

Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli is a research fellow at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, where she carries out research on assessing and predicting the impacts of global environmental change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In her talk, Nathalie will provide her perspectives on how to facilitate better interactions and communication between scientists and the public, specifically drawing on her experience organising and managing the Soapbox Science initiative.

Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from CALTECH, a master’s degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA. Lately Prof. Hanson has studied the social implications of human­level artificial intelligence in the form of brain emulations, or “ems,” probably feasible within roughly a century. Ems change everything, including mind speeds, body sizes, security, management, job training, career paths, wages, identity, retirement, life cycles, reproduction, mating, conversation, wealth inequality, city sizes, growth rates, politics, governance, law, and war. See his new book for more: http://ageofem.com.