Kent
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This event occurred on
January 18, 2010
6:00am - 6:00am GMT
(UTC +0hrs)
Ramsgate
United Kingdom

TEDxKent Inaugural Event celebrates Ideas Worth Spreading: January 2010

Monday 18th January, first day of term at the University of Kent saw the first-ever arrival of TEDxKent an 'independently organized TED event' under the new TEDx global outreach program.

A 100 invited delegates from a variety of backgrounds and UK counties came together to share the spirit of a TED conference in a local TEDx format, one where the sharing of new ideas, concepts and conversations were encouraged through a wide array of thought-provoking and innovative presentations.

Hosting our first-ever TEDxKent event, our aim was to:
1. Educate and inspire
2. Bring together innovators and explorers of ideas
3. Foster an environment of sharing and embracing passions and practices

Guided by the TED vision, local and international speakers were challenged to share compelling ideas, concepts and stories in just 18 minutes or less. Live TEDxKent presenters were:

Victor Newman - The Art of Innovation Leadership
Kip Voytek - Importance of Craft in the digital age
Clive Graham - Why your networking’s not working
Ian Johnson - Working with Teenagers
Dr Tim Anstiss - Wisdom: Ancient and Modern
Simon Middleton - The Brand Effect
Bill Burton - How to have a Christmas No. 1 single
Peter Cook - Sex, Business and Rock 'n' Roll
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins - Sensing Convergences
Dean Martin - The Time of Your Life

TEDTalks presentations were sprinkled throughout the day, to add variety to the day.

Overall the immersive experience was a great success for all who attended leaving many feeling inspired and ready to start sharing… here's what they had to say:

I loved the way the talks are totally different, yet similar - certainly makes you think
Rachel Saint, Champions TV

Interesting talks and new ideas, and now looking at things differently
Gulliver Immink, Mytsafe

The guys at TEDxKent have really pulled out all the stops to make this event rock
Peter Cook, Human Dynamics

TED is a global phenomenon and I'm delighted to be speaking at Kent's first TEDx event; a powerful idea.
Simon Middleton, Brand Strategy Guru

Proud to be part of the first TEDxKent, its a privilege to share and hear what others are up to
Clive Graham, Opus Vita

To gain ideas, re-invent old ones and never stop thinking
Simon Gardner, SDG Marketing

Motivational speakers and new insights into business and creating new things
Philip Sparks, Philip Sparks Golf Limited

Opportunity to capture this idea and turn people onto opportunity Innovation processes are useful but innovation people are essential, so what are we going to do?
Victor Newman, Business School, Greenwich

It was a great event with many thought provoking ideas generated. I’m very much looking forward to the future development of this event in Kent and the South East as it is a great use of everyone’s time.
Susanne Dansey, Purple Cow Ideas Management

Ramsgate
United Kingdom
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Speakers

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Victor Newman

Victor Newman is an innovation consultant and Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Innovation Management at The Business School, The University of Greenwich. Victor has contributed to the Harvard Business Review, interviewed for Harvard’s “Fifty Lessons” interviews with 200 of the world’s most respected business leaders, and featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is on the Advisory Boards of several organisations. He is the author of “Made to Measure Problem Solving” and his “Knowledge Activist’s Handbook – Adventures in the Knowledge Trenches” from Capstone/ Wiley & Sons has been cited as the “best management book within the last ten years”.

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins has been a child of social activists, an artist’s model, a forklift operator, a bookstore clerk, a small press assistant, a classical musician, a writing student, and a writer’s wife. She is now a professor of Literature/Writing in the City University of New York, an electric violinist recording and performing in NYC, a poet published in literary journals, and an Anglo-Catholic deacon at St. Mary’s in Times Square. On the eve of the millennium she survived a surgical error that changed the way she lives her life, and led her to new choices: being a hospital chaplain, a student mentor, a leader of work trips to Honduras, and more. She is working on a book about what she has chosen to do in the last few years, or as it sometimes seems, what has chosen her.

Dr Tim Anstiss

A popular public speaker, coach and motivator. Tim is a medical doctor who has worked in a range of medical specialities and whose professional focus is health and wellbeing improvement. Tim has been running enjoyable and effective health and wellbeing improvement courses for over 15 years, and has helped thousands of individuals achieve and enjoy higher levels of health, wellbeing and happiness. Tim is a former international pole vaulter and decathlete was a contender on ITV’s Gladiators and appeared on the recent BBC series ‘Making Slough Happy’. Tim is an affiliate member of the British Psychology Society.

Simon Middleton

Simon Middleton has become one of the UK's best known brand consultant. His work has included brand strategy and campaigns for companies that include: Barclays, Norwich Union, Denplan, pharmaceutical giant Merial, brewing and wine company Adnams, and Britain's best known sandwich chain Pret A Manger. Currently Simon has been filming The Great British Holiday Show with Duncan Bannatyne which will be transmitted on Virgin 1 early 2010. Simon is also completing How To Build A Brand In 30 Days to be published in April 2010 by Capstone Wiley. A regular media commentator on all things 'brand’ for the BBC, Sky News and Five News among others, Simon is also scripting and presenting a unique new six-part TV series The Brand Effect . Further business and brand-related TV projects are in the planning stages.

William Burton

William Burton is a specialist in Communications, Leadership and Management Development, Sales and Coaching for personal and organisational effectiveness and has worked with clients such as Fortnum and Mason, Thames Water, Securicor, NTL, BOC Gases, Oxford University Press, Barclays, the Association of Accounting Technicians, Symbian, Total, Société Générale, Scottish Power, Linklaters, Burberry, Microsoft and Reed Elsevier. Recent projects have included designing and implementing an international recruitment programme, designing a blended e-learning and classroom based account management course as well as creating a major bespoke client service programme. William's expertise lies in analysing training and development needs as well as working one-to-one or with teams to improve sales, management and interpersonal skills. William also specialises in coaching for performance improvement and skills development.

Peter Cook

Sex, Business and Rock'n'Roll - Business as seen from the parallel universes of the Business School and the School of ROCK. Peter Cook runs Human Dynamics, a creative management consultancy, serving the top businesses in the World. With over 20 years’ business, academic and consultancy experience: Leading innovation teams; International trouble-shooting; Internal business and OD consultancy: Leadership and management development. Websites: Human DynamicsAcademy of Rock Peter started life as a chemist, has an MBA and a ‘university of life’ qualification in leading rock bands. Author of ‘Best Practice Creativity’ and ‘Sex, Leadership and Rock ‘n’ Roll’, acclaimed by Tom Peters, who said of it “Sex, Leadership and Rock 'n' Roll is a marvelous book, which closes the door on the tidy, hierarchical, know-your-place 'Orchestral Age' and ushers in a new, creative era of challenge and change. Hooray!" Peter's clients include The United Nations, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson and the Metropolitan Police. He has appeared on BBC TV and Radio and is presently writing his 4th book on Innovation and Creativity.

Dean Martin

Following successful careers in change management and marketing Dean was the co-founder of Beyond Excellence in 2002. As the driving force behind Brand You!... and working with our future leaders, he has now established himself as a leading international keynote speaker and has become the voice of GREAT-ATTITUDE!

Kip Voytek

Kip Voytek has been a union organizer, speechwriter, computer game designer, and creative director in various agencies. More than anything he is a digital tinkerer, experimenter, and collaborator. He is currently SVP, Communications Planning at RAPP. He can otherwise be found at kipbot.com, on twitter @kipbot and flickr: kipbot.

Clive Graham

Clive is a psychologist and coach with decades of experience promoting individual performance and development. The human mind fascinates him, and his studies in Psychology, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Positive Psychology, and Hypnosis has shaped his unshakable faith in the power of the individual to achieve everything they want! Clive says ‘I'm not about happy-clappy positive thinking, nor enforced positive language which trusts in some spooky 'magic' to achieve change. No, I'm all about living out happiness as a science’

Ian Johnson

Ian began teaching way back in September 1982. Seven or eight schools later, he is the Principal at the Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate. Prior to taking up this post, Ian was Head at Oxford Community School in multi-cultural East Oxford. He joined in September 1998 with just 406 students on roll, and left in 2004 with a school of around 1150. The Marlowe Academy has Ian’s ‘fingerprints’ all over it. Replacing the notorious Ramsgate School was never going to be easy. The concept Ian developed for Marlowe remains radical and innovative five years on. Ian will talk about how his model broke with convention but is reaping real rewards.

Organizing team

Dean
Martin

Kent, United Kingdom
Organizer