TEDxCambridgeUniversity, February 11th 2017, Andrew Marr, Facebook Artificial Intelligence, Bionics and much more, sponsored by Knowledge Associates Cambridge.

Written by Ron Young on . Posted in Blog, News

Once again, we are glad to announce that Knowledge Associates Cambridge Ltd are the lead sponsors for TEDxCambridgeUniversity, to be held on February 11th 2017.

The theme is ‘Jumping Off the Shoulders of Giants’ exploring the dichotomy between tradition and innovation (if there even is one?) and ask ourselves whether true innovation can be built on tradition, or if it requires something radically new.

There will be morning and afternoon sessions of speakers, but so far, the confirmed speakers are:

DOUWE KIELA

Douwe Kiela is a postdoctoral researcher at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) in New York. His primary research interests lie in computational linguistics, specifically natural language understanding, and machine learning.

JULIE KROHNER

Julie Krohner is an ethnographic researcher in emerging tech, social impact and healthcare, exploring how to measure empathy in virtual and mixed reality.

BERTOLT MEYER

Bertolt Meyer is a professor and director of the Institute of Psychology at Technische Universität Chemnitz in Germany, exploring how bionics and robotics have the potential to change societal stereotypes associated with physical disability. He misses his left arm since birth and wears a bionic arm prosthesis. He has been featured in many media outlets, including the award-winning Channel4 science documentary “How to build a bionic man“ (2013).

MENDEL KAELEN

Mendel Kaelen is a Neuroscientist from Imperial College London exploring why music and psychedelic drugs are powerful tools to change consciousness.

ANDREW SMYTH

Since completing his Engineering Degree at Cambridge University, Andrew works as an Aerospace Engineer at Rolls-Royce where he analyses jet engines. He has a passion for how things work and is currently pursuing opportunities in Science broadcasting. Best known as a finalist on the seventh series of The Great British Bake Off.

ANDREW MARR

A Scottish journalist and television presenter. Andrew is most well known for hosting The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One as well as his work as a political commentator, editor of The Independent, and political editor of BBC News.

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I think you will agree that, as always, TEDxCambridgeUniversity has once again attracted world class speakers.

Ron Young

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Ron Young

Ron Young is the founder of Knowledge Associates International, a knowledge management consulting and solutions group based at St Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge U.K. He is acknowledged as a leading international expert and thought leader in strategic knowledge asset management and innovation. He specializes in knowledge driven results for organizations. He advised and assisted the UK DTI Innovation Unit in 1999 in the production of the UK Government White Paper ‘UK Competitiveness in the Knowledge Driven Economy’. He regularly provides keynote presentations and workshops at leading knowledge management & innovation conferences around the world. He has chaired for several years both the British Standards Institute (BSI) Knowledge Management Standards Committee and the European Knowledge Management Standards Committee. He is a visiting lecturer for international business administration and global knowledge economy programs. He runs regular Knowledge Asset Management master classes at King’s College Cambridge University, UK. He is a consultant for the World Bank, Washington, USA, and for the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Brussels. He is currently developing knowledge management strategies and systems, and advising and assisting major multi-national corporations, international UN agencies, National governments, military, security, and professional institutions around the world. He was a lead consultant for the European Commission 2 Million euro ‘Know-Net’ project. He is joint author of the books ‘Knowledge Asset Management’ (Springer 2003), ‘Upside Down Management’ (McGraw Hill Europe 1996), Knowledge Management: Facilitators Guide (Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, 2009), Knowledge Management: Case Studies for SME’s (APO, Tokyo, 2009), Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques (APO, Tokyo, 2010), Knowledge Management for the Public Sector (APO, Tokyo 2013) and APO Demonstration Projects (APO Tokyo, 2014

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