TEDxCambridgeUniversity, February 11th 2017, Andrew Marr, Facebook Artificial Intelligence, Bionics and much more, sponsored by Knowledge Associates Cambridge.
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
The TEDxCambridgeUniversity website is just live now, and evolving with new speaker details by the day, and can be viewed at:
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Rudolf DSouza
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Impressive line up of speakers again!
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