Theme: Pink Polar Bear

We are glad to announce that TEDx is coming to University of Hertfordshire for the first time!

In the spirit of TED and ideas worth sharing, students have come together to organise the inaugural TEDx conference at University of Hertfordshire. Determined to distinguish the event from other TEDx conferences, the team behind TEDxUniversityofHertfordshire came up with a theme that is abstract, exciting and open to interpretation.

'Pink Polar Bear' paves the way for a variety of enticing speakers and a plethora of topics, that are sure to educate and challenge the way you think. Speaker information will be announced at a later date.

de Havilland Campus
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
United Kingdom

Ifrah George

Ifrah George is an undergraduate law student at the University of Hertfordshire. Growing up in a family of lawyers in Dubai, she became fascinated on arguing one’s point in the face of opposition, and the role law has as the backbone of any organisation and society. Combining her experience with law and personal life experiences, Ifrah will be talking about happiness with the aptly titled speech “Are you Happy?”. It will focus on the conception of being happy, factors that make people cheerful, and how to be truly content and joyful.

Ingrid Ozols

Ingrid Ozols is an active workplace mental health and suicide prevention advocate and educator of more than 16 years. She is the founder and managing director of Mental Health at Work (mh@work®) an Australian national consultancy aimed at improving the mental health, resilience and productivity of organisations and their people. Ingrid helps reduce the stigma, discriminatory practices and lack of understanding about mental health problems and suicide prevention by being a member of many national Australian boards, committees, government advisory, and university research groups. Ingrid also is an ambassador of CRESP and Lifeline, Australia’s largest mental health and suicide crisis charity and other community and academic organisations. She is currently a student at Griffiths University & The Australian Institute of Research in Suicide Prevention and a European International World first Masters in Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Hertfordshire.

Justin Marozzi

Justin is an English journalist, historian, travel writer, and communications expert. He gained incredible experience through extensive travelling in the Middle East and Muslim world in addition to his recent work in conflict and post-conflict environments such as Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia and Darfur. Justin is a member of Chatham House, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, where he has also lectured, and in 2011 was elected as a Councillor of the RGS and appointed a Senior Research Fellow in Journalism and the Popular Understanding of History at Buckingham University’s Humanities Research institute. For more information about Justin Marozzi’s travels and experiences visit: http://www.justinmarozzi.co.uk/