Theme: Ideas to Impact

Simple ideas make the world exciting. They grow from humble beginnings into transformative movements, technologies and possibilities. How do we use ideas to impact society, as exceptional people have successfully done before? Join us as we explore the power of intelligent action and its potential to turn the next bright idea into the future at TEDxOxbridge 2015.

Nelson Mandela Theatre
Said Business School
Park End Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire
United Kingdom

Alan Keeso

Alan Keeso is a 1+1 Oxford MBA candidate with five years in management consulting and several years (ongoing) in the Canadian Armed Forces reserves. His MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management dissertation on big data and environmental sustainability explores technology’s role in society’s connectedness with the natural world.

Alex Bellini

Alex has explored and tackled the most hostile environments over the last 14 years. Alex ran the Marathon des Sables, pulled a sledge 2000km across Alaska, and rowed alone across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Cheryl Grise

Cheryl is the Global Strategy Practice Leader for EY’s Advisory Services. She is leading the development of a new kind of strategy consulting, evolving a progressive model for the rapidly changing market dynamics of the 21st century and solving complex industry challenges to help drive innovation. She has worked in a variety of leadership roles, focusing on corporate transformation for some of the world’s leading companies. Cheryl is passionate about Purpose-Led Transformation and believes that purpose and meaning have an important role as a strategic, transformational element in business today. She jointly leads a research initiative on this subject, working with the Saïd Business School. Her research suggests that purpose, and especially purpose activation, enhances organizational agility and does so in a way that increases innovation and drives sustainable growth for businesses.

Constance McDermott

Constance McDermott is a James Martin Senior Fellow and Chair of the Forest Governance Group at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Over the past 20 years she has conducted research and applied work on state and market-based approaches to forest governance, including intergovernmental agreements, domestic policy, environmental certification, and community-based forest management.

Indy Johar

Indy Johar is an architect and institution designer & developer. He is a co-founder of 00 (Project00.cc) and, on behalf of 00, has co-founded multiple social ventures from Impact Hub Westminster to Impact Hub Birmingham and the HubLaunchpad.net Open Venture Accelerator. Indy is an Advisor to the Earth Security Initiative and a Director of WikiHouse Foundation and Civic Systems Laboratory.

Jennie Winhall

Jennie Winhall rethinks big social issues and designs new systems that make a real difference to people’s lives. She is an expert in user-centred design and social innovation. Jennie also teaches design leadership, social innovation and service design across Europe and Canada, has been published in a number of books on design and social policy and is a mentor for several leading UK social tech incubators.

Marc Ventresca

Marc Ventresca is an organisational and economic sociologist who researches on innovation, infrastructure and institutions, with specific focus on system building in knowledge-intensive industries. Marc teaches on strategy and leadership at Saïd Business School. He works with a wide range of Oxford alumni ventures, in strategic advisory and Board roles.

Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan spoke at TED global in June 2012. She was named one of the Top 100 Media Executives by The Hollywood Reporter. Her book, "Wilful Blindness" was selected by the Financial Times as one of its “Best business books of the decade.”

Mihkel Jäätma

Mihkel Jäätma is the CEO of Realeyes. The company is now a technology leader in webcam-based emotions measurement that brings a combination of deep experience, academic knowledge and a spirit of exploration toward understanding emotional response in consumers. Mihkel is a SaÏd Business School alumnus from the MBA class of 2007.

Nicholas Davis

Nicholas Davis is an Australian strategy and scenario expert with 10 years experience in managing projects related to understanding the complexity and uncertainty of the global business environment. He now focuses on how innovations in technology, society and policy are combining to solve social and economic challenges, as well as understanding the risks and consequences of a rapidly-changing technology environment. Nicholas is currently Head of Society and Innovation and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Paolo Quattrone

Paolo is a professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School. His work addresses questions related to the emergence and diffusion of accounting and managerial practices in historical and contemporary settings. He is particularly interested in researching the relationships between material accounting visualisations and decision-making, strategizing and governance.

Patricia Nuttall

Patricia Nuttall is a professor of Arbovirology in the Department of Zoology of the University of Oxford. She was a science administrator who served as the Director of the Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. In 2000, Patricia was awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours List, for “Services to Environmental Science and Policy".

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins is Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He is the author of more than 70 books, which include the world-renowned textbook "Physical Chemistry". His recent books include "On Being: A Scientist’s Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence" and "Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms". He is a patron of the British Humanist Association and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.

Peter Tatchell

Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner, a member of the Green party and the director of the human rights organisation, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.

Richard Heaslip

Richard Heaslip has 20 years experience in various global leadership roles in fast-growing companies around the world. He joined Google in 2013 to set-up and lead the EMEA renewals team. Richard is an alumnus of the Saïd Business School MBA class of 1999.