Theme: Blueprints

The next TEDxImperialCollege event will revolve around our theme of "Blueprints".

The tickets are going to be released in batches, starting tomorrow. Please do like our Facebook page to be the first to know when the tickets are released.

The date for our event this year is the 13th of May 2017.

Our Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/TEDxImperialCollege/

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ATM

ATM (ATMstreetart) paints endangered species street art, using urban walls as a stark reminder of the species that once lived here, yet could again with habitat restoration. The painted walls exist to call attention to the beauty and importance of living creatures that are so often overlooked and whose needs so often ignored. He aims to inspire a transformation of our towns, cities and countryside by reNaturing and reWilding, for the benefit of us all. As well as in locations throughout the UK, his work can be seen in Poland, Norway and New York.

Alice Bell

Alice Bell is director of communications at climate change charity, 10:10. She’s also worked as an academic, as a journalist, and in museums. She was a lecturer in science communication at Imperial College where she also set up an interdisciplinary course on climate change. She’s also taught at Sussex, UCL and City Journalism School, and written for a range of publications including helping to set up the Guardian’s science policy blog. In her spare time, she is a trustee at Medact, and keeps a blog about the history of climate change. She’s also an award-winning knitter and a terrible runner.

Alvaro Sanmartin Cid

Alvaro is passionate about changing lives through disruptive education. He works at Udacity and has co-founded 3 Edtech Companies.

Jamie Miles

Jamie is frustrated by glass ceilings and closed doors, so spends his time breaking these down and enabling enable others to do the same. Jamie set up his first online business aged 12, which helped fund his studies at Oxford University. Altering enrolling he decided to create YouTube videos on the process of applying and the art of learning, helping thousands of potential applicants to achieve their academic ambitions. His channel has over 1 million views and won the Oxford University award for innovation in access. Recently Jamie has been distracted with his latest project, which aims to find and share the key lessons, wisdom and principles in our culture -- from Plato to Pokémon -- to help people tackle the hardest and most personal of questions like, 'How do I live a fulfilling life?' or 'What should I do for a career?'.

João Pedro de Magalhães

Dr de Magalhaes graduated in Microbiology in 1999 from the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia in his hometown of Porto, Portugal, and then obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Namur in Belgium. Following a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, in 2008 Dr de Magalhaes was recruited to the University of Liverpool. He is now a reader and leads the Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group (http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aging/). His lab studies the ageing process and how we can manipulate it to fend off age-related diseases and improve human health. Dr de Magalhaes also coordinates the UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network (http://www.cryonics-research.org.uk/).

Keir Phillip

Keir started B-boying (breakdancing) aged 13 and has toured the UK and overseas, featuring in music videos and festivals such as Glastonbury. He now works as a doctor and has undertaken clinical work and research in his current home of London and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. His interests lie in holistic, assets-based approaches to healing and rehabilitation, and, in particular, the development of dance-based rehabilitation programs for patients. He is the dancer in residence for Vital Arts, founder of the DanceAble Collective, a UCLPartner Improvement Fellow, and an honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Health and Human Performance.

Mary Poffenroth

Whether through creating videos for Wiley & Sons, writing for popular publications such as Science, or speaking to sci-curious crowds at live events, Mary’s goals are the same: Make science accessible for all. As a first generation college student who became a university biology lecturer for San Jose State University in 2007, Mary is deeply connected to the need to create opportunities for people of all ages to find wonder in our natural world.

Oriol Vinyals

Oriol Vinyals is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, working on Deep Learning. Oriol holds a Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley, a Masters degree from University of California, San Diego, and a double degree in Mathematics and Telecommunication Engineering from UPC, Barcelona. He is a recipient of the 2011 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. He was an early adopter of the new deep learning wave at Berkeley, and in his thesis he focused on non-convex optimization and recurrent neural networks. At Google Brain and Google DeepMind he continues working on his areas of interest, which include artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on machine learning, language, and vision.

Rikke Rosenlund

Rikke is founder and CEO of BorrowMyDoggy. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Rikke worked in financial services for over 7 years and received an MBA from INSEAD. She was born in Denmark but has since lived in the UK, US and Latin America. Rikke has been involved in various NGO work including delivering aid in disaster areas. Rikke founded BorrowMyDoggy in 2012 after taking care of a neighbour’s dog “Aston” for the day. She realised that dog owners could use a helping hand to look after their dogs; and lots of people would love to help taking care of a dog. The concept for BorrowMyDoggy was born, with the aim to leave 'Pawprints of Happiness' on the lives of dogs and people.

Sanjeev Gupta

Prof. Sanjeev Gupta is a geologist in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College. He is interested in the evolution of landscapes and the processes that shape them on Earth and Mars. He has studied sedimentary rock formations in places like the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, and New Mexico, ancient river systems associated with the Indus Civilisation in India, and landscapes under the sea in the English Channel. He is a Co-Investigator on the Mastcam camera team on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory - the Curiosity rover - where his role is to analyse ancient sedimentary rocks on Mars and determine if the Red Planet could ever have been habitable for life.