TEDxBermuda is an independently organized, licensed TED conference, held each year in Bermuda since 2011.
Main Events Date Venue 23 April 2011 Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute 15 October 2011 The Fairmont Southampton 13 October 2012 19 October 2013 4 October 2014 10 October 201525 March 20176 October 20185 October 2019
Featured Speakers April 2011 Jonathan Vaughters - CEO of Slipstream Sports / Manager of UCI WorldTeam Cannondale-Garmin https://www.slipstreamsports.com/ Keith Caisey - Percussionist / Ethnomusicologist Dr. Michael Lomas - Senior Research Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Captain Paul Watson - Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society OB Sisay - Head of Africa Research at FM Capital Partners Gitanjali S. Gutierrez - Attorney - Center for Constitutional Rights Tiffany Paynter - Spoken Word Artist Alan Gilbertson - Managing Director of FoodBank South Africa Daniel Lieberman, PHD - Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Dr. Neil Burnie - Director of The Bermuda Shark Project Graham Foster - Sculptor / Painter
October 2011 Lawrence Sass - Associate Professor at MIT's Department of Architecture Mike Ramsdell - Documentary Filmmaker Pen Hadow - Polar Explorer Joy T. Barnum - Bermudian Vocalist / Songwriter Larry Mills - Bermudian Builder Ryan Legassicke - Contemporary Canadian Artist Tony Ruto - CTO of Within Technologies Ltd Dickson Despommier - The Vertical Farming Project Jeffrey Masters - Co-founder of the Weather Underground
October 2012 Jessica Lewis - Bermudian Paralympian, on making it to London 2012 John Sculley - former CEO of Pepsi-Cola and Apple Inc. on "Medicine and the Cloud" Ross Stein - a geophysicist and expert on earthquake science, who discussed how to better forecast and manage the threat of earthquakes Sossina M. Haile - a professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Caltech who is working towards a carbon-neutral world by turning into fuel Norman Seeff - a filmmaker and photographer who has dedicated much of his life to better understanding the creative process Hanli Prinsloo - freediving record holder and conservationist, on human connection to the sea: "I am Water" Peter Bentley - on "Embracing Chaos"—why science must learn from the randomness of nature Eric Barnhill - Juilliard trained pianist doing a PhD in Medical Physics on "Therapy Through Music" Felix Tod - producer on "Saving the Music Business, a Performance" K Gabrielle - Bermudian singer Alan Burland - Chairman of Bermuda Sloop Foundation, on "Education: Back to the Future" KASE - Bermudian rapper
October 2013 Jinichi Kawakami - Japan's Last Ninja Arlene Brock - Bermuda’s Ombudsman Robert Lustig - Beating the Odds Against Sugar Natalie Kuldell - Synthesizing Change: Garage Genomics Andrew Park - TED Animation Guru Chip Yates - World's Fastest ePilot Bren Smith - 3D Ocean Farming Rafael Grossmann - Google Glass Surgery Hip Hop Fundamentals - Teaching Physics Using Breakdance Jeremy Gilley - Peace One Day founder
October 2014 Ishrat Yakub - Motion Activated Oliver Steeds - The Future of Exploration Jason Healey - Saving Cyberspace Adjoa Andoh - What Determines Who You Are Uzimon/Daniel Frith - From Novelty to Enterprise Charles Hoskinson - The Future Will be Decentralised Lauren Bowker - Intelligent Textiles Weldon Wade - Diving With a Purpose Elizabeth Stokoe - The Conversational Racetrack Stephan Johnstone - Progression Carl Lipo - Easter Island: Lessons from One Small Island to Another
October 2015 InMotion - Interconnected Martijn Berger - It's a Happy World After All Tom Gage - The Powerplant in Your Driveway Martha Dismont - I Have the Best Job in the World Michael Frith - Drawing Inspiration From One's Environment Radhika Nagpal - Taming the Swarm Clilly Castiglia - The Roar of the Crowd No Strings - When Puppets Speak, Children Listen Yesha Townsend - Home Barrington Irving - Creating the Next Generation of Explorers Stuart Lacey - The Future of Your Personal Data - Privacy vs Monetization Bryan Davis - The New Spirit of Innovation
October 2019 Joan Higginbotham Richard Browning Domhnaill Hernon Harry Yeff Reeps One Jonna Hiestand Mendez Dr. Thomas Boothby, Ph.D. Dr. Kelly Lambert Alexander Rose Ed Christopher Oliver Rajamani
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