TEDxBrighton 2012 by TEDx Brighton

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October 26th 2012 Brighton Dome â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Corn Exchange

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About 2012 Introduction Wow, we’re finally here! Brighton 2012: 14 incredible speakers, 350 audience members and another 50 volunteers working behind the scenes and in the Ideas Lab. The 2nd ever TEDx event in Brighton, Brighton 2012’s inspiring live speakers represent a range of backgrounds, interests, disciplines and perspectives, combined with some classic Talks. Regarded throughout the UK as a liberal hot bed and a young, vibrant, digital city, we’re asking whether our progressive and democratized thinking is truly catering for everyone. Throughout the day, our speakers will challenge The Generation Gap - it’s existence, impact and importance in our city and lives. What are the ideas worth spreading and what can we gain by opening up our field of vision? Outside of the conference hall, the Ideas Lab will offer the people of Brighton the chance to engage with a variety of interactive ideas, exhibitions and projects. Today’s event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors, advocates, team and audience, so we would like to thank you for helping to create this experience. We hope you will join us in the conversation during the breaks and over Twitter on # Brighton. All the best, Team Brighton

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About Speakers

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Tim Drake

Tim Drake co-founded and ran his own successful business, before setting out on new adventures. And he has achieved things along the way – playing rugby for Cambridge, co-founding and running several companies, founding and chairing CEO Think Tanks, and co-founding a couple of charities – but he has always felt he is still just a promising youngster. He is particularly interested in how we can learn from the mindsets of young people, because the young tend to be plugged in more effectively to how society is developing. They are the canaries down the mines, and can lead us to the fresh air of more creativity, more fun, and more fulfilment. They can teach us about socialisation, technology, and approaches to work. Failing to adjust can lead to unnecessary frustration, grumpiness, and a distorted view of how society is developing. @thedraketeam / www.iwanttomakeadifference.com

Claire Lewis

Producer and Executive Producer Claire has worked extensively across ITV and the BBC both in programmes and management. She started as a journalist at Granada moving into documentaries culminating in the multiaward winning 28UP. She joined the BBC where she became a producer /director on BBC2 Brass Tacks before Executive producing a range of programmes including It’s My City for BBC1. After a freelance spell she joined ITV Meridian as Programme Executive working entirely with the independent sector across a wide range of documentary programmes including a large arts output. After 9 years there she joined the BBC in London as Executive Producer of Trouble at The Top and set up the first series of Imagine for BBC1.She has produced the famous 7Up series since 35UP with Michael Apted. 4

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Geoff Warburton

Psychologist, writer and innovator, Geoff Warburton has spent the last 25 years studying love and loss. His extensive research was incorporated into his psychotherapy Doctorate about love – the first Doctorate of its kind. He advocates the radical view that we are all complete as we are and, by definition, that the resolution of suffering and loss comes from this realisation. Geoff was a co-creator of the award-winning London Lighthouse, the UK’s first residential and support centre for people facing the challenge of HIV and AIDS. He followed that by heading up the Psychological Services for the Terrence Higgins Trust, and then created a therapy and support service in south London for people bereaved through murder from gun and knife crime. Geoff has also addressed the psychological needs of the ageing gay, lesbian and transgendered population, by co-founding the UK social enterprise, Prime. Geoff says that there are two sure-fire ways of getting quiet time at parties. The first is to tell people that you are a psychotherapist. The second is to tell them that your specialised interests are love and loss. @GeoffWarburton / www.psychotherapy.eu.com

Colin Grant

Colin Grant is an author, historian and BBC radio producer; he has also worked as a script editor and produced several radio dramadocumentaries. He has written and directed plays, including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists, Tim Page and Don McCullin. Grant is also an associate fellow at the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, Warwick University, and a judge on the Wasafiri New Writing Prize. The son of Jamaican emigrants to the UK in the late 1950s, Grant has written a trilogy of books that observes African Caribbean life in the 20th century. An acclaimed biography of Marcus Garvey, Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey; I&I: The Natural Mystics – Marley, Tosh and Wailer, the first group biography of the Wailers. And, his third, a departure from his non-fiction writing, Bageye at the Wheel, is a comic memoir based on his father, Clinton George ‘Bageye’ Grant, and growing up in 1970s Luton – at the time, a provincial town with few West Indians. @colincraigcrant / www.colingrant.info

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Tessa Marchington

Tessa Marchington is a pianist and entrepreneur. Passionate about sharing the many benefits of music Tessa founded ‘Music in Offices’ (MIO) in 2006. Since then MIO has brought music to over 1000 office workers throughout the UK through setting up office choirs and facilitating music tuition during their working day. Tessa continues to develop partnerships with leading Arts organisations including the City of London Festival, Classic FM and Lucky Voice in order to increase performance platforms for her clients. MIO was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Award this year. As a pianist Tessa completed her post graduate at The Royal Academy of Music and regularly performs with opera singers and instrumentalists. She accompanies numerous choirs and recently played for the Olivier Award Winner production of La Boheme with Opera Upclose. Committed to the highest level of music making, Tessa has also cofounded the Surrey Hills Music Festival. Tessa will be presenting alongside James Davey (info on our website). @marchingtessa / www.musicinoffices.com

Lori Pinkerton-Rolet

An interior design professional since 1992, Lori’s work has taken her from North America to Europe and Africa. She’s director of Park Grove Design specialising in hotels through the Rooms-Service® Design brand and residential care homes. Her professional passion is to raise the design criteria within the care home sector. A self-confessed colour nerd she begins each day taking a colour reference of the sea at Brighton. Lori is a Past President of the British Institute of Interior Design and is the recipient its 2012 Award of Merit for outstanding contribution to the field of interior design. Her frequent speaking engagements perhaps harken back to her earlier career in the US where she hosted nationally syndicated radio programs and produced and directed the Grammy Awards™ for international radio. @LoriPRolet / www.parkgrove.co.uk 6

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Clare Sutcliffe

Clare Sutcliffe is a user experience designer and accidental social entrepreneur. She has recently created a social enterprise that gives children the opportunity to learn to programme computers. Clare trained in print design at Bath Spa University and eyed the ‘Interactive arts’ students with suspicion. She now regrets not starting her career in digital design but in a way she didn’t have a choice. Her ICT education was dry as bone and as a result she ditched it as soon as she could. She was shocked to find that 10 years later, the curriculum has hardly changed at all. Getting kids interested in programming has become the bee in her bonnet and it’s made her determined to change the way society views computer science. @ClareSutcliffe / www.codeclub.org.uk

David Erasmus

David has built and sold businesses in the UK and South Africa and is a regular speaker internationally on leadership development, innovation and giving. He is the Founder and CEO of Givey.com a social platform for givers and is passionate about creating a better global future. In December 2010 he published a White Paper on the Future of Giving resulting in regular contributions to the UK governments debate on the topic. @daveerasmus / www.givey.com

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Chris T-T

One of the most consistently critically lauded UK artists of the past decade, radical underground alt-folk singer Chris T-T has developed from fiery psychedelic roots into a key influence over a generation of homegrown artists. Since 1999 Chris has released eight albums and toured internationally, sharing bills with the likes of Elbow, Ben Folds, KT Tunstall, The National, The Divine Comedy, British Sea Power, Bellowhead and many others. Based in Brighton but restlessly mobile, Chris writes a column on the arts for left-wing daily newspaper The Morning Star and has contributed to Dark Mountain, Tooting Free Press, New Public Thinkers, Huffington Post, Louder Than War and NME. He has composed on commission for the Natural History Museum, World Health Organisation and The Halloween Society amongst others. Chris is an outspoken, playful voice on social media: in 2010 he instigated the #IAmSpartacus global meme in support of Paul Chambers and #TwitterJokeTrial. More recently, his critique of the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony has brought 65,000 readers to his website in three days. @christt / www.christt.com

Flora Koska

Flora is 14, and goes to Hurstpierpoint College in East Sussex. She enjoys photography and is taking art as one of her subjects. Flora wants to show the you that the generation gap may not be big as you think!

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Andy Bradley

Andy Bradley has spent much of his adult life feeling unsettled. Having grown up around his mother’s pioneering vision of inclusion and compassion for all and spending time in and around a large Victorian psychiatric institution and later seeing his family home become home to 20 people with various challenges including dementia Andy has a script that says we all belong, we all have something to give, we all matter. Andy leads the way in the UK in calling for a paradigm shift in health and social care so that compassion becomes the keystone habit which will transform the culture. He imagines a world in which when we are vulnerable we can rely on those who care for us to be kind; a world in which those who give care are recognised and appreciated. Andy has appeared on BBC TV and Radio and is recognised as one of ‘Britain’s New Radicals’ by NESTA and The Observer. Andy lives in Hove with his soul mate Kirsty and their two wonder children Jack and Rosie. @wwwframeworks4c / www.frameworks4change.co.uk

Rosianna Halse Rojas

Although she just graduated from the University of Exeter this summer, Rosianna Halse Rojas has been making video blogs about wizards and intellectualism on the YouTube channel “missxrojas” since 2006 and has no intention of stopping anytime soon. She was one of the 16 winners of the international YouTube NextVlogger competition and plans to grow her channel in order to facilitate focused and extensive discussion about the status of women online. At the online video conference VidCon 2012 in Anaheim, California, Rosianna organised and spoke on a panel about the challenges faced by female content creators, from harassment to tackling perceptions of what women are “supposed” to talk about. Rosianna is the Editorial Director for entertainment website LeakyNews. com, which celebrates the freedom to “geek out” about television programmes, films and videogames and has an active Twitter following of over 135,000 user. @papertimelady / www.youtube.com/user/missxrojas 9

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Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Nawaz is Co-Founder and Chairman of Quilliam – a globally active organisation focusing on matters of Integration, Citizenship & Identity, Religious Freedom, Extremism and Immigration – and Founder of Khudi, a Pakistan based social movement campaigning to entrench democratic culture among the nation’s youth. Maajid encourages inclusive citizenshipbased participation of Muslims in the West, while seeking to synergize a respect for human rights with the civic liberal imperative to defend those in danger of being stigmatized by extremists of all stripes due to their personal choices. He has become a prominent counter-extremism consultant and a regular writer, debater and public commentator. In this regard, he has been called upon by heads of state, statesmen and international bodies for his professional opinion. Maajid has spoken from various platforms internationally, ranging from universities across Pakistan to addressing the US Senate in Washington DC. He has been profiled by CBS 60 minutes, Larry King Live, BBC Newsnight, has spoken at the TED conference, and is regularly interviewed by prominent journalists across the world. @MaajidNawaz / www.quilliamfoundation.org

Benita Matofska

Matofska is a CEO, campaigner & social entrepreneur. Dedicated to social innovation and the power of ideas, she is an RSA Fellow, an Innovator in the Finance Innovation Lab, an Innovator in WWF’s food sustainability initiative, Tasting the Future and pioneer of future business models via her work with UnLtd Future. Her 25-year career spans broadcasting, communications, business development, community development and charity campaigns. A recipient of the Nesta Innovation In Giving Fund, she is the Founder and Chief Sharer of The People Who Share, a game-changing business dedicated to building a Sharing Economy. The People Who Share are the pioneers behind the first-to-market one-stop destination for sharing and mass engagement campaigns — National Sharing Day and Global Sharing Day which runs on November 14th 2012. She is a seasoned public speaker and has shared a platform with Desmond Tutu at the One Young World Congress, been invited to Number 10 Downing Street to celebrate her work on building a sustainable Sharing Economy. 10

@benitamatofska / www.compareandshare.com

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