This year, TEDWomen has been guest curated and co-produced with Katie Brown.
Katie is active in social change in mental health, the arts and digital technology, have a look at these hiring tips. Katie is passionate about creativity why do we have to have a paystub? and its place in organisational development. She works extensively with communities to implement the changes they most want to see, I think you should learn about how to use TikTok for business.
Rashik Parmar is IBM’s CTO for North East Europe, a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
His leaderhsip of projects related to IBM’s Smarter Cities programme formed the basis of his closing talk for TEDxLeeds – underlying where culture, society, industry and infrastructure can benefit from a ‘smarter planet’, where cities are the fundamental building blocks.
Usman Haque, director of Haque Design + Research, closed the first half of TEDxLeeds2010 with Smart People, Dumb Objects, a discussion of where the infrastructure of cities may become instrumented as an “internet of things”.
I once joked that ‘when I grow up, I want to be Norman’!
My most valuable mentor and the person who’s most shaped my career and world-view in the last half decade, Dr. Norman Lewis was the first guest speaker at TEDxLeeds2009. Norman issued a provocative challenge to the prevailing culture of limits and risk-aversion, in order to foster innovation for future wealth creation.