# TEDxBermuda

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 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 19 October 2013 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 4 October 2014 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 10 October 2015 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 25 March 2017 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 6 October 2018 | The Fairmont Southampton |
| 5 October 2019 | The Fairmont Southampton |

## Featured Speakers

April 2011
* Jonathan Vaughters - CEO of Slipstream Sports / Manager of UCI WorldTeam Cannondale-Garmin http://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 CO$_2$ 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 aka Reeps One
* Jonna Hiestand Mendez
* Dr. Thomas Boothby, Ph.D.
* Dr. Kelly Lambert
* Alexander Rose
* Ed Christopher
* Oliver Rajamani