The pet projects of tomorrow’s innovators

The videos of each presentation will be rolled out beginning this month on the TEDxTerry Talks website and the conference pictures that were tagged TEDxTt 2009 are available on flickr.

This year, the itinerary of speakers and TED videos included:

• “Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak” – Jennifer Gardy (alumni speaker, BCCDC, Globe and Mail)
• “Gender Quest” – Alexander Cannon (DMA student, School of Music)
• TED video (Dan Ariely)
• “On Perspectives of Global Nomads” – Azim Wazeer (4th year, Sauder School of Business, UBC Greek Life)
• ”The African Paradox” – Iris Amuto (4th year, Political Science, Woman’s and Gender Studies, UBC Africa Awareness)
• “Sharing Wonder” – Jennifer Kaban (Unclassified student, TRIUMF)
• TED video (Stefan Sagmeister)
• “Major Angst” – Camille Israel (4th year, Anthropology)
• “Malaria: How We Are Biting Back” – Nadine Qureshi (3rd year, Cell Biology and Genetics, Mission Against Malaria)
• “What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You” – Eric Ma (4th yr, Integrated Sciences, UBC iGEM)
• TED video (William Kamkwamba)
• TEDxTt 2008 update: “UBC Mix” & Wish Speaker introduction – Geoff Costeloe (5th year, Integrated Science, Political Science, UBC Mix)
• Wish Speaker: “Broken Mosaic: Challenging Canadian Diversity” – Tahira Ebrahim (4th year, Human Geography)

After the success of the event, it’s likely that these TEDxTerry Talks will become an annual event for many of the students in attendance. Perhaps they will be inspired to share some of their own projects that are making a difference on campus.