TEDxStPeterPort
Making Guernsey The Best Place To Live On EarthThe Event
The next TEDxStPeter Port event is being held on
Thursday, 26th March 2015
09.00 to 17.00 (GMT) at
St Pierre Park Hotel Spa and Golf Resort.
TEDxStPeter
ST PIERRE PARK HOTEL SPA & GOLF RESORT
Rohais
St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1FD
Normal tickets
Normal tickets limited to a maximum of 2
Pay It Forward tickets
For companies and organisations limited to 10 maximum. The idea is Buy 1 and Give 1.
Community Tickets
CREATE THE PLACE YOU WANT TO LIVE IN
Confirmed Speakers
John Sweeney, of Cork, Ireland, is the Founder and CEO of Suspended Coffees. As a husband and father of four, he understands the struggles that families face every single day, in a world full of uncertainty. As an entrepreneur, his compassion and desire to help anyone in need is what led to the creation of the Suspended Coffees movement.
Tim and Jo will be talking about the house they have built together over the past five years. Kew House is a corten steel and glass next to Kew Gardens in south-west London. The house is remarkable for the learning environment where architecture graduates and skilled tradesmen worked alongside each other to build the house from the on site workshop in the basement.
Mental health problems in young people are increasing. Self harm, depression and anxiety.
Twelve key life skills for everyone - especially young people. A proactive, protective approach to mental health.
Twelve key life skills for everyone - especially young people. A proactive, protective approach to mental health.
Lets build strong foundations for our children - children are the future.
Medicine operates 17 years behind the latest science and, with advancing technology, the gap is only widening. James’ passion is inspiring innovators across disciplines to accelerate this evolution of medicine. In his talk he will be asking the question... if you could start a medical system from scratch, what would it look like?
Søren is passionate about community and local ownership. How do we reinforce local communities and bring back a diversity of culture and locallities. Change need to come from people. Climate change is happening because of people- we need to find new ways to address the personal responsibility.
Julian Hanford is the former Creative Director of Specsavers Optical Group in Guernsey during the 1990's, and is now an established Conceptual Artist and Photographer who lives and works in London.
His talk will be about the true power of Art in our society today.
Philip and Warren will be talking about the power of challenge and using it to be the best you.
One of the UK’s brightest young entrepreneurs.
David will be talking about
“How To Thrive In The Network Society”
“How To Thrive In The Network Society”
You can think of laws and contracts as instruction sets, which are created and interpreted by humans to run society and govern our relationships with each other. However, Stephen and Martyn are challenging that approach by applying new technologies that enable machines to read legislation and contracts. In their talk they will be asking… can we disrupt how we apply the law and engage with each other?
More speakers to be announced
About TEDx
The aim of TEDxStPeterPort is to inspire, engage and catalyse the Guernsey population to make positive, innovative steps to improving quality of life on the island.
TEDxStPeterPort seeks to raise the bar for the perception of what is possible to achieve and deliver the message to Guernsey that “Nothing Is Impossible.”
TEDx St Peter Port - what an utterly fantastic event! It was hugely inspiring, brilliantly organised, super-slick, incredibly engaging, phenomenally entertaining - and powerfully thought-provoking too. Impressive events like this one can change people, and in turn, society. A brilliant event created by a brilliant Team. Shed Simove, professional speaker on creativity and innovation www.MotivationalUKSpeaker.com
Speaking at TedX had a transformative affect on my life, something that I will not forget, and nor do I. It was such an inspring event which allowed me the opportunity to meet with like minded individuals all with the common goal of CHANGE for the community of Guernsey!
TEDx allows the speaker to cast their ideas to a much wider audience through the brand and formula of these talks. The greatest challenge is not the international stage but winning credibility with local people who will be the first followers of your movement.
TEDXStpeterport is an exciting opportunity to engage with others who are interested in rethinking the established. Beyond the obvious online exposure, I am grateful to the people behind the event for providing the platform to discuss the current state of our culture, energy, infrastructure, transportation & environment issues.
In fifty years time, when league tables show that Guernsey is the best place in the world to live, I will be able to tell my grandchildren that I nearly missed the flight to speak at the inaugural TEDxStPeterPort. I had to fly in early because I was teaching the previous day. This meant that I missed the incredible hospitality that Marc and his team bestowed on their speakers; a night that (I heard) will have its own chapter in the history books when the story of Guernsey is re-written. Thankfully, I arrived in time to watch some wonderful people deliver inspirational talks. Marc knows how to curate a conference, that's for sure. As the actress said to the bishop, I feel that I took more than I gave.
