TEDWomen 2011

On Tuesday 15th February 2011, we held our first TEDxGranta event, with the theme of Women Shaping the Future. Women are playing an increasingly significant economic and social role in the world, and TEDWomen explored some of the people who are shaping the future and looks at how they’re doing so. For our part, we gathered together local speakers to explore the subject, and sprinkled the day with a few of the excellent videos from the main event in the US.

Our Cambridge speakers were:

  • Anne Miller – one of the world’s most prolific female inventor, and author of How to get your ideas adopted (and change the world)
  • Ann Cotton - Founder and Executive Director of Camfed International, a charity which has improved the school environment for over a million children in 2,295 communities in Sub-saharan Africa.
  • Jenny Tillotson - CEO and founder of Sensory Design & Technology Ltd, merging the ancient art of perfumery with modern technologies to contribute to find new ways of enhancing the emotional wellbeing of women.
  • Rowan Harvey – Policy and Advocacy Officer for the international development charity Plan International (UK) who became a governor of the LSE aged just 26.
  • Julie Barnes – Founder of Somaxa Ltd and CEO of new molecular diagnostics business Abcodia Ltd, Julie Barnes has over 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.
  • Sarah Outen – (25), is a world-breaking ocean rower.  In August 2009 she became the first woman and youngest person to single-handedly row the Indian Ocean, and the youngest woman to solo any ocean, raising over £30,000 for arthritis charities. Her book about the row, A Dip in the Ocean, will be published on 7 February 2011 and she is currently planning her next expedition, London to London: Via The World.
  • JohnWroe – Executive Director of Cambridge-based charity Momentum Arts and prime mover in the Street Child World Cup in Durban, recognised as ‘one of the best ideas to come out of Cambridge in the last 800 years.
  • Ian Price – author of new business book The Activity Illusion, is an experienced leader turned business psychologist.
  • Anne Dobrée – Acting Head of Seed Funds with Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds. She has a BSC in Medical Microbiology and a PhD in Immunology, followed by years of experience in the area of technology transfer.
  • Donna Lynas – As Director of Wysing Arts Centre since 2005 Donna has developed the Cambridgeshire-based organisation into one of Europe’s leading centres for the visual arts.
  • Jennifer Rubin – is Director of the Communities, Safety and Justice Programme at RAND Europe a non-profit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
  • Nicky Webb – co-founded creative producers Artichoke, who have been responsible for some of the most ambitious and inspiring arts events of the past few years, including The Sultan’s Elephant and Antony Gormley’s One & Other.

Some of the speakers you will hear from the TEDWomen event in Washington:

    • Halla Tomasdottir - co-founder of Audur Capital financial services, has been instrumental in rebuilding Iceland’s economy since its collapse in 2008. Her passion is releasing the incredible economic potential of women’s ways of doing business.
    • New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly tackles global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm. Her latest project supports the United Nations initiative Cartooning For Peace.
    • Tony Porter is an educator and activist who is internationally recognized for his effort to end violence against women.
    • At MIT, Cynthia Breazeal and her team are building robots with social intelligence that communicate and learn the same way people do.
    • Penelope Jagessar Chaffer made the film “Toxic Baby,” about environmental toxins; scientist Tyrone Hayes provided some visceral and shocking research.
    • Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman co-founded Babble, a website for parents. He’s the CEO, she’s the VP of sales strategy and brand development, and they have three sons.
    • Jody Williams won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to eradicate landmines. Now she’s teaming up with five other female peace laureates to empower women to fight violence, injustice and inequality.
    • Johanna Blakley studies the impact of mass media and entertainment on our world.
    • As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.
    • In his funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than what we’ll tweet about it later.
    • Jody Williams won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to eradicate landmines. Now she’s teaming up with five other female peace laureates to empower women to fight violence, injustice and inequality.
    • Since leaving office as US Secretary of State in 2001, Madeleine Albright has continued her distinguished career in foreign affairs as a businesswoman, political adviser and professor.
    • As president of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg identifies the brightest new social enterprises and lends much-needed support to innovative problem-solvers.

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