TEDxCanberra 2011 presenters announced

This year’s lineup includes a show­case of pre­sen­ters that are true lead­ers in their fields, many of whom are shar­ing their new projects pub­licly for the first time at TEDx­Can­berra 2011.  We feel very lucky to have these peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ing in TEDx­Can­berra this year, they really are the ‘doers’ that are out there work­ing hard to make our world a bet­ter place.

Speak­ers for are listed below. Links go to a page for that pre­sen­ter with addi­tional detail and links to infor­ma­tion about them.

Dr Sam Prince — Entre­pre­neur, med­ical doc­tor, and phil­an­thropist, Sam applies busi­ness rigour to devel­op­ment and health­care and intends to advance edu­ca­tion and erad­i­cate dis­ease across the globe.

Matt Noffs — Co-Founder of the Street Uni­ver­sity and Gideon Shoes, Matt is fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of his grand­fa­ther to help unem­ployed youth through inno­v­a­tive ideas in social enterprise.

Emma Magenta —  Author and artist, Emma uses her alter-ego Phillipa Finch to touch on the core of human­ity and blend emo­tion with tech­nol­ogy to help us deal with big ques­tions about our lives and the universe.

Sally Web­ster — Author, aca­d­e­mic and award win­ning mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sional, Sally believes emphat­i­cally that the edu­cated tourist is a respect­ful tourist and that chil­dren want to learn about things dif­fer­ent to their own expe­ri­ences and absorb other cultures.

Pro­fes­sor Thomas Pogge — A philoso­pher at Yale and the ANU, Thomas is work­ing to stim­u­late phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal inno­va­tions that would be acces­si­ble to poor and afflu­ent patients alike around the world.

Nick Ritar — As a per­ma­cul­ture edu­ca­tor, Nick is at the fore­front of the new gen­er­a­tion of per­ma­cul­ture prac­ti­tion­ers work­ing to restore land­scapes and cre­ate abun­dance in all environments.

Rebecca Scott — As CEO and Co-Founder of STREAT, based in Mel­bourne, Rebecca is work­ing to pro­vide home­less youth with a sup­ported path­way from the streets to a career in hospitality.

Pierre Johan­nessen — CEO and Co-Founder of the Big Bang Ballers, Pierre is show­ing young peo­ple from the slums of Bangladesh to the peaks of Nepal how incred­i­bly able they are as indi­vid­u­als, and how immensely pow­er­ful they are together.

Dr Stephen Cole­man — Senior Lec­turer in Ethics and Lead­er­ship and Vin­cent Fair­fax Foun­da­tion Fel­low, Stephen is bet­ter­ing our under­stand­ing of the con­duct of con­flict and what non-lethal weaponry can mean.

Boho Inter­ac­tive — Boho present inter­ac­tive science-theatre, inte­grat­ing con­cepts from Com­plex Sys­tems dis­ci­plines with nar­ra­tive per­for­mance tech­nique to con­nect emo­tional and cog­ni­tive under­stand­ings of the world.

Sam Perry — Pro­gram and Oper­a­tions Direc­tor of AIME, Sam orches­trates the deliv­ery of a peer-driven move­ment that sees Indige­nous and non-Indigenous Aus­tralians in a shared learn­ing environment.

Annette Zou and Richard Dear — As co-founders of the ANU Cross-disciplinary Stu­dents Acad­emy, Annette and Richard are con­cerned with edu­ca­tion with breadth as well as depth.

Rafe Mor­ris — Rafe shares his pos­i­tive and unique per­spec­tive on life through lyri­cally rich songs, rang­ing from laugh-out-loud funny to those that some­how man­age to be as poignant as they are gen­tly amusing.

Mary-Anne Wal­dren - Mary-Anne Wal­dren is known in some cir­cles as “Canberra’s Chief Con­nec­tion Offi­cer”, in oth­ers as “the fast and the furi­ous Mary-Anne”. Busi­ness is in her blood and her pas­sion is in mak­ing connections.

We hope you find our lineup as excit­ing as we do!