TEDMEDLive2015 Conference to be held at Plymouth Science Park
What happens when you combine the spark of global thought leaders with the kindling talent of the South West? Let’s find out!
Plymouth Science Park, Health Education South West and the Beacon Medical Group have joined forces to bring the South West’s first TEDMEDLive2015 event.
Based on the internationally renowned TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) a global set of conferences under the slogan "Ideas Worth Spreading" we have curated the hottest topics of TEDMED2015 to enable GPs, Consultants, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Nurses, Patients, Advocacy and Community Groups, Designers, Tech Entrepreneurs, Commissioners to be part of a global conversation.
The two day programme will inspire, enthuse and connect neurons and problem solvers alike - through the power of video streaming and pre-recorded seminars.
The event starts at 9.30am on Friday 20th November and is being held at the Plymouth Science Park.
The line up:
Friday 20th November
9.30 – 12.00 Catalysing Great Science
14.00 – 16.30 Back to Basics
Saturday 21st November 2015
9.30 – 12.00 Techno-Utopia
14.00 – 16.30 Out There
To sign up follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tedmedlive2015-hesw-tickets-19401171426
The Detail:
“Catalyzing Great Science”:
Fri 9.30 – 12.00
Risk-taking researchers reveal new ways to disrupt the scientific paradigm, break through barriers between academia and industry, link seemingly unrelated fields, and meet demand from patient activists. Catalyzers include an evangelist for creative science; a science experiment matchmaker; a global health and life sciences champion; America’s AIDS doctor; and other rebels against science-as-usual
“Back to Basics”:
Fri 14.00 – 16.30
Creating a culture of health often depends on factors that reach far beyond health care. Explore solutions with wise and determined change-makers who stand – and fight – at the frontlines of innovation. They include a health commissioner of one of the world’s great cities; a master tinkerer setting industry standards in everything from transportation to toilets; a neighborhood change agent offering radical interventions of love and support to the most violent young men; a disruptive entrepreneur who seeks to better control the flow of information after a pandemic (natural or otherwise); nurses making creative, DIY fixes for patient problems; and an art curator bringing to life one of the most fundamental interventions in public health
“Techno-Utopia”:
Sat 9.30 – 12.00
Brimming with shiny techno-optimism, this session features novel ways we are creating technologies with wide applications to health and medicine. Behold a sensor innovator’s quest to make medical care less invasive; a synthetic biologist’s journey to make artificial DNA base pairs replicate in nature; a daring pursuit to discover new uses for old drugs with machine learning; and even a generous communicator’s journey to harness technology’s power to help us find meaning in our most tragic losses.
“Out There”:
Sat 14.00 – 16.30
This session lives “in the wild” and on edges so newly discovered they feel eerily sci-fi. Explore our changing environment and so-called fringe science that is going mainstream. Speakers highlight some very exciting, promising and even heart-wrenching ways to engage with the unexpected and seemingly foreign. Meet a pediatric endocrinologist who slays myths about the rise in girls’ early puberty; a prolific naturalist who heals her aphasic writer/husband through their mutual love of language; a scientist who discovers electronic bacteria in extreme environments that defy our understanding of how bacteria are supposed to behave; and a meta-genomicist who swabs everything in the environment from subways to Space Shuttles.
