Previous events

TEDxSheffield has been held every year since 2009, when it took place in the Electric Works building in front of an audience of around 60 people. Since then we've enjoyed 43 inspiring speakers, entertained an audience of well over 1000 people ‘in real life’, and in the vicinity of 250,0000 video-viewers online. We've flown remote-controlled hexacopters, and we've produced beautiful live-sketches of our talks.

And we can't wait to do it all again! :)

2013

• Professor Noel Sharkey Toy soldiers to killer robots Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

  

• Roger Graef OBE The Myth of Communication (Or You Talking Doesn’t Mean I’m Listening) Criminologist, Writer and Film-maker

  

• James Wallbank Three Dimensions of Innovation Artist, Educator and Free Software Advocate

  

• Jack Andraka My 3 Cents On Cancer Inventor, Scientist and Cancer Researcher

  

• Angga Kara Bucket Half Full Social Entrepreneur & Movement Artist

  

• Graham Hughes One Man. Every Country. No Flights. Explorer

  

• Daniela Petrelli Materialising Digital Objects of Memory Interaction Designer

  

• Brigidin Crowther Make. Create. Innovate. The Sheffield UTC. Educator, Writer and Filmmaker.

  

• Nancy Schwartzman Want to Prevent Violence? There's an App for That! Filmmaker & Mobile App Developer

  

• Pam Warhurst How we can eat our landscapes Incredible Edible Todmorden

  

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2012

• Fi Glover, Tony Phillips & Cathy Fitzgerald The Listening Project

  

• Leila Johnston & James Jefferies Happenstance Technologists in residence at the Site Gallery

  

• Prof Giuseppe Battaglia FedEx at the nanoscale Department of Biomedical Science at The University of Sheffield

  

• Erica Packington What happens when a chronic overthinker* joins the knock down, hurly-burly world of roller derby? Digital instigator and Roller Girl

  

• David Cotterrell How I almost lost my faith in photography Professor of Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University

  

• Steve Coulson From Butlins to Tiki Bars... Transmedia Producer

  

• Chella Quint Adventures in Menstruating: Don't Use Shame to Sell Comedy writer, performer and old school zine girl

  

• Professor Marco Viceconti The Virtual Physiological Human, or Why computer simulation is our best hope to understand life Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Modelling at the University of Sheffield

  

• Sophie Maxwell Really NEET Engagement - Teaching Pythagoras by the side of the road Social Entrepreneur

  

• Mark Atkin From the Sea to the Land Beyond Director of Crossover and the Head of the Documentary Campus Masterschool

  

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2011

• Alan Moore The Trilemma of Our Current Age

  

• Jeroen Geelhoed Radical Connection & Radical Progress

  

• Dr. Brendan Stone The Power of Story

  

• Lee Strafford Making Open Collaboration Work

  

• Adrian Hon Jobs, ZMP and Creative Debt

  

• Simona Francese The Future of Fingermarking

  

• Joe Cohen We Need More Geeks

  

• Tony Kennick News of the World No Longer

  

• Tom Bloxham MBE The Park Hill Story

  

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2010

• Tom Scott Social Media Dystopia

  

• Cennydd Bowles What is UX and why should you care?

  

• Andy Hanselman Think In 3D!

  

• Alex Graham Who Do you Think You Are

  

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2009

• Phil Shankland Disruptive Innovation

  

• Simeon Yates Why should a Social Scientist give a TEDx about design?

  

• Jonny Douglas We'll Never Change the World if we believe our Art Teacher

  

• Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino No Man's Land - Creativity, Commerce and Open Source

  

• Andy Huntington Musical Interfaces

  

• Ben Terret New uses for old media

  

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