TEDxSheffield

Programme

	Thursday 22nd September
13:00	Registration Opens, Showroom Cinema
14:00	Session One - Alan Moore, Jeroen Geelhoed, Brendan Stone & Lee Strafford
15:45	BREAK
16:15	Session Two - Joe Cohen, Simona Francese, Adrian Hon, Tony Kennick & Tom Bloxham
18:00	CLOSE
18:30	Drinks Reception (The Winter Garden)

Speakers will include…

Alan Moore

Creative Destructionist

Given this year's theme of 'Disrupt' Alan's a wonderful addition to TEDxSheffield. Alan is a noted expert on disruption particularly in a nonlinear world. He's the author of 'Communities Dominate Brands' and he has a new book coming out in October entitled 'No Straight Lines' which originally came to fame as a hugely popular talk delivered at SXSWi in Austin, TX.

Jeroen Geelhoed

Inspiring Disruption

Jeroen is a partner at the Dutch management consultancy @samhoud. The 100+ strong consultancy has been recognised as the Best Place to Work in the Netherlands for the last 3 years and in 2010 it was also recognised as the best small to medium enterprise to work for in all of Europe. Jeroen is a proponent of the use of personal visioning as a way to create real and sustainable change in organisations and individuals. Famously, he helped facilitate a vision for Holland alongside hundreds of Dutch citizens which was eventually presented to Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands.

Dr. Brendan Stone

The Power of Story

Brendan Stone is a Senior Academic Fellow at The University of Sheffield. Much of his work focuses on themes of wellbeing, communities, social and cultural capital, and the development of creative approaches to understand and combat social exclusion. He has considerable experience in working with people who have longstanding mental health problems; his 'Storying Sheffield' project attempts to empower individuals to renegotiate the stories which define them. Brendan's work is based around the idea of the 'porous university', in which barriers to access are carefully removed to foster a mutually productive exchange with the city and the wider region.

Lee Strafford

Disrupting for Sheffield's Future

Lee has been busy disrupting in and around Sheffield for years now. He originally rose to fame as the CEO of PlusNet taking the ISP from 7 to 200+ employees during his tenure which was eventually acquired by BT. More recently Lee has become a member of the Sheffield City Region LEP with a vision and focus around championing the creative & digital industries as an economic force for Sheffield's future.

Joe Cohen

Matchmaker

Joe has a long history of using technology to match people with events, concerts and other people they want to meet. He's the Founder & CEO of Seatwave. He formerly founded the International Division of Match.com and also served as COO. Previous to this he was the VP, Europe of Ticketmaster.com.

Dr. Simona Francese

CSI Sheffield

Simona is a lecturer in biomedical sciences at Sheffield Hallam University where she leads the BMRC Fingermark Research Group. The group are applying new chemical techniques to fingermark analysis that could potentially provide Police with increased intelligence information from fingermarks including a person's diet, contact with drugs, gender, etc.

Adrian Hon

Creative Technologist

The founder of games development company Six to Start and technology columnist for The Telegraph newspaper. Adrian is also one of the youngest-ever speakers for the TED Conference in California.

Tony Kennick

Desktop Revolutionary

Most of us know Tony as a mild mannered web technologist at the consultancy Technophobia. Earlier this summer, however, he and a group of people led an online effort to pressure advertisers in the News of the World to quit the paper in response to the phone hacking scandal as documented by the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones. Their effort was part of a tidal wave of disgust that forced News International to take the shocking step of closing down Britain's top selling Sunday newspaper.