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TEDxBrighton announces new tickets

Wed 10 / 10 / 12

TEDxBrighton announces new tickets


TEDxBrighton has confirmed its release of an additional 30 tickets for its one-day conference on Friday 26 October at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. To apply for one of the additional £30 tickets (event was previously sold out) go to http://tedxbrighton.com.

TEDxBrighton will feature live speakers from a range of backgrounds, interests, disciplines and perspectives, combined with some classic TEDTalks. All presentations will look at The Generation Gap and will help challenge generation perceptions, they promise to be short inspiring stories and will promote TED's ethos of 'Ideas Worth Spreading'.

Speakers are still being announced and are online at http://tedxbrighton.com/tedxbrighton-2012-speakers/, and include Marc Koska, OBE who is official organsier of TEDxBrighton and is a regular TEDGlobal attendee. He spoke about his work,The SafePoint Trust and the K1Auto Disable (AD) syringe, at three TED conferences. Conservative estimates credit Marc with five million lives saved and 10 million diseases prevented through these projects – see www.safepointrust.org, www.starsyringe.com

Other confirmed speakers include:
  • Tim Drake, now retired author and speaker looking at how we can learn from the mindsets of young people
  • Film and TV producer Claire Lewis
  • User experience designer and social entrepreneur Claire Sutcliffe
  • Tessa Marchinton, founder of Music In Offices (MIO) which has brought music to over 1000 office workers throughout the UK
  • Author, historian and BBC radio producer, Colin Grant
  • Andy Bradley, founder of FrameWorks 4 Change and also voted as one of ‘Britain’s New Radicals’ by the Observer and NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
  • Benita Matofska, CEO, campaigner and social entrepreneur and Innovator in WWF’s food sustainability initiative and as Head of Global Entrepreneurship at Enterprise UK
  • Award winning interior designer, Lori Pinkerton Smith and Rosieanna Halse Rojas, a YouTube vlogger with over 6000 subscribers who broadcast videos to facilitate focused and extensive discussion about the status of women online
  • Maajid Nawaz, former Islamist Extremist turned counter-terrorism consultant

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