How can we reinvigorate businesses, our societies and ourselves? Is it time to start over – to go back to basics? What are the lessons of the innovation economy?
How can we reinvigorate businesses, our societies and ourselves? Is it time to start over – to go back to basics? What are the lessons of the innovation economy?
As our leaders struggle to tame an ongoing financial crisis, as political change provides both inspiration and instability, and as everyone goes mobile, TEDxLondonBusinessSchool will provide a fresh perspective on what it means to renew, react, and regenerate.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxLondonBusinessSchool, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxLondonBusinessSchool event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
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This year’s line-up brings a full-day of thought-provoking speakers from diverse industries. Check back as we continue to unveil more details about the day’s highlights.
James leads the analytics practice at Prophet. With engagements in 40+ countries and over 20 years of experience, he has finely-honed the craft of applying analytics to drive brands and marketing solutions.
Lydia is a finance and business researcher at the New Economics Foundation (nef). A former trader, her work now focuses on financial reform & insuring that banks and markets effectively and sustainably serve society.
Nick is a 16 year-old tech wizard who recently raised $250,000 from a Hong Kong billionaire to fund Summly. This app automatically summarises content from online searches and has had over 130,000 downloads.
Jana, a mobile advertising expert, is responsible for building sustainable partnerships with strategic global suppliers, publishers, and app developers from the mobile internet area. Prior to madvertise, Jana worked at Advanced Marketing Consulting and the German Publishing House SevenOne Media.
Angela leads the British Bankers Association, the trade organization for the UK's banking and financial services sector. She served as a Conservative Party member of Parliament and as Economic Secretary to the Treasury. She holds several board positions.
Alexa’s pioneering artistic technique - shown in the Saatchi Gallery, London and worldwide - lies at the intersection of painting, photography, performance, and installation. Painting directly onto her subjects and then photographing them, Alexa blurs the line between reality and representation.
Nadeem is a partner and MD of Anthemis Group, a strategically-focused holding company building the leading "digitally native" diversified financial services group. With 20 years’ experience in financial services and IT, he has held strategic senior management roles in a wide range of businesses.
Mark founded User Voice to offer policy-makers access to society’s marginalised voices. After an abusive childhood, jail, homelessness, and drug addition, Mark founded a successful tree surgery business, and authored Wasted, his best-selling autobiography. He is a current Ashoka Fellow.
Francis qualified as an architect in 1994 from Cambridge University and is now a partner in the firm founded by his father, Quinlan Terry. Francis regularly exhibits architectural drawings at the Royal Academy and is a keen amateur artist.
George studied at Winchester College and Edinburgh University, graduating with a First Class degree and a Diploma with Distinction in Architecture. A Director at ADAM Architecture, he currently works on new as well as historic properties. George won the 2006 RIBA Ibstock Downland Prize and was shortlisted for the Young Architect of the Year Award in 2011.
Sonia is a partner and COO at Africa Renewables (AfriRen), a start-up dedicated to connecting Africa to the green energy economy by establishing high-quality, reliable and long-term sources of biomass supply from existing agro-industrial plantations in West Africa.
Riley is a medical resident at the University of Manitoba. Inspired by a succession of family and friends diagnosed with prostate cancer, Riley recently ran 6,600km across Canada to convince men to “Step Into Action” towards early detection.
Dr. Kumar is Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School. In 2011, he was awarded a place among the Thinkers50, the biannual listing of the top 50 management thinkers in the world.
James Lu is a MD/Ph.D. candidate at Baylor College of Medicine, Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, Texas and is visiting with the UCL Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging. His work focuses on next generation sequencing and human decision making.
Lynda is Professor of Management Practice. Ranked by the Times among the top 15 business thinkers globally and described by the FT as the management guru most likely to impact the future, Lynda has authored 6 books, most recently, The Shift.
Chris Coghlan founded Grow Movement, a non-profit that provides low-cost advice to small business entrepreneurs in Uganda through remote volunteer consultants in Africa and globally. Operations are expanding to Rwanda and Malawi later this year.
Rajal is a Forte Foundation Fellow at London Business School. Before this, she founded a firm in LA to develop movie marketing campaigns. Rajal authored 'Starstuck', a novel based on her experiences working in Bollywood and published by Harper Collins in 2011.
Pancham is an Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancer, currently training under Krithika Rajagopalan at the Natya Dance Theatre USA. She began training 20 years ago in Kenya, and now performs at prestigious venues globally. Pancham is a MBA2013 candidate at London Business School.
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