TEDxBermuda is an independently organized, licensed TED conference, held each year in

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

since 2011.

Main Events

Featured Speakers

April 2011 *

Jonathan Vaughters Jonathan James Vaughters (born June 10, 1973) is an American former professional racing cyclist and current manager of UCI WorldTeam . Racing career Vaughters started competitive cycling in the 1980s, racing in the Red Zinger Mini Classics yo ...

- CEO of Slipstream Sports / Manager of

UCI WorldTeam A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road bicycle racing, road cycling, the UCI World Tou ...

Cannondale-Garmin http://www.slipstreamsports.com/ * Keith Caisey - Percussionist /

Ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investiga ...

* Dr. Michael Lomas - Senior Research Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences * Captain Paul Watson - Founder of

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is a non-profit, marine conservation activism organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, in the United States. Sea Shepherd employs direct action t ...

* OB Sisay - Head of Africa Research at FM Capital Partners * Gitanjali S. Gutierrez - Attorney - Center for Constitutional Rights * Tiffany Paynter -

Spoken Word Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an oral tradition, ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetic ...

Artist * Alan Gilbertson - Managing Director of FoodBank South Africa *

Daniel Lieberman Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his ...

, PHD - Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology,

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

* Dr. Neil Burnie - Director of The Bermuda Shark Project * Graham Foster - Sculptor / Painter October 2011 * Lawrence Sass - Associate Professor at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

's Department of Architecture * Mike Ramsdell - Documentary Filmmaker *

Pen Hadow Rupert Nigel Pendrill Hadow, known as Pen Hadow (born 26 February 1962), is a British Arctic region explorer, advocate, adventurer and guide. He is the only person to have trekked solo, and without resupply by third parties, from Canada to the ...

- Polar Explorer * Joy T. Barnum - Bermudian Vocalist / Songwriter * Larry Mills - Bermudian Builder * Ryan Legassicke - Contemporary Canadian Artist * Tony Ruto - CTO of Within Technologies Ltd *

Dickson Despommier Dickson Donald Despommier (June 5, 1940 – February 7, 2025) was an American academic, microbiologist and ecologist who was a professor of microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University. From 1971 to 2009, he conducted research on intrac ...

- The Vertical Farming Project * Jeffrey Masters - Co-founder of the

Weather Underground The Weather Underground was a far-left Marxist militant organization first active in 1969, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. Originally known as the Weathermen, or simply Weatherman, the group was organized as a f ...

October 2012 * Jessica Lewis - Bermudian

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

, on making it to London 2012 *

John Sculley John Sculley III (born April 6, 1939) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) ...

- former CEO of

Pepsi-Cola Pepsi is a Carbonated water, carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor, manufactured by PepsiCo which serves as its flagship product. In 2023, Pepsi was the second most valuable soft drink brand worldwide behind Coca-Cola; the two share a long ...

and

Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Comput ...

on "Medicine and the Cloud" *

Ross Stein Ross Stein is a scientist ''emeritus'' at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, and cofounder and CEO of Temblor, a startup intended to teach seismic hazards and reduce their risk. Education Stein graduated '' magna cum ...

- a geophysicist and expert on earthquake science, who discussed how to better forecast and manage the threat of earthquakes * Sossina M. Haile - a professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at

Caltech The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private university, private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small g ...

who is working towards a carbon-neutral world by turning into fuel *

Norman Seeff Norman Seeff (born 5 March 1939) is a South African photographer and filmmaker. Since moving to the United States in 1969, his work has been focused on the exploration of human creativity and the inner dynamics of the creative process. Early l ...

- a filmmaker and photographer who has dedicated much of his life to better understanding the creative process * Hanli Prinsloo -

freediving Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Besides the limits of breat ...

record holder and conservationist, on human connection to the sea: "I am Water" * Peter Bentley - on "Embracing Chaos"—why science must learn from the randomness of nature * Eric Barnhill -

Juilliard The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became the Juilliard School, named aft ...

trained pianist doing a PhD in Medical Physics on "Therapy Through Music" * Felix Tod - producer on "Saving the Music Business, a Performance" * K Gabrielle - Bermudian singer * Alan Burland - Chairman of Bermuda Sloop Foundation, on "Education: Back to the Future" * KASE - Bermudian rapper October 2013 *

Jinichi Kawakami Jinichi Kawakami (川上仁一) b. 1949, head of Banke Shinobinoden, is the last ''sōke'' and only heir to authentic ninjutsu. He says he is the 21st head of the Koga Ban family ( Iga and Koga Ninjutsu), a mercenary, and the honorary director of ...

- Japan's Last

Ninja A , or was a spy and infiltrator in pre-modern Japan. The functions of a ninja included siege and infiltration, ambush, reconnaissance, espionage, deception, and later bodyguarding.Kawakami, pp. 21–22 Antecedents may have existed as ear ...

* Arlene Brock -

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Ombudsman An ombudsman ( , also ) is a government employee who investigates and tries to resolve complaints, usually through recommendations (binding or not) or mediation. They are usually appointed by the government or by parliament (often with a sign ...

Robert Lustig Robert H. Lustig (born 1957) is an American pediatric endocrinologist. He is professor emeritus of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he specialized in neuroendocrinology and ...

- Beating the Odds Against Sugar * Natalie Kuldell - Synthesizing Change: Garage Genomics * Andrew Park - TED Animation Guru *

Chip Yates Chip Yates (born February 11, 1971, as William Morrison Yates III) is an American inventor and electrical vehicle pioneer best known for risky record-setting feats in electric vehicles of his own design. He designed and built the record-breaking ...

- World's Fastest ePilot * Bren Smith - 3D Ocean Farming * Rafael Grossmann -

Google Glass Google Glass, or simply Glass, is a discontinued brand of smart glasses developed by Google's X Development (formerly Google X), with a mission of producing a ubiquitous computer. Google Glass displays information to the wearer using a head-u ...

Surgery * Hip Hop Fundamentals - Teaching Physics Using

Breakdance Breakdancing or breaking, also called b-boying (when performed by men) or b-girling (women), is a style of street dance originated by African Americans and Puerto Ricans in The Bronx borough of New York City. Breakdancing consists mainly ...

* Jeremy Gilley - Peace One Day founder October 2014 * Ishrat Yakub - Motion Activated * Oliver Steeds - The Future of Exploration *

Jason Healey Jason Healey is an American senior research scholar and adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is also a senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, where he w ...

- Saving Cyberspace *

Adjoa Andoh Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh MBE (; born 14 January 1963) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Lady Danbury in the Netflix Regency romance series ''Bridgerton'', since 2020. Other roles on television include appearances in two s ...

- What Determines Who You Are * Uzimon/Daniel Frith - From Novelty to Enterprise *

Charles Hoskinson Charles Hoskinson (born 1987) is an Americans, American Businessperson, entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company IOHK, and the Cardano (blockchain platform), Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the ...

- The Future Will be Decentralised * Lauren Bowker - Intelligent Textiles * Weldon Wade -

Diving With a Purpose Diving With a Purpose (DWP) is an American non-profit organization aimed at locating and documenting shipwrecks, predominantly those related to the Atlantic slave trade. History Diving With a Purpose was founded in 2005 by Kenneth Stewart (born ...

* Elizabeth Stokoe - The Conversational Racetrack * Stephan Johnstone - Progression * Carl Lipo -

Easter Island Easter Island (, ; , ) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, ...

: Lessons from One Small Island to Another October 2015 * InMotion - Interconnected * Martijn Berger - It's a Happy World After All * Tom Gage - The Powerplant in Your Driveway * Martha Dismont - I Have the Best Job in the World * Michael Frith - Drawing Inspiration From One's Environment *

Radhika Nagpal Radhika Nagpal is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher in the fields of self-organising computer systems, biologically-inspired robotics, and biological multi-agent systems. She is currently the Norman R. Augustine '57*59 Professo ...

- Taming the Swarm * Clilly Castiglia - The Roar of the Crowd * No Strings - When Puppets Speak, Children Listen * Yesha Townsend - Home * Barrington Irving - Creating the Next Generation of Explorers * Stuart Lacey - The Future of Your Personal Data - Privacy vs Monetization * Bryan Davis - The New Spirit of Innovation October 2019 *

Joan Higginbotham Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964) is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' mission STS-116 as a mission specialist and is the third African American woman to go into space ...

* Richard Browning * Domhnaill Hernon * Harry Yeff aka Reeps One * Jonna Hiestand Mendez * Dr. Thomas Boothby, Ph.D. * Dr. Kelly Lambert * Alexander Rose * Ed Christopher * Oliver Rajamani

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