Q&A Schedule
LIVE Q&A: Tuesday, 10th Feb 2010
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Juliette LaMontagne
Education consultant; innovation facilitator
TED SENIOR FELLOW: Juliette LaMontagne is a catalyst for disruptive innovations in public education, promoting unschooled learning experiences as a leadership coach for the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network.
LIVE Q&A: Wednesday, 10th Feb 2010
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Erik Hersman
Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African
TED SENIOR FELLOW: Hersman writes two technology blogs, AfriGadget and White African. AfriGadget is a multi-author website that showcases stories of Africans solving everyday problems with creativity and ingenuity. White African is his personal blog, dedicated to high-tech mobile and web projects happening all over the African continent.
Wednesday, 10th Feb 2010
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Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
Filmmaker
TED FELLOW:Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, an educational institution and heritage center established to preserve Pakistan's history.
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LIVE Q&A: Wednesday, 10th Feb 2010
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Ze Frank
Humorist, web artist
SPEAKER: Ze Frank rose to Internet fame in 2001 with his viral video "How to Dance Properly," and has been making online comedy and web toys ever since.
LIVE Q&A: Wednesday, 10th Feb 2010
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Colleen Flanigan
Visual and socio-ecological artist
TED SENIOR FELLOW: Colleen Flanigan is a visual, performing and environmental artist, exhibiting internationally. Colleen is the first visual artist to be certified by the Global Coral Reef Alliance in Biorock mineral accretion, a technology for coral reef restoration.
LIVE Q&A: Friday, 12th Feb 2010
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Dr Tero Ojanperä
Executive Vice President, Services, Nokia
A sought-after mobile communications industry commentator, author and speaker, Dr Tero Ojanperä has played a defining role in the research and development work of Nokia’s business groups since joining the company in 1990. His position as Executive Vice President, Entertainment and Communities charges him with overall responsibility for Nokia offerings in music, video and TV, games, software distribution and social networking services. At TED2010, he hosted a Q&A session on how smartphones will change the world for everyone, previewing ground-breaking applications including a tool that provides agricultural and educational services designed especially for people in small towns and rural areas in emerging markets who have limited or no access to the internet.
LIVE Q&A: Friday, 12th Feb 2010
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Rachel Armstrong
Physician; science-fiction author
TED SENIOR FELLOW: Recently described as a polymath, Rachel's extensiveinterdisciplinary practice engages with a fundamental driving principle, the creativity of science.
Thursday 11th
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Dr. Henry Tirri
Head of Nokia Research,
Henry is responsible for Nokia's long-term research at the NRC laboratories, where his mission is to develop cutting-edge technology and innovations for user-centric solutions, in collaboration of the global open innovation network. Throughout his career, his general research interests have related to intelligence in machines, and he is currently most excited by the possibility to develop applications and services that do not "scale-down" but allow millions of computing devices to interact and implement very large-scale services depending on contextual data.
LIVE Q&A: Thursday, 11th Feb 2010
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Manu Prakash
Physicist and inventor
TED FELLOW: Manu Prakash, a physicist, computer scientist and inventor, is uncovering the underlying design principles of nature's ever-elusive machines.
LIVE Q&A:Thursday, 11th Feb 2010
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Robert Gupta
Violinist
TED FELLOW: At 22, violinist Robert Vijay Gupta is the youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gupta made his international solo debut at the age of 11 in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world.
LIVE Q&A: Friday, 12th Feb 2010
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Nicholas Christakis
Physician, sociologist
SPEAKER: Nicholas Christakis explores how our unavoidable embeddedness in complex social networks affects our health and happiness.
LIVE Q&A: Friday, 12th Feb 2010
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Susie Ibarra
Composer, percussionist
TED FELLOW: Susie Ibarra is known for her innovative style, virtuosity and cultural dialogue. She has recorded and performed with numerous artists and can be heard on Drum Sketches, Dialects and Folkloriko.
LIVE Q&A: Friday, 12th Feb 2010
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Jane McGonigal
Game designer
SPEAKER: Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how.
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10:30 - 11:00 (PST)
Naomi Natale
Founder, One Million Bones
SPEAKER: Naomi Natale is an installation artist, photographer and social activist. She is most interested in the links between art and activism, using art to inspire social change.
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