TEDx Calabar, an annual ideation event, is billed to hold in Calabar on December 3, 2016, the organisers have announced.
The event will feature ideas that can change attitudes, lives and ultimately the world by offering free knowledge and inspiration from exceptional thinkers and doers who engage with a multi-disciplinary community that provides the richest possible landscape for creative collision.
Florence Olumodimu, team lead, Media and Communications, TEDx Calabar explained the event will be a journey through a world of extraordinary ideas, born of, and driven by, curiosity.
“It’s a ‘Talk Station’ for people who have ideas that can solve specific, identifiable problems in the world. It’s a platform that showcases unknown people who do remarkable things, who create significant value, who do cutting-edge work across different causes, who provide ingenious solutions to native and global challenges.”
Bryce Edem, convener and TEDx Calabar licencee said TEDx Calabar is a licensed event from TED – the world’s most prestigious idea-generating organization, established in 1984, based in New York, and devoted to spreading ideas in the form of powerful talks of 18 minutes or less, under the slogan ‘‘ideas worth spreading.’’
“TEDx Calabar is configured for curious minds and will serve a potpourri of passion, inspiration, beauty, optimism, laughter, tears, authentic dialogue, strategic thinking, thought leadership, visionary insights, ingenuity and ideas capable of changing the world.”
The line-up of speakers for the event include: a Sloan Fellow from Stanford University with financial services experience in 18 countries across 4 continents, one of which is a bank in Asia with a balance sheet size of $100 Billion; a Clinical Lead at Cross River State Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Treatment Service who was former acting Chief Medical Director University of Calabar Teaching Hospital and one of Nigeria’s foremost Consultant Ophthalmologists; a marketing strategist, Distinguished Toastmaster,
“In addition, we have the TEDx Portland speaking coach and author, ‘How to Rock a TED Talk; a global voice in environmental activism and recipient of The 31st Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize) 2010; a Speaker of a State House of Assembly; a High School girl who won the 2015 Global Technovation Challenge; a Higher Education investor and Founder of Nigeria’s first online University; a legendary mixed media and experimental artist who ‘resurrects’ rich, comatose cultural values through Art; and a female Executive Director of a leading, wholly-indigenous conglomerate who’s passionate about shattering the mythical psychology and social construct of glass ceiling.”
