TED Conference Video Presentation

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and it is an annually held conference in the USA where they invite the best minds and doers from around the world to talk about their work in less than 18 minutes.

The UNMC IET Student Chapter is conducting the first every TED Conference video presentation and sharing session this Thursday, 27 November 2008, 5.00pm onwards at F1A13.

• the presentation and sharing session is open to all IET and non-IET members
• free entry

Featured speakers:



Ray Kurzweil is an engineer who has radically advanced the fields of speech, text, and audio technology. He's also one of our finest thinkers, revered for his dizzying -- yet convincing -- writing on the advance of technology, the limits of biology, and the future of the human species.


Brian Cox –Physicist Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and explaining big science to the general public.



Janice Benyus- A self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus is the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, a book that has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature's successes can inspire humanity.

Be inspired to engineer a better world for ourselves and our future.
“If you would create something, you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe