TEDx CoventryUniversity

26/05/2016

In Siraj Shaikh's thought provoking , he discusses how the internet can be both beautiful and ugly and asks the question of how we re-conceptualize these risks or liabilities and rewrite some of these boundaries.

The internet allows people to share ideas, meet old friends and even express their problems to the masses and as such becoming an integral part of our everyd...

26/05/2016

Watch David Trujilo's thought provoking as he explores the potential bamboo creates and how well it can be a wonderful and strong tool.

As the world turns its attention towards the sustainable development goals, sustainable architecture offers a very interesting prospect of minimizing negativ...

01/05/2016

Watch Sylvester Arnab's thought provoking on how to transform learning spaces into a more informative and playful experience

Sylvester tries to find a narrative that transforms learning spaces into a more informative and playful experience. According to Sylvester, we need to connec...

01/05/2016

Have you ever thought of been superhuman!?

Kevin Warwick is often called the world's first cyborg, a pioneer in robotics involving himself as a self-experimenter designing systems that connects robots with the human nervous system. Watch Kevin Warwick's thought provoking on 'Cyborgs: A Personal Story'

In this talk, Kevin Warwick ask "Is everybody happy been human?" , he goes ahead to outline through numerous experiments how he has designed systems that con...

11/04/2016

One of the challenges faced by employers today is hiring an efficient and reliable workforce yet with the constant flow of students graduating from today's universities, many graduates are Trapped in the vicious circle of "can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job

How can graduates prepare themselves for a job before they are through with university and how can employees prepare to receive these graduates with the conscious thought of molding them for the challenges ahead.

Mike Grey in his explores different creative ways graduates can become more employable...

According to Mike Grey, In the UK, higher education and student experience has improved in recent years but this has also put pressure on graduates to become...

11/04/2016

Good morning!!, wondering what TEDx talk to start your week,

Games provide more than just fun, interactive, multimedia driven ways for people to learn and explore.

How can we create interactive and immersive narrative-based games to help explore different approaches to new concepts that can lead to different outcomes, moving from abstract to practical, real world understanding

Pamela Kato, Professor of Serious Games at Coventry University in her discusses how games can be fun yet help improve our daily lives....

According to Pam Kato, games hold the promise of inspiring interaction with users; Pam details how games can be more involving and meaningful to some than re...

20/03/2016

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Saturday 23 January 2016 - Pushing the limits

20/03/2016

All videos from TEDxCoventryUniversity are now on our YouTube channel, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC4MzLgpXsU&list=PLI1ofygykX_lQaPE2Cyt29fewkmJQszzZ

21/01/2016

24hrs to the very first TEDx event at Coventry University!!!! follow us on twitter or visit our website www.tedxcoventryuniversity.com for more details.

08/01/2016

We are delighted to announce that The Ellipsis complete our line up of speakers and performers.The local band will be playing a performance on stage and a set after the event. Check them out here

http://www.tedxcoventryuniversity.com/index.php/speakers/

21/12/2015

This morning we have two new speakers to introduce to you. They are Stephen Reynolds and Grant Snaith - take a look to find out more http://www.tedxcoventryuniversity.com/index.php/speakers/

07/12/2015

Today we are delighted to announce two further speakers for They are Siraj Shaikh and Pam Kato - find out more about them and all our speakers at http://www.tedxcoventryuniversity.com/index.php/speakers/