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Watch TED Talks. February 25, Kitchener , Ontario Canada. Speakers Speakers may not be confirmed. Madhur Anand Madhur Anand is an internationally-recognized scientist and professor with over 45 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change at the University of Guelph. Her research in forest ecology, ecological modeling and biodiversity spans several countries including Israel, Europe, India, China, Brazil and the USA.
She serves on several journal editorial boards and granting panels and is currently President of the Sigma Xi Scientific Society University of Toronto Chapter. Anand is also a poet. She lives in Guelph with her husband and two small children. Marty Avery Marty Avery is a business advisor who collaborates with business founders and leaders to design and implement prosperity strategies. Chief Catalyst at What If?
Philip Beesley Philip Beesley is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo who creates immersive, responsive environments. These environments pursue distributed emotional consciousness within synthetic and near-living systems. His current Hylozoic Ground project will transform the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with an environment made of tens of thousands of digitally-fabricated components fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors.
Caroline Disler Inter-cultural transfer of information Caroline Disler is a master of translation. With reading knowledge of many modern languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Polish, modern Greek and Arabic, as well as working knowledge of ancient languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Edomite, Ancient Hebrew, Egyptian, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek, she has unique perspective on the sources of human thought.
