Theme: Doing, Undoing, Redoing

All of life happens out of the act of doing. For TEDxPortofSpain 2014, we wanted to emphasize the art of doing. What are you doing? What are they doing? How are we doing? How is she doing that? Why are they doing that? Who is doing what, and why?

This year, we will place a spotlight on doing, by challenging our speakers to explore the beauty of doing, undoing and redoing in everyday life.

Central Bank Auditorium
Independence Square
Port of Spain, Port of Spain, N/A
Trinidad and Tobago

Gerard Hutchinson

Gerard Hutchinson has been a respected practitioner in the field of psychiatry for over 20 years. He has published noteworthy work examining local non-medical beliefs and healing as well as on suicide and other mental health-related research. He believes that mental health problems no longer define the affected person but instead define all of us...[these issues] enrich our world because we are all forced to seek a greater understanding of ourselves.

Dr. Jacqueline Sharpe

Jacqueline Sharpe is a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist employed as the Director of the Child Guidance Clinic of Trinidad and Tobago, a multidisciplinary psychiatric service for children, adolescents and their families.

Timmia Hearn

Timmia Hearn is a collector and distributor of stories. She works at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop as Director of the School for the Arts, serves as Head Coordinator in Trinidad and Tobago for I Am One, a gender and sexual minorities advocacy and community development organisation, and recently joined the curation/programming team at CaribbeanTales international Film Festival. On the side, Timmia manages artists, edits and provides feedback on scripts and casts films and commercials.

Gordon Husbands

Gordon Husbands is well known for the design and implementation of the existing correctional rehabilitation and correctional education programmes in the Trinidad and Tobago prison system. He has also examined the Shared Responsibility model of rehabilitation and the penal policy of reintegration, as well as the concept of restorative justice. Between 1996 and 2000, Mr. Husbands conducted a pilot project at the Carrera Convict Island Prison to establish ‘A What Works Programme’, our local rehabilitation model.

Rolph Balgobin

Rolph Balgobin is President and group Chief Executive Officer of the Electrical Industries Group, one of the largest industrial manufacturing groups in the Caribbean. He is also Executive Chairman of Quicksilver Convenience Limited and a Director of the Massy Group, the leading indigenous multinational in the Caribbean. He is an Independent Senator in the Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and a columnist for the Trinidad Express newspaper.

Scott Hilton-Clarke

Scott has spent much of his 25-year career working with and mentoring senior executives and entrepreneurs to achieve superior organisational performance and personal leadership effectiveness. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inspiration Laboratories, a firm focused on advancing early stage ventures and helping later stage companies expand internationally. Prior to Inspiration Labs, Scott co-founded Confida Corporation, a management consulting firm specialising in the implementation of strategic initiatives, change management and the development of leadership teams.

Kim Johnson

Kim Johnson is currently the Director of the Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, and is considered by some to be the foremost historian of pan. He studied law at UWI, Cave Hill, but dropped out of Law School. He then worked with illegal migrants in Guadeloupe and Suriname, and with a charitable foundation in the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. In the 1990s he worked as a journalist. In 2001 he was awarded a PhD in sociology from UWI, Mona and thereafter worked as a regional manager for Fujitsu Caribbean, and then as a Senior Research Fellow at The Academy for Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs at The University of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2011 he was awarded the Anthony Sabga prize for excellence in Arts & letters.

Arvolon Wilson-Smith

Arvolon Wilson-Smith is an environmentalist, educator and social empowerer. She’s a conservationist with deeply humanistic ideals. These are the passions she combines to transform her community into a model of sustainability. Some people find their passions later on in life in an eruption of energy that propels them forward with an unstoppable force. As a student of the environment and environmental safety, Arvolon Wilson-Smith melds this with dedication to social upliftment in a unique blend that is radically transforming her home community of Mayaro/Guayaguayare, creating a rippling effect in the neighbouring communities and by extension the wider national country.

Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC

Baroness Scotland is the former Shadow Attorney General and former Attorney General of England and Wales. Baroness Scotland has achieved a number of extraordinary firsts: In 1991, at the age of thirty five, she became the first black and youngest woman ever to be appointed Queen's Counsel. She was the first black woman to be appointed Deputy High Court Judge, Recorder, Master of Middle Temple, Member of the House of Lords, and Lord’s Minister, and is the first and only woman ever to have been appointed as Attorney General. In 2001, she became Parliamentary Secretary and Deputy to the Lord Chancellor and was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. In 2003, Baroness Scotland was made Minister of State for Criminal Justice and Law Reform at the Home Office and in 2007, she was appointed as HM Attorney General for England Wales and Northern Ireland.

Eliot Salandy Brown

Eliot Salandy Brown leads innovation strategy projects for some of the world’s biggest companies. Using methods derived from anthropology, his work brings a rich understanding of people, behavior, and culture to the big questions asked by companies such as Adidas, Intel, LEGO, and Ford - Why do people exercise? What will come after the smartphone? How are video games changing kids' play? Why do people fall in love with their cars?

Terrence W. Farrell

Terrence W. Farrell has devoted many waking hours to shaping policy initiatives which helped to restructure Trinidad and Tobago’s international debt and IMF programmes, liberalise the economy and structure the flotation of the country’s currency. His work has also informed the policy direction and initiatives of private sector institutions in the Financial Sector, IT Services and the Media.