Theme: Dare to Innovate

Such a great Success!

We launched something big, bold and exciting this fall, and we loved your participation! we Imagined a series of fast-moving TEDx sessions, packed with great speakers and compelling performances. Yes, we brought TEDx to where there’s already a massive global audience of residents and visitors and it was a great success!
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TEDxVaughan was half day conference, with speakers who are inspired thinkers, and a community of curious souls engaged with ideas and each other. TED community believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world.

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2141 Major Mackenzie Dr.
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Andriy Samokhvalov

Andriy Samokhvalov is a Psychiatrist and Clinician-Scientist with the Addiction Medicine Service and the Social and Epidemiological Research Department in the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Andriy Samokhvalov is a psychiatrist and scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and a co-lead on the DA VINCI project aiming to provide effective evidence-based treatment for depression and alcohol use disorder at multiple locations across Ontario. He will talk about the complexity of the relationship between these two common and disabling medical conditions. He will describe the challenges the patients suffering from concurrent depression and alcohol dependence are facing when trying to receive help through current healthcare system and outline the approach to full utilization of the potential of new and existing treatments.

Anita M. McGahan

Associate Dean, Research Director of the PhD Program Rotman Chair in Management Rotman School of Management Munk School of Global Affairs (cross appointed) University of Toronto

Anita M. McGahan is a Professor at the University of Toronto, where she is on the faculties of the Rotman School of Management, the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Physiology Department of the Medical School. She also serves as President-Elect of the Academy of Management and a faculty member in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance. McGahan earned both her PhD and AM at Harvard University in two years. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where she received highest academic honors, and a BA from Northwestern University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She spent several years at both McKinsey & Company and Morgan Stanley & Company. McGahan’s credits include three books and over 100 articles, case studies, notes and other published material on competitive advantage, industry evolution, and financial performance.

Clara Venice

Pop singer, songwriter and composer

Pop singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and romantic — Clara Venice is Canada’s Theremin Prodigy. Clara is one of the only people in the world who plays the Theremin as a proper instrument, which adds an emotional and haunting diversity to her music. Clara composes ethereal futurepop, with whimsical narratives about spacey love connections. Her live performances include a must-see set design with a virtual band of hologlamorous personas, interactive Theremin-controlled lighting, planetary projections, and awe-inspiring landscapes that morph throughout the show. Clara has performed around the world, opening for renowned acts such as the Violent Femmes and Carole Pope. She joined the Barenaked Ladies on their 2014 Cross-Canada tour, and has been showcased at The One Man Band Festival, Just for Cats Festival, Kazoo Fest, Word on the Street, NXNE, Spur Festival, IngenuityFest, and Beakerhead.

Milica Radisic

Professor at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Co-founder of a start-up company TARA Biosystem

Human heart muscle cannot regenerate by itself. It is impossible to sample a small portion of human heart and make more beating cells out of it to treat patients suffering from heart disease. This limitation also impacts pharmaceutical industry, which does not have suitable human heart tissues for testing of drug safety and efficacy. Dr. Radisic willpresent recent advances in the fields of stem cells and tissue engineering that enable growth of a fully functional human heart tissue. These advances could revolutionize drug discovery process and treatment of patients with heart disease. Dr. Milica Radisic is Professor at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering. She obtained B.Eng. from McMaster University in 1999, and Ph.D. form the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Ric Phillips

Creator of 3V Communications™, Co-founder, program advisor and instructor with YEDI (York Entrepreneurship Development Institute), Executive director of the NCCA

Ric Phillips is Canada’s first Communication Coach and helps anyone communicate with simplicity, clarity and confidence. He is the creator of 3V Communications™, a communication coaching and training company that uses a holistic system to synchronize and sharpen interpersonal and professional communication skills. Ric is also a co-founder, program advisor and instructor with YEDI (York Entrepreneurship Development Institute) and the executive director of the NCCA (Nat’l Communication Coaching Assoc. of Canada). As an author of several ebooks and articles, Ric is an expert in communications, public speaking techniques and body language analysis, frequently called upon by the media to provide pundit opinion and advice on business people, politicians and celebrities.

Shawn Brixey

Shawn Brixey is Dean of the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University, in Toronto, Canada

Shawn Alan Brixey is an artist, educator, researcher, writer, and inventor working primarily at the interface of art, science and technology. Brixey is the Dean of the Faculty of School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Brixey was a co-founder and former director of the DXARTS Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Vladimir Bronnikov

CEO, CTOR GAME Inc.

For more than 20 years, Vladimir Bronnikov has been studying the logic game CTOR (Cellular Torus). He is the founder of a company which studies Collective Intelligence with the use of games. He has a PhD in the field of Computer Science (Pattern Recognition for Robotics).For over 10 years, he had worked for the Biophysics department of the Saint-Petersburg State University. He used to give the course titled "Mathematical Modeling in Biology", led the research in the development of neural computers and engaged in the applications of the theory of cellular automation to the modeling of a wide array of biological systems.The rules of the game CTOR allow us to measure different properties of thinking. The game process allows us to measure the logical and intuitive thinking, as well as the visual-spatial ability, of a single player and of a group of players, and to study the team's Collective Intuition.