Speakers selected for TEDxUNBC

A variety of entrepreneurs, scientists, educators, and a performing artist will take to the stage when TEDxUNBC is held this fall at UNBC.

Set for Oct. 5 at Canfor Theatre, it will feature 10 speakers

“We have a wonderful slate of speakers, a mix that complements the entire university from faculty and alumni to students and community members,” Walker said.

Select the speakers for this year’s edition wasn’t easy, he added.

“On Oct. 5, the audience will experience an interdisciplinary journey through inspirational ideas about science, education, the arts and more.”

Tickets for the event are now on sale for $100 each through www.unbc.ca/tedxunbc.

Here’s a look at the lineup:

• Daryl Hatton is the founder and CEO FundRazr, an innovative, award-winning global enterprise crowdfunding platform.

• James Steidle operates Steidle Woodworking where he focuses on using local woods, particularly aspen, and mills up the lumber himself. He spends his free time advocating for aspen and broadleaf forests as part of Stop the Spray BC.

• Brittany Doncaster is a mental health and addictions clinician who emphasizes education, accountability and empathy in her practice. An evolutionary psychology perspective informs her position on favourite topics such as stress, boundaries, and technology.

• Ronny Priefer is a professor of medicinal chemistry at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. He has had more than 50 students working with him, publishing 44 scientific articles and six patents as a principal investigator.

TEDxUNBC marks his return to UNBC and his hometown.

• Ed sdi /Judy Thompson is a member of the Tahltan Nation and for the last three decades, she has been learning theTt n language, which has included learning the culture, knowledge, wisdom, and ways of knowing her people. She is currently an associate professor in indigenous education at the University of Victoria an adjunct professor at UNBC.

• Reeanna Bradley is a Seattle-based diversity and inclusion consultant working with software engineers across multiple industries. Her talk explores the incredible powers of data to reinforce social inequity or liberate us from bias. She invites deliberate co-creation of artificial intelligence by outlining interventions for computer people, policy works, and the rest of us.

• Shelby Richardson is a choreographer, curator and designer in Prince George. Her current research focuses on the ways in which dance, and other art forms, can be integrated into local communities to help prompt social exchange and dialogue.

• Guido Wimmers is an associate professor and chair of the master of engineering program in integrated wood design at UNBC. In 2018, he was pivotal for the construction of the Wood Innovation Research Laboratory, a certified Passive House in a harsh climate, which became the most airtight building in North America.

• Lisa Dickson is an associate professor of Renaissance literature in the English department at UNBC. As a 3M National Teaching Fellow, she dedicates a lot of her time to thinking about teaching and learning, and to supporting others who are doing the same.

• Ann Duong is a UNBC alumni with a bachelor honours degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. She joined the Northern Analytical Laboratory Service 2018 where she is part of a team of people who care about making the planet better.