On Tuesday March 30th I had the great fortune of attending the TEDx conference held by Carleton University. The event took place at the Gladstone Theater (@thegladstone). Having been a long time subscriber in iTunes of the TEDTalks, i was excited to say the least. At the event were some of the more influential and innovative people in the Ottawa area. I had the pleasure of meeting some of them both in person and via Twitter. I say this because there was an intense twitter stream of updates during the event. I could barely keep up with updating my twitter and listening that i resorted to re-tweeting some of the tweets that summed the talks best. Below is a summary of the updates.

TEDxCarletonU Photo Album

Presenters (all from Carleton University):

Dr. Banu Örmeci - Associate Professor (Environmental Engineering)

Manuel A. Báez  - Associate Professor (Architecture)

Maria DeRosa - Professor (Chemistry)

Jesse Stewart  - Music Instructor (Music)

Jim Davies  - Assistant Professor (Cognitive Science)

 

Summary (reverse order):

filipmares Awesome night @thegladstone . Great to meet so many of innovators in the Ottawa community both in person and virtually. Cheers. #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  "Imagination is all around us. We can make better education modules. Maybe an imagination alone can create movies for us!" #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  The Grand Pumbaa back up for closing words. Luc Lalande closing the event #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  "If you imagine doing sports, it acutally makes you better at that sport!" i guess the power of positive thinking is real! #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  "We spend 20% of our time daydraemaing"#tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  Our next speaker is all about studying imagination. Jim Davies up! Professor of Cognitive Science at CU#TEDxCU

Japman_Bajaj  "Decreasing infant mortality reduces population growth rates because families don't need to anticipate the death of their babies" #tedxcu

amandaemmanuel  Cost doesn't have to be an obstacle for innovation #TEDxCU

filipmares We have highschool students in the audience that presented at#tedxottawa  #tedxcu

filipmares  "Creativity is our birthright as a specie." #tedxcu

isfan  Jesse Stewart showing a clip of musical instrumentsade of ice. Now that's unusual and very cool. #tedxcu

RiahiSonia  @oak  just heard idea to turn cymbal playing (Jesse Stewart style) into ipad app. I think it could be great :0) #TEDxCU

saraweaver100  Take some time to break your routine and find the beauty in tiny everyday things... Like windchimes or finger percussion on a podium #TedxCU

byronalley  And Jesse Stewart is literally playing the podium. As an instrument. It's awesome. Musical found art. #tedxcu

RiahiSonia Jesse Stewart next...I've been waiting for this!!!#TEDxCU

amandaemmanuel  Making music from found objects...should be interesting!! #TEDxCU

filipmares Intermission is over and the MC Allan Neil is doing a great job.#tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  "Making fertilizer small is cool, but what about making fertlizers smart?! Lets feed plants ONLY when they needed to be fed!" WOW #tedxcu

amandaemmanuel  Fertilizer that's not getting used by plants is being wasted AND costing Cdn farmers 1 billion dollars!!!!#TEDxCU

filipmares Need to get fertilizer to root of plant. Need a more efficient delivery.#tedxcu

davechale  "Without fertilizers we would need to use 50% more farmland." - Maria DeRosa @ #tedxcu

amandaemmanuel  1/2 of food supply we ha e can be directly linked to fertilizers #TEDxCU

amandaemmanuel  Yeay prof Maria DeRosa talking about pesticide and nanotechnology!!!!!!! #TEDxCU

Japman_Bajaj  "Trust yourself and believe. Whatever happpens, don't give up." Important lesson from #TEDxCU

filipmares Can nanotechnology help feed the world? #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  William Kamkwamba's riveting TED talk now being shown at #TEDxCU  Watch it here: http://bit.ly/a4mvXJ

amandaemmanuel  From equilateral triangles to a potential travelling circus tent. That is innovation #TEDxCU

filipmares Dr. Baez talking about how spirals on structure look chaotice from some angles and organic and structured from others. Mindblowing#tedxcu

filipmares "the reciprocal relationship between form & process" AMA crystal & flame #tedxcu  this sounds facsinating!! /via @krusk

krusk  "the reciprocal relationship between form & process" AMA crystal & flame #tedxcu  this sounds facsinating!!

amandaemmanuel  Looking at patterns in fluids caused by vibrations...so cool!! #TEDxCU

filipmares  Ppl here @thegladstone  are 2 quick updating their Twitter that i resort 2 retweet. I will put it togther into a blog post after. #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  Dr. Manuel Baez countless award wins, now speaking on architecture #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  Solar Water Disinfection. Use a cloth, filter water into a bottle,put it on the roof. let the sun clean it. "This Can Save Lives!" #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  Chlorine is cheap, but is not effective on certain microorganisms. Ultraviolet disinfection doesn't add any chemicals to water. -- #TEDxCU

amandaemmanuel  Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water related disease that is preventable #TEDxCU

ampli2de  Canada, take fewer showers. We are the 2nd most water wasteful country in the world. #tedxcu

Japman_Bajaj  Dr. Banu Ormeci on Water, Health, and Sanitation. #tedxcu  "Water is not abundant." Only 1% of the world's water is available for human use

krusk  The setup at #tedxcu . http://twitpic.com/1c1xk6

amandaemmanuel  Ideas are the building blocks of innovation#TEDxCU

filipmares Opening the stage is @luclalande  right now showing the intro video. #tedxcu

I’d like to thank Luc Lalande and the volunteers