TEDxWaterloo will be held on February 25th 2010 in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Venue: Gig Music Hall, 137 Ontario Street North, Kitchener, Ontario (map)

TEDxWaterloo – Tomorrow Started Yesterday

Registration | 1:00 pm

Opening Remarks | 2:00 pm

Design Started Yesterday

Session 1 | 2:15 pm

Terry O’Reilly — Advertising visionary and host of the CBC award-winning radio series “The Age of Persuasion“

Philip Beesley — Professor at Waterloo Architecture creating vastly complex ‘living’ environments that can breathe and feel

TED.com Video —”Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs”

Raymond Laflamme — Founding Director of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing whose insight changed Stephen Hawking’s mind and theories about our universe

Break | 3:40 pm (refreshments provided)

Our World Started Yesterday

Session 2 | 4:40 pm

Paul Saltzman — Beatles photographer and two-time Emmy Award winning film & television producer-director

Caroline Disler — A master of translation with working knowledge of ancient languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Edomite, Ancient Hebrew, Egyptian, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek.

TED.com Video —”Wade Davis on endangered cultures”

Madhur Anand — Internationally-recognized scientist, poet, and professor of Global Ecological Change at the University of Guelph

Michael Sacco — Chocolatier and social entrepreneur promoting the diversity of production of organic cacao through a structure defined as “horizontal trade”

Break | 6:15 pm (refreshments provided)

Our Identity Started Yesterday

Session 3 | 7:00 pm

Darren Wershler — Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic

TED.com Video — “Matthew Childs’ 9 life lessons from rock climbing”

Marty Avery — A connector and catalyst whose strategic approach offers remarkable insight into the human side of business

Amy Krouse Rosenthal — New York Times best-selling children’s author, radio host and creative filmmaker

Closing Remarks | 8:15 pm

After Party | 8:45 pm