{"id":115,"date":"2017-10-30T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T05:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tedxubc\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2023-02-19T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:16:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tedxubc\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDxUBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEDxUBC is back after three years online! Featuring a wide array of speakers, all UBC students, hear them share their life and passions.<\/em><\/h3>\n

TICKETS FOR TEDxUBC 2023 NOW AVAILABLE: Click here<\/strong><\/a> to purchase.
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\nTEDxUBC 2023 will be held on Saturday, March 4th at the Life Science Centre.<\/em><\/p>\n

Organized on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, the TEDxUBC Conference will be a day for us to reflect on who we are and why we are here. The Conference will feature ten student speakers from a diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise as they share their work, their passions, and their lives. Ranging from the funny to the educational to the heart-wrenching, come and listen to what your fellow students have to share. <\/p>\n

M\ufeffore than just a Conference, TEDxUBC will also be fully catered and will include a variety of local businesses and clubs for you to enjoy during intermission periods. This will be a day for the UBC community to gather together and enjoy the diversity of our student body!<\/p>\n

Join us and hear, with the rest of the audience, the passions of your student peers. You just might find that this will lead to your own transformative student experience!<\/p>\n

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Meet our speakers!<\/h3>\n

Aaron Skinner (he\/him\/his): <\/strong>
\nI\u2019m Aaron, a first-year Ph.D. student in the zoology department, and I\u2019m passionate about the conservation of biodiversity, or the variety of life on earth. I have been particularly inspired by tropical ecosystems, which I\u2019ve visited and worked in across three continents, recording over 1,000 bird species along the way.<\/p>\n

Theodore Yu (he\/him\/his): <\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a third-year psychology student here at UBC. I am a huge Transit Fan based in Vancouver and love to share tips and tricks on how people can enhance their daily commute, and with a mind of using a psychology tricks or two!<\/p>\n

Prishita Agarwal (she\/her\/hers): <\/strong>
\nMy name is Prishita and I am a student entrepreneur on a mission to revolutionize the glass waste management system in Vancouver. Through my studies in circular economy, I became fascinated with the potential of glass upcycling as a sustainable solution. In 2022, I was awarded the BcBusiness Women of the Year award for empowering individuals to take their first step towards a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n

Daniel Shirvani (he\/him\/his):<\/strong>
\nI am a fourth-year undergraduate in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. With a life-long fascination for human-technology interactions, I have dedicated my academic career to tackling places where these interactions have yet to be realized\u2013specifically in the intricate arena of health care.<\/p>\n

Lynda Li (she\/her\/hers):<\/strong>
\nMy name is Lynda and I am in my 4th year of Kinesiology at UBC. Growing up in an immigrant family fueled a keen interest in tackling the challenge of language barriers in healthcare. I co-founded Volentia Healthcare Translation, a student-run volunteer network providing free healthcare translation for immigrants, refugees, and newcomers in Canada. As an aspiring clinician-researcher, I hope to use culturally safe care to address the healthcare barriers faced by underserved and marginalized groups.<\/p>\n

Becca and Davida Wang (she\/her\/hers):<\/strong>
\nWith the same DNA, chromosomes, and MBTI, we are both in the fourth year of the Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Master of Management in the B+MM program. From starting up the Earthworm Rescue Club to becoming influencers with 2 million subscribers, we have proved that 1+1>2.<\/p>\n

Jayde Edgren (she\/her\/hers):<\/strong>
\nHey, I\u2019m Jayde, a second-year arts student here at UBC. I am in the process of transferring to the Sauder School of Business in pursuit of becoming an entrepreneur and creating my own real estate development company. I am passionate about sharing my journey of struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder with the objective to provide people insight into the reality of someone who deals with it on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n

Ky Sargeant (she\/they):<\/strong>
\nI’m Ky Sargeant, a 5th-year business student passionate about building a more inclusive and compassionate world. By day, I work with the Sauder School of Business and other organizations in building more equitable systems of work, also providing educational workshops on EDI topics. By night, I love writing performance art, such as spoken word poetry and stand-up comedy, that captures my complicated relationship with the concept of identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEDxUBC is back after three years online! Featuring a wide array of speakers, all UBC students, hear them share their life and passions. TICKETS FOR TEDxUBC 2023 NOW AVAILABLE: Click here to purchase. TEDxUBC 2023 will be held on Saturday, March 4th at the Life Science Centre. Organized on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory … <\/p>\n

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