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TEDxJohannesburgWomen

Fri Oct 28, 12:00 - Fri Oct 28, 20:00

GE Africa Innovation Centre

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TEDWOMEN 2016 SIMULCAST PROGRAM


ITS ABOUT TIME
Time is personal. We all have the same amount of time — 24 hours a day and yet most of us feel we never have enough. Even with today’s latest inventions, technology, science, we can’t make time or stop time — or can we?

Learn more about the speakers on TED.com
 
ARRIVAL | REGISTRATION | 13:00 - 13:30

SESSION 2 | IT'S ABOUT OUR TIME | 13:30 - 15:00

Tiq Milan – Transgender Activist
Kim Katrin Milan – Writer, educator, artist
Anela Arifi – Student scientist, flutist
Ilda Ismaili – Student scientist, pianist
Kennedy Odede – Community Organizer
Jessica Posner Odede – Social Entrepreneur, author
Morley – Singer-songwriter
Tashka Yawanawá – Chief of the Yawanawá
Laura Soriano Yawanawá – Activist
Thordis Elva – Writer
Tom Stranger – Co-author, landscape gardener

CONVERSATION BREAK | 15:00 - 15:30

SESSION 3 | IT'S ABOUT EQUAL TIME | 15:30 - 17: 00 

Alicia Garza – Writer, activist
Patrisse Cullors – Artist, organizer
Opal Tometi – Human rights activist
Miriam Zoila Pérez – Activist, doula
Kimberlé Crenshaw – Law professor
C. Nicole Mason – Author, researcher
Sandi Toksvig – Broadcast personality, politician, author
Taylor Dayne – Singer, performer
 
CONVERSATION BREAK | 17:00 - 17: 30 

SESSION 5 | IT'S ABOUT TIME TO REIMAGINE | 17:30 - 19:00 

Jeanne Gang – Architect
Michele L. Sullivan – President, Caterpillar Foundation
Kathy Hull – Pediatric psychologist
Suzanne Barakat – Physician
Ian McCallum – Psychiatrist, poet, conservationist
Deepika Kurup – Investor, student scientist
Peggy Orenstein – Journalist, author
 
NETWORKING DRINKS | 19:00 - 20:00

 

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