Theme: Hardships: Reflections & Aftertastes

Exploring from four disciplines -- science education, adolescent mental health, AI technologies, and performance arts -- our event places a major focus on some of the major challenges encountered by experts in different disciplines, along with their reflections after overcoming the challenge. We believe that although frustrating to an extent, challenges and difficulties stimulate growth and provoke thought. We hope that our audience could be inspired by the speakers' experiences of powering through hardships.

B1 Performance Hall
Haicheng Street No.8, Nanshan District
Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518000
China

Allison Spillman

Dean of Student Life and Psychology Teacher at Whittle School & Studios Shenzhen Campus

Allison grew up in the UK with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a degree in educational research, and a degree in mathematics. Allison is very interested in humanistic caring and boarding lives. She has worked as the boarding manager of Wycombe High School and was incharge of the mental health of all boarders. During this TED talk, Allison will combine her work experiences and research to discuss how contemporary social medias have an impact on the mental health of young people.

Boxiang Wang

CEO of Link-Spider Laboratory

Wang Boxiang, a biology teacher who likes to explore fun genetic technologies and to design "artificial life" with young people, will be presenting the topic: "Life Science Education in the Post-epidemic Era". In 2020, despite an unprecedented coronavirus hitting the globe and isolating people, medicine, life sciences, and manufacturing industries got the change to be gradually integrated. With such difficulties and opportunities coexisting, where will the future of life science education go?

Liming Guo

Director of SenseTime Education

Mr. Liming Guo works for the education branch of SenseTime Technology -- one of the most innovative AI enterprises in China. With a plethora of experience in AI technology development and AI education promotion in Southern China, Mr. Guo will be delving into the challenges and solutions in transforming/photoshopping the green backgrounds when filming the movies into immersive, appealing real backgrounds.

Lisa Ling

High School Senior at Whittle School & Studios Shenzhen Campus

Can music help people overcome obstacles? If so, how does it achieve it? As the 2021 graduate of Whittle School, Lisa will enroll in Eastman School of Music and study music composition. In this TED talk, by exploring our current pandemic era and looking back to human history, Lisa will discuss the relationship between music, hardships, and mankind.