Theme: Opening Doors Breaking Through

TEDx Doncaster 2022 is going to be another transformative year as Doncaster formally received royal approval to become the City of Doncaster as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebration. TEDx Doncaster 2022 presents a carefully curated program of inspirational ideas. We will introduce innovators, leaders, mavericks, creatives, and groundbreakers, from Doncaster and beyond, who have chosen to rewrite the rules, and throw away the book as they Open doors and Breakthrough.

TEDx Doncaster offers a platform to access knowledge and shared learning, projecting forward the best in innovation and advancements Doncaster has to offer for all. At TEDx Doncaster, you will hear from thinkers, innovators, doers, and pioneers who are positively disrupting the status quo and changing the world for the better through their work. Hosting this year will be TEDx Doncaster Alumni Damian Allen and Victoria Gill.

This independent TEDx event is operated under License from TED.

CAST
Waterdale
Doncaster, Doncaster, DN1 3BU
United Kingdom

Arshad Khaliq

Founder Ethnic Culture Fusion Network - Doncaster

A seasoned senior manager and executive with over twenty-five years of expertise gained within complex public-sector organisations, offshore companies, and the voluntary sector. Varied roles, offshore, within local government, and at academic institutions allow Arshad to continue developing, operating and achieving demonstrable success in improving public services and applying good business practices to achieve beneficial results with strong intellectual and analytical abilities. Arshad successfully completed his MBA and after attending Harvard Business School he developed a newfound interest in applied academia and exploring authentic values in leadership. These values stem from wishing to be socially responsible and playing a part in preparing the next generation.

Atique Arif

NHS Researcher

Atique is a researcher with the NHS and has an interest in the rehabilitation of inmates within secured estates. In particular inmates' ability to succeed once released from Prison.

Brad Pilkington

Statistician

Brad is a statistician and data analyst with a particular interest in the ethics of how we use data. He has experienced how data is used in a variety of contexts, having previously worked as an analyst at Doncaster Children’s Trust, HSBC, and a range of additional organisations. He has recently completed a dissertation discussing whether bias exists in the criminal justice system and is keen to share some of the most interesting findings. Through his research, Brad discovered many examples where the usage of data was ethically questionable, he wants to highlight how often data is misused and how we should think more critically instead of blindly accepting information as fact.

Catherine Knibbs

Human Behaviour Technologist

Cath is an author, clinician, researcher, educator, speaker and mum with a background in the Armed Forces Engineering and Optronics, IT, Gaming and Psychology alongside Function Health and her other passion of Neuroscience. She is a polymath and pattern recognition nerd. She synthesises the presenting issues that people bring to her clinic around online harms and our behaviours online with child development theories, science and research to highlight the larger issues at hand for the human race. She is a futurist regarding the issues we face as we progess with exponential technology. She is an advocate for ethical tech and our rights and freedoms to privacy and protection now and in the future. She educates professionals on data protection, cybersecurity, and privacy laws and provides online safeguarding training to give those responsible for children a wake-up call as to the spaces children need protection in and around.

Daisy York

Nutritionist

Prior to pursuing a career in nutrition, Daisy was a partner in an international commercial real estate consultancy. Daisy is a registered nutritional therapist (mBANT, CNHC), educator and mother of three young children. Daisy is passionate about making nutrition more accessible, practical and part of everyday practice in order to support health and prevent disease. As a full-time working parent, Daisy has a profound understanding of the pressures faced by time-poor parents who are ‘only as happy as their least happy child’ and who want to do everything they can to support the health of their children.

Darcy Cousin

Singer Songwriter

Performing in her home town of Doncaster at TEDx Darcy Rose Cousins is set to play her sensational original new music written and performed from the soul. Darcy’s eclectic mix of Electropop, Alternative Indie/Pop, Hip Hop, R&B and Ballads are all accompanied by her insane skills on the guitar, bass, Ukulele and piano. At only 13 years of age, Darcy’s raw song writing talent is about to rival some of the biggest names in the industry. Catch her right here at TEDx Doncaster on Saturday, October 22nd

Dr Tom Waller

Chiropractor and Health Champion

The world is waking up to the truth about health, a truth that humans have known and many have lived by for years. The truth is that health is an Inside-Out action, and we already have everything we need to be the best versions of ourselves, to be healthy. Stress, resilience and performance expert. Tom is a Chiropractor, Podcaster, Speaker and Mentor with a passion to help the planet champion true health and accountability. Tom believes health is a personal responsibility, not a human right. It is however right that every human should be given the potential to be healthy. Health has to be earned personally, not granted by another person or pill. Tom's mission is to show you how to regain and maximise your true health potential, take ownership, and cultivate responsibility so that you can live the life you were intended to do so. To rid the excuses for and the existence of chronic lifestyle disease.

Emma Bloodworth

Police Officer

Emma is a Police Officer, currently working with the National Police Council and the National Task Force to tackle violence against women and girls. Emma's background is county lines and child exploitation and believes that the violence against girls is underreported across the board but especially in County Lines. Emma wants people, communities, and professionals to ensure they understand the signs and key indicators of child exploitation and the violence that girls are subjected to. Emma is a positive disruptor and challenges everyone to look through the door and be part of the solutions. Emma has been commended for her work with South Yorkshire Police both regionally and nationally and is committed to ensuring that the vulnerable are protected and the voiceless are heard. Emma is keen to share an idea focused on how we can collectively reduce the incidents of violence against women and girls by working to educate men and boys.

Janey Lee- Grace

Singer, Author, Television Presenter and Radio Disc Jockey

Janey Lee Grace is an Amazon No 1 Best-selling author, speaker, and co-presenter on the UK’s biggest radio show, BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon. She runs the popular recommendations blog www.imperfectlynatural.com Formerly she was a backing singer with Wham! Kim Wilde and Boy George, had her own number 8 chart hit as Cola Boy with 7 Ways to Love, Janey has written five books on Holistic living including the number One Amazon best seller Imperfectly Natural Woman and her latest book is Happy Healthy Sober – Ditch the booze and take control of your life which encourages everyone to look again at their relationship with alcohol. After ditching the booze Janey launched a podcast ‘Alcohol-Free Life’ in July 2019 Janey launched The Sober Club, a platform offering a non-judgemental community for people who are committed to sobriety and want to ‘upscale’ their life without the booze and focus on health and wellbeing.

John Parr

Musician,Singer, Songwriter, Filmmaker

John Parr is a musician, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker, best known for his 1985 US #1 single "St. Elmo's Fire" and for his 1984 US #6 Rock single "Naughty Naughty". He has written and performed ten major motion picture themes including Three Men and a Baby and The Running Man. John now lives in the borough of Doncaster and is championing a range of projects that shine a lens on the challenges of human endeavor and resilience.

Kid Blue

Hip Hop Artist

Kid Blue is a hip-hop artist from Sheffield and is also a part of a collective in Doncaster called GSD Kid Blue likes to highlight an authentic vibe in her music that states even if you have come from a place of difficulty and challenge there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Catch Kid Blue as she shares her music at TEDx Doncaster on Saturday, October 22nd.

Kim Adele Randall

Master Coach and Author

Kim-Adele Randall renowned master coach, international bestselling author, inspirational keynote speaker, face whisperer, and executive producer, she couples 25 years in the corporate world, with lessons garnered throughout her journey to help others achieve sustainable transformation for professional and personal success. Co-Founder of International Imposter Syndrome Awareness Day, she also runs a portfolio of Non-Exec roles including Chair of Legacy Media Hub, Academy Trust, and Mary’s Meals, and is a member of the Women of the Year Alumni.

Luke Staton

Founder ITNG - Motivational Speaker & Coach

I would lay in bed at night and daydream for hours, imagining fulfilling my dream which would be to become a professional football player, I was very fortunate that this dream came true. However, it was over just as it got started, this is where my life really began. My dream now is to empower others to pursue their dreams. My time is spent within businesses, sports, schools, colleges & universities. In 2015 I created the Inspiring The Next Generation experience, it started with one talk to one group of young people, now in 2022, we have reached over 100,000 children. I want to inspire as many of our next generation as possible to believe that they can live a life that brings joy & happiness.

Natasha Clarke

Artist and Curator

Doncaster-based Artist and Curator. First Class Bachelors Degree in Fine Art and Masters Degree in Curation Practices. Founder of ‘Doncaster Creative Network’. You can also see Natasha’s murals spread across Doncaster. Natasha has been focusing her recent efforts on uplifting the talented creative community here in Doncaster.

Philippa Zawe

Singer Songwriter

"The vocals are earnest and soulful, the guitars are gentle and romantic, the strings are lilting and hypnotic." (Two Story Melody, 2018) Philippa Zawe is a Yorkshire based singer-songwriter. She is of Ugandan heritage and her songwriting is inspired by the rich stories that are told around her and that lie within her. "Philippa has a fantastically controlled vocal style which conveys an enormous amount of feeling and meaning in every single word." (Ryan's Gig Guide, 2018) Her songs are rooted in the genre of Folk with an infusion of Soul. Her inspirations vary from the likes of Terry Callier to Joan Armatrading, Nick Drake to Laura Marling. Her music has been described as “audio self-care at its finest” (Two Story Melody, 2018).

Professor Brad Gibson

Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, at the University of Hull

An Australian-Canadian transplant, Brad's 1000+ outreach events over the past seven years have reached two million people around the world, including nearly 100 schools and colleges in the UK, ranking him amongst the most prolific full-time academics engaged in outreach anywhere in the world. Brad was responsible for first defining the Milky Way’s Galactic Habitable Zone (named a Top 10 News Story of the Year by National Geographic), determining the expansion rate of the Universe (for which their team was awarded the Gruber Prize in Cosmology), and building the world’s first Liquid Mirror Telescope Observatory. His commitment to widening participation and diversity, and improving the career prospects of physics students, led to his “Changing Face of Physics” campaign being highlighted as Good Practice in the Country by the UK’s Equality Challenge Unit and resulted in more than a doubling of women entering Physics at The University of Hull over the past five years.

Ruth Farenga

Founder of Conscious Leaders

Ruth Farenga is the Founder of Conscious Leaders, a professional consultancy helping aspirational leaders build a calm, collaborative and productive workplace. Ruth helps people connect more to themselves each other and their wider purpose so they can drive both individual and collective success, whatever that means to them. Practically, this is often delivered through one-to-one coaching, facilitated group spaces and collaborative strategic planning. Ruth runs the Conscious Leaders Podcast on which she showcases great people-leaders, CEOs and Founders who really step up for their employees. Together, they unpack what’s really going on to help listeners understand new philosophies and give practical, actionable takeaways. She has built this body of work into a published book called ‘Next Level Leadership: 9 Lessons from Conscious Leaders’.

Scarlett Kirwan

Singer Songwriter

Scarlett started her musical journey at the age of 11 when she was given the opportunity to sing and play her guitar on stage at Doncaster's Ukrainian club. Since that evening, Scarlett knew that this was the career she wanted to pursue. She has been described as an old soul in a young body. She enjoys singing many genres of music from past to present including Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, Carpenters and more recent artists such as Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift. Scarlett has also been penning her own songs for a couple of years now, and released her first single two years ago when she was 13 years old, called Sweet Home, she is very passionate about taking her writing skills to the next level. Encouraging other young people to step out of their comfort zone and follow their dreams is very important to her, and she hopes to be seen as a role model for young girls who may think that following the crowd is the only way.

Tylae Close

Youth Worker

I’m Doncaster “born and bred” with a fire in my belly to create positive change within our society. I was let down by my personal experience with education and children's mental health services growing up but found my own identity through youth work. I was given the space and opportunity to explore myself and my culture. Youth work made me who I am today, a Youth Work and Community Development graduate from the University of Derby, currently furthering his studies in a Master of Arts in Education: Leadership and Management course.