Jeremy Courtney: Preemptive Love
Jeremy Courtney will take you on a journey that began with the wish of a father to save his child, and led to his mission of eradicating the backlog of Iraqi children waiting for lifesaving heart surgery. Through this journey, he will describe how living a life of pre-emptive love can break down the walls […]
Olafur Grimsson: Iceland Bounces Back
Olafur Grimsson is the President of Iceland. He describes how his country encountered social and democratic upheaval after the economic crisis of 2008. By combining wide-scale systemic inquiry into governance and judicial systems and investing in clean energy and technology, Iceland has been able to bounce back with remarkable economic vitality.
Alex Pritz: An Exploration of Cross-Cultural Education
Alex Pritz is a third year McGill student studying in the School of the Environment. His involvement with the student film collective ‘Developing Pictures’ drew Alex to Haiti and Kenya where he started his career as an amateur filmmaker. Since then, he has gone on to initiate the iWastology Project.
Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button Got his Face
He works at the leading edge of computer-generated visuals and recently worked at a breakthrough point where reality and digitally created worlds collide. Ed Ulbrich is a digital-effects guru from Digital Domain. He explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt’s face for ‘The Curious Case […]
Heather Blanchard: Meet the Digital Humanitarians
Heather Blanchard is a social entrepreneur, who works on the front lines of the online crisis crowd by connecting people, tools and resources via the virtual technology network she helped create, called CrisisCommons. Heather explores the growing role of the digital humanitarian community and how they connect to traditional response systems in preparing for, responding to […]
