16 Aug 2014

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TEDxCape Town - As it happened

TEDxCapeTown2014 - an event where people share innovative ideas - took place in the Cape Town City Hall on Saturday. Fin24 was there to capture the ideas:

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Tasos Calantzis: Why the question of design and purpose.

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Tasos Calantzis: Design is the ability to conceive an idea in your mind and then use it for a purpose. You don't need to figure it out because you are already doing it. How do you grow  your superpower?

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Tasos Calantzis: Brands are designed, banks are designed, business models are designed, even family holidays are designed.

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Tasos Calantzis: I discovered that every person can design, it defines us, it makes things better, and if everyone can design, then we can design a better country.

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Tasos Calantzis: Designers have special powers. You create things. Being a designer, means this engagement with this world. It's a kinda superpower.

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Tasos Calantzis: We all need to be designers.

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Tasos Calantzis takes the stage. He is an industrial designer and the CEO of Terrestrial, a consultancy to organizations like Motorola, P&G, BP and Philips. Terrestrial has won Red Dot and Good Design awards and been a finalist at the INDEX and awards. Tasos has served at events like the World Economic Forum, taught at business schools and written for Core77, Management Today and others. Tasos is also CEO Arivi which aims to address energy poverty with safe and efficient energy products for low income homes.

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Ed Rybick: In Cape Town, we have worked on HIV, influenza, but what we are most proud of, we are setting up a platform for plant-based influenza virus vaccine production in SA.

15:49

Ed Rybick: Healthcare workers prone to Ebola. Some healthcare workers tried cocktail of anti-Ebola Mabs called ZMapp. We don't know if it works as we have not had a full scale human trial.

15:48

Ed Rybick: Ebola totally out of control. Deadliest ever seen. It kills 80% of those it infects. What have they done about it? Nothing.

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Ed Rybick: Molecular farming is scaleable and can be done.

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Ed Rybick: Harvest plants to extract protein and formulate for injection or oral dosing.

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Ed Rybick:  DNA coding from protein or transiently introduce into plant by genetic engineering.

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Ed Rybick: Use plant as factory. Enormous quantities and cheap. Plant molecular farming is the answer. They have internal bacteria that act as batteries. Chloroplast can produce complex materials.

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Ed Rybick: Large to set up and maintain. Can we do it differently? Yes we can!

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Ed Rybick: Therapies are expensive. Can be a couple of R100 000 per year. MarketLar will get to $239bn by 2015.

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Ed Rybick: Biologics include proteins for enzyme replacement therapy.

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Ed Rybick: Biologics are Big Pharma's next frontier.

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Ed Rybicki takes the stage. He has been at University of Cape Town since he came to Cape Town on holiday in 1974. He obtained a BSc in Chemistry and Microbiology in 1976, an Hons in Virology in 1977, an MSc in Virology in 1979, and a PhD in the same discipline in 1984. He later became a lecturer in Virology in 1981 and rose through the ranks to become a Professor in Microbiology (in January 2003). In addition, he is a Founder Member of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM) based in the Health Sciences Faculty.

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David Springer: Use simple ideas like an egg cup to change the world.


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David Springer: Low cost device and is easy to use. I have an app that can pick sound in a bar. You should be able to pick up your heart.

15:11

David Springer takes the stage. He is a PhD student at Oxford, working on trying to solve health issues in South Africa using low-cost technology. David spends most of his time listening to heart sounds, playing with kitchen utensils or sending people SMS-reminders to take their medication. When not doing that, he plays the bagpipes. In his talk he will explore the use of dumb hardware, like an egg cup, together with smart software on a mobile phone, to detect heart disease in kids in areas where doctors are hard to find.


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TedX Cape Town performance by Pyshedelic Theatre.

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Willem van Biljon: Amazon had this idea of creating a cloud. This was revolutionary. Before you needed servers, but with this you did't need servers. What was the minimum viable product? It was giving people access to a server with a billable data per time with no locked contracts. You could start and stop it when ever you wanted. That was the long vision - the process was the way they got to become the dominant cloud service provider int he world.

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Willem van Biljon: Once you create a minimum viable products, people try add on other features. They need to start looking at the next minimum viable product. It is all about collaboration. Look at what's been done before and what I can use, change and create a solution to the next step I want to get to. It's all about very careful collaborating with the very best in the field.


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Willem van Biljon: Initial step we take is dependent on the world we're in and the world we are going.


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Willem van Biljon: Thinking out the box - Ted is your box.


14:16

Willem van Biljon: New ideas that take us a leap forward are not based on common wisdom.


14:15

Willem van Biljon: Wikipedia is one such organisation that thought ahead to give free information.


14:15

Willem van Biljon: Why don't we do it. We are scared of execution. The truth is, we execute great leaps of change on monotonous regularity.


14:13

Willem van Biljon: When innovating, we need to think about the future without thinking about our current world but look at the world we want to inhabit in the future.


14:12

Willem van Biljon takes the stage. Willem van Biljon is an entrepreneur and technologist born, raised and educated in South Africa. Van Biljon graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Computer Science.


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In 2012 he co founded The Open Medicine Project, a non profit aimed at capacitating healthcare workers in the developing world using mobile technology. Their EM guidance app has been downloaded in over 145 countries and is being used by over 7000 health workers worldwide. Mohammed believes in the accumulative value of individual contributions with the overall imperative of changing the world, one step at time. www.tompsa.co.za


14:09

Mohammed Dalwai: There is so much more that can be, so we need more collaboration in the health care. We can't fail our people.


14:08

Mohammed Dalwai: At Khayelitsha Hospital it has really helped.


14:06

Mohammed Dalwai: Our system has been implemented around the world.


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Mohammed Dalwai: The most innovative idea is to keep it simple. They have the most impact. Something as simple as an egg cup can save lives.


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Mohammed Dalwai: We can overcome immense obstacles if we come together and share ideas and work together.


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Mohammed Dalwai: We linked up with academics and spoke to nurses with experience and no experience.


14:03

Mohammed Dalwai: A group came together to collaborate and be innovative and we needed to use technology.


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Mohammed Dalwai: 100 000 people were incorrectly treated in the Western Cape in the last year.

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Mohammed Dalwai: In 2015, the health industry will be worth $116bn dollars.


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Mohammed Dalwai: In developing countries there are more mobile phones than drinking water.


14:02

Mohammed Dalwai: I was angry because we live in the 21st century and we should be able to do this. I was angry because we failed her.


14:01

Mohammed Dalwai: I felt scared, hopeless and angry. She died from a treatable problem. If picked up quickly she could have been operated. We made a mistake because we are human.


13:59

Mohammed Dalwai: I went on a break and wandered into a room. A 22 year old woman was sitting with a light blue traditional dress. She had been waiting for 8 hours for care. She had been bleeding internally. I examined and realised she was a critical patient. We did everything we could. Despite all our efforts, I lost her. She died.

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Mohammed Dalwai: It was busy one day. It was chaotic. Patients everywhere. We were trying to sort out patients by prioritising them. Those with sore toes had to wait. It is a simple system.


13:57

Mohammed Dalwai is talking about being sent on a mission: how he was accepted, where he chose to go. They sent him to Pakistan.


13:56

Mohammed Dalwai takes the stage. He holds an MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from University of Stellenbosch. He is passionate about the impact of medicine within the rural context having completed his Community Service at Manguzi – a rural community – in the Maputaland region of the KwaZulu-Natal province. This led him to join MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres – Doctors without Borders) as an ER doctor in various countries such as Pakistan, Libya and Syria. In 2012, the Mail & Guardian recognized Mohammed as one of South Africa’s Top 200 young and most interesting people specifically for his groundbreaking work around the South African triage score and its implementation across the world.


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Nicola Jackman: #Ark - Step up, smile at strangers, do the act of kindness. Tweet it. Share it. Let's be affected by the kindess of what we are... human kind.


13:41

Nicola Jackman: Science of kindness can transform our world.


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Nicola Jackman gives a refreshing talk on bringing joy to children.

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Nicola Jackman takes to the stage. She is an award winning actress, voice artist & joy catalyst. She has been a professional performing heartist for 20 years, nowadays she brings all her character full delight to the stage & screen, with her own special brand of inspirational speaking as a JOY Catalyst and through her one woman family show "MAfrika"

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12:01

Justin Smith: Do I win every battle? No. But I am in it for the long run and so compromise sometimes.


12:00

Justin Smith: Food waste is a much bigger issue than packaging and so we took a huge U-Turn in that regard.


11:59

Justin Smith: Know that you don't know everything. I don't know everything. I am sometimes wrong. Probably more than not.


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Justin Smith: Collaboration is crucial to solve big problems. We need to be open to work with other types of people. You can create a special type of magic.


11:58

Justin Smith: Go to departments in your business and show them how awareness in various fields will make the company better.


11:57

Justin Smith: I have huge respect for entrepreneurs and activist. They both require a lot of courage. But you also need courage to bring change within a big company.


11:56

Justin Smith: We need to know economic reality. The company needs to make money. The system that we thought we were fighting against, we can jig them to fight for our causes.


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Justin Smith: My influence... when I was young they wanted to mine the dunes in Richards Bay. I started a petition. I got a lot of signatures. I figured out when I got home that they were clients of my dad. I knew he was a good person, but how could he be doing business with them? I taught me about the corporate. It is easy to think of corporates as big and evil, but they are made up of people like you and me. We need to look at the people behind it.


11:51

Justin Smith: Only 13% of employees feel engaged in their jobs.


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Justin Smith: Create change within an organisation. Take passion to work every day.


11:50

Justin Smith  is on stage. He is head of the Woolworths Good Business Journey (Sustainability Programme) and is responsible for the strategy, structure and integration across the business to deliver its over 200 targets across transformation, social development, environmental issues and climate change.


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11:44

Zolani Mahola: How does this all connect. A boy in New York connecting with me on stage at the Apollo. This world is our home and the people our family.


11:43

Zolani Mahola: I have been around the world, from streets in Tokyo to Zimbabwe (and being thrown out of Zimbabwe), to opening the World Cup in 2010 (what a dream). It has been quite a ride and I feel privileged to have brought South African community closer to the world.


11:42

Zolani Mahola: In the past my dad was treated as a child. My proud Xhosa father. Treated like an inferior person.


11:41

Zolani Mahola: My dad sent us to multi-racial schools (why I speak like this) to be able to connect to anyone.

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Zolani Mahola: I knew life was not right. Lots of Caspers were always present. All too familiar. As was tear gas to break up crowds. My father never spoke to us about the political situation in the country.


11:39

Zolani Mahola: Walking with my dad in the street was a nightmare. He was very tedious. But I do appreciate it now. It gave me such a feeling of safety and security in the world. If we are all connected to each other in the world, then no one is a stranger and we are all among friends.


11:39

Zolani Mahola: My father is still a well loved figure in my community. He is that dude.


11:37

Zolani Mahola: When I was born in 1989, we had our last Apartheid elections and two state of emergencies.


11:37

Zolani Mahola is giving an incredible dramatic performance about her life, bringing song, story and action to bring her story to life.


11:35

Zolani Mahola: New York City and I am pregnant. I am in the Apollo Theatre in Harlem with FreshlyGround playing a show.


11:34

Zolani Mahola: The song is building. I open my mouth and release the song. I am in it. A part of the machine.


11:33

Zolani Mahola: [protest sounds play] From my door I see an ocean of people flowing down my street. This hums becomes a roar and this roar becomes a call. A call with an answer!


11:32

Zolani Mahola shares a viewpoint of a township protest - or toyi-toyi.


11:31

Surprise guest FreshlyGround's Zolani Mahola on the stage!


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11:25

Kirsten Wilkins: Speak to your neighbours, be change agents, be urban designers. It's not about My City, it's about Our City. Open Source Urban Design says: "I am nobody telling everybody that they are somebody when it comes to change in the urban design."


11:24

Kirsten Wilkins: Going on a 700+km ride in the Karroo.


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Kirsten Wilkins: 45% of people in our city, live on or below poverty line. R10 a day per person for food, education, clothing and transport.


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Kirsten Wilkins: How do you view poverty? What do you think and feel?


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Kirsten Wilkins: Need to get onto the streets. We need to disrupt ourselves, by understanding what we see on the street.

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Kirsten Wilkins: With an open source, collaborative methodology, can we all speak the language needed? Well, we know the spaces and what we like. 


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Kirsten Wilkins: My disruptive question is what if SA was made up of 45 million urban designers and not just a few.


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Kirsten Wilkins: Government prescribes to public participation. There is a lack of robust dialogue. Govt is obliged to apply to mind to these obligations.


11:15

Kirsten Wilkins: I am always trying to understand agendas. The most amazing this is YOU - the process of active participation. #ChangeAgent.


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Kirsten Wilkins: Make public realm. They are insulated space we live. They are messy. The urban real and the urban imagined is the space I work in.


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Kirsten Wilkins takes the stage. She is a freelance Urban Designer and Disruptor living in Cape Town. She is a passionate about translating urban design theory into usable tools for improving authentic city living and is researching the parameters of Open Source Urban Design in the context of the African City. Kirsten is an advocate for social justice and believes that appropriate urban design response is birthed from empathy. After years of saying all the right things about NMT and livable cities, she decided to get on a bicycle and actually understand this intoxicating thing called cycling.


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John Savage: I discovered we don’t need the record companies. We don’t need them. We are self-sufficient!


10:37

John Savage: Crowd funding is changing the world.


10:37

John Savage: Access has change! Everyone is on twitter. Record company said they controlled their artist. How dare I contact them. On twitter I can. We have that access. I could contact Bieber right now, but he probably wouldn’t get back.


10:37

John Savage: When mash lab died, I looked at the model and looked at what’s changed.


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John Savage: Suddenly, the system kicked in - the record industry – and they said hang on a second. It’s right, it works, but we need to own it. I said it belongs to us the people. Record company tried to get a deal behind me and then the whole mash lab collapsed. This is what is making us fail in the world.


10:35

John Savage: We forced the two favourite artists to collaborate. The listeners would choice the subject matter. WE would play it live on 5. I thought this would change the music industry. Tried to put a massive SA artist with World artist. Community was right behind us.


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John Savage: Mash Lab was a project where, every month on 5fm, people would vote for their favourite artists.


10:33

Jon Savage just spoke. He was the lead singer of the band Cassette, which had successful radio chart single achievements, toured the world extensively and whose career included both epic succes and also epic failures. He has been the musical director for the SA Music Awards for the past 3 years, has written musicals and has worked with numerous artists including Die Antwoord, JR, HHP, Vusi Mahlasela, Ray Phiri, The Parlotones and many more. He is a composer at Pocket Love Studios and works on a daily basis creating scores for local and international films and television ads. He is also a DJ on the national youth radio station in SA, 5fm

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MC just got the crowd to admit they are a bunch of fools. #Great!


9:29

Dave Duart: I have a group where people meet up to share their side project.


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Dave Duart: Side project is about stepping into the space where you are incompetent.


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Dave Duart: EVerything I have done started as a side project.


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Dave Duart: Yuppiechef didn't leave their old jobs until their company was a success.


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Treeshake is an educational design and production company.  Previously he was Programme Director at the University of Cape Town. In 2014 Dave was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Twitter handle: @daveduarte

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Dave Duart: No such thing as a big idea. Small ideas with big impact.


9:20

Dave Duart: Side projects better than a CV. What you learn on the side.

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Dave Duart: No idea what jobs will exist in five years’ time, what industries will be born.

How do we prepare for jobs that don’t exist?


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Dave Duart of Treeshake takes the stage: "Side project is the answer to the future."

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We're here at the Cape Town City Hall and eagerly waiting for @DaveDuarte to kick off @tedxcapetown! #DesignYourThinking

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The programme:

SATURDAY

Session 1 (over the looking glass) - 9:00
1. Dave Duarte
2. PERFORMANCE ACT
3. Vivienne Shultz
4. Tasos Calantzis
5. Craig Wilkinson


Tea break 10:30

Session 2 (grow back to the beginning) - 11:00
1. Kirsten Wilkins
2. PERFORMANCE ACT
3. Surprise Act
4. Justin Smith

Lunch Break 12:30
Simon Ekin - impromptu performance(s) in the lunch break

Session 3 (connect the dots...period) - 13:30
1. Nicola Jackman
2. Faahkir Bestman
3. Mohammed Dalwai
4. Willem van Biljon

Tea break 15:00

Session 4 (delicious monsters and wicked problems) - 15:30
1. David Springer
2. PERFORMANCE ACT
3. Ed Rybicki
4. Jon Savage

Close & After Party - 17:00 to 21:00

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