TEDxHackney's team are delighted to present a day-long event of cross disciplinary speakers exploring how experience shapes our lives, our art and our potential.

TEDxHackney is committed to developing a forum for our vibrant and diverse community in which we can share ideas and experiences that benefit us all. We’re delighted to present a programme exploring how experience shapes our lives, our art and our potential for healing. The event will include speakers drawn from a wide range of disciplines and approaches including visual and performance art, architecture, literature, music, technology, philosophy and psychology.

Speakers confirmed:

Katherine Araniello examines contemporary issues relating to disability, creating frameworks that challenge and subvert preconceptions.

Erika Brodnock founded Karisma Kidz a company that coaches children through their problems, helping them to learn to manage difficulties using play.

Jamie Catto, founding member of Faithless, is the creative catalyst behind the global philosophy and music project 1 Giant Leap, and also leads uniquely transformative workshops drawing from the richly diverse wisdom, techniques and processes he has encountered during his ground-breaking voyages across all five continents. “Jamie Catto is kind, wise, open, boundlessly energetic, optimistic and passionate.

Kate Chisholm is the radio critic of The Spectator and writes about her experience of anorexia and its treatment in the 1970s.

Inua Ellams is an award winning poet and performer, a writer with a style influenced by classic literature and hip hop, by Keats as it is by MosDef. The Midnight Run is an urban movement he started in 2006, which had now been held in several cities.

James Giles is a philosopher and psychologist best known for his work on identity, vulnerability, and sexual desire as an existential need.

David Knight is a designer and author currently undertaking research at the Royal College of Art. His critical projects about the contemporary built environment have been exhibited and published internationally.

Jamie McDermott created The Irrepressibles, is a ten-member orchestral ensemble described by The Sunday Times as "an enchantingly theatrical pop extravaganza.” Brilliant interpreters of the cabaret tradition, they blend cutting edge fashion, contemporary electronica and gay iconography.

Alexa Meade is an LA based artist best known for her painted portraits, which take the classical trompe l’oeil concept and turn it on its head by using the human body itself as a canvas to make her living models into flat pictures.

Ian Wharton is the Creative Director and Partner of technology company Zolmo and has led the creative for the Apple Design Award-winning apps for Jamie Oliver and some of the top-grossing, top-rated apps for iPhone and iPad. Ian is a regular speaker on creativity and the mobile industry.