If you have never attended TEDxPortofSpain, here are some reasons why you should attend. 1. Recharge for a year. Past attendees have described the conference as the place you go to get inspired for the year. It reminds you that there are great people doing great work in Trinidad and Tobago. 2. Get introduced to some new and extraordinary ideas and the people behind them. We challenge our speakers to give…
When current secondary school students enter the job market, it is likely that many of them will be starting jobs with titles we have never heard before. Ten years ago few people would have heard of social media management. Countries that will rank as being the most innovative, will be those that have invested in developing their creative literacy. For the past five years, I have been developing a curriculum…
TEDxPortofSpain is one of those things in Trinidad and Tobago which serves as a light to sighted citizens in our dark intellectual national landscape I say that because since I was quite young growing up in Trinidad I felt surrounded by persons who didn’t see: didn’t see the possibilities of our nation, didn’t see the irrationality of our elders, didn’t see the inanity of comments and discussions considered quintessentially ‘Trini’,…