Status Active Venue Le Salon 1861 Country Canada | Genre General conference Location(s) Montreal Attendance 100 | |
TEDxMcGill is an independtantly organised single-day TED conference in Montreal started in in 2009 by students from McGill University, after which the event is named.
History
The event was started by five students from the McGill University. Three TEDxMcGill conferences have been held uptill now. The first conference gathered 16 speakers from different backgrounds (students, professors, analysts, musicians, and Andy Nulman, the co-founder of the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival) to initiate discussions on the theme of "Talks for Tomorrow". Fifteen speakers and more than 600 people, including the McGill student body but also Montreal at large, met during the second conference themed "Relentless Curiosity" in 2010. The 2011 event was held on November 13 at Bain Mathieu. under the theme of Redefining Reality. The 2016 conference was held held on March 19, 2016 following the theme Paradigm Shift.