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Andrew Pelling
Celebrated Inventor and Creative Problem Solver | TED Senior Fellow
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Andrew Pelling, PhD, is a scientist, biotechnology entrepreneur and one of Canada’s most forward-looking voices on the future of medicine. For more than 25 years, his work has explored the edges of biology, technology and human health. That work spans regenerative medicine and biomaterials, as well as the new possibilities emerging as computation, engineering and biology increasingly collide.
After 16 years as a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, he shifted his focus toward translating scientific discoveries from the laboratory into the real world.
As co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Spiderwort Biotechnologies, he leads the development of novel biomaterials that are now in human clinical trials and moving toward commercialization.
Andrew is also actively involved in the life sciences startup ecosystem through venture building, investing and advising. Known for challenging assumptions about what is possible, Andrew brings a playful, provocative and deeply scientific perspective to the technologies reshaping medicine. He also explores what they may mean for the doctors and patients of the future.
Speaker Fee: $10,000 - $15,000
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Innovation in the Workplace 
Andrew’s lab consists of engineers, scientists, and artists united by creativity and curiosity. He frequently challenges his team to “play,” allowing them the freedom to explore new possibilities and grow a proactive and innovative mindset. He speaks on the importance of maintaining a work environment that emphasizes creativity more than regularity, and the advantages of cultivating a team of interdisciplinary individuals rather than choosing from a pool of identically qualified contenders. Andrew’s unique approach to the work environment demands a revising of convention and structure in order to craft real innovation.
Finding Creative Solutions
TED Fellow Andrew Pelling is a biohacker, and nature is his hardware. His favourite materials are the simplest ones (and oftentimes he finds them in the garbage). Building on the cellulose structure that gives an apple its shape, he “grows” lifelike human ears, pioneering a process that might someday be used to repair body parts safely and cheaply. Andrew shows you and your audience how to use formulas, like the scientific method to find creative solutions.
Internet of Human - The Future of Healthcare
The convergence of new technologies, our hyper-connected society and artificial intelligence is beginning to force major disruptions in how we deliver, receive and understand human healthcare. Even more profound are the ways these same forces are creating surprising new possibilities for us to hack our own bodies – everything from the design of our own tissues to the transplanting of our own microbiomes and even the creation of new human senses. Listen as Andrew Pelling takes you into the future possibilities of healthcare.
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