The first person to trek to the North Pole alone, the maker of an award-winning documentary on hate and a former hurricane hunter are among the global and local visionaries lined up to speak at next month’s TEDxBermuda forum.Due to the popularity of the local organisation’s first sold-out forum back in April, TedXBermuda said it decided to hold another event on October 15, at the Fairmont Southampton.Among the Bermudian visionaries are singer-songwriter Joy Barnum, ISIS co-founder Audette Exel and builder Larry Mills.The local non-profit organisation is operating under a licence from TED, which started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design, hence TED, and devoted to ideas worth spreading.Along with two annual conferences, the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer, TED includes the annual TED Prize.John Narraway is the chairman of TEDxBermuda.Here is the full rundown of speakers and topics:Pen Hadow shot to international fame in 2003 when he become the first person to trek solo without outside assistance to the North Pole from Canada.He went on to become the only Briton to have trekked, without assistance, to both the North and South Poles.He currently works with NASA, the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and other organisations dedicated to global climate change issues to promote understanding amongst policy-makers and the public of these issues.Mike Ramsdell is a documentary film-maker, knonw for his award-winning Anatomy of Hate; A Dialogue to Hate.The film shows the white supremacist movement, Christian fundamentalists with an anti-gay agenda, Muslim extremists, Palestinians fighting the Intifada, Israeli settlers and soldiers and US troops in Iraq.He is in development on a cable series “ War Photographers,” and most recently has been filming in the Democratic Republic of Congo to document and bring awareness to the geo-political exploitation of minerals by the electronics industry.Dickson Despommier has spent thirty-eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia where he won the Best Teacher award six times.He will present “Vertical Farming” as a potential solution to feeding the world in the 21st century amidst a pending food crisis, a topic on which he’s recently written a book.Joy Barnum, the talented, Bermudian singer-songwriter who recently toured with Heather Nova will perform.Her diverse background is reflected in the range of her musical tastes. Ask her who she is and she will tell you the story of her Native American grandmother, the flight of her parents from strife torn Honduras as her sister prepared to enter the world, and living in close proximity to the Mexican border in California.Lawrence Sass is an associate professor at MIT’s Department of Architecture and an architectural researcher exploring an emerging field known as digital design and fabrication.He will present the “Next Revolution in Building Design and Production”. As director of the Digital Design Fabrication Group in the Department of Architecture, his research focuses on design fabrication using computer modeling and prototyping as representational tools in the design process, as opposed to paper drawings.He has exhibited one of his projects, a digitally fabricated house for New Orleans, at the Modern Museum of Art in NYC.Mike Ramsdell is a documentary film-maker, who formed a production company after graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts with the goal of creating films that inform and advance the collective conscience such as his award-winning The Anatomy of Hate; A Dialogue to Hate.He is in development on a cable series “ War Photographers,” and most recently has been filming in the Democratic Republic of Congo to document and bring awareness to the geo-political exploitation of minerals by the electronics industry.Jeff Masters will discuss what kind of $10 billion-plus weather-related disasters we can expect in the coming years, with an emphasis on failure of the Old River Control Structure and a severe geomagnetic storm. Since much grain travels major rivers, a shut-down of barge traffic could trigger a huge spike in global food prices and larger global unrest.He attended the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology.In 1986, he moved to Miami to join the Hurricane Hunters as a flight meteorologist for NOAA and appeared on the 1988 PBS NOVA show “Hurricane!.”After a near-death experience flying into Hurricane Hugo, he left the Hurricane Hunters in 1990 to pursue a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan and co-founded The Weather Underground, Inc. in 1995. Jeff currently serves as Director of Meteorology for the company.Dr Anthony Ruto is chief technology officer at Within Technologies Ltd. He will discuss “Designing on the fringe: Exploring the design freedoms offered by 3D printing.”When manufactured with 3D printing, seemingly impossible designs can be brought to life in the form of light-weight engine components, porous medical implants and ultra comfortable footwear. With the increased design freedoms, we may soon start to see things changing in the world around us.He has previously been involved in the research and development of a number of innovative technologies including image based medical diagnosis, 3D body scanning, TV broadcasting technology at the BBC and a patented 3D monitoring solution used for radiotherapy treatment.Audette Exel is a lawyer by profession specialising in international finance. For three and half years, she was the managing director of one of Bermuda’s three banks, and also acted as chair of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. She was one of the youngest women in the world to have run a publicly-traded bank.In 1998, Audette began to pursue her vision of creating social change through business. She has spent the last 14 years as the chair and co-founder of the ISIS Group, one of the earliest examples of a completely embedded private sector and non-profit partnership.She will present a paradigm shift in traditional business thinking, that business can be a powerful driver of social change.It is time for businesses to think deeply about how to create shared value and be change makers in the wider community.Ryan Legassicke is a contemporary Canadian artist. His current work examines contemporary urban cities and makes connections between our shared aesthetic experience and the idea that we are becoming progressively more disconnected from ourselves, each other, and the places that we inhabit. His work is in the permanent collection of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in Ontario, and he has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.Larry Mills is a Bermudian builder who has been very interested and involved with local architecture and history since the 1970s, serving as a member of the Historic Buildings Advisory Committee for more than seven years.He will discuss Bermudian Vernacular Architecture and how it evolved over 400 years from the unique environment of a small, subtropical island.Special emphasis will be placed on roof construction and how it is used to capture rain water and channel it to storage tanks below the house, an important component in the path to a completely self sustainable living environment. He will also discuss challenges faced by the vernacular going forward in an increasingly densely populated island.The forum is being presented by re/insurer Catlin Bermuda and hosted by Capital G Bank.Tickets are now on sale at www.TEDxBermuda.com for an initial price of $70.