On October 27, 2016, some of Toronto’s greatest thinkers and changemakers joined together onstage at TEDxToronto to deliver powerful talks and performances that embodied our theme, Symbols + Signals.

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Ryan Janzen is a scientist, engineering researcher, and artist. His work, featured on the Discovery Channel, the World Expo in Shanghai and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, embodies a fusion between science, technology and art, and has led to advances in acoustics, optics, aerospace electronics, mathematics, and vehicle propulsion.

Janzen is cofounder and CTO of TransPod, working to design ultrahighspeed aerospace vehicles, moving passengers and cargo between cities faster, with reduced dependency on fossil fuels – creating the future of transportation.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx