ideacity 2015 Sixth Speaker Annoucement

Puzzles, and Choirs, and Yoga Oh My! Our next four speakers come from varying backgrounds but are all innovative in their own ways. Read on to learn more about a young puzzle creator, why we shouldn’t fear the future, & get your voice ready to sing with Choir! Choir! Choir!

David Steinberg
David Steinberg has been constructing puzzles since he was twelve and is the second-youngest constructor to be published in The New York Times under Will Shortz’s editorship. Now eighteen, he has published more than 170 puzzles in the Times, other markets, and books and has been the crossword editor of the Orange County Register’s associated newspapers since 2012. Read More

Jaysea DeVoe
Jaysea DeVoe was born in La Jolla, California, USA on August 23rd, 2001. At the early age of nine, DeVoe started practicing yoga and picked up surfing. By the age of 12, DeVoe became the youngest certified female yoga instructor in the USA and the youngest certified stand up paddle board yoga instructor in the world. Read More

Peter Nowak
Peter Nowak is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author and blogger. He has written for the Boston Globe, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post, the National Post, the Vancouver Sun, and the Toronto Star. While working in New Zealand, he was named the technology journalist of the year by the Telecommunications Users Association; back in Canada, he won the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance award for excellence in science and technology reporting. Read More

Choir! Choir! Choir!
They’ve appeared and performed live with Tegan & Sara at the 2014 Juno Awards, with Patti Smith at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and at the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2012 Closing Night Gala. Led by Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman (AKA “DaBu”), hundreds of Torontonians gather at a downtown bar twice weekly Read More