Peter Gzowski

Morningside Dept: I know from my pre-TED days at 's Morningside with Peter Gzowski that we used to schedule 18-minute interviews for many guests, according to CBC. Eighteen minutes is also now pretty much the norm, which I experienced last week at this year's ideacity 2012 conference in Toronto three days of a succession of 18-minute talks, pitches, rants, summaries, arguments and personal stories which we plan to fashion into a series of Ideas broadcasts in September and call it the 18-minute dash. That's the time allotted for a speaker at a TED-style talk, on stage, in front of an audience. Often, it's just the right amount. Eighteen minutes was just satisfying enough to make you feel you've learned or experienced something, without it necessarily going in one ear and out the other as, for some reason, 20 minutes might . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.