Share a TED-like experience at live stream event Feb. 17
February 4, 2016 — Join us for a TED-like experience during a live stream event from 10:30 a.m. through 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, on the big screen in the Library Center auditorium.
The event is called TEDx – x meaning an independently organized TED event – and the Library’s event is called TEDxSGLibraryCenterLive. It will feature one entire day of live presentations out of the three-day TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The event is free and open to the public, and attendees are free to bring a sack lunch or snacks.
Connect with great ideas and a global community of thinkers, artists and storytellers for part of the day, or all day.
Theme for the TEDxLive event is “Dream.” Here is the schedule of speakers:
· Session 6: Code power: Linus Torvalds, software engineer; Reshma Saujani, education activist; Mary Norris, copy editor; R. Luke DuBois, artist, composer, engineer; Meron Gribetz, augmented reality startup CEO; and Raffaello D’Andrea, autonomous systems pioneer.
· Session 7: Imagine there’s no countries: Parag Khanna, global strategist; Dalia Mogahed, Muslim studies scholar; Amit Sood, technologist; Christiana Figueres, climate advocate; and Hugh Evans, humanitarian.
· TED University – Attendees take the stage to give their own TED-style talks; hosted by TEDGlobal Director Bruno Giussani: Brian Kelly, frequent flyer; Jonathan Bell, branding expert; Rachel Pritzker, philanthropist; Jason Pontin, editor; Anthony Goldbloom, machine learning expert; Dave Troy, technologist; Paul Tudor Jones II, investor; Joshua Roman, cellist; Joanna Bloor, amplifier; Mark Goffman, storyteller; Nalini Nadkarni, tree researcher; Esther Wojcicki, moonshot educator; ShaoLan Hsueh, technologist, entrepreneur; Tom Hulme, designer, venture; Peter J. Toren, litigator; and Ozge Yilmaz, entrepreneur.
· Session 8: Nightmare? Dan Gross, gun-control activist; Jennifer Kahn, science journalist; Rhiannon Giddens, musician; Andrew Youn, anti-hunger activist; Al Gore, climate advocate.
See the lineup of the day’s speakers and topics on the TED 2016 program guide.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a "wish," or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/TED or Instagram at https://instagram.com/ted.