From 12-6 p.m. tune in here to watch the free livestream of TEDxOmaha, the local, self-organized version of TED. Limited to 100 audience members at the Hixon-Leid Auditorium on the campus of Creighton University, TEDxOmaha is kindly providing the livestream to allow those local and global to participate in the day-long series of talks, all based around this year’s theme “What’s Possible?”
Here’s today’s speaker lineup, which includes the showing of four prerecorded TED Talks from the main TED conferences. Today’s MC is Roger Fransecky of the Apogee Group. (Links below to speaker bios TEDxOmaha website):
- 12:00 TEDx Welcome Video
- 12:03 Opening Remarks – Roger Fransecky
- 12:10 “What I Got Rid of Today” – Dave Weaver
- 12:30 TED Talk – Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs
- 12:40 “Welcome the Weird Into Your Life” – Trilety Wade
- 1:00 “Conversation Matters” – Stuart Chittenden
- 1:15 “The New Fat” – Tanner O’Dell
- 1:35 TED Talk – Jill Bolte Taylor’s powerful stroke of insight
- 1:55 Break
- 2:45 “Place as Fate: The Injustice of Geography” – Othello Meadows
- 3:00 “Preserving Obsolescence” – Anne Trumble
- 3:20 “Actualizing a Dream” – Clayton Chapman
- 3:35 TED Talk – Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
- 3:45 “I=We: Many Voices Making Empathy” – Katie F-S
- 4:00 Break
- 4:45 “Breaking Down Barriers Through Hip-Hop Counter-Culture” – Janel Scott + Aasim Cheena
- 5:05 “Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: The Transformative Possibilities of Interfaith” Work – Beth Katz
- 5:25 TED Talk – Keith Barry does brain magic
- 5:45 “Lighting Shamashim for Community Good” – Magda Peck
- 6:05 Closing Remarks – Roger Fransecky
To learn more about TED and TEDxOmaha, visit tedxomaha.com.
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TEDxOmaha Afterparty
If you’re in Omaha, join TEDxOmaha speakers, organizers, audience members and other livestream viewers at the TEDxOmaha Afterparty at Urban Wine Company at 6:30 p.m. Learn more on Facebook.
Also (Update 5:30 p.m.) – Chris Augeri has compiled the Twitter mentions of TEDxOmaha and has posted them at gsnap.com/aghilmort.
