Thursday, November 4, 7pm
TEDXMIA INAUGURAL EVENT: WHERE GLOBAL TRIBES MEET
Miami is a hub of diverse creativity, innovation, and progressive thought but the local geniuses who live among us are often overlooked. TEDxMIA is a grassroots, community effort devoted to spreading ideas harvested right here in South Florida by bringing together revolutionary thinkers and doers in Miami for a night of riveting talks and performances. Come early to network at 6:30pm!
Online registration required at www.tedxmia.com.
For more information contact: 305.535.2644 or lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu. $50 per person including reception with speakers following program.
Bringing together some of the brightest thinkers and doers in Miami, TEDxMIA is launching its inaugural meeting on November 4th at The Wolfsonian – Florida International University on Miami Beach. Organized under the theme, “Miami, Where Global Tribes Meet,” the event will feature speakers from across South Florida for a series of talks aimed at spurring conversation and connections.
For more than two decades, TED has presented inspiring speakers focused on “Ideas Worth Spreading.” TEDxMIA, which is independently organized but licensed by TED, is an effort to localize this mission by focusing on ideas that are rooted in Miami or have an important impact and relevance to the city and region.
The two-hour event, running from 7 to 9 p.m., is planned to be the first of regular TEDxMIA meetings, which are currently envisioned to be held every six months. All talks will be posted online at www.tedxmia.com. The slate of speakers and performers will range from entrepreneurs and inventors to artists and social scientists.
For the Nov. 4 inaugural meeting, eight speakers are confirmed, including:
Rodrigo Arboleda, Chairman and CEO of One Laptop per Child Association, which is based in Miami, on “Children as a Mission, Not a Market”
Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean of Education at the University of Miami, on “Community Well Being, Socialize or Social Lies?”
Edouard Duval Carrié, Artist, on “Today’s Art is Tomorrow’s Miami”
Nerissa Street, Trans-Former, on “Beyond the Lucky Break: How One Thought Determines if We Thrive or Starve”
Stan Stalnaker, Founding Director of Hub Culture, on “The New Tribal Economics”
Sanjeev Chatterjee, Executive Director of the Knight Center for International Media, on media “Beyond Words, Across Borders”
Roland Samimy, Visiting Scholar at Florida International University and Sr. Research Manager at University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science, on
“The Power of Water”
P. Scott Cunningham, Poet, on “Why Miami Needs Fake Universities” Miami is increasingly a hub of diverse creativity, innovative thinking, and progressive
thought leadership—a fact that is often overlooked. TEDxMIA is an effort to drive and showcase the cultural and intellectual vitality continuing to blossom in Miami.
All of the TEDxMIA speakers will be challenged to give the talk of their lives (in fifteen minutes or less).
To attend the event, applicants must register at www.tedxmia.com. Space is limited in the auditorium at The Wolfsonian – FIU and attendees will be selected from the pool of registrants. The cost to attend is $50.
Follow TEDxMIA on Twitter at twitter.com/tedxmia, or on Facebook at facebook.com/tedxmia.
In the spirit of Ideas Worth Spreading, TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMIA, where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxMIA, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a fourday conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those worldchanging ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.
TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TEDFellows program, helping worldchanging innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
TED2011, “The Rediscovery of Wonder,” will be held February 28-March 4, 2011, in Long Beach, California, with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs, California.