Speakers/Performers
(Updated November 17)
Our videos from TEDxColumbus are now online. You can click on any speaker below to access their video. Enjoy!
(updated October 4)
We’re pleased to present the following speakers and performers for TEDxColumbus on October 20. The Curatorial Team wishes to extend many thanks to these individuals for believing in the spirit of TED and for the extensive time, effort and commitment it has taken thus far and will take to complete their roles as speakers at our event.
For more information on each speaker, click on their name.
John Glenn has been there and back. Twice. The first man to orbit the earth will share some of his more memorable stories in a first-generation technology, along with thoughts on his other passions like education.
Art Epstein has valuable pearls to share, but not the jeweled kind. His future projections on how plastics, created by strands of molecular pearls, will impact things like pharmaceuticals. Makes you wonder what won’t be plastic in our world to come.
Reade Harpham has a challenge for you. The way he has been ‘protoyping change’ may help you stop talking and start doing something to make change in our world.
Chrystie Hill is not your mother’s librarian. Assuredly, we have shifted how we access information, but have libraries really shifted their role in our communities? You’ll want to hear Chrystie’s compelling perspective.
John Mueller will demonstrate true obsession. He argues one of our most poignant technologies is grossly overstated and asks, what really is the role of Atomic weapons in our world today?
Ann Pendleton-Jullian wants to play with your mind. Her many years of teaching design through gaming may help re-wire the future instruction of architects across the world.
Norah Zuniga Shaw will be pointed with you. Her research on dance and its intersections with animation will make you think about how counterpoint is present everywhere we look.
And offering an inspiring opening to the evening, Matt Slaybaugh holds forth on the charms and trials of the imagination, the difficulties of creativity, and the absurdity of writing poetry.
(Please return to this page to access links to the speakers. They will not appear in the main navigation of the site.)
Should you have comments or questions for that speaker, please post them on each respective page. We can’t promise they’ll be able to answer them the night of TEDx Columbus, but we’ll be sure they’ll read them.
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I am thrilled that the TED concept has come to Columbus and how appropriate that the Wexner will be hosting. I learned about it from a former colleague from the 12 1/4 group via Facebook. I’m very interested in attending the October 20 event. I am in the business of innovation, working for a technology thinktank here in Columbus as Director for Advanced Energy Manufacturing. My mission is to reinvent manufacturing in the U.S. through the transformation of industrial processes and new cleaner technologies. I need to find a community of thinkers and doers to share ideas and to challenge my assumptions. Thank you for your consideration.
Kimberly
I would love to receive updates! Thanks!
Hi– looking forward to seeing list of speakers! Please notify.
Please update me with a speakers list, whenever it’s ready! Thanks much.
Can’t wait!
Please let me know who will be there and what the audience target is.
Jeff,
People who appreciate the spirit of TED are both the target audience and who will be there. We hope you will join us!
Thanks, Kim! We look forward to seeing you!
Ruth
ps make sure you submit an application…let us know if it didn’t work. we had a glitch this morning.
Bringing a piece of TED to Columbus is very exciting. I can’t wait to see the line-up of speakers and talks!
Hi,
I signed-up for updates, but haven’t received them. Maybe there is a problem with the updating service? (Columbus Underground published the line-up, so presumably the info has been released?)
Maybe an RSS feed for the TEDx Columbus site would help by allowing interested parties to subscribe to page updates. Then, they would not need to visit the TEDx page when updates are published. Just an idea.
Best wishes on the success of TEDx Columbus!
-Tom Wilcox
What a great and fascinating line up. Congrats to the TEDx team for brining this smart event to CBUS.
Dana
yo yo yo cannot wait! Especially excited for Ann Pendleton-Jullian’s talk.
it is so fitting that TED has come to Columbus. I have been a Ted-aphile for a few years…and now it’s in my backyard (or on my facebook). So great to have the opportunity to see our community’s great minds (in arts, sciences, technology, etc.) featured in this forum. WOW, look out California…..we’re going to move onward and upward…..!!!