SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.-- If you can’t attend the 2014 TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, but would hate to miss it, you’re in luck. The well-known “TED Talks” conference will be webcast live at TEDxCSUSBLive at Cal State San Bernardino on Tuesday, March 18, at the university’s Santos Manuel Student Union Theater.
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” that started 30 years ago as a four-day conference in California. TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers, to speak for 18 minutes on a diverse mix of topics. Many of these talks are then made available free at TED.com.
The event will be held from 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Parking at the university is $5 per vehicle.
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The webcast will include pre-recorded TED Talks and discussion sessions led by CSUSB faculty and staff, including Kevin Grisham, assistant professor of geography and environmental studies and director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Others include James Clover, lecturer in the kinesiology department; Marilyn Stoner, professor of nursing; Larry Burns, director of CSUSB’s Career Center; and Heather Webster-Henry, a marriage and family therapy intern at the university’s Psychological Counseling Center.
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TEDxCSUSBLive will provide a rare opportunity for the CSUSB campus and surrounding community to watch one day of the annual TED conference as it unfolds.
Tess Webster-Henry, coordinator of assessment, research, training and special projects at CSUSB’s Santos Manuel Student Union, said this will be the first time that TED Talks come to the university campus and urges staff, faculty and the surrounding community to attend.
“Professors and professionals alike, whether on or off-campus won’t want to miss this remarkable opportunity to watch the live webcast of TED 2014 conference with other TED enthusiasts,” said Webster-Henry.
“Watching the conference as it happens gives viewers a first glimpse of emerging ideas that can suddenly explode from the exposure of presenting them on such a platform,” she said.
Notable TED speakers at past conferences have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir.
Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Launched in 2009 in the spirit of “ideas worth spreading,” TEDx events are independently organized gatherings that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event, with the TED conference providing general guidelines for the TEDx program.
TEDxLive is an extension of the TEDx program created around the live webcast of TED Conferences.
The 2014 TED Conference theme is “The Next Chapter,” where the emphasis will be to determine what the most significant developments of the last 30 years have been, according to TED Talks website.
TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational inititate TED-Ed; and TEDBooks, short e-books on powerful ideas.
TED has established the TED Prize, wehre exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self-organized TED-style evets are the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
You can follow the conference on Facebook at TEDxCSUSBLive, and on Twitter at @TEDxCSUSB; use the hashtag #TEDxCSUSBLive to join in the conversation.
Follow TED on Twitter at @TEDTalks and at TED News, and on Facebook atTED.
For information about TED’s upcoming conferences, visit the TED Conferences registration website.
For more information about TEDxCSUSBLive, contact Tess Webster-Henry at (909) 537-3950 or email webster@csusb.edu.
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