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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, 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. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started…
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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, 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. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started…
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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, 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. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started…
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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, 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. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started…
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Matt Petersen joined Global Green USA in 1994. Petersen has helped develop and guide the organization’s growing programs of eliminating weapons of mass destruction; fighting climate change; promoting green building and renewable energy; and ensuring access to clean water for all of humanity. He is a representative to the Council of Green Cross International, and has chaired the GCI Energy and Resource Efficiency Program.
In the aftermath of the Gulf Coast hurricanes, Petersen put forth a vision and mobilized resources to create the Global Green “Healthy Homes and Smart Neighborhoods” initiative, which includes: the New Orleans Sustainable Design Competition…
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Lynn C. Fritz shares his logistics industry leadership and experience through the Fritz Institute, a public charity, which provides operational and logistics expertise to the global humanitarian sector.
During his 30 years of leading Fritz Companies, Inc., as Chairman and CEO, he was able to develop his company from a small customs brokerage firm to a publicly traded international logistics services company of over 11,000 employees in 120 countries around the world, achieving Fortune 1000 status in 1997. He started the Fritz Institute in 2001 after he sold the company to UPS. The Institute has become recognized as the leader…
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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, 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. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started…
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Allison Plyer is a nationally recognized expert in post-Katrina demographics and New Orleans recovery trends. Allison spearheaded the City of New Orleans’ challenge to the Census Bureau’s 2007 and 2008 population estimates, resulting in a nearly 75,000 person adjustment to the Bureau’s estimates resulting in approximately $60 million in additional federal funds for education, law enforcement, child care, food assistance, homeless assistance, mental health services, and more for New Orleanians. She has presented on “New Orleans’ recovery according to the numbers” to audiences ranging from New Orleans neighborhood groups to the White House. Allison has learned that data is critical…
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Harry Shearer co-created the seminal mock-documentary “This is Spinal Tap” with his colleagues Rob Reiner, Chris Guest and Michael McKean. He’s also appeared in two of the subsequent Guest comedies, “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration.” He’s the voice of more than a dozen characters on the long-running Fox TV hit, “The Simpsons.” He also hosts a long-running weekly public radio hour, “Le Show.” His novel, “Not Enough Indians,” was published three years ago. Based on radio interviews he’s conducted with the experts on the New Orleans flooding, Shearer decided to make a feature-length documentary on the subject, “The…
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John Besh is the executive chef and co-owner of the Besh Restaurant Group based in New Orleans. His collection of restaurants include August, featured twice on Gourmet Magazine’s list of “Best Restaurants in the U.S.,” La Provence, Lüke, Besh Steak, Domenica and The American Sector. He has been honored with a number of awards such as Food & Wine’s “Ten Best New Chefs” in America in 1999, “Best Chef in the Southeast” by the James Beard Foundation in 2006, and the Iconoclasts series featured him in 2007 as a creative visionary whose passion helped transform a culture.
Besh is the…
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Born and raised in New Orleans, Sara Estes Cohen worked as a freelance writer and publicist for Infectious Music, representing groups such as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Radiators, and Ellipsis until August 2005. After Hurricane Katrina, Sara moved to Los Angeles to obtain her master’s degree in public policy and emergency management at UCLA. For her thesis, entitled “Using Social Media for University Emergency Communications,” Sara worked with UCLA to develop a model for universities to leverage social media to communicate with students before, during, and after crises.
For the past four years, Sara has focused on…
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Matt is the CEO of TurboSquid, one of the web’s first digital marketplaces for user-generated content. Founded in 2000, TurboSquid is the world leader in 3D model sales, with a customer list as varied as Pixar, USA Today, Boeing, and Apple. TurboSquid’s story has been widely covered by news outlets, including CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine and MSNBC.
Matt entered the 3D industry in 1994 immediately following graduation from Brown University. He was a founding partner, animator, and senior producer of 3D visual effects for Chimera Digital Imaging. During that time he produced hundreds of animations and effects for television commercials and…
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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, 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. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started…
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Michael McDaniel was born and raised in Centreville, Mississippi. He earned a B.F.A with an emphasis in graphic design from Mississippi State University where he remains actively involved serving on the College of Architecture Art and Design’s advisory board.
After beginning his design career in California, he now lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a Senior Designer at frog design. Prior to joining frog design in 2008 as a Senior Designer, he worked on large, diverse teams to solve complex interaction, experience, transportation, wayfinding, environmental, and branding problems for a variety of industries. His broad skill set and thoughtful…
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Scott S. Cowen is Tulane University’s 14th President. He also holds joint appointments as the Seymour S Goodman Memorial Professor of Business in Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and Professor of Economics in the School of Liberal Arts.
In 2009 TIME Magazine named President Cowen one of the nation’s top 10 Best College Presidents and he was one of only four university leaders nationwide to receive the 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award.
Since President Cowen’s arrival in 1998, Tulane University has more than quintupled its undergraduate applications while experiencing all-time highs in student quality. In addition, Tulane has…
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Robbie is a co-founder and Chairman of Trumpet, a venture marketing company that is a manifestation of the reinventing New Orleans. His point of view: New Orleans is the Social Innovation Silicon Valley, an urban microcosm of the economic, political, social, environmental and cultural issues being re-evaluated in the U.S. and around the world. As such, Trumpet has evolved its full-service brand communications disciplines to launch new ventures, incubating and developing them inside its 12,000 square foot renovated warehouse in the Creole district of the historic Faubourg St. John. The work there comprises advocacy, optimism, and socially responsible capitalism.
Robbie…
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Taylor Galyean is a principal of Feldmeier Galyean, an architectural firm focusing on hospitality and sustainable design. As designer and project manager, Taylor coordinates and leads the design team to insure that the vision is maintained through all the disciplines from concept through construction.
With over 12 years of experience with all aspects of luxury resorts and spas, primary clients include: The Broadmoor Hotel, The Greenbrier Resort, Hotel Hershey, and Coeur d’Alene Resort. In addition, Taylor leads a team of engineers and designers developing revolutionary hydrotherapy spa experiences including the SilverTAG Shower and the FT TAG Tub.
As a former…
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Irwin Redlener, M.D., is professor of Clinical Public Health and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Redlener speaks and writes extensively on national disaster preparedness policies, pandemic influenza, the threat of terrorism in the U.S., the impact and consequences of major natural disasters and related issues. He was instrumental in establishing the Task Force on Terrorism with the American Academy of Pediatrics in the immediate aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has co-directed two federally-funded national consensus conferences on children and disasters. Dr. Redlener…
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Steven Bingler received his architectural training at the University of Virginia, where he was free to indulge his interest in democratic principles. In 1983, he founded Concordia, a community-based planning and architecture firm, to pursue systemic and collaborative design practices. Concord — which means harmony among things and agreement between people — is the firm’s one word mission statement.
Design projects include the Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, Michigan where Concordia worked with teams of teachers, students and arts curators to integrate a learning environment for 400 inner city high school students into the 80 acre Henry Ford Museum complex.…
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PROJECT ECO-DELTA: Design for Coastal Cities, Part 2 from Van Alen Institute on Vimeo.
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On May 25th the New Orleans institute @ Cityworks, together with the Urban Conservancy and a diverse array of other sponsors drew over seventy academics, activists, non-profit leaders and local community leaders living and working in the New Orleans region to discuss the economic, social and environmental implications of the British Petroleum Offshore Drilling Disaster (BPODD).
A short video was prepared on site summarizing the complex implications of this disaster and is available here. A Working Group on the Delta is forming and a report summarizing their concerns and proposed solutions will be available soon.
Putting A Stake in the…
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In Summer 2009, the Greater New Orleans Foundation awarded grants to organizations fostering resilience in the Region. This short film highlights the energy and dynamism of these initiatives—and the people that lead them.
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In October 2008 The New Orleans Institute hosted New Orleans Speaks: We are the Ones We’ve been Waiting For. The event included single presenters and panels, highlighting examples of ‘home-grown’ responses to the challenges the city and region have faced since the levees broke in 2005. Here is the highlights reel;
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