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Page 1: Table of Contents€¦ · Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime
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Table of Contents

4 Organizer’s Welcome6 Experience TEDxSanDiego7 About TED7 About TEDx7 About TEDxYouth@SanDiego8 Program Schedule10 Speakers & Performers17 Emcees19 Innovation Alley20 Sponsors & Partners29 Community Network30 2014 Event Team31 Notes

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Welcome to TEDxSanDiego!

Now celebrating our fifth year, TEDxSanDiego continues to be a catalyst for spreading ideas that change our community and the world at large. Each year presents the opportunity for our team to bring a transformational experience to the stage with the goal of enabling people to learn, connect, be inspired, inspire others, and realize that all of us have the ability to make a difference.

Our theme for 2014, Chain Reaction, explores the ways in which a person, idea or technology can effect the lives of many, thus changing the very fabric of our society. That notion led us back to our downtown roots with the intent of integrating our annual event into the vibrant core of this city, a place where innovation is truly creating a Chain Reaction of its own.

In addition to all of the speakers and performers who will take you on a journey of insights and revelations inside Symphony Hall, we’ve taken our theme a step further and turned B Street into a space we call Innovation Alley as a way to showcase San Diego’s most innovative entrepreneurs.

We remain convinced that TEDxSanDiego is not only shaped by what happens on stage, but also draws from the interactions between participants, partners, and team members, so we encourage you to take advantage of the time between sessions and make a point to engage with each other.

By the end of the day we think you’ll come to realize that each of us, in our own special way, is responsible for creating a unique Chain Reaction.

On behalf of myself, my co-organizer, John Ohanian, our incredible team of over 100 volunteers, and our founders, I want to thank you for being an active part of this incredible experience.

Mark Lovett, Chief Architect

Organizer’s WelcomeMark Lovett

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Ideas are the most powerful thing in the world, far more powerful than money. Best of all, there are no barriers to having great ideas and thinking big. Whether rich or poor, privileged or disadvantaged, everybody is capable of changing their lives and the lives of others by thinking big.

– Clive Palmer

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Experience TEDxSanDiego

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust

Your experience today will only be as meaningful as you make it. Each participant will experience TEDxSanDiego in his or her own way, but we do have a few suggestions about how to get the most of your experience.

Be PresentToday will never be duplicated. Experience the day with intention and wring the most out of each moment. We all have one shot to listen, absorb and imagine; so do your best to free your mind of wayward thoughts and your hands of mobile devices.

Be CuriousQuestion. Seek out new people, perspectives and activities. Write down your thoughts. Engage with speakers. Consider how the ideas presented today can be integrated into your life.

Be FriendlyWear a smile all day and be an invitation to engage with others – those you already know and those you are seeing for the first time. Make today the day you are first to extend your hand and your heart to strangers.

Be Mobile The participants around you are some of the most dynamic people you will meet. So choose a new seat each time you enter the seating areas and see what it has to offer. And please keep seat saving to a minimum.

Be ConsiderateFor the sake of the experience of your fellow participants and speakers, as well as the TED guidelines, please refrain from recording and flash photography. Non-flash photography on devices no larger than a mobile phone is permitted. Be The ChangeOur hope is that today offers you an opportunity to consider the ways in which you can affect the world within yourself, your community, or this planet in some way - big or small. Let your TEDxSanDiego experience be an inspiration, a catalyst, a vehicle for the change you wish to see.

About

TEDTED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support world-changing 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 will take place in Vancouver, BC with a simulcast in Whistler during TEDActive in March of 2015. 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 world-changing 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.

TEDxIn 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 TEDxSanDiego, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxSanDiego event, TEDTalks video, live speakers and a plethora of demos and interactive exhibits 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 are self-organized.

TEDxYouth@SanDiegoTEDxYouth@SanDiego launched in 2011 with a vision to be a spark of possibility and a catalyst for change for young people across San Diego and beyond. TEDxYouth@SanDiego is a unique collaboration between high school students, business leaders and educators – all working in concert to share the power of ideas. TEDxYouth@SanDiego is a volunteer-run, 501c3 non-profit organization funded by the goodness of individuals, organizations and foundations committed to empowering young people to imagine and create the future. www.tedxyouthsandiego.com

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Program Schedule

10:30 a.m. Registration Coffee and light snacks 11:00 a.m. Innovation Alley 1:00 p.m. Session One

Presenters Mayor Kevin Faulconer: Welcome Message

Opera Exposed!: Performance

Xiao Xiao: Invisible Cities of the Creative Mind

Janet Crawford: The Surprising Neuroscience of Gender Inequity

Greg Horowitt: Architecting the Invisible: Creating a Culture of Innovation

2:10 p.m. Break 3:00 p.m. Session 2

Presenters Renga: Performance

Nuvi Mehta: The Healing Power of Music

Bradley Voytek: Failing Into Passion

Rabbi Laurie Coskey: The Holy Chutzpah of Foot Washing

William Ury: The Power of Listening

4:10 p.m. Break

Saturday, November 8, 2014

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5:00 p.m. Session 3

Presenters Jennifer Nacif: The Secret to Motivating Your Child

Brian Keating: Going to the Ends of the Earth to Discover the Beginning of Time

Gabi Ury: What’s Wrong With Me? Absolutely Nothing.

James Altucher: Choose Yourself

San Diego School of Ballet: Performance

6:15 p.m. Concludes

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Speakers & Performers

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James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer. He is the author of the WSJ and Amazon Best-Sellers “Choose Yourself” and “The Power Of No” as well as ten other books. He has started and run more than 20 companies, and sold several of those businesses for large exits and failed miserably at all the rest. His book “Choose Yourself” explains how he rose from repeated failure to find success. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, is an active angel investor, and currently sits on the boards of several companies.

James Altucher

Rabbi Laurie Coskey’s almost 30-year career has been marked by a commitment to issues of social justice. Since 2001, Rabbi Laurie has served as the Executive Director of the Interfaith Center for Worker Justice advocating on issues that impact the working poor, immigrants and the marginalized. She is Secretary Treasurer of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation Board of Directors and Rabbi in Residence at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral. Rabbi Laurie completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University, was ordained at Hebrew Union College.

Greg is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a seed and early stage venture fund and advisory services firm focused on high impact enterprise and the ecosystems that support them. He is the co-author of the bestselling book, “The Rainforest: the Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley” which examines the dynamics and drivers of innovation ecosystems; drawn from firsthand experiences designing, implementing, and monitoring the innovation ecosystems of more than a dozen regions around the world.

Rabbi Laurie Coskey Greg Horowitt

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Janet Crawford is Principal of Cascadance and Founder of the Women and Innovation Lab. Combining insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and experimental psychology, she helps leaders build productive, innovative and collaborative corporate cultures. With two decades of experience coaching and consulting for Fortune 500 companies, her client organizations span the who’s who of Silicon Valley and beyond. Janet holds a Masters from Stanford University and a BA from U.C. Berkeley.

Janet Crawford

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Widely considered one of the finest speakers on classical music, San Diego Symphony Special Project Director, Nuvi Mehta, has a gift for capturing minds and hearts. The L.A. Times likens him to a young Gary Cooper, saying, “… His old-fashioned Hollywood charisma extends to an eloquent and theatrical way of speaking that is almost entirely lost today.” Mehta’s multi-media Symphony Exposé concert series, combining drama and education with symphonic music is building a new generation of classical music lovers. His pre-show talks draw up to 1000 patrons a night.

Nuvi Mehta

Opera Exposed! is San Diego Opera’s community engagement program, designed to bring opera to communities and neighborhoods who haven’t had the opportunity to experience it. The singers involved in the program are undergraduates or recent graduates of local university music departments whose major area of study is voice or opera. Soprano Christen Horne is a recent graduate of Point Loma Nazarene University; baritone Anthony Whitson Martini is a senior at PLNU. Pianist Nicolas Reveles is the Director of Education and Community Engagement for San Diego Opera.

Opera Exposed!

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Jennifer Nacif studied for a degree in International Relations at the University of Colorado, but found her true calling after reading books on psychology and human behavior. Jennifer is an acclaimed speaker as well as a major radio and television personality. More than eighteen years of research and teaching workshops to companies led her to understand the needs and motivations of the workforce. Her broad experience spans the corporate world where ideas and psychological knowledge resulted in her book The Four Secrets of Business.

Jennifer Nacif

Professor Brian Keating is an astrophysicist with UCSD’s Department of Physics. He and his team of 17 students, and postdocs develop instrumentation to study the early universe at radio-, microwave- and infrared wavelengths. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and holds a U.S. Patent. Professor Keating co-leads a collaboration operating the POLARBEAR telescope in the Atacama Desert of Chile. He is also a private pilot with single and multi-engine instrument ratings.

Brian Keating

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Renga is a thousand-year-old Japanese tradition of “shared writing,” One person writes a line then passes it to another, who contributes the next line, and then to another for yet another line, and so on. Renga in this context is the shared artistic vision and co-creation of a unique musical and visual work in the same manner. Steven Schick, Kate Hatmaker, AJ Nilles, and Jory Herman share the stage for a musical and visual performance to demonstrate this ancient collaborative artform. Renga is a chain reaction of ideas, visions, and sounds.

Renga

William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s best-known and most influential experts on negotiation. He is the co-author of Getting to Yes, the bestselling negotiation book in the world, and has taught negotiation to tens of thousands of people, has consulted for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and has served as a consultant to the White House. An internationally sought-after speaker, he is also the author of seven other books, including two New York Times bestsellers, Getting Past No and The Power of a Positive No. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

William Ury

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Gabi Ury, a 16-year-old high school junior, is the world’s female planking champion, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Born with special needs that affect her spine, feet, and gluts, she decided to break the world record in order to raise money and awareness for the Children’s Hospital Colorado where she had most of her fourteen major surgeries. She doubled the existing the world record for holding the abdominal plank, a core strengthening exercise, with a time of one hour and twenty minutes. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family and her dog Mia.

Gabi Ury

The San Diego School of Ballet’s Pre-Professional Program educates some of the most talented young dancers aged 13-16 and offers them an opportunity to express themselves through dance. Many of its graduates have gone on to dance professionally with American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Houston Ballet and many other famous domestic and international ballet companies. Maxim Tchernychev is Ballet-master of the San Diego Ballet Company and the principal instructor at the San Diego School of Ballet’s Pre-Professional Program.

San Diego School of Ballet

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Xiao Xiao is a Chinese-Born, American technologist, interaction designer and artist currently a PhD student in the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab. A life-long pianist, she applies insights from the art of piano playing to human-computer interaction, with designs that elegantly bridge the digital and the physical. She has presented research at various conferences and television programs around the world. Xiao received a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in architecture, and a master’s in media arts and sciences, both from MIT.

Xiao Xiao

Passionate about the power of ideas to transform our world, Sonia Rhodes has been instrumental in bringing the TEDx platform to the San Diego community. As Executive Producer and Curator for TEDxYouth@SanDiego, Sonia partners with students, educators and business leaders to bring 400 San Diego County teens, from more than forty high schools, together to experience some of the world’s biggest thinkers and doers in the spirit of ideas worth spreading.

In 2011 Sonia founded an experience design consultancy after spending nearly two decades as an executive with Sharp HealthCare. Clients include large hospitals and health systems, non-profits, retail and government agencies. She is also the co-author of The Complete Guide to Transforming the Patient Experience (HCPro, 2009) and an Emmy award-winning producer of Sharp HealthCare’s television documentary series, Stories of The Sharp Experience.

Sonia Rhodes

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Upon graduating from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA with his MBA, Matthew Emerzian became a prominent SVP of a major music marketing company, working with the biggest artists in the world. He was “on the top of the heap” as they say, but felt like he was at the bottom of the world. He was empty. Realizing he spent his career focused on everything that didn’t matter... fame and fortune... he set out to change it by creating a life focused on making the world a better place.

This new purpose not only transformed his life, but it became the inspiration for his book, Every Monday Matters – 52 Ways to Make a Difference.

Based on the belief that “people matter,” today, Every Monday Matters® (EMM) is a not-for-profit organization committed to engaging organizations and individuals in actions that matter and create extraordinary impact on our lives, our communities, and the world... one Monday at a time.

Matt Emerzian

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Bradley Voytek is a new Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at UC San Diego. In his other lives he’s a data scientist for Uber and is the world’s expert on zombie brains (seriously!). With his zombie co-conspirator, CMU professor Timothy Verstynen, he has published the book Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain. In his real research, he studies the role that neuronal oscillations play in coordinating communication within the brain. An avid sci-fi and comic book fan, he’s attended Comic-Con for nearly 20 years.

Bradley Voytek

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Kathy Myers is an experience and program consultant for nonprofits and for-purpose businesses. She creates meaningful experiences that move participants from caring to action. Kathy has activated communities for San Diego Zoo, Polar Bears International, EOD Warrior Foundation, and myActions, The Social Network for the Planet. She also writes for screen and print, producing short films for One Day on Earth and The Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Kathy has been TEDxSanDiego Experience Team Lead and co-emcee since 2013

Kathy Myers

San Diego has truly become a hub of innovation, and this year we’re introducing

Innovation Alley as a way to highlight some of this city’s most innovative entrepreneurs.

Hosted on B Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, this new venue is designed to

showcase the fact that we’re about more than just Ideas Worth Spreading, we’re also

about Technology Worth Inventing. Innovation Alley will be open two hours before the

show, from 11:00 am till 1:00 pm, as well as during both 50-minute breaks.

451 Degrees – optimize your content and comments in real time using big data

Brain Corp – built the world’s first training-based operating system for robots

car2go - car2go is always a pleasure to drive: just take it, drive it, park it

Edico Genome – creating data-driven healthcare insights tailored to the individual

ElectroZyme – biosensors with advanced analytics for a personalized wellness

Envision Solar – advanced solar energy solutions with beautiful and iconic designs

Everyone Counts – designing modern election administration and voting systems

FabLab San Diego - prototyping, fabrication, electronics, bioresearch, and robotics

FuelRod - first reusable, portable charging system to fuel your mobile device on the go

Goodsnitch - technology that encourages people to recognize everyday heroes

Gladius - providing active amputees with a prosthetic suitable for any occasion

HardTech Labs - startups and accelerators in the hardware and biotech industries

Hush Technology - world’s first smart earplugs, lock out the world, hear what you need

Makers Quarter - creating a new employment hub and sustainable urban space

Measurabl - report to sustainability standards, benchmark, improve performance

MeetingMatch - bringing event attendees together to build high-quality relationships

Rock My World - intelligent music and innovative technology that powers you forward

Portfolium - share your work with hiring managers at thousands of great companies

telmedx - extending the visual reach of hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities

Sponsors TEDxSanDiego gratefully acknowledges the generosity of our sponsors and partners.

TEDxSanDiego would not be possible without their human and financial investments that

allow us to produce TEDx events and connect with like-minded people from all walks of life.

TEDxSanDiego reaches a diverse audience at our live events and through our online

community. Together with our sponsors and partners, TEDxSanDiego strives to have a

positive impact on our community through educational, inspirational, and culturally vibrant

events and social networks.

Please take a moment to thank them.

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Welcome Message

Kevin Faulconer is the first Mayor in the history of San Diego to adopt innovation and opportunities as a fundamental policy platform. As Mayor, his goal is to raise San Diego’s profile as the most innovative city in America.

Since his election, Mayor Faulconer has worked to bring opportunities to all San Diego residents and helped bolster the City’s reputation as the best place to launch a startup by promoting pro-small business policies and cutting red tape for innovative companies and disruptive technologies.

His leadership has also contributed to the success of local companies in various innovation sectors including biotechnology, blue technology, cyber security, unmanned systems and clean technology.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer

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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm’s licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm’s engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm’s website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Qualcomm IncorporatedQualcomm.com

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Sharp Health Plan is the largest locally based commercial health plan in San Diego and is a subsidiary of Sharp HealthCare, the largest provider of comprehensive health care services in San Diego. Sharp Health Plan is a not-for-profit organization that has been serving the health benefit needs of businesses of all sizes in San Diego and southern Riverside counties since 1992.

Sharp Health Plan offers a variety of health insurance options for individuals, families and businesses that combine affordability and choice, while delivering high quality health care and personal service. Members have access to valuable plan enhancements, such as interactive wellness resources, dental discounts, Sharp Nurse Connection© and our exclusive global emergency services program.

Sharp Health PlanSharpHealthPlan.com

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Thrivent isn’t your typical financial services organization. We’re a membership-owned, not-for-profit, faith based organization that helps our members be wise with money and live generously. As a 100+ year old, Fortune 500 organization, we have a full range of products to help you reach your goals, including insurance, annuities, mutual funds, managed accounts, and more. Given our tax status, we’re able to give money back to our communities in a big way, and our members are able to participate in several programs whereby they help direct those charitable funds to the causes they care about. At Thrivent, we view money as a tool, not a goal – because the truth is, it’s not about how much you have or acquiring more and more. It’s about how you use it.

Thrivent Financial®

www.Thrivent.com

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. With the broadest technology portfolio spanning printing, personal systems, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP delivers solutions for customers’ most complex challenges in every region of the world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com

Hewlett PackardHP.com

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211SanDiego.org

2-1-1 San Diego is a resource and information hub that connects people with community, health and disaster services through a free, 24/7 confidential phone service and our searchable online database.2-1-1 serves the entire population of the County. Every hour of every day, someone in San Diego County searches for services, from substance abuse treatment to care for a child or aging parent, food, housing or financial assistance.

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extension.ucsd.edu

UC San Diego Extension has a four-decade track record of helping boost the university’s local impact, national reputation and global reach. As the continuing education and public programs arm of the university, UC San Diego Extension educates approximately 63,000 enrollees annually, which translates to more than 32,000 students in over 4,200 courses. UC San Diego Extension is recognized nationally and internationally for linking the public to expert professionals and the knowledge resources of the University of California. For the convenience of working adults, classes for most of Extension’s 100 certificate programs and more than 12 specialized study programs are held evenings and weekends on the UC San Diego main campus and two

WilkinsonMazzeo.com

At Wilkinson Mazzeo we have a heart for humanity and a passion for the creative community. We also happen to be lawyers. With an abundance of knowledge and experience between us, we are ready to be your legal advisors, guard dogs, reinforcements, advocates, sounding boards and/or paperwork junkies. We’ll give a damn so you don’t have to.

IrvineCompany.com

Irvine Company Office Properties set the standard in prominent locations throughout California. By owning such a broad and diverse portfolio of 500 properties throughout Orange County, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, San Diego and Chicago, Irvine Company Office Properties has the advantage of offering its customers the opportunity to thrive and grow. Customers benefit from an unbending service philosophy — a culture of excellence where every interaction is an opportunity to surpass expectations.

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HeraHub.com

Hera Hub is a shared, flexible work and meeting space where entrepreneurial women can create and collaborate in a professional, productive, spa-like environment. The platform provides our members with connections to other business experts, access to educational workshops, and visibility within the community; thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous.

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TEDxSanDiego relies on an extensive network of community organizations in order to bring a diverse collection of innovators, explorers, visionaries, creatives, students and teachers to our annual events. We owe a debt of gratitude to the groups listed below who connect their networks to TEDxSanDiego.

Downtown San Diego Partnership

San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce

CONNECT

MIT Enterprise Forum

CommNexus / EvoNexus

Cleantech San Diego

San Diego Venture Group

San Diego Tech Founders

San Diego Symphony

The University Club

6 Degrees San Diego

3rd Space

Vanguard Culture

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OrganizersMark LovettJohn Ohanian

Experience TeamKathy MyersNicole Miller-ColemanRod AtteberryBrigette BowerJudi BowesJennifer BoydBill ColemanJohn McKayLauren Scobel

Hospitality TeamJazmin HarrisClaire Oksayan Michael Esposito

Development TeamMary GrossElizabeth Kaplan

Logistics TeamBobbi CecioBruce Bekkar

Marcom TeamTucker StineEllen GoodwinBecky Scott

2014 Team TEDxSanDiego

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Program TeamJanelle Doll DJ King Daniel ObodovskiWilliam NeblettAnn Marie HoughtailingJim TaylorKate PetersStephanie WeaverJesse GrosDenise Lee YohnCharles GillespieJulie Kendig

Advisory TeamJack AbbottShawna ButlerKent McIntoshMark TomaszewiczMatt EmerzianKen Blanchard

Show TeamBlayn BeckFale LuisLynn KellyNatalie KushnerTim BarnesAngie BoucherKelsey RhodesJeremy Brill

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NOTES

Speaker:

One highlight to share:

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There is something hopeful about a great idea. But it’s even

more powerful when you share it. Ken Blanchard, a 2012

TEDxSanDiego speaker, created this innovative format for taking

notes. So as you listen to the speakers, don’t forget to write

down what you learned and what inspired you before it escapes

you. After all, you have the ability to be a catalyst for spreading

ideas that change our world. That’s why you are here today.

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