DAVID KRANE – TEDxBloomington Steering Team, IU School of Informatics and Computing Board Member, IU Alum By Play / Frequent TEDster, hockey fan, board member for Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, based in Palo Alto, Calif., adviser to the founding executive team of Integrit ...
CHRISTIAN LONG – TEDxBloomington Curator, Co-Event Planner, Speaker Director, IU Alum By Play / Boston Red Sox fan (with a son named Beckett), skier, lifelong nomad/explorer, summer camp counselor at heart, proudly married to the woman he hopes to grow up and “be” one day, and ...
TEDxBloomington Co-Curator, Co-Event Planner, Local Speaker Director By Play / Maker of things and connections, an artist and activist, blogger and podcaster, explorer of spirit and meaning and identity. Setup crew chief for the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. Organizer of international gath ...
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston G ...
Muffy Davis is a World Champion disabled ski racer, having won more than 25 World Cup titles, two Overall World Cup victories and 4 Paralympic Medals. When she was 16, a devastating ski racing accident changed Muffy’s life, but not her motivation to reach her dreams. As an upcoming junior ...
Robert Scoble is a well-known technology blogger/evangelist and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Rackspace where he is building a community called Building 43. Lea ...
Charlie Todd is the founder of Improv Everywhere, producing, directing, performing, and documenting the group’s work for over eight years. The group carries out pranks, which they call “missions” in public places. The stated goal of these missions is to cause scenes of “chao ...
Together, Marc and Sara Schiller are Wooster Collective: a contemporary art and street art collective. Their mission is to discover and document authentic art experiences via salons, publishing, gallery shows, and of course, their website, Wooster Collective and their Wooster Collective YouTube c ...
Sarah Elizabeth Ippel‘s life mission is education reform. She is the founder and executive director of the Academy for Global Citizenship, a Chicago public elementary school that opened in 2008 on the city’s underserved Southwest side. AGC’s mission is to empower children to become acti ...
Amy Yurko, AIA, is an architect. She is also an educator, writer, speaker/presenter, and community volunteer. Amy Yurko is the founder of BrainSpaces, a consulting firm that offers collaborative visioning, programming and planning expertise to school districts throughout the country. She is both ...
DJ Shiftee: 2x DMC World Champ + Harvard Math Grad + Party Rocker + Turntablist + Producer New York City’s DJ Shiftee has translated his intuitive math geek mentality into far-reaching success on the turntables! With a degree from Harvard and 2 unique DMC World Champion titles under his bel ...
During his 10-year NFL career spanning 128 games, Nolan Harrison became known as a steady, consistent defensive lineman who played for the Raiders, Steelers and Redskins. Drafted in 2001 by the Los Angeles Raiders, he took over the Defensive End position from for Hall of Fame NFL Howie Long upon ...
Keith Johnson was raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (where he learned at an early age he was related to Johnny Appleseed), and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gardener since 1976 in places as varied as subtropical Bay Area of California, the White Mountains of ...
Dr. Debby Herbenick is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MySexProfessor.com. She is also the author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction and the Associate Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the School of Health, Physical Education ...
An-shu Stephen Kinryu-Jien Hayes, Founder of To-Shin Do Kasumi-An Ninja Martial Arts has spent his entire adult life in the pursuit of perfection through the study of the Asian martial arts and spiritual traditions, living and traveling throughout North America, Japan, Europe, the Arctic, China, ...
Jeff Han is a former 2006 TED Speaker and the founder of Perceptive Pixel, the developer of the most advanced multi-touch solutions in the world. Unfortunately, Jeff needed to cancel his appearance at TEDxBloomington. Perceptive Pixel was recently announced as the winner of the National Design Awar ...
Bryan Stuart helped create the Corps and Intern programs for One Laptop per Child (OLPC). He has worked with government officials, teachers, and volunteers to improve access to quality education for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Bryan’s work for OLPC has taken him to ...
Seth Frey is a student of community and cooperation on the ground, in the ivory tower, and everywhere in between. On the ground he has devoted himself to the cooperative movement, developing member-owned enterprises both locally and nationally. Academically, he combines network science, economics, a ...
Lindsay Manfredi is one of the co-founders of Girls Rock Indianapolis, a non-profit rock n roll day camp dedicated to building positive self-esteem and encouraging creative expression through music in girls ages 9-16. The Girls Rock Indianapolis program provides girls an opportunity to participate i ...
Edward Castronova, Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, is a founder of scholarly online game studies and an expert on the societies of virtual worlds. Among his academic publications on these topics are two books: Synthetic Worlds (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Exodus to ...
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBloomington, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxBloomington event, 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.
The Wisdom of Play conference theme offers the chance to explore play, wisdom, experimentation, insight, risk, horizon lines, adventure, intention, wonder, perception, curiosity, and knowledge throughout our lives. Although the words “wisdom” and “play” may evoke opposed images and responses, this year’s TEDxBloomington conference is about the fertile ground where the two intersect in our daily working lives.
