Saturday, October 21st -Sessions

Session 1

9:35 am - Lauren Capern - Climate Optimism and the Truth About How We Aren’t Going to Die 

9:45 am - Karis Merrifield - The Present is a Present 

9:53 am - John Luna - Beauty: a User’s Guide 

Session 2

10:35 am - Rory Capern - Riding The Next AI Wave

10:50 am - Zheng Yang - Harmony’s Many Moods

11:05 am - Sarah Wolinsky - How the Web Was Won: A Eulogy for Web1 and Web2 

Session 3

11:35 am - Renata Lewis - Good Lessons from Bad Places

11:50 am - Dara Miao - How Athletics Fuel Academic Success

12:00 pm - Ryan Knighton - Nothing to See Here: Adventures in Blindness 

What is TEDx?

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 TEDxBrentwoodCollegeSchool, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxBrentwoodCollegeSchool 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.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a conference in California 1984, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with many initiatives.

At a TED conference, the world’s leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes or less. TED speakers have included Roger Ebert, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gates, Elizabeth Gilbert, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Brian Greene, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

On TED.com, talks from TED conferences are shared with the world for free as TED Talks videos. A new TED Talk is posted every weekday. Through the Open Translation Project, TED Talks are subtitled by volunteers worldwide. Through our distribution networks, TED Talks are shared on TV, radio, Netflix and many websites.

The TEDx initiative grants free licenses to people around the world to organize TED-style events in their communities with TED Talks and live speakers. Selected talks from these events are also turned into TED Talks videos.

The annual TED Prize grants $1 million to an exceptional individual with a wish to change the world. The TED Fellows program helps 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. TED-Ed creates short video lessons by pairing master teachers with animators, for use in classroom instruction or independent learning.

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