Speakers
Get Your Thinking Caps Ready!
Here it is…the line up for TEDxKids @SMU and TEDxSMU. We can hardly wait!
TEDxSMU
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Willie Baronet: rethinking how we define home, designer, SMU professor
Luke Barrington: through his company, TOMNOD, crowd sourcing the search for Genghis Khan’s tomb, among other things
Molly Bingham: revamping the way media works with her new organization, ORBMedia
Courtney Ferrell: infuses creativity into companies through her work with Prophet; encouraging girls to live extraordinary lives
Helen Fisher: biological anthropologist, helps us look for love in all the right places, TED veteran speaker
Dave Gallo: amazing underwater explorer & researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic, TED veteran speaker
Christian Genco: SMU engineering student who believes the world needs to learn to program
Brett Giroir: Texas A&M vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, ex-DARPA, biomedical researcher, innovator
Jeremy Gregg: rethinking prisons to becoming platforms for rebuilding lives and communities
Greg Harper: blow-your-mind gadget guy & futurist
Charley Johnson: head of the worldwide Pay it Forward movement; wants to help bring back simplicity in a complex world
Katrina Leshan: SMU Meadows student & guitarist extraordinaire
Amy Krouse Rosenthal: is a person who likes to make things
Klaudia Oliver: ambassador of the cultural zeitgeist
Will Power: playwright, performer
Krish Prabhu: president & CEO of AT&T Labs, technology innovator
Lesli Rotenberg: educating kids & adults through public television
Byron Sanders: education fanatic & newly-minted director of the Dallas Education Foundation; TEDxSMU spring audition winner
Louie Schwartzberg: film maker, TED veteran speaker
Kyle Stewart: spreading the joy of tea from the young to the old
Terry Stewart: as the CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he loves to rock, loves to roll
Jeremi Suri: global humanist & public policy expert; self-described “HinJew” (half Hindu, half Jewish)
Jessie Zarazaga: architect, community planner
TEDxKids @SMU Line Up
(for more information about attending, click here)
Amit Banerjee: young Eagle Scout who created a Philanthropy Kids magazine (8th grader)
Luke Barrington: through his company, TOMNOD, crowd sourcing the search for Genghis Khan’s tomb, among other things
Asha Christensen: slam poetry competition winner (7th grader)
Courtney Ferrell: infuses creativity into companies through her work with Prophet; encouraging girls to live extraordinary lives
Dave Gallo: amazing underwater explorer & researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic, TED veteran speaker
Christian Genco: SMU engineering student who believes the world needs to learn to program
Brett Giroir: Texas A&M vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, ex-DARPA, biomedical researcher, innovator
Greg Harper: blow-your-mind gadget guy & futurist
Charley Johnson: head of the worldwide Pay it Forward movement; wants to help bring back simplicity in a complex world
Will Power: playwright, performer
Louie Schwartzberg: film maker, TED veteran speaker
Maria (“Masha”) Sardari: photography prodigy
Kyle Stewart: spreading the joy of tea from the young to the old
Jeremi Suri: global humanist & public policy expert; self-described “HinJew” (half Hindu, half Jewish)
Tracy Walder: her career has led her from the CIA to Hockaday
The legacy from the past presenters is huge: these are the folks who inspired us, moved us, challenged us. A huge thank you to each of our past TEDxSMU and TEDxKids @SMU speakers. Be sure to check out their posted TEDxTalks. Here are speaker bios from past conferences:
TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Note: Because of our arrangement with TED, we do not offer honorariums to speakers