TEDxSMU 2014: Strangely Familiar
TEDxSMU, the day-long event dedicated to ideas worth spreading, was back for a sixth year on Saturday, November 1st. “Strangely Familiar” was the theme for the conversations; our speakers and performers took us on an adventure into the unknown. Topics intersected where the strange meets the familiar; familiar subjects were viewed with a different lens and strange ideas were made relatable. Our journey included music and dance, robots and big data. We traveled to prisons in Africa then back to the super-bugs in our own backyard.
Check out pictures from TEDxSMU 2014!
9:00am | Good Morning
10:00am | Session I: Anticipation
Clegg + Goldthwaite + Hass + Jesuit + McLean + Myers + Stoetzel
11:45am | Lunch
1:15pm | Session II: Unknown
Carman + Color Condition + Graham + Judice + Nitta + Tillemann + Unity of Cultures
3:00pm | Bounce Back
4:00pm | Session III: Destination
Dyer + Engelstad + Harris + McAllister + Porfiri + Sturm + Twomey
6:00pm | Reception
Speakers and Performers:
Founder & Executive Creative Director | Reel FX
Beverly Hills FATinista – a Leading Expert in Fat Cell Biology
Associate Professor | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Color, pattern and movement
Sunny Sliger and Marianne Newsom
Human Rights Activist
Vice President of Human Rights | Vital Voices Global Partnership
Community and Public Art Activist
Founder | Make Art With Purpose (MAP)
A Banjo Player Overcomes the PR Disaster of the Movie Deliverance
Writer, creative director and banjo player
Social media = unsocial
Head of Production | Alpha Girl Productions
The music that defines us
President and Chief Executive Officer | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Magic as an art form
Magician and Professor | Austin College
Realities of a Post-Antibiotic Era
Founder | Cidara Therapeutics
The Science of Good Design: A Dangerous Idea
Senior Creative Director | Comcast
Finding justice and humanity in African prisons
Founder | African Prisons Project
Delilah Buitron & Megna Murali
Flamenco and Kathak Dancers
Photographer | American Craftsman Project
Learning at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive computing
Program Director, Master Inventor | IBM T J Watson Research Center
Robots assisting nature underwater
Professor | NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
TED + Youth = a serious movement
Content Director | TED
Design Solution Activist
Senior Advisor for Civil Society & Emerging Democracies | U.S. Department of State
World Champion FIRST Robotics Team 2848
Jesuit College Preparatory in Dallas, TX