TedX comes to Idaho Falls
Community leaders held their second Ted Talks event in eastern Idaho Friday.
“There’s discussion based from technology to philosophy to technology to psychology to science,” said TEDx Licensee, Brad Christensen.
The TEDx Program is a spin off from national “TED Talks” that are designed to help communities, organizations and individuals spark conversation and innovative ideas. Christensen said this free flow of ideas is lacking within the eastern Idaho area.
“I think here in eastern Idaho, we have all kinds of people with super engaging ideas, interesting ideas and expertise and passion,” he said. “There just isn’t a forum for them to express that, and that’s what the Ted model is. It allows people that platform, where they can get up and they can share their idea with the community.”
Last year, the event was held in Ammon, but this year, organizers are conducting discussions at the ARTitorium on Broadway in Idaho Falls.
After an extensive application process, organizers chose the following speakers for the event:
2015 Speaker Panel
Kristie ScottCreating quintessential sensoryscapes
David Pennock Community dialogue, Galileo, and the powerful potential of museums
Joo Yang The price of love and freedom
Rita Foster Power internet
Michelle Ziel-Dingman Love > Fear
Fahim Rahim, MD FASN How to trap an alien
Aaron Turner It doesn’t matter where you came from, it’s where you’re going
Janet Allen Rebounding from bad outcomes: A formula for resilience
Christensen said, in the past, there hasn’t been a platform for the free flow of ideas. He said often discussions and forums are political or religious. But without the spreading of contemporary ideas, Christensen said he believes communities become stagnant.
“Ideas can change the world. In fact, one idea did. It was the idea that you could share ideas and not hoard them,” he said.
To view the event from your computer or mobile device, you can see a livestream on www.TEDxIdahoFalls.com on the night of the event, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
