TEDxCincy Announces Final Speakers for May 10 Event

CINCINNATI—TEDx­Cincy (www.tedxcincy.com), announced offi­cially in early April, has final­ized its ros­ter of speak­ers for this year’s event, to be held on May 10 from 1 to 5 pm at the School for the Cre­ative & Per­form­ing Arts in Over the Rhine. 

TEDxCincy’s newest speak­ers will be:

-          Tatiana Berman, Con­stella Fes­ti­val.  Berman is a vio­lin­ist, founder and artis­tic direc­tor of the Con­stella Fes­ti­val in Cincin­nati, and a found­ing mem­ber of concert:nova, a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary cham­ber music ensemble.

-          Pramod P. Reddy, MD, Cincin­nati Children’s Hos­pi­tal Med­ical Cen­ter.  Dr. Reddy is a pedi­atric and fetal urol­o­gist at Cincin­nati Children’s Hos­pi­tal Med­ical Cen­ter and the Fetal Care Cen­ter of Cincin­nati.  He focuses on kid­ney stones, ESWL, gen­i­touri­nary surgery and clin­i­cal trials.

-          Danny Bab­cock and Matthew Dayler, Higher Level Art.          Higher Level Art cre­ates exclu­sive mural, sign, and fine art instal­la­tions.  Babcock’s exten­sive scenic and graf­fiti expe­ri­ence along with Dayler’s fig­u­ra­tive and print style works are the foun­da­tion of their collaboration.

-          Matt Hage­don, Elec­troflu­idic Ink Trans­po­si­tion.  An Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati, Hage­don is cur­rently pur­su­ing his PhD in the rapidly bur­geon­ing field of microflu­idics.  Hagedon’s research is cre­at­ing a new form of elec­troflu­idic dis­play that will allow for rol­lable and sun-light read­able tablets and smart phones.

-          Ele­mentz: Kre8v Dance.  Lever­ag­ing the core ele­ments of Hip-Hop (dance, spo­ken word, graf­fiti, DJ’ing) Kre8v Dance, part of the Ele­mentz Hip Hop Arts Cen­ter, helps youth develop lead­er­ship skills and unleash their cre­ativ­ity to pro­duce and per­form con­scious hip hop that is respect­ful, insight­ful, and uplifting.

-          Jesse Mooney-Bullock, pup­peteer.  Mooney-Bullock is an artist work­ing in wood to cre­ate pup­pets and mov­able sculp­tures that reflect the nat­ural forms of life.  He builds pup­pets on com­mis­sion for the­ater com­pa­nies based in Chicago and elsewhere.

-          Ben Nunery and Steve Daly, Pow­er­house Fac­to­ries.  Nunery and Daly will share “The New Cre­ation Equa­tion: Dig­i­tal + Ana­log,” which will dis­cuss how Nunery and Daly meld dig­i­tal and ana­log tech­nol­ogy to deliver brand­ing solu­tions for such com­pa­nies as Proc­ter & Gam­ble, Chiq­uita, Kroger, Epson, Sears, Bush Broth­ers & Com­pany, and the U.S. Air Force.

-          Elissa Yancey, MSEd, Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati.  Yancey, an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism at UC and Man­ag­ing Edi­tor of Soap­box Media, will present “Sto­ry­telling at the Cross­roads,” her own excit­ing view on the expand­ing sto­ry­telling oppor­tu­ni­ties that tech­nol­ogy allows.

-          Queen City Project.  This col­lab­o­ra­tion between Blue­stone Cre­ative and Alias Imag­ing will dis­cuss “The Art of Visual Sto­ry­telling” in an effort to sort through the flurry of media mes­sages that sur­round us to dif­fer­en­ti­ate the rel­e­vant from the propaganda.

-          School for the Cre­ative and Per­form­ing Arts.  The inter­na­tion­ally renowned launch pad for some of today’s most suc­cess­ful artists will enter­tain with a cap­pella and cre­ative writ­ing groups.

-          Chris­t­ian Strike, News­feed.  Strike founded Coun­try Club in 2008 and built it into an inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized art pro­gram lauded by crit­ics, cura­tors, patrons, and museum per­son­nel world­wide. Via Coun­try Club, he pro­duced renowned projects with a ros­ter of inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized artists.  Strike will share his expe­ri­ences as an arts entrepreneur.

Speak­ers announced pre­vi­ously include:

-          Meg Galvin, Mid­west Culi­nary Insti­tute.  Galvin will share “Vivaldi Didn’t Eat Velveeta,” a col­or­ful talk about fresh foods that fea­ture nat­ural flavors.

-          Chris Erb, EA Sports.  Erb will speak about the impor­tance of brand col­lab­o­ra­tion, draw­ing from his elec­tronic media exper­tise with such video games as Mad­den NFL 13.

-          Steve Ful­ton, GE Avi­a­tion.  Ful­ton is a FAA Flight Test Pilot and Des­ig­nated Engi­neer­ing Rep­re­sen­ta­tive at GE, and will present “Build­ing High­ways in the Sky,” a dis­cus­sion about the future of flight.

-          Greg Smith, Xavier University’s Williams Col­lege of Busi­ness.  Smith will dis­cuss Xavier’s Amer­i­can Dream Com­pos­ite Index, a unique and robust mea­sure of Amer­i­can sen­ti­ment that val­ues the Amer­i­can Dream on a monthly basis.

-          Renee Koerner, Big Fish Farms.  Koerner will share her expe­ri­ence with pro­duc­ing pad­dle fish in Ken­tucky, a sus­tain­able aqua­cul­ture prod­uct that is dis­trib­uted glob­ally and pro­duces some of the world’s finest caviar.

-          Sid Khosla and Effie Gut­mark.  Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati doc­tors. Drs. Khosla and Gut­mark will delve into how our voices work, using the sci­ence of Aero­space engi­neer­ing to study the mechan­ics of vocal cord vibra­tion and voice production.

Spon­sors of this year’s TEDx­Cincy include Proc­ter & Gam­ble, LPK, the Greater Cincin­nati Con­ven­tion & Vis­i­tors Bureau, The Haile/U.S. Bank Foun­da­tion, HYPE (Har­ness­ing Young Pro­fes­sional Energy)—the Cincin­nati USA Regional Chamber’s tal­ent ini­tia­tive, Soap­box, the Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati and O’Keeffe PR & Mar­ket­ing Solutions.

Gen­eral admis­sion tick­ets for this event are sold out.  A lim­ited sup­ply of tick­ets are avail­able for media only. Inter­ested media can call Dan O’Keeffe at (513) 235‑8638.

TEDx­Cincy is an inde­pen­dently orga­nized event, licensed by TED. To reg­is­ter for TEDx­Cincy, visit www.TEDxCincy.com/register/. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.TEDxCincy.com or the TEDx­Cincy Face­book page at www.facebook.com/TedxCincy. Fol­low TEDx­Cincy on Twit­ter at @TEDxCincy.

An agenda and press pack­ets are avail­able at www.TEDxCincy.com/press.

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In the spirit of ideas worth spread­ing, TEDx is a pro­gram of local, self-organized events that bring peo­ple together to share a TED-like expe­ri­ence. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speak­ers com­bine to spark deep dis­cus­sion and con­nec­tion in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = inde­pen­dently orga­nized TED event. The TED Con­fer­ence pro­vides gen­eral guid­ance for the TEDx pro­gram, but indi­vid­ual TEDx events are self-organized. (Sub­ject to cer­tain rules and regulations.)

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TED is a non­profit orga­ni­za­tion devoted to Ideas Worth Spread­ing. Started as a four-day con­fer­ence in Cal­i­for­nia 26 years ago, TED has grown to sup­port those world-changing ideas with mul­ti­ple ini­tia­tives. At TED, the world’s lead­ing thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 min­utes. Talks are then made avail­able, free, at TED.com. TED speak­ers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Eliz­a­beth Gilbert, Sir Richard Bran­son, Benoit Man­del­brot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and for­mer UK Prime Min­is­ter Gor­don Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Con­fer­ence takes place every spring in Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia (along with a par­al­lel con­fer­ence, TEDAc­tive, in Palm Springs), and TED­G­lobal is held each sum­mer in Edin­burgh, Scotland.

TED’s media ini­tia­tives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; the new TED Con­ver­sa­tions, enabling broad con­ver­sa­tions among TED fans; and the Open Trans­la­tion Project, which pro­vides sub­ti­tles and inter­ac­tive tran­scripts as well as the abil­ity for any TEDTalk to be trans­lated by vol­un­teers worldwide.

TED has estab­lished the annual TED Prize, where excep­tional indi­vid­u­als with a wish to change the world are given the oppor­tu­nity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers indi­vid­u­als or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TED Fel­lows pro­gram, help­ing 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.

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