TEDxParkCity

TEDxChange Park City 2013 – April 3, 2013 : 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Event Description:

TEDxChange 2013 — themed Positive Disruption — is coming to Park City’s Eccles Center on April 3rd, from 9:00 a.m. To 1:00 p.m. (details and exact times tbd). This is the third consecutive year that Park City has participated in TEDxChange with Melinda Gates hosting the live stream (this year from Seattle) with local Park City speakers on the Eccles stage.Seattle speakers include:

Host Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with Bill Gates, she shapes and approves the foundation’s strategies, reviews results, and sets the overall direction of the organization. Melinda will host TEDxChange from the Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington.
Cathleen Kaveny, who will speak on religion, tradition and modernity, is an American legal scholar and theologian. She is a John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Theology at Notre Dame Law School, and is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University.
Halimatou Hima will speak to investing in girls and is a Masters in Public Policy candidate at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Following an internship in the Women & Population Division at the United Nations Foundation, she worked in the Child Protection Division at the United Nations in her home country of Niger (UNICEF).
Roger Thurow who will address shifts in agriculture, joined the Chicago Council in January 2010 after three decades at the Wall Street Journal. For 20 years, he was a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa.

The event will also feature a trailer from the feature film Revolutionary Optimists, about how children are saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. Two children from the film, Salim and Sikha will be there for some Q&A. Local Park City speakers are to be announced.

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This event is free to members of the Park City Performing Arts Foundation. Individual annual memberships begin at $25. $100 memberships include early lawn entrance to St. Regis Big Stars Bright Lights summer concerts at Deer Valley Resort’s Snow Park Lodge.

Call 435-655-3114 to buy or renew your membership and reserve your spot for TEDxChangePark City 2013, or buy a membership online.

Previous TEDx Events

TEDxWomen – themed The Space Between – was hosted by Pat Mitchell and the Paley Center for Media in Washington, D.C., and live streamed to the global TEDx community.- Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st, 2012.

This was the second edition of TEDxWomen – the first brought to the stage speakers such as Gloria Steinem, Dr. Oz and Jane Fonda and was viewed by 120 TEDx communities around the globe. The event was inspired by TEDWomen, which took place in 2010.

Live speakers in Park City were:

The Particle Physicist Next Door: Pearl Sandick
Ms. Sandick is a theoretical physicist, studying particle physics beyond the Standard Model. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah. In this talk she proposes improving diversity in the physical sciences.

A Feminine Approach to Leadership - J’Lein Liese, Ph.D.
Ms. Liese is an international expert in leadership, diversity, change management and conflict resolution. In this talk she delves into conflict management with an approach of “digging into positions” to understand values. J’Lein Liese is a Senior Fellow at Oxford Leadership Academy.

I Just Want to Sing: Sophia Dion
This talented 12-year-old singer/songwriter hopes to inspire girls to live their dreams. Sophia is living her dreams. She first introduces herself, and then plays her song “I Just Want To Sing.”

Watch videos of our live speakers on our the TEDxParkCity YouTube Channel.

TEDxChange – April 5, 2012 – Live from Berlin

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a strategic partner of the TEDx program, and together we teamed up for a very special project called TEDxChange — an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions on topics such as vaccines, polio, malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal and newborn child health, and agricultural development. The TEDxChange initiative also includes a global signature event convened by Melinda Gates and broadcast across the TEDx community.

Our local speakers Live at the Eccles Center

We had the great honor of hearing from five very dynamic and powerful speakers.

Paul Johnston, Professor of Nutritional Sciences in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science at Brigham Young University
Dr. Nassir Marrouche, Executive Director of the Comprehensive Arrhythmia Research & Management Center (CARMA). He is also the Director of the Electrophysiology Lab, the Atrial Fibrillation Program at University of Utah Hospital
Mary Beth Maziarz, professional songwriter, author, and creative workshop facilitator, who helps individuals and groups bring their creative ideas to life by tapping into unique forms of focus and inspiration
Donna McAleer, inspirational speaker addressing the topics of leadership, role models, team building and boundary breaking.
Lavinia Spalding, award-winning food and travel writer, a journaling advocate, and a lapsed Luddite. Author of Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler

Watch videos of our live speakers on our the TEDxParkCity YouTube Channel.

TEDxParkCityWomen – December 1, 2011

Click here to see pictures from TEDxParkCityWomen. If you would like to be included in future communications about TEDxParkCity events, please send your email address to boxoffice@ecclescenter.org.