Speakers & Performers

Balance
September 13, 2011

Seeking balance. Our lives — at home, at work, in our community — are filled with competing ideas and often competing extremes. As a result, the world can feel torn, polarized or simply off-kilter. TEDxAtlanta is bringing together 8 amazing speakers, each with an idea worth sharing about the balance we all seek.

Creativ!ty
March 15, 2011

Some ideas are too big to capture in language but glitter in our understanding of the world. Creativity is just such an idea. On March 15, 2011, TEDxAtlanta will explore creativity: not just the beauty, humor and ingenuity, but what's behind it. We’ll experience the wonder but also ask the questions. Can creativity be measured? Where does creativity live in our brains? How can we grow more of it?

Re:solve
September 14, 2010

Enough talk: what are the solutions?
Ten amazing speakers — each of whom is part of an active effort to solve a modern problem — will make this last TEDxAtlanta of 2010 a true call to action. We’ll learn about the ingenuity, the boldness, the work-arounds, the setbacks and the small-step-forward successes involved with tackling significant issues. If you have attended a previous TEDxAtlanta event, watch for your invitation.
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Re:learn
May 18, 2010

What do we need to be learning, and how? Hardly new questions, but ones that seem to take on greater urgency with each passing day. And not just for children, but for all of us. It was Alvin Toffler, the futurist, who said, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” And so, with that thought in mind, TEDxAtlanta has set its focus for May 18th as RE:LEARN.
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Re:purpose
January 26, 2010

What things around us — or within us — hold potential beyond our familiar expectations of them? What remarkable impact is possible when we alter or expand or re-imagine the purpose of something?
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Re:evolution
September 15, 2009

Our city joined Berlin, London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo, and some 50 other places around the world in becoming a part of the TEDx community. The moment seemed right to ask ourselves what the future of Atlanta required of us.
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