The TED conference (themed "The Rediscovery of Wonder") is taking place this week in California. Thanks to Kansas City digital marketing agency VML and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, hundreds of people in Kansas City will be watching today's TED sessions through a live video simulcast. And in the spirit of my post about live event tweeters and bloggers warranting "press passes", the VML team is providing me access to outlets and Wi-Fi in order to actively document today's TED simulcast.
While a strictly video TED event will obviously be a different experience than last summer's in-person TEDxKC event (which spawned nearly a week's worth of blog posts), I fully expect a creative burst from the four TED sessions simulcast today here in Kansas City! Here's the day's TED agenda, with session times (Central Standard Time):
Session 4: Deep Mystery - 10:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. CST
- Antonio Damasio Neuroscientist
- Deb Roy Cognitive scientist
- Maya Beiser Cellist
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon Geobiochemist
- Aaron O'Connell Physicist
Session 5: Worlds Imagined - 1–2:45 p.m. CST
- Julie Taymor Director, designer
- Morgan Spurlock Filmmaker
- Bill Ford Executive chair, Ford Motor Co.
- Terrence McArdle + Ben Newhouse Inventors
- Indra Nooyi Chair+CEO, PepsiCo
Session 6: Knowledge Revolution - 4:15-6 p.m. CST
- Bill Gates Philanthropist
- David Christian Historian
- Amina Az-Zubair Development worker
- Bruce Aylward Epidemiologist
- Salman Khan Educator
Session 7: Radical Collaboration - 7–8:45 p.m. CST
- Edith Widder Deep-sea explorer
- JR Street artist
- The Surprise Surprise guests
- Antony Musician, visual artist
The setup available onsite will determine what the specific Brainzooming content creation plan will be. I'll likely be live tweeting either on my regular @Brainzooming Twitter account and/or my live Twitter account at @BZLiveTweets. If you're interested in following the activity during the day, look for the overall #TED hashtag on Twitter as well.
If you're at The Nelson for today's sessions, tweet or DM me! - Mike Brown
