TEDX San Diego Conference 2014
Copley Symphony Hall San Diego
Saturday, November 8
“Chain Reaction”
Interview
with Mark Lovett, Organizer
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| Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego - Site of TEDX Conference on November 8th |
Article by Cathy Breslaw
TED is a global set of
conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the
slogan: "Ideas Worth Spreading". On Saturday, November 8th
the San Diego TEDX conference will be
held at Copley Symphony Hall. TEDX, an off-shoot of global TED, is in its fifth
year in San Diego and this year’s theme is Chain Reaction. Mark Lovett is this year’s organizer,
and together with his program team and over 100 volunteers, is putting on an
exciting event with a series of speakers and performances. Lovett brings more than 30 years of high tech
business experience - including operations, marketing, IT and management to
TEDX. The Chain Reaction theme is based on the idea that through
community, individual actions and ideas, we are all capable of bringing about
positive growth and change in the world. TEDX is primarily partnering with
Qualcomm, Sharp Health Plan and Hewlett Packard to put on this one-day set of
events. TED’s original mission to bring
people together from Technolgy, Entertainment and Design to talk and
collaborate, has expanded to include scientists, entrepreneurs, religious
leaders, writers, artists, musicians and more. Venture capitalist and writer
Greg Horowitt of the best selling book The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the
Next Silicon Valley, UCSD Astrophysicist Brian Keating, Co-Founder of
Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and best selling co-author of Getting
to Yes, William Uri, and San Diego Symphony Special Project Director
and Conductor, Nuvi Mehta are just a
small selection of who attendees can expect to hear from the speaker series. Also
people will hear from the group Opera Exposed!, San Diego Opera’s community
engagement program designed to bring opera to communities who haven’t had the
opportunity to experience it. Singers are undergraduates or recent graduates of
local university music departments whose major area of study is voice or opera.
Organizer Mark Lovett notes that the goal is for attendees to leave the event
inspired – expanding on their perspective of the world and their place in it.
For tickets and more information go to
www.tedxsandiego.com
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