TEDx Midwest Agenda – October 2011

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Thursday, October 13

4:30-6:30 PM
Session: Courage

• Alison Levine: Lessons From the Ledge
• Jerry Mitchell: Lives That Matter
• Kevin Bacon: Six Degrees: From Cultural Sensation to Action
• Amory Lovins: The Reinvention of Fire
• Bill Strickland: The Manchester Bidwell Story

6:30-8:30 PM
Reception

Friday, October 14

9:00-10:30 AM
Session: Discovering Our Nature

• Tony Schwartz: The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working
• Nancy Etcoff: Science of Beauty
• Jason Salavon: Three Things About Art
• John Hodgman: The End is Nigh
• Paul Nicklen: From Pole to Pole: Diary of a National Geographic Photojournalist

BREAK

11:30-1:00 PM
Session: The Future

• Pablos Holman: Inventing for the World’s Biggest Problems
• Edie Wiener: Not Recession but Transformation
• The Interrupters: Interrupting Violence
• Alexis Ohanian: How to Make the World Suck Less
• Dean Kamen: the Future Belongs to the Innovators – Part 1

LUNCH

2:30-4:00 PM
Session: From Fear to Love

• Wes Craven: The Nature of Fear
• Phil Zimbardo: The Nature of Evil and the Making of Heroes
• Rob Warden: Wrongful Convictions
• Deb Fallows: The Linguistic Genius of Adults
• Helen Fisher: The Biology of the Mind

BREAK

5:00-6:30 PM
Session: Anything’s Possible

• Daniel Hernandez: An American Hero
• John Hodgman: That is All
• Dean Kamen: The Future Belongs to the Innovators – Part 2
• John Ondrasik: Where Songs Come From

6:30-8:30 PM
Reception