Your TEDx Hosts;
Eric Greenspan, Make It Work
Mark Sylvester, introNetworks
Kymberlee Weil, introNetworks
On the 10th of October 2010, the inaugural TEDxAmericanRiviera in Santa Barbara, California was held at the world-class Bacara Resort and Spa.
Thanks to our attendees, speakers and volunteers.
For those of you that attended our inaugural event, thank you for your enthusiastic support and good wishes. We at Make It Work, introNetworks and 74 Degrees are extremely proud of the final program, our amazing speakers, the logistical support of our volunteers and AV crew and the thoughtful and engaged audience of locals and many who traveled thousands of miles to attend. We thank you for so many emails since the event with encouragement, suggestions, and comments that make all the hard work worth while.
Our program was very ambitious, 18 speakers in 3 sessions, yet we had a tremendous amount of variety of topics, length of talks, short, medium and the standard TED 18 minute variety. We will be posting the videos, a few at a time, as we get them edited. Please subscribe to this site so you will be informed when they are posted.
This video, created for TEDxAmericanRiviera, showcases the immense talent of designer Stefan Bucher (DailyMonster.com). In this animation he uses timelapse photography to show how he created a monster for TEDx and how that monster then reveals the date of next years TEDxAmericanRiviera.
TEDxAmericanRiviera Speakers:
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Saxaphone Solo Introduction |
| Eric Robison, President and Chief Executive Officer of lynda.com has been playing saxophone and flute professionally for almost 30 years. His creative interests include a career highlight in 2002 as one of six musicians for the house band with Phil Collins for a BBC live television concert at Buckingham Palace, including artists Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Tom Jones, and Annie Lennox. | |
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Lost in the Crowd: A Simple Biology Problem |
| Mike deGruy, who spoke at TED Galapagos in April 2010, is an accomplished diver and underwater cinematographer. deGruy has been filming in and on the ocean for three decades, and is as famous for his storytelling as he is for his glorious, intimate visions of the sea and the creatures who live in it. | Learn More | |
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Can Robot Doctors Solve Our Healthcare Crisis? |
| Yulun Wang, Ph.D. is a world renowned authority on healthcare robotics. His work includes development of the RP-7®, which stands for “remote presence,” to assist doctors in delivering care. | Learn More | |
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“The light shines ahead: How to survive a wipeout and catch the next wave” |
| Shaun Tomson is an inspirational speaker, former world surfing champion, environmentalist, author, businessman and a spokesman for the The Surfrider Foundation. While the lessons Shaun shares are taken from the world’s oceans, they translate powerfully to everyday life and extraordinary challenges. | Learn More | |
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The Binomial Cube–Key to the Universe! |
| Jim Fitzpatrick, a descendent of Thomas Fitzpatrick, who first explored California in 1851 alongside Jedediah Smith, is a California native and has been involved with Montessori education for more than 40 years. He and his wife, Frances, founded Santa Barbara Montessori School in 1975; he is currently SBMS’s Head of School, and vice-chair of the Montessori Administrators Association. | Learn More | |
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Can Playing Digital Games Improve Our Health? |
| Debra Lieberman, Ph.D., is a leading researcher and designer of digital games for learning and health behavior change. She teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also directs the Health Games Research national program, aimed at advancing the research, design, and effectiveness of digital games for health. | Learn More | |
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Sex and Death… some thoughts on taboos, time and purpose |
| Larry Barels was founder and chief executive officer of Wavefront Technologies, a leading innovator of graphics software for the film, interactive multimedia, industrial design and visualization markets. | Learn More | |
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The Power of Connecting People |
| Don Oparah, Ph.D is the founder and CEO of VAI Global, an online Innovation Community that connects entrepreneurs, innovators, investors and others active in building high growth, high impact companies and organizations. | Learn More | |
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Can you imagine your city in 2050? |
| Margaret Cafarelli is the founder of Urban Developments, a real estate investment firm with a strong focus on sustainable and socially responsible development, incorporating green building practices in everything they do.| Learn More | |
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Powering Our Future with Sun, Wind and Waves |
| Megan Birneyis the Renewable Energy Specialist at the Community Environmental Council, a non-profit leader in environmental issues in Santa Barbara for forty years.Megan is an expert in distributed and utility scale renewable energy. | Learn More | |
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Make Yourself Better with What You Eat |
| John La Puma, MD is a board certified internist and professionally trained chef, and is also known as “ChefMD”, Dr. La Puma is the country’s leading physician voice for healthful food in health care and is the first physician to teach cooking and nutrition in a U.S. medical school. | Learn More | |
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Be Present |
| John Davies, is a founding board member of a National Bank, has served as Chair of Westmont University and California’s Economic Forecast Project, past president of the nation’s largest scholarship foundation, and with a group of friends has been purchasing upper-middle-class homes in South Africa and has been operating them in a family-like manner to raise HIV positive orphans. | Learn More | |
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Unleash Your Inner Super Hero |
| Melodee Meyer, a.k.a. Master Mel, is a 4th Degree Black Belt, a Certified Fitness Trainer, and an Inspirational Speaker who has created nationally licensed fitness, personal development and self defense programs. Melodee is the President of Kickboxers, Inc., breaks boards with her bare hands, and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. | Learn More | |
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100 Reasons to Not have the Secret Affair: Educated Love in the 21st Century |
| Dr. Keith Witt is a licensed psychologist who has practiced psychotherapy in Santa Barbara for over thirty-seven years. He is the author of four books on individual, couples, and family psychotherapy. His dissertation exploring somatic psychotherapy was entitled An investigation of the effectiveness of talking plus touching in enhancing health. | Learn More | |
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Planning to Endure |
| Brian Cearnal, AIA, LEED AP is the founder of Cearnal Andrulaitis LLP, a 27 year old Santa Barbara architecture and interior design firm responsible for some of the most recognizable projects on the South Coast including The Canary Hotel, Maravilla, Braille Institute, and “El Carrillo”, a Housing Authority project that recently received a National AIA Design Award. | Learn More | |
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Imagine That… Imagine What… Imagine How… Imagine If… |
| Noah benShea is an international best-selling author, and respected scholar, theologian, long range thinker and executive advisor. His inspirational thoughts are branded and tied with some of the largest companies including Starbucks, American Greetings, Lucky Brand Jeans, C&H Sugar, and Costco. | Learn More | |
“Of all the things we can make in life, why not make a difference.
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Even Software Should Have Screws |
| Jay Freeman, better known as saurik, is fondly referred to as the “Godfather of Jailbreaking”. He was an integral part of the team that first successfully jailbroke an iPhone. He is also the founder of Cydia, the Apple App Store alternative for jailbroken iPhones. | Learn More | |
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Nature, Nurture, and Nanomedicine |
| Dr. Jamey Marth is the Director of the collaborative Center for Nanomedicine, leading ground-breaking biomedical research that includes nano-sized “smart devices” which diagnose, target, treat and cure disease before it can cause symptoms and spread. The work being done at the Center for Nanomedicine will revolutionize medicine and how we treat the human condition. | Learn More | |
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The Poetics of Pictures |
| Chris Orwig is a celebrated photographer, author and teacher. He is on the photography faculty at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA and he is the author of numerous best-selling books. More importantly, Chris brings unique perspective, creativity and passion to all that he does. | Learn More | |
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Music |
| DJ AtWill has over 15 years of Dj experience with a unique ability to spin in many styles 70′s 80′s 90′s Top40 HipHop House Electro Rock Reggaeton. His main set is Vegas style with original mash-ups and remixes when you see him spin you are guaranteed to hear music only he plays. | Learn More | |
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