Are you guys familiar with TED? We’re oversimplifying, but it’s basically a series of conferences featuring smart people giving talks about interesting ideas.
We ask, because locals David Bradley and Brent Robinson are planning a TED event here in Fayetteville later this month, and we thought that some of you might be interested.
TEDx Fayetteville (the x means independently organized) is set for Wednesday, March 27 at Walton Arts Center, and will feature 10 local speakers including KUAF news director Kyle Kellams, University of Arkansas Vice Provost for Distance Education Javier Reyes, Tri Cycle Farms founder Don Bennet, and others with “ideas worth spreading.”
The theme for the local event is Discovery, with a focus on “uncovering and exposing the potential and beauty of Northwest Arkansas.”
Tickets to the event are $35, and registration is available at tedxfayetteville.com.
Fascinating. TED is great material for your mind to consider. Check out the TED website and their app for iPad / tablets. Good to see an “independent” edition of TED being presented locally. Good ideas, are a good idea!
$35 a head, and limited to 90 attendees? Why bother advertising?
Agreed. Most of these TED speakers sound boring. When I listen to TED I want to hear about fascinating new ideas from experts in a field, not grad students. It seems like all of the speakers knew the same person because they’re all so closely related. A better explanation would be “hippies from Fayetteville talk about what it means to be funky.”
Dgold,
I appreciate your constant enthusiasm regarding the cool stuff happening in Fayetteville.
I am tired of all the other complainers. It gets old. Stop spewing nonsense and go make something better if you don’t dig it. Seriously. Do something or get over it.
Hopefully these delicate geniuses will spew their sense upon the public via online video.