Schedule
Here’s the scoop for Thursday, May 20!
08:00 AM – Registration & Breakfast
09:15 – 10:45 AM – SESSION 1: LUSH LANGUAGE
- Chris Anderson, TED Curator, TEDx Welcome
- Melissa Krodman and Chris Keener, TEDxPotomac Hosts, TEDxPotomac Welcome
- Bob Corrigan, The Trouble with Names
- Berit Oskey, Co-opetition: A Brave New Business World
- Josh Sundquist, 1MT1MT: One More Thing, One More Time
- Rives, TED Video: A Story of Mixed Emoticons
- R Street Collective, Against Forgetting
** 10:45-11:10 AM – Break with Special Features **
11:15 – 12:30 PM – SESSION 2: UNDAUNTED ESTEEM
- Craig Newmark, Trust Is the New Black
- Welcome from George Washington University, GWU Video
- Roshini Thinakaran, Joining Forces
- Frances Moore Lappé, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want
- Gever Tulley, TED Video: Gever Tulley Teaches Life Lessons Through Tinkering
- William Kamkwamba, TED Video: How I Harnessed the Wind
- Laura Zam, The Collaterally Damaged Project
** 12:30-01:45 PM – Lunch with Special Features **
02:00 – 03:15 PM – SESSION 3: URBAN ALCHEMY
- Yoko K, Organic Electronica: Elixir of Harmony
- Neil Takemoto, Crowdsourced Placemaking
- Dr. Shannon Hader, Challenging Conventional Wisdom: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?
- Bjarke Ingals, TED Video: 3-Warp Speed Architecture
- Warren Brown, Trust, Faith and Mad Love: Ingredients for Success
** 03:15-03:40 PM – Break with Special Features including Pranayama Yoga (Room 309) and Women’s Empowerment Drum Circle, Columbian Square **
03:45 – 5:15 PM – SESSION 4: INDISPENSABLE I/O
- Special Guest: Luke Spring
- Dr. Gary Wynn, Interfacing the Brain
- Colin Beavan, To Hell with Sustainability
- Steve Moore, H Street Next
- Pilobolus, TED Video: Symbiosis
- Alexandra Cousteau, Connected by Water
** 05:15 PM – Patrick Smith, Closing Remarks **
