Well, here it is folks…the first video from TEDxRochester 2011! As mentioned in a previous article, we here at TEDxRochester HQ have been working hard to forge partnerships with various groups in the community to help “mine” for potential speakers.  This year, we concentrated on the two big universities as, at the end of the day, the legacy of this world belongs to those who come after us.  Additionally, it had been my...

Jen Indovina is a green tech entrepreneur, political energy advisor, and TED Fellow who is currently working to spread energy efficiency initiatives worldwide. Jen is the CEO of Tenrehte Technologies, a clean tech company that produces wireless power management products. She was previously the Director of Marketing for Vivace Semiconductor where she led global technical marketing, sales, and customer engineering teams based in the US,...

Jim is the Communications Manager of COOL Rochester, a volunteer organization committed to educating homeowners in ways to reduce their energy usage. For the last half of his life, he heard rumblings of the coming global warming, but he was convinced that it would not be a problem for him or his children, or even grandchildren. In 2007, Jim watched the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and it became apparent to him that the problem of...

Karlie’s passion is open source technologies and what they mean to our future. In this talk, she brings up some very overlooked and important ideas. Too often, the talk around technology education is centered around white collar work and its accessibility to those from the lower socio-economic brackets. But, as Karlie shrewdly points out, technology has become so ubiquitous that technological illiteracy will present a significant...

A lot of TEDx talks, I’ve noticed, have revolved around the changes in society most notably the education of the latest generation of students (tentatively dubbed “Gen M” for “Media”). These are kids who grew up with technology and their lives revolve around it. They use it, they multi-task with it, they understand it. But beyond that, the old paradigms of teaching them are failing because they’re not...

Marla is the Chair of 3D Digital Graphics department at RIT. In this heartfelt speech, Marla takes us on a journey through her life where she started with the lofty goal of being a housewife. She discusses the various influences on her who taught her not only how to be as a person, but how to be worldly. She discusses how even though you think you might know what you can learn from a topic, there is always so much you can take from it. ...

I’m so glad to finally get to post this video as Todd was not only our first confirmed speaker, but one whose talk I was looking forward to most. As a science geek, any new technology gets my blood pumping, and nanotechnology is one of those that has tremendous potential to literally reshape the world in which we live. During the talk, Todd refers to a quote about lasers made in the 60s “it’s a solution looking for a...

This is our first TEDxRochester video. I’m so glad to finally give those who missed out on this fantastic event the opportunity to peek in! Actually, in this particular instance, I’m getting to see it for the first time as well as I got pulled into the lobby for other things and missed Eric’s talk. As you probably gathered from my earlier post, we had a great time at Eric’s office a couple of weeks before...