In order to bring everyone a more vibrant experience, we have decided to condense the day’s program – the event on April 17, 2010 at the UCSB will run from 9am until 1pm. We will be breaking the program into two sessions with a 45 minute coffee break in between.
We will have 5 speakers go in the first session and four in the second session. All sessions will be streamed live online. We will also be showing a number of TED videos throughout the day.
There are a number of reasons why we have made this decision. First of all, April 17 is Earth Day, and as there are events going on downtown in the afternoon to celebrate this worldwide event that has its origins in Santa Barbara, we didn’t want to overlap with those festivities too much.
Second, many Santa Barbarians really like getting out on the weekends, and we felt that keeping everyone inside all day, wasn’t fair.
Finally, a number of our speakers requested to speak earlier in the day, so we want to accommodate them as much as possible.
TEDxSB is proud to announce our first (and main) round of speakers! We had the great fortune of gathering some of the Central Coast’s and California’s most dynamic and important speakers, and the planning team is beyond thrilled to have each and every one of them preparing talks for April 17. Our main round of speakers includes an astronomer, Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate, two artists, two urban planners, two entrepreneurs, and an environmentalist, and many of our speakers are also published authors as well as being accomplished keynote speakers.
So who are they? Visit our Speakers page to read all about them!
If you haven’t requested an invite to attend TEDxSB on April 17 at UCSB, we strongly recommend that you do so as soon as possible, as we only have a limited number of invitations still available. To request an invite, please fill out the form on our Attend page or send us an email at tedxsb@gmail.com
Again, we are thrilled to have each and every one of our speakers, and we hope to be updating this list with a few more exceptional talents in the near future!
