TEDxVictoria is pleased to announce TEDxVictoriaLive 2012 to be held at the Belfry Arts Centre, February 29th.
We’ll be live streaming a full day of the TED conference in real time, as it happens in Long Beach, California! There will be four sessions to attend, check out the schedule below or visit TEDxVictoria.com. Tickets are available for each individual session, FREE via the Belfry box office or https://tickets.belfry.bc.ca. A small donation will be requested at the door.
We expect to have a full house, so please don’t book a ticket for any sessions that you can’t commit to attending.
Ever wondered what actually goes on at a TED conference? Who MC’s? What happens when a speaker forgets their next line? What’s it like to be in the audience? Join us to find out.
Speakers will include British Columbian anthropologist Wade Davis, Oil Tycoon turned renewable energy entreprneur T. Boone Pickens and a roboticist with an android twin.
Full Schedule
Wednesday February 29th 2012
Session 1: The Lab (8:30 AM – 10:15 AM PST)
- Henrik Schärfe, Roboticist
- Regina Dugan, Director of DARPA
- Jack Choi, Technologist
- Marco Tempest, Techno-illusionist
- Donald Sadoway, Materials engineer
Session 2: The Earth (11:00 AM – 12:45 PM PST)
- Sharon Beals, Photographer
- Wade Davis, Anthropologist, ethnobotanist
- James Hansen, Climatologist
- T. Boone Pickens, Entrepreneur, energy theorist
- The Civilians Investigative Theatre Co., Theater company
Session 3: The Crowd (2:15 PM – 4:00 PM PST)
- Reid Hoffman, Social entrepreneur
- Lior Zoref, Crowdsourcing advocate
- Reggie Watts, Vocalist, beatboxer, comedian
- Frank Warren, Secret keeper
- Cameron Carpenter, Organist
Session 4: TED Prize announcement – The City 2.0 (5:00 PM – 6:45 PM PST)