TEDxDetroit Announces Cobo Center as Venue Location; Call for Speaker Submissions for 2013 Event
DETROIT, July 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TEDxDetroit today announced that Cobo Center will serve as the official venue for the 2013 conference, to be held on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. TEDxDetroit will feature local community and business leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, musicians and artists. In addition, the conference has officially opened the call for speaker submissions, and is seeking presenters who can address how to create, grow and share a thriving business culture in Michigan and beyond.
"TEDxDetroit is a celebration of what's next. We bring dreamers and doers together from across the state to collaborate, share fresh ideas and find inspiration," said Charlie Wollborg, curator of TEDxDetroit and Chief Troublemaker of Curve Idea Accelerator. "We're excited to be hosting TEDxDetroit on the Detroit Riverfront this year. The transformation of Cobo is the perfect backdrop for our stories of innovators who are rewriting the rules, reshaping industries, and making it happen in Detroit."
"The response to the new Grand Ballroom has been incredible and TEDxDetroit will become one of the highlights of a very busy fall calendar at Cobo Center," said Thom Connors, general manager of Cobo Center. "This is exactly the kind of event we had in mind when the commitment was made to transform Cobo into a venue for the future."
The TEDxDetroit stage has featured the brightest minds from Detroit's past, present and future sharing their wit and wisdom, passion and innovative ideas.
Notable speakers in previous years have ranged from, entrepreneurs like Rick Devos, Dawn White and Julie Aigner-Clark; educators, such as Kami Pothukuchi, Jeff DeGraff and Bobby Smith; artists and designers like Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Anuja Rajendra and Jocelyn Rainey and kid activists and entrepreneurs, magicians, poets and marching bands.
If interested in applying to be a speaker, please visit www.tedxdetroit.com and fill out the speaker submission form. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 30. Following the submission process, the TEDxDetroit board of directors will select more than a dozen of the best and brightest minds to share their passion, wisdom and innovations.
To learn more about the conference, please visit www.tedxdetroit.com.
About TEDxDetroit
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxDetroit, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxDetroit event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
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About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
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