TEDxVeniceBeach Returns in 2017 With Creatives, Community and WILD THOUGHTS

VENICE BEACH, Calif., Oct. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 15, 2017, TEDxVeniceBeach returns to the Venice Beach community for a day of sharing progressive and engaging ideas through a wide range of speakers and attendees.

TEDx events are designed to help communities, organizations and individuals spark conversation and connection through local TED-like experiences. The theme for this year's TEDxVenice, WILD THOUGHTS, speaks to the heritage of Venice Beach as an epicenter for the wild and creative.

"I think that Venice Beach is home to some of the most creative thinkers in the world. I'm excited to be able to invite my pick of them to contribute their ideas worth sharing to the TED platform, the most popular and powerful way for audiences around the world to exchange and absorb cutting-edge information. I'm also excited to bring together some of the most engaged people in the community for a day of talks and activities and fun," said Lucy Walker, film director and curator of TEDxVeniceBeach.

This is the first TEDx event organized by Walker, who has won an Emmy and been nominated for two Academy Awards among many other honors for her films.

The event, which will be webcast, will begin at 10:00am PST on October 15^th, 2017 at the The Microsoft Lounge at 901 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the former factory of legendary design couple Charles & Ray Eames.

To view the webcast, visit: http://tedxvenicebeach.com/.

The speaker lineup includes:

• Moby – Musician and activist
• Diane von Fürstenberg – Fashion designer
• Dan Buczaczer – Data visualization expert, who will show evolution of Venice Beach
• Agnès Varda – Academy Award-winning filmmaker
• Franklin Leonard – Film executive, founder of The Black List
• Ruben Rojas – Co-founder of Beautify Earth, muralist
• Nicole Landers – Community Healing Gardens co-founder, volunteer executive director
• Mahalia Jean-Pierre – A 21-year-old singer, transitioning from living on the beach with the help of local shelter Safe Place 4 Youth
• Max Lugavere – Health journalist, filmmaker
• Tom Insel – Psychiatrist and neuroscientist
• John Gottman, Ph.D., and Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D. – relationship scientists
• Brad Brooks – Thinker and anti-bullying ambassador
• Ben Radnor and Ben Lee – Musicians, Radnor and Lee
• Adam Peters – Cellist, composer, member of Echo & the Bunnymen
• Ben Weiss – Veteran of the computer graphics industry on how fractals are the structure of reality
• Luis Rodriguez – The 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate
• Jen Sotham – Freelance journalist and screenwriter/director
• Ed Cooke – Memory champion and language learning export
• Satchinanda Panda – Circadian rhythm researcher

Attendees of TEDxVeniceBeach will include influencers, thought leaders, creatives, activists, and engaged community members from Venice Beach and Los Angeles, and farther afield.

TEDxVenice sponsors and partners include Microsoft Corp., Maserati, ENSO, MERMAN, Liv Cycling, Plant Food Wine, Smarty Pants, Rose Room, DOF, Torit Labs, Venice Ale House, Surfair, Toms, Four Sigmatic on Shrooms, Jenis Splendid Ice Cream, Pretty in Plastic, Purposelab, Repurpose, Surf Air, Hotel Erwin, Simply New, Trew Audio, Otterbach Art, Barnana, Lonely Planet, The Hillhaven Lodge, Zevia, Within, GOLDS Gym, Bonterra, and Shinola Detroit.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman. 

The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

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