{"id":9398,"date":"2016-11-28T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=9398"},"modified":"2016-11-28T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:03:06","slug":"tedxsunvalley-to-facilitate-idea-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/tedxsunvalley-to-facilitate-idea-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDxSunValley To Facilitate Idea Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assortment of talks and videos will highlight inaugural event<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

By Dana DuGan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Vanessa Fry. Photo courtesy of TEDxSunValley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How do we best communicate and circulate ideas? Despite social networking, the most influential way to share remains face to face. TED, a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, has become a global phenomenon since 1984.<\/p>\n

Owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation, TED started as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, but today covers almost all topics\u2013\u2013from science to business to global issues\u2013\u2013in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events held in communities, separate from the headquarters in Vancouver, B.C., help share ideas in communities around the world. There have been more than 18,000 of these events held to date. <\/span><\/p>\n

And among the upcoming 1,307 events planned, Sun Valley will present its first TEDx, 12-7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the Sun Valley Opera House.<\/p>\n

Each event must maintain the spirit of TED itself: multidisciplinary, focused on the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. TEDx events are not agenda or single-topic driven.<\/p>\n

Organizer Aimee Christensen, the founder and executive director of the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience, has attended the main TED talks since 2009; first in Monterey, Calif., where it began, then in Long Beach, and, finally, in its present home in Vancouver, British Columbia. There is one main TED talk held each year, always a sold-out event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were so many requests to bring it to other communities,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cThey developed TEDx to address these requests. The idea is find the people and ideas in a community we can showcase, and get it out to the world. I thought it would be so wonderful to have it here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brad Cleveland. Photo courtesy of TEDxSunValley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christensen applied for the license, and brought in her friends, Andy and Kim Castellano, to help with organization and marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really a team effort,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are 10 of us working on this. And I am certain we can do this for years, discovering these people in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

TedXSunValley will have three sessions broken up with long breaks, including a taco bar lunch in the Continental Room at the Sun Valley Inn, after the first session. As well, as part of the rules, TEDxSunValley will screen a different TED talk video after speakers in each session.<\/p>\n

Most of the speakers are local but will deliver a brand new talk, of approximately 12 minutes, to the TEDxSunValley audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people speaking we\u2019ve known for years, like Muffy Davis. But she\u2019s giving a whole new talk that\u2019s very connected to place,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cThere\u2019s a specific way of doing a TED talk. It\u2019s a different approach, not a wonky talk. There\u2019s been everything from being a DJ and creating music to the guy who invents fonts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis\u2019s talk is entitled, \u201cThe Blessing of Adversity\u2013\u2013The Gifts of My Life-Changing Accident.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Brad Cleveland, an expert in customer strategy and management, and omnichannel services, will address \u201cThriving in the Always-On World.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always connected, checking in and staying tuned,\u201d Cleveland said. \u201cYou can be a 14-year-old, a head of state, a CEO\u2013\u2013\u2018always on\u2019 is a cruel taskmaster. We have to focus and we have to manage it, not the other way around. It\u2019s about simplicity and engaging with a purpose, and how you\u2019re leveraging the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanessa Fry, currently a Ph.D. candidate at Boise State University, is interested in how we \u201cbalance social equity, the environment and economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave Chase. Photo courtesy of TEDxSunValley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI saw the opportunity, wondered if it was a good idea since my whole goal is to gain a greater skill set, and apply it in the real world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Fry came to the Wood River Valley as an AmeriCorps volunteer for the Environmental Resource Center. She moved quickly through other positions, including a stint at the Snake River Alliance and as executive director for the now-defunct Citizens for Smart Growth. In 2007 she received her MBA in sustainable management from Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, for whom she also taught economics and finance. She now lives and teaches in Boise.<\/p>\n

The working title of her TEDx talk is \u201cCapital Investment for Social Success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jae Hill, the community development director for the City of Sun Valley, will give a talk that is close to home. It\u2019s called \u201cAn Evolutionary Arms Race: How the Ski Industry Will Have to Adapt to Climate Change.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Seattle and Sun Valley-area resident, Dave Chase, a healthcare industry expert, does a fair amount of public speaking, writing, film production and book writing.<\/p>\n

He will give a talk called \u201cHealthcare Stole the American Dream. Here\u2019s How We Get it Back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, the middle class has been in an economic depression for 20 years, and at least 95 percent of that is caused by healthcare,\u201d Chase said. \u201cIt\u2019s topical, considering the recent election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase said that blindly sticking with the status quo will create generations who are \u201cindentured servants\u201d to the system, and how some employers in the U.S. are reducing the amount spent on healthcare by providing a wide array of preventative measures, including education, daycare, and dieticians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe $3.4 trillion we spend on healthcare its mind-boggling,\u201d Chase said.<\/p>\n

Other talks will address the tech industry, education, the imagination, travel, dreaming and navigating home, the last being the title of athlete Rebecca Rusch\u2019s talk.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of New York City-based artist Murray Hidary at 3 p.m. will be a thoughtful departure from the talks. His \u201cMind Travel\u201d is a musical performance piece created to bring a transporting and expansive experience to audiences worldwide.<\/p>\n

For tickets, visit TEDxSunValley.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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