From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

One of Indonesia’s most well-known athletes, Ade Rai started out as a skinny guy who just wanted to look fit. He went on to win numerous international bodybuilding championships, and introduced Indonesia to fitness and bodybuilding. But he realizes the country needs to do more than generating gr...

From: sciencestage.com on Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:17 AM

Urban planner Arif Hasan charts the scale of settlement in Pakistan and its consequences. He surprises the audience with statistical evidence that calls for a second look at the population demographic. About the speaker An architect, teacher and social researcher, Arif Hasan has worked diligentl...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New Yorks new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a part...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Henry Jenkins joins USC from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was Peter de Florez Professor in the Humanities. He directed MITs Comparative Media Studies graduate degree program from 1993-2009, setting an innovative research agenda during a time of fundamental change in commun...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Dubbed the explainer by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jul 14 2011 4:27 AM

Daniel J. Cohen is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. He is the author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins), coauthor with Roy Rosenzweig of Digital History: A Guide ...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jul 13 2011 1:32 PM

How to turn fear from a source of anxiety and paralysis into fuel for action and achievement. Jonathan Fields is a former private equity attorney turned lifestyle-entrepreneur, blogger, marketer, speaker and author of Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love(Broadway 2009)...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jul 13 2011 1:32 PM

Yanhong Wheeler, a famous parenting specialist, author, lecturer, and social commentator will put forward some provocative thoughts on the struggles many Chinese parents face as they try to break with tradition and explore alternative parenting methods. In China, as in many parts of the world, t...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jul 13 2011 1:32 PM

Where the wide reach of mobile Internet and novel human device interfaces will take us? The last decade was by all means the decade of the widespread Internet. We have become almost super — humans, when sitting at our desktop computers, interconnecting our brains and the brains of machines...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jul 13 2011 1:31 PM

Building relationships and connecting people with opportunity are at John Hill’s core. As the director of alumni career services at Michigan State University (MSU), Hill relies heavily on online networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to work with MSU's 420000 alumni. Hill conducts spe...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jun 29 2011 4:16 AM

Noam Kostucki is the founder of a social eco-system which aims to bring together people who want to make the world a better place. He started his coaching journey when he began to teach judo at fifteen. He is now a training consultant for the Institute of Fundraising and the Directory of Social C...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jun 29 2011 4:16 AM

Anna Dymna is a stage and screen actress and a busy philanthropist working to provide creative outlets and life opportunities for people with mental and physical disabilities. She is one of Poland’s most distinguished thespians and has received numerous awards for her work, including the Golden ...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jun 29 2011 4:16 AM

Michał Malinowski is a computer graphics professional turned storyteller and folklorist. Following a visit to Papua New Guinea Michał was bitten by the storytellers bug and has since gone on to co-author the book Polish Folktales and Folklore and to become a chief contributor to the revival of a ...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jun 29 2011 4:16 AM

The Virtual Virtuosos is an experimental project which aims to stretch the limits of commonly available technology to facilitate artistic collaboration. For TEDxWarsaw tedxwarsaw.com the Virtuosos comprised Krzysztof Scieranski (bass) playing live on stage in Warsaw and, playing via a broadband ...

From: sciencestage.com on Thu, Jun 23 2011 6:48 AM

Natalia Fedyanina - Curator of projects of Northern City Co. Friendly design. The best way to increase the power of idea for the City 2.0. Natalia works in Norilsk and stays there, because she likes the North. On the 27th of May the conference TEDxVorobyovy-Gory on the theme of City 2.0 was held...

From: sciencestage.com on Tue, Jun 21 2011 10:16 AM

What: TEDxCLE 2011. Positive ideas for the world from Cleveland Who: Creators, catalysts, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers and doers. Where: The Capitol Theatre, 1390 West 65th Street, Cleveland, OH. When: Tickets will go on sale ($25) Friday, March 18th and...

From: sciencestage.com on Tue, Jun 21 2011 10:15 AM

Dr. David Franklin was named the ninth Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art in August, 2010. An internationally renowned expert in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, he was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the Republic of Italy in 2009. David is a...

From: sciencestage.com on Tue, Jun 21 2011 10:15 AM

Natalia Fedyanina - Curator of projects of Northern City Co. Friendly design. The best way to increase the power of idea for the City 2.0. Natalia works in Norilsk and stays there, because she likes the North. On the 27th of May the conference TEDxVorobyovy-Gory on the theme of City 2.0 was held...

From: sciencestage.com on Tue, Jun 21 2011 10:15 AM

Dick Roy, Managing Director A 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School, Dick left his practice of corporate law with Stoel Rives to join his wife Jeanne as a full-time volunteer for the earth in 1993. Together, they have launched the Center for Earth Leadership, the Northwest Earth Institute, and the...

From: sciencestage.com on Wed, Jun 08 2011 5:25 AM

Finding inspiration for music and lyrics from within and around the world, singer/songwriter Garrett Borns performs his eclectic fusion of sound, story and wordplay. Performer Bio: Garrett Borns is a gifted 19-year-old singer/songwriter from West Michigan. In 2010, his original composition The O...