TEDxBirmingham Announces Speakers for 2017 Annual Conference
Summary
“We’re proud to continue to pursue TEDxBirmingham’s mission to be a platform for change, giving leaders within our community a forum to spread great ideas and spark the conversations and innovations that will lead to a better Birmingham,” said Matt Hamilton, co-founder of TEDxBirmingham.The audience is carefully curated, representing a cross-disciplinary mix of attendees ranging from civic and business leaders to professionals, educators, technologists, and artists.TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Monica Lewinsky, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.The audience is carefully curated, representing a cross-disciplinary mix of attendees ranging from civic and business leaders to professionals, educators, technologists, and artists.TEDxBirmingham – like all TEDx events – is an independent, volunteer effort operated under license from TED.) http://www.ted.com/tedxAbout TEDTED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by todays leading thinkers and doers.