We are proud to show you all the talks and performances from TEDxBuffalo 2012, recorded on Oct. 9, 2012 at the Montante Cultural Center at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. Everyone that took the stage from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day is now online. Spread the word and link your favorites!
All the talks are conveniently loaded into one TEDxBuffalo 2012 playlist, embedded below:
Photo by Ryan Delmar (@rjdelmar) on Twitter.
Once again, the TEDxBuffalo team is humbled by the sum of the talks, the performances, the conversations, and the community spirit that were generated in one day at the Montante Cultural Center. To those who could join us on Oct. 9, 2012, and particularly to those who spoke, sponsored, and contributed their time, energy, and talent toward a free, not-for-profit event, we thank you.
It’s about time you see the rest of the speakers you can expect onstage and online on Oct. 9, 2012 at TEDxBuffalo 2012. Click on their photo’s below to learn more about them!
Matthew Walter, speaker at TEDxBuffalo 2012
Chef James Roberts, speaker at TEDxBuffalo 2012
Tom McManus, speaker at TEDxBuffalo 2012
Kevin Gardner, speaker at TEDxBuffalo 2012
Jonathan Lawrence, speaker at TEDxBuffalo 2012
Missed the first five? See them all here!
Want to make your Oct. 9 far more interesting, enlightening, and fun than you thought it could be? Like the look of our first set of announced speakers? Then you’d better fill out the application to attend TEDxBuffalo 2012 ASAP. More
It’s about time you knew five of the speakers you can expect to see onstage and online on Oct. 9, 2012 at TEDxBuffalo 2012. This is about half the roster, and doesn’t include performers… Read More
TEDxBuffalo’s theme this year is “The World in our Backyard.”
Sometimes the best experiences, ideas, and communities are right here in our beloved city of Buffalo! What do you think?
Got your calendar up? Good, because you should know that TEDxBuffalo 2012 is happening on Oct. 9, 2012 at the Montante Cultural Center.
It’s our second conference, and we’ll have a number of improvements, new ideas, and around a dozen new speakers and performers at this year’s event. There will also be a mostly new audience. While only 100 can attend in-person, we’re planning to once again offer a live stream of the event as it happens, along with select remote viewing locations with dedicated streams and screens.
(Here’s the iCal/GCal/ICS event file, for you Type A folks. It might activate your calendar client—if not, try double-clicking the downloaded file.)
Check out last year’s TEDxBuffalo speakers on YouTube to get an idea of what we’re aiming for. And stay tuned to TEDxBuffalo for announcements on applying to attend, speaker confirmation, and more:
We can’t wait to bring some great ideas to the stage in Buffalo this fall.
What: Get to Know TEDxBuffalo
When: 6pm Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Where: Room 418, Lyons Hall, Canisius College
Parking: Available at the main Lyons lot at Canisius. (Campus Map)
Details: We would love for you to attend our first public meeting of 2012 where the Organizers of TEDxBuffalo 2011 will give an idea of what kind of event we want TEDxBuffalo 2012 to be, what kind of work that requires, and how new members and volunteers can help. RSVP on our Facebook Page!Â
We’re excited to finally be able to share with you our dozen speakers from the inaugural TEDxBuffalo event on Oct. 11, 2011, along with the TED Talks we screened that day in the Montante Cultural Center at Canisius College.
Here’s a YouTube playlist with all our talks, arranged in chronological order. We’re working on getting up video from our wonderful performers: Alfred Brown and Ken Keech (a.k.a. “The Crowd-Surfing Lobster”). We also have a photo collection on Flickr, shot by the excellent Scott Freeman, and a Storify stream that captured a lot of the TEDxBuffalo 2011 social web activity.
Want to preview them or watch them all in a row? The entire playlist is embedded below, with one video following the next. Click to play the video, then switch between talks by clicking the tile-ish icon to the left of the closed captioning (cc) button. Below that, find the TED talks shown to our live audience.
Thanks again to our generous speakers and performers.
TED is a global conference and successful web video series, where speakers from lots of different professions and passions have 18 minutes each to promote “Ideas Worth Spreading.†TEDx events are TED-licensed, independent, generally smaller-scale versions of TED conferences, but with the same basic purpose and ground rules. TEDxBuffalo is the first of those “mini-TEDs†to launch in Buffalo, NY.
You might have without knowing it, actually–videos from TED’s conferences, and TEDx events, have spread around the web and YouTube in particular, and in the type of email forwards with “Amazing!†in the subject. But to get you up to speed: TED is where you could see Al Gore in 2006 previewing his message on climate change, soon to arrive in the documentary hit An Inconvenient Truth. It’s where you could watch Bill Gates release mosquitoes on his audience to make a point about malaria prevention. And it’s where acclaimed British chef Jamie Oliver made a wish to teach more children about food, which he’s been doing ever since.
These fine folks, whom you can learn more about by clicking on their names. They come from a variety of professions, organizations, and interests, and we’re really lucky to have them sharing their ideas.
The TED-granted license for TEDxBuffalo prevents us from inviting more than 100 people to attend our event, and charging for tickets is strongly discouraged. So we’ve tried to pick out around 100 people that we think will really get something out of the day’s presentations, and who will benefit from, and hopefully act on, the ideas that come out of it.
I know, right? It’s a tough thing when you can only invite 100 people to an event that aims to hit so many different topics and ideas. And many organizers were averse to the apply-and-accept process, because of the negative nature of turning perhaps hundreds of people down, as well as experiences from an earlier attempt at a TEDx event in Buffalo.
So we tried to pick people that were, in the style of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, mavens, connectors, or salespeople. We also had to accept the reality of fitting an all-day conference on a Tuesday into busy schedules. Expect to see a different, and probably improved, attendance process next year.
Note, though, that we’re giving away some tickets in a contest, and some of our friends and sponsors might have a few tickets to spare, too. Get the jump on it by following our Facebook or Twitter accounts, or watch this site’s blog.
No way. We’re going to stream our event live on the web, as it happens, on Oct. 11, and you can watch it by heading to our web site from almost any browser (iPad/smartphone nerds: we’re streaming through Ustream, so grab an app to watch it almost anywhere). If you’re working that day and your boss isn’t so hip, or if you otherwise miss the show, don’t worry–all the speakers and presenters from this event will be up on our web site semi-soon after the event, and all our videos will be delivered to TED itself for archiving (and consideration for wider posting and exposure).
Shorter version: The only difference between you and an official TEDxBuffalo attendee is that attendees get a free tote bag, a free taco or pork sandwich, a more high-definition view of the stage, and the chance to meet their (fairly cool) fellow attendees.
That would be entirely acceptable, and awesome. In fact, we’ve set up “Satellite Parties†at four locations around Buffalo, where you’ll have a screen-and-projector setup, a seat, likely a desk if you need to work, some snacks, and possibly a few TEDx goodies:
We’ve got our full schedule up. Expect a few shifts and changes, as with any live event, but that’s the basic layout for the day.
Yep. Lunch is being served in tandem by Lloyd Taco Truck & Catering and the Whole Hog Food Truck. They are awesome businesses that are trying something new in Buffalo, and everyone should try them both, at least once.
TEDxBuffalo is the product of a group of dedicated volunteers, some very kind sponsors, and speakers and performers willing to put themselves out there.
We’ve got parking details, directions, and other details on our when/where page.
Stay tuned. The volunteers are going to take a much-needed break after Oct. 11, but we’ll start the early steps of organizing 2012 before 2012.