TEDxPasadena Announces Inaugural Event - "Creating the Future" Join Thought Leaders to Explore Ideas Worth Spreading October 22, 2011

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Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA (1888PressRelease) September 19, 2011 - TEDxPasadena (www.TEDxpasadena.com) is pleased to announce its inaugural event, Creating the Future. TEDxPasadena is an independently organized local event, licensed by TED (www.TED.com). The event will take place on Saturday, October 22, 2011, from 9 a.m.-4p.m, and will be held at Aveson Charter School.

Creating the Future will feature three tracks under the categories of Thriving, Contribution, and Sustainability. The event will bring together the brightest minds in the community to join resources and explore the endless possibilities for serving humanity, the world and the future.

Creating the Future will showcase thoughtful discussions and videos by local thought leaders, innovators, artists, philosophers and entertainers. Their inspiring, entertaining, creative, and often courageous presentations will focus on local and global issues, people working together, science and technology, music and arts, entertainment, design and wellness.
Confirmed speakers include:

• Sourena Vaseghi -"Overcoming handicap to stay motivated"
• Natalie Gosset - "the Jobs of the Future - How to be Ready"
• Sho Masui -"the Importance of ritual and thoroughness in life"
• Courtland Warren - "Making dreams come true"
• Pauletta Walsh - "Courageous Women"
• Ricky Smith - "Zero waste"
• Marcus Eriksen - "Pollution: 5 Gyres -Plastic dumps in the ocean"
• Anna Cummins - "Waste water treatment & re-use in Highland Park"

Additional presenters and entertainers are being vetted and will be announced on www.TEDxpasadena.com soon.

"We are extremely excited to bring the TEDx experience to Pasadena," said Greg Apodaca, organizer of TEDxPasadena. "TEDx events have as much to do with the attendees as they do the speakers. TEDxPasadena attracts some of the brightest people from our region; those who will take the ideas presented at the event and use them as a catalyst for change in their communities."

Creating the Future is the first of many events to be hosted by TEDxPasadena. The group will continue to organize gatherings several times a year to enable community thought leaders to convene on an ongoing basis.

Creating the Future is only open to 100 attendees. Tickets cost $75 each. To apply to attend and/or register for event updates, please visit www.TEDxpasadena.com. Follow TEDxPasadena on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDxPasadena and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TEDxPasadena.

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, TEDTalks videos and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. 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 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.

TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; the new TED Conversations, enabling broad conversations among TED fans; and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.

TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. For information about TED's upcoming conferences, visit http://www.ted.com/registration. Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TED

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