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Media Contact: Shannon Downey shannon@pivotalchicago.com
TEDxWindyCity
By the People, For the People
CHICAGO – Four hundred of Chicago’s most impassioned TEDx fans will come together on October 6 for an evening of networking and dialogue surrounding the challenges, innovations and future of our food supply. This exciting mission-driven and action-oriented gathering titled, “The Best Ideas Since Sliced Bread,” will fill the rotunda of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI), and will feature an incredible lineup of speakers on topics ranging from food deserts and vertical farming to wild new food-based inventions. Additionally, a pre-show networking event will include an expo that will feature 10 of Chicago’s most exciting up-and-coming food-based projects and non-profits.
“It’s really important to the team that TEDxWindyCity provide a platform for innovations at all phases of development. We want our TEDx events to create community and action. Our hope is that people use the electricity and energy that they create on October 6 to spur action to support these innovators and help them grow, succeed and ultimately to better the lives of all Chicagoans. We are here to provide the moment and then support attendees in turning it into a movement,” said Shannon Downey, TEDx licensee.
The independently produced event, operated under a license from TED, is aimed at creating dialogue and action as well as giving Chicago’s best and brightest a platform for sharing their thoughts, ideas and calls to action. The event is sponsored by Pivotal Production, The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Google, The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and Chicago Convergence.
“The Best Ideas Since Sliced Bread ” will feature local and national innovators, researchers, and activists whose work has appeared on The Colbert Report, The Discovery Channel, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and CNN and in such publications as TIME, USA Today, Crain’s Chicago Business and Fast Company. They include:
- Homaro Cantu, Executive Chef, Moto Restaurant; Chairman and Founder, Cantu Designs; star of Future Food on Planet Green channel; featured in MSI’s Fast Forward exhibit.
- Ben Roche, Pastry Chef, Moto Restaurant; Director of Research and Development, Cantu Designs; star of Future Food on Planet Green channel.
- Dickson Despommier, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, Columbia University; featured in MSI’s Fast Forward exhibit.
- Mari Gallagher, Principal, Mari Gallagher Research and Consulting Group.
Tickets are $40 and include parking and entrance into the MSI exhibit Fast Forward … Inventing the Future, a gallery that highlights global innovators in science, technology, the environment, the arts and more. Guests will also receive admission into the Science Storms and YOU! The Experience. exhibits. Tickets can be purchased at www.TEDxWindyCity.com.
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About TEDxWindyCity
In the spirit of “ideas worth spreading,” TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWindyCity, where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxWindyCity, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK, and this November, the TEDIndia Conference will be held in Mysore, India. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, 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 three 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.
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