TED conference comes to Madison
Posted on February 24, 2011
TED is coming to Madison next week and hopes to get people thinking.
“It’s not like another conference where you go home and throw a packet (of information) on your desk and never do anything with it,” said organizer Deb Gurke.
TED is a national nonprofit group described on its website as “devoted to ideas worth spreading.” Its first event was a conference in 1984 focused on bringing together people in the fields of technology, entertainment and design — that’s where the acronym TED comes from.
Since then, TED conferences have gone global, featuring “the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers,” from Microsoft’s Bill Gates to anthropologist Jane Goodall to Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
The Madison event, called TEDxMadtown — TEDx signifies an independently organized TED event — will be a daylong gathering with three hours of networking and more than a dozen speakers, including Hanna Roth, co-founder of the Rainbird Foundation, a Madison nonprofit that works to end child abuse; Justin Beck, co-founder of Madison social gaming software company PerBlue; and Traci Fenton, founder of WorldBlu, a nonprofit based in New York that encourages democratic workplaces.
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