June 28, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
At TEDxBoston 2011 we brought together grassroots change agents and blue-sky inventors. They astounded us with great acts of collaboration, several synthesized the abundant information available to us, and many focused on the health of our souls, our bodies, and our global communities. All shared their startling discoveries and taught us something new about technology, entertainment, or design. It was a day of revolutionary ideas, and a celebration of Boston’s ingenuity.
The main event took place in two locations at the Seaport in 2011: in the Amphitheater with the presenters, and in the new TEDxBoston Living Room powered by Turnstone, where attendees gathered in a social setting.
Other ways to participate in TEDxBoston 2011
Simulcast Event
In partnership with Google, we offered a live simulcast event at their Cambridge office where attendees could collectively experience TEDxBoston.
Global Online Auditorium
In partnership with Avaya web.alive, we were proud to announce the TEDxBoston Global Online Auditorium. Meet online and in-person attendees to talk and share ideas in an immersive 3D environment using this revolutionary collaboration tool. Explore Now!
Webcast
In partnership with LiveStream, all TEDxBoston talks are webcast live on our website. Open to all.
Thank you to all our sponsors for making TEDxBoston 2011 possible.
2011 Speakers
- Merrie Amsterburg: Finding the Unusual in the Usual
- Dr. Rox Anderson: Magic Bullets
- Michelle Borkin: Astronomical Medicine
- Rick Borovoy: Junkyard Jumbotron
- Dr. James (Jay) Bradner: Opensource Drug Discovery
- Joe Coughlin: Aging as an Extreme Sport
- Spencer Culhane, Julianne Rhoads: Let the Sun Shine In
- Will Dailey: Songwriter, Musician
- Dyan deNapoli: The Great Penguin Rescue
- Jason Fisher, Jesse Irons, Jae Cosmos Lee, Michael Unterman: A String Quartet from A Far Cry
- Lisa Gross: Civic Fruit
- Ekua Holmes, Judith Anderson, Sabrina Dorsainvil: Community Driven
- One Happy Island: Musical Performance
- Erez Lieberman Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel: A Picture is Worth 500 Billion Words
- Tim Love: Building as Content
- Mick Mountz: Let the Inventory Walk and Talk
- Caleb Neelon: Courting the Creative Class
- Jenny Phillips, Ph.D.: The Only Way Out is In
- Dr. Bo Pomahac: Face the Future
- Ramesh Raskar: Eye exams for the developing world: there's an app for that.
- Richard Resnick: The Next Hot Commodity of Genome Sequences
- Skylar Tibbits: When Things Build Themselves
- Peter Vanderwarker:
- Michael Warren: Somebodies
- Women of the World: Musical Performance
- Christina Xu: The Importance of Being Awesome
2011 Team
Curators
- Sean Belka, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Investments
- Danielle Duplin, Vice President, Fidelity Investments
- Jimmy Guterman, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review
- Matt Saiia, Owner and CEO, Collective Next, LLC
- John Werner, Managing Director & Chief Mobilizing Officer, Citizen Schools
Production Management
- Richard Banfield, Chief Executive Officer, Fresh Tilled Soil
- Christine Buford, Program Coordinator, Fidelity Investments
- Marc D'Amore, Project Manager, Collective Next, LLC
- Lori Keenan, Senior Manager, Fidelity Investments
- Jane Lim, Sr. Executive Secretary, Fidelity Investments
- Peter Moll, Senior Director, Fidelity Investments
- Stephanie Murphy, Director of Events & Broadcasting, Fidelity Investments
- Kelly Nealon, Project Manager, Collective Next, LLC
- Dan Oberholzer, Senior Creative Director, Motiv
- Wilfredo Pena, Project Manager, Fidelity Investments
Production Support
- Don Criniti, Vice President, Fidelity Investments
- Alex Fedorov, Creative Director, Fresh Tilled Soil
- Cricket Hanson, Collective Next, LLC
- Kris Henry, Collective Next, LLC
- Erin King, Collective Next, LLC
- Morgan Lewis, Manager, Fidelity Investments
- Kelly Powell, Director of Client Services, Fresh Tilled Soil
Volunteers
Ben Anderson, Blair Baldwin, Pete Bell, Nikhil Bhojwani, Ovidiu Bujorean, Shyno Chacko Pandeya, Rana Chudnofshy, Christine Cloonan, Matt Cooney, P.A. D'Arbeloff, Kaustuv DeBiswas, Ryan Durkin, Matt Emans, Chris Erdman, Jon Evans, Laura Gassner Otting, Bruce Hecht, Kevin Hoffman, Luke Hutchison, Amit Kanodia, David Knight, Larry Lessig, Emily Leventhal, Katy Love, Bettina Neuefeind, Toni Oberholzer, Neel Pandeya, Pavan Pant, Shawn Paulling, Mark Pener, Stephen Pratt, Debora Pressman, Marcus Quigley, Peter Reynolds, Mike Ritter, Eric Saltzman, Alison Sander, Darshak Sanghawi, Peter Scanlon, Brian Schmidt, Liz Schwab, Eran Segev, Rishi Shukla, Dick Simon, Katherine Sloan, Paul Sonderegger, Sarah Tay, Omri Traub, Ashley Trotman, Anne Turner, Henry Vandermark, Christian VanDerslice, Peter Vanderwarker, Mark Vasu, Bill Walczak, Marcia Walsh, C.A. Webb, Sam White, Caleb Winder, Muhan Zhang
2011 Adventures
» See TEDxBoston’s 2011 Adventures
2011 Grand Opening Video
A Visual Poem to Boston, 2011
produced by: Danielle D. Duplin, Jimmy Guterman, Matt Saiia
photos by: Peter Vanderwarker
performed by: Jason Fisher, Jesse Irons, Jae Cosmos Lee, Michael Unterman from A Far Cry
