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TEDx comes to Navesink in September
Written by Susanne Cervenka @scervenka
Aug. 28, 2013 | app.com
If you go.
Tickets for TEDxNavesink cost $40 for individual tickets or $30 in groups of five or more. Student tickets
cost $22. Information about TEDxNavesink is available at .www.tedxnavesink.com
Schedule
8:00 amRegistration Opens Note: Schedule below subject to change. 8:45 am to 10:30 am Ocean /
People Brian Smiga: Welcome Cindy Zipf: Our Wild and Industry Free Ocean Ben Kalina: Collisions of
human, technological and geological time lines Tereza Nemessanyi: From Mom to Microsoft VP via social
networking – My Story. Erika Casriel: Remapping the Self in light of latest brain science Elizabeth
Urbanski: Selfies – Self image though history and today John Shammas: Selfies – how to do them, and
how I built the app 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Garden State Richard Veit: Human Culture in Middle Atlantic
12000 BCE to 1600s Megan Paska: Permaculture gardening directly on the Navesink for 7 Arrows Bill
Rosenblatt: 12 things you didn’t know about NJ Surfing Jon Mercantini: NJ as divided battle-ground from
Trenton to Victory Avi Karnani: NJ mapped to Silicon Valley contains ingredients for tech innovation
Susan Pelligrini: History of music on Jersey Shore 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch Concurrent hands on
activities, student poster talks, and networking. 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Community / Innovation Advark Smile:
Acoustic Music Session Don Sebastian: Innovation styles particular to NJ and how to build for them
Gabriella Levine: Open Hardware platforms for robotics (that monitor & clean water) Alon Hillel-Tuch: The
future of funding projects, organizations and start-ups Kerri Martin: Second Life Bikes Story Harrison
Owen: Wave Rider 2.0 – Collaboration models for change Cranston Dean: Acoustic Music Session 3:30
pm to 5:00 pm Global Impacts / Synthesis Benjamin Horton: Eastern America as a local hotspot for sea
level rise Kat Lazo: Feminist TEDxJournalist Sean Dixon: Global challenges facing our ocean region Kaki
King: Acoustic Music Session Robert Lucky:History of innovation in Shore region and the future of Ft
Monmouth Finale:Dance 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Reception at Monmouth Museum
MIDDLETOWN — A version of the global conference that
brings together great thinkers to talk about “ideas worth spreading” is coming to Monmouth County next
month.
A group of about 20 local volunteers have come together to host TEDxNavesink: The Next Wave, a
fast-paced, day-long forum featuring about two dozen speakers that will speak about ideas for the future
of the Jersey Shore.
“It’s a non-fiction theater of ideas,” said Brian Smiga, an organizer of TEDxNavesink, which will be on
Sept. 20 at Brookdale Community College’s Performing Arts Center.
“It brings together global and urban thinkers as well as the best thinkers around here to express new
ideas.”
TEDx events are locally organized forums that mirror the experience of TED, a globally recognized

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conference that began 29 years ago by bringing together world experts in technology, entertainment and
design.
Smiga said he attended TED for three years from 2002 to 2004, calling the conferences a “mind-opening”
experience. And since then, he has wanted to bring a TEDx event to Monmouth County.
Planning for the event started last summer with the original location to be Sandy Hook. But superstorm
Sandy changed those plans, moving the event from the spring to the fall and to Brookdale.
While some speakers will incorporate Sandy into their talks, all of which are 18 minutes or less, the focus
is the future of the shore specifically drawing talent to the area.
Smiga said the various talks will fall under the umbrella of the sea and living at the shore, innovation and
startups and the history of innovation in Monmouth County — which he said was on the cusp of being
Silicon Valley during the 1960s. Some talks will also be about self, organizational development and
entertainment.
The topics run the gamut from the historical perspective of “selfies,” photographs people take of
themselves and post online with cell phones, to beach replenishment; crowdfunding to feminism.
Among the speakers are Tereza Nemessanyi, who runs Microsoft’s business with startups on the East
Coast and Harrison Owen, a Washington, D.C.-based author and consultant who has worked around the
globe helping communities, businesses and other organizations through critical issues.
Owen said that what he’s learned from his work is that the best resources come from the communities
themselves as they decide how they want to proceed in the face of conflict.
Chaos like Sandy, he said, is both “a mess and an opportunity.”
“If you didn’t have any chaos, you wouldn’t have any life,” he said.
Susanne Cervenka: 732-643-4269; .scervenka@njpressmedia.com