TED Conference 2009

The TED Conference in Long Beach happened a few months ago but I’m just now getting around to posting pictures from the event. (I never promised I would blog in any coherent chronological order.) For those of you familiar with the TED Conference, you can imagine how thrilled I was to be asked to form a graphic facilitation team to engage attendees inbetween talks. (And I have to admit that against my will I stalked Regina Spektor and told her how charming her stage fright was. In response she told me she loved Austin. Whoo hoo!) My role at TED was working on The Whiteboard Project for Duarte Design and GE to showcase the Eno smartboard, released to the public at the conference. My previous post provides details on the purpose of the project and links to the content my team produced (it went to the web in real time thanks to an application made by Syrup NYC). Since this event, TED announced that it’s created TEDx, which allows for cities around the world to host their own similar events. So I asked who was hosting TEDxAustin and met the marvelous Nancy Giordano. Nancy informed me that my friend and colleague Jen Spencer was also on the Austin team (sweet!) so of course I asked to be a part of it. Because seriously folks, life is short. Cavort with people you admire.