REDEMPTION
Dameion Brown
Award-winning
actor
Prison Reform via Shakespeare
A former life sentence inmate makes a case for the power of Shakespeare inside our prisons.
LONGEVITY
Daniel Kraft M.D.
Physician. Chair at Singularity University
Future Medicine
Covid-fueled and soon-to-be-released medical technologies will dramatically optimize our health-spans.
BREATHING
James Nestor
Author and Journalist
You May Never Breathe The Same Again
No matter how healthy you try to be, none of it matters if you aren’t breathing properly.
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UNITY
Rhonda Magee M.A. J.D.
Professor,
USF Law School
The Inner Work of Racial Justice
Illuminating a path each of us can follow to a life filled with far greater racial awareness, connection, and joy.
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WORK
Phil Rosenthal
Star of Netflix “Somebody Feed Phil” and Producer, Everybody Loves Raymond.
Do What You
Love
A humorous and poignant look at “losing your job.”
POLICING
Jahmeer Reynolds M.Ed
Manager,
Marin City School District
Reimagining Policing for the Good Of All
A powerful story and vision for how to resolve the distrust between police and communities of color.
LOVE
Renata Giarola
Writer
Learning to Love
Renata gives us a big idea on why we should teach young adults the skill to succeed in love relationships.
HUMOR & POLITICS
Darren Zook
Voted Most Popular Professor @ UC Berkeley
The Politics of Laughter
A thoughtful and humorous look at why comics and comedy writers may be the unsung heroes of political change.
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Mentalism
MAGIC
Jay Alexander
Magician and
Mentalist
Mentalism
over the Internet
A foremost magician provides a master class in mentalism, revealing whether magic can work virtually as well.
BEHAVIOR
Christine Carter, PhD
Senior Fellow, Greater Good Science Center,
UC Berkeley
Confessions of a Bad Exerciser
Our ability to follow-through on our resolutions — to get into a new habit — may have a simple and easy solution.
HEALTH
Jeff Bland
Founder, The Institute for Functional Medicine
The Story Encoded in Your Genes
Do some people really have bad genes? Maybe not. The improvement of an individual’s function may be the best focus for health.
PSYCHEDELICS
Katrin Preller, PhD
Professor,
Yale School of Medicine
Your Brain on Psychedelics
What does the latest research show about the role these molecules might play in emotional and social cognition?
BIOMIMICRY
Beth Rattner
Executive Director,
Biomimicry Institute
Using Nature as our Guide
Remarkable examples from nature would allow us to innovate and retrain a new generation in how we design and engineer.
MIND/BODY
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Embracing Our
Global Healing Crisis
The ways in which we are beginning, individually and collectively, to resolve the Healing Crisis now underway.
PARENTING
Paige Rodgers
Mom,
Consultant at StubHub
Fixing the Chronic Problem Solver
A heartfelt story of an overly protective mother during Covid, and how she helped her struggling daughter.
NEXT GENERATION
Dakota Peebler
Co-Founder,
Heirs to Our Oceans
All I Want for My Birthday is to Kill “Earth Day”
A teen is fighting for the future and explains why adults today cannot keep doing “business as usual.”
MUSIC
Maya Pisciotto
Songwriter and
Vocalist
Musical Performance
A gifted local songwriter and vocalist whose music blends synths, strings, and velvety vocals for a sound that feels expansive and raw.
HOST
Tim Gnatek
Blue Practice President, TEDxMarin Executive Boardmember
Master of Ceremony
Tim is president of the bio-inspired communications agency, Blue Practice, and our illustrious Host for the Evening.
SHOWCASE
FEATURING
Innovative Non-Profits, Organizations, Businesses, and Local Artists doing exceptional work in our community.
Our Virtual TEDxMarin Innovator Showcase
Our long-established program to bring attention to key sponsors and innovative companies within our community will happen online this year. Participation includes prominent branding on digital and social media, complimentary tickets for the talks, and a virtual table at our Showcase website part of the broadcast.
For more info Contact us here
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Ours is called TEDxMarin, where x = independently organized TED event.
Innovator Showcases
At manyTEDxMarin events we showcase interesting technologies, companies, non-profits, and services. Would you like to have a customer activation demo table? Apply Here
What is TEDxMarin?
TEDxMarin’s overall mission seeks to connect and collaborate with organizations, individuals, educators, companies, gifted speakers, community leaders and thinkers whose vision align with ours: building strong, smart, understanding communities through education, innovation, new ideas and a spark of entertainment.
SPEAKING @ TEDxMarin If you would like to submit a nomination to speak at a future TEDxMarin or a TEDxSalon, please visit our Guidelines and Submission page or call the office at 415-785-8873 to ask about the process.
NEXT EVENTS/ATTENDING Join our Member Mailing list to get advance invitations (and discounts) to upcoming events. We are primarily an invite-only event series.
VOLUNTEERING We are always looking to add great volunteers to the team. Apply here
At our annual gala event, we film 6-8 new TEDTalks on a broad-reaching theme and includes a vibrant social component to spark deep connections within our community. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized and funded. We appreciate your support.
Our TEDxSalons go deep into one specific topic, with insights from leaders in their field. These Salons will promote thoughtful inquiry, broadened points of view, and include time for a moderated Question and Answer segment between our featured speakers and audience questions.
See all our previous Talks here.
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Invites and discounts to all our events are extended to our mailing list members only.
