EDMONDS — TEDx is returning to Snohomish County.
The first local TEDx event, held in November, promised a day of ideas worth hearing and spreading.
This year’s theme will be transformations. “We’re looking for ideas, innovations or inventions,” said Ken Harvey, communications director for Sno-Isle Libraries, which is organizing the event. The topics could include music, technology, human interaction, environment or medicine.
The event is scheduled Nov. 18 and will again be held at the Edmonds Center for the Arts. The public has until May 8 to nominate speakers they’d like to hear on the Sno-Isle website.
TEDx is a local offshoot of the international TED talk events, organized to bring together leaders in technology, entertainment and design.
Last year’s day-long event, “Creating New Futures,” featured 23 speakers and performers. They included Ben Hempstead, chief of staff of ElectroImpact, Inc. in Mukilteo; Xola Malik, a hip-hop artist and philanthropist; Tammy Mach, whose immigrant parents from Vietnam started a Mukilteo machining company that was named Boeing’s Supplier of the Year; Swil Kanim, a Lummi Tribe member and violinist, native storyteller and actor; and former astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger.
Tickets to the event were free and were quickly snapped up. About 700 people were at the Edmonds Center for the Arts. The event was live-streamed. About 400 people gathered at public viewing sites at local libraries, community colleges and the PUD auditorium. About 2,000 people watched events online, Harvey said.
Public interest in hearing from the day’s speakers continues. There’s been nearly 18,000 page views of the speakers since their presentations were posted online in December.
Both attendees and speakers “loved the day of ideas and felt it gave them opportunities to think in ways they had not thought before,” Harvey said.
This year, the goal is to allow those attending the event more opportunities both to talk with each other and with the event’s speakers, he said.
“We’re very excited to see other ideas, other stories that should be told and other inventions happening in our region,” Harvey said. “The TEDx stage gives us that opportunity.”
Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486; salyer@heraldnet.com.
By the numbers
Since December, there have been 17,755 page views of the talks presented Nov. 6 at the TEDx event sponsored by Sno-Isle Libraries. The talks can be viewed here: www.sno-isle.org/tedx/2015/watch
Here is the list of the top seven talks that have been viewed:
Good boundaries free you, Sarri Gilman, 2,884 views
Secrets of elite athletes, Kenn Dickinson, 1,516 views
Beyond mute, Shaela Niles, 1,131 views
Mixing across generations, Evan Briggs, 1,127 views
Caring for the caregivers, Frances Lewis, 1,006 views
Future of social enterprise, Jeff Ericson, 982 views
Building social skills in children through animation, Terry Thoren. 814 views
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