TEDx UNR announces session speakers for inaugural January TEDx event – Jan 25
Posted by Dave Archer | Published on November 18, 2012
January 25, 2013
TEDxUniversityofNevada, an independently organizedTEDx event, announced the 17 speakers from Northern Nevada to conduct presentations during its inaugural event on Friday, January 25, 2013, which will feature several youths, CEOs, a rural educator, a doctor and more.
The sessions will take place inside the Joe Crowley Student Union on the University of Nevada, Reno campus from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Each speaker is featured in one of the four topics: Health and Hope, The Promise and Challenge of Education, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Bold Ideas Worth Spreading.
The sessions are designed to showcase a variety of subtopics and style of speakers. The speakers were chosen from more than 70 proposals submitted before mid-October. Sessions last a total of 80 minutes, with two breaks and a lunch discussion.
“The proposal response was overwhelming” said organizer Dr. Bret Simmons of theUniversity of Nevada College of Business. “After reviewing them with the TEDxUniversityofNevada Team, we feel we have a very impressive line-up of speakers for the community and supporters of the TEDx series.”
The speakers for the Health and Hope session are Shawna Korgan, CEO of Korg 3.0 Movement; Matt Benardis, Operations Manager for First Warning Systems; Scavacini, an 8th grader who raised funds to travel to Kenya to deliver water filtration systems; Mike Morkin, MD, an emergency room physician from Renown Hospital that was on duty the day of the Reno Air Races crash; and Leilani Schweitzer, a patient liaison for the hospitals at Stanford Hospital.
TEDx UNR announces session speakers for inaugural January TEDx event – Jan 25
The sessions will take place inside the Joe Crowley Student Union on the University of Nevada, Reno campus from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Each speaker is featured in one of the four topics: Health and Hope, The Promise and Challenge of Education, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Bold Ideas Worth Spreading.
The sessions are designed to showcase a variety of subtopics and style of speakers. The speakers were chosen from more than 70 proposals submitted before mid-October. Sessions last a total of 80 minutes, with two breaks and a lunch discussion.
“The proposal response was overwhelming” said organizer Dr. Bret Simmons of theUniversity of Nevada College of Business. “After reviewing them with the TEDxUniversityofNevada Team, we feel we have a very impressive line-up of speakers for the community and supporters of the TEDx series.”
The speakers for the Health and Hope session are Shawna Korgan, CEO of Korg 3.0 Movement; Matt Benardis, Operations Manager for First Warning Systems; Scavacini, an 8th grader who raised funds to travel to Kenya to deliver water filtration systems; Mike Morkin, MD, an emergency room physician from Renown Hospital that was on duty the day of the Reno Air Races crash; and Leilani Schweitzer, a patient liaison for the hospitals at Stanford Hospital.
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