TEDxNavesink Discusses Future of the New Jersey Shore

HOLMDEL, N.J. - Sept. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- Roster of 25 talks includes innovators in education, technology, science, sustainability and the arts who will give the talks of their lives during 5-18 minute presentations that focus on their contributions, thoughts and vision for the future of the New Jersey Shore. Speaker highlights include Robert Lucky, Electrical Engineer, Inventor & Former Head of Research, Bell Labs & Telcordia Technologies and Tereza Nemessanyi,VP Microsoft, Startups in the East. Special performance by "Guitar God" Kaki King.

Media Pre-registration requested to Jennifer Smiga at jen@inbloomcomm.com or (201) 892-9403

Register at press check-in on arrival. Registration opens at 7:30 a.m.

WHAT:
TEDxNavesink, http://www.tedxnavesink.com

WHEN:
Friday, September 20 –  8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Media Q&A with Speakers:
12:00-12:20 p.m. following morning session of talks
5:00-5:20 p.m. following afternoon session of talks

WHERE:
Brookdale Community College Performing Arts Center
Parking Lot 2
765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ

TICKETS:
$40 General Admission, TEDxNavesink is nearly sold out (Theater has a seating capacity of 360)

LIVESTREAM:
TEDxNavesink will be recorded live. Live streaming material from TEDxCity2.0 taking place at Times Center NYC on the same day will also be aired in the lobby.

The full conference and all talks will be archived online at www.tedxnavesink.com.

DETAILS:
For speaker bios and talk descriptions: www.tedxnavesink.com/speakers

Speakers scheduled to appear are:

Our Transformation: Talks 8:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Brian Smiga, Partner, Alpha Venture Partners – Welcome Remarks
Cindy Zipf, Founder, Clean Ocean Action– Talk: Our Wild and Industry-Free Ocean
Ben Kalina, Film Director & Producer, Shored Up– Talk: Coastal Development: Smarter than the Storm?
Tereza Nemessanyi,VP Microsoft, Startups in the East – Talk: Reinvention of a Suburban Mom
Erika Casriel, Investigative Journalist & Psychologist –Talk: Remapping the Self: Neuroscience Gets Personal
Elizabeth Urbanski, Art Historian & Fine Art Consultant–Talk:  Self-Image: Caves to Selfies
John Shammas, Web Developer, Meddle,–Talk: Software Development is the New Home Economics

Our Garden State: 11:00 am – 12:00 p.m.
Richard Veit, Professor of Anthropology & Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Monmouth University–Talk: Original People of the Mid-Atlantic
Megan Paska, Urban Farmer – Talk: Local Farms from Brooklyn Rooftops to Navesink Estates Advark
Dr. William Rosenblatt,  Co-founder of the Jersey Shore Surfrider Foundation – Talk: 12 Surprises You Didn’t Know about NJ Surfing
Jonathan Mercantini, Associate Professor of History, Kean University–Talk: Divided NJ from the Battle of Trenton to Sandy Hook
Avi Karnani, Behavioral Psychologist & Entrepreneur–Talk: New Jersey as the Next Silicon Valley
Susan Pellegrini,  Founder & Executive Director, Asbury Park Musical Heritage Foundation–Talk: Asbury Park Music History in 5 minutes

Our Community of Innovation: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Ardvark Smile, Local Monmouth County Band Performance
Dr. Donald Sebastian, Sr. Vice President for Research & Development at New Jersey Institute of Technology–Talk: Innovation Clusters and How to Build Them on the Shore
Gabriella Levine, Artist, Designer & Scientist –Talk: Democratizing Innovation with Open Hardware
Alon Hillel-Tuch, Co-Founder & CFO, RocketHub–Talk: Startup and Community Crowd-Funding Changes Everything
Kerri Martin, Founder, Second Life Bikes–Talk: How to Build a Community, Told with Chalk
Harrison Owen, Author, Consultant & Photographer–Talk: Cosmic Collaboration
Cranston Dean, Local Singer/Songwriter–Performance

Global Impacts / Synthesis: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Ben Horton, Climatologist, Rutgers University–Talk: The Rise of Our Sea
Kaki King, World-Acclaimed Guitarist–Performance
Sean Dixon, Coastal Policy Attorney at Clean Ocean Action–Talk: Energy Exports: Good, Bad, Ugly, and What you Need to Know
Kat Lazo, Feminist –The Future of Feminism
Robert Lucky, Renowned Speaker, Electrical Engineer, Inventor & Former Head of Research, Bell Labs & Telcordia Technologies–Talk: Innovation and New Jersey -- Storied Past and Uncertain Future
New Jersey Dance Center, Tinton Falls: Performance, Jersey Strong, Jersey Proud

WHAT IS TEDx?
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

MEDIA:
Print and broadcast media are welcome to attend and cover the conference. Flash photography cannot be taken during the live-recorded event, but we encourage photography at the Q&A sessions with speakers. Charging stations will be available on-site for electronic devices.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jennifer Smiga, inBLOOM Communications, Long Branch, NJ
jen@inbloomcomm.com, cell: 201-892-9403