Tickets to Metro Atlanta's Annual "Brain Spa" Event TEDx-Peachtree 2017 Sold-Out

ATLANTA - Sept. 28, 2017 - PRLog -- The TEDxPeachtree 2017 planning team is pleased to announce that tickets for the annual flagship conference are sold-out. More than 600 registrants will be attending Georgia's premier community TEDx event on Friday, October 6, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. at the Rialto Center for the Arts in downtown Atlanta. A simulcast of the conference will available at tedxpeachtree.com on October 6 courtesy of Piksel.

"We are thrilled and grateful for the overwhelming response from local TEDx fans and those traveling from cities in the Southeast, West, Midwest and Northeast to join us for a day of deep conversation and collaborative collisions," said Jacqui Chew, TEDxPeachtree licensee and entrepreneur. "We are also pleased to offer a free simulcast of the program on our website and encourage viewers to send photos of their viewing party via Twitter with the hashtag #TEDxPT and to the TEDxPeachtree Facebook page," she added.

This year, 17 speakers will take the stage to share future-forward ideas around the 2017 theme, "Beneath the Surface" in the signature TED format of six to 18 minutes. The neuroscience of obesity, a unique approach to reducing re-incarceration, a traveling STEAM education program, a special sensory performance and the future of energy are just some of the topics that will shared on the TEDxPeachtree stage.

2017 Program
10 – 11:10 a.m.: SESSION ONE: LOOK DEEPER
•Tejas Athni "Fighting brain cancer: nature could hold the key"
•Krzysztof Cjaza "Why many diets fail; it's not what you think"
•Siana Altiise "Sensory performance"
•Dana Kanze "Gender bias and venture financing"
•Cara Turano Snow "It's not just a penny"
Webcast Only: Interview with Dana Kanze

Conversation Break

12:00 noon – 1:10 p.m.: SESSION TWO: SECOND CHANCES
•Rickey Bevington "The future of news media is in all our hands"
•Louise Wasilewski "A new approach to overcoming prison overcrowding"
•Jason Martin "Teaching outside the box"
•Susan Sparks "Launching our way to world peace one joke at a time"
Webcast Only: Interview with Louise Wasilewski

Conversation Break

2:25 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: SESSION THREE: STEP FORWARD
•Bill Nussey "The future of energy is local"
•Justin Daniels "Why you hold the key to cybersecurity"
•Jasmine Crowe "Hunger is a question of logistics; not scarcity"
•James Beckerman "Giving to health"
Webcast Only: Interview with Justin Daniels

Conversation Break

3:55 p.m. Webcast Only: Interview with Lonnie Johnson
4:00 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.: SESSION FOUR: BEYOND BOXES
•Erich Netherton "The music of things"
•Lonnie Johnson "The future of energy tech"
•Juana Mendenhall "The future of cartilage regeneration comes in a syringe"
•Matt Meister "This is uncovering the secrets of the Antarctic. Tomorrow…?"
•Siana Altiise, performance

Post-conference party

About TEDxPeachtree
Ideas into Action is a 501(c)3 organization on a mission to amplify local ideas globally and global ideas locally to propel communities to action through the annual TEDxPeachtree conference and a series of intimate discussion events throughout the year. TEDxPeachtree is a locally self-organized TED-like event where the TED Conference provides general guidance for the program but no financial support. To date, three TEDxPeachtree speakers have been featured on TED.com. TEDxPeachtree and related events are fueled by the resourcefulness of its all-volunteer planning team and no one is paid. Ticket sales, and donations of in-kind services and cash from corporations and individuals underwrite conference and event expenses. For more in-formation, visit http://tedxpeachtree.com.

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk vide-os are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive tran-scripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a "wish," or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of in-dividuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

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