Movement and dance are enormously valuable for physical and mental health, yet are rarely tapped into. Dr. Pinter creates interactive artworks designed to unlock and inspire movement and has opened the new Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences in Santa Barbara.
Melody Stanford Martin – Conflict Transformation and the Lost Art of Healthy Disagreement
In a society of seemingly unending conflict, impasse, and polarization, many of us feel our communities tearing apart at the seams. Using an anti-oppression lens, author Melody Stanford Martin offers an approach rooted in restorative justice: conflict transformation.
Melissa Yamaguchi – Beyond Vision and Purpose
Having vision and purpose isn’t enough, you must take action. The four roadblocks people often unknowingly or knowingly run into cause entropy. Your mind is the biggest cause of your inaction. What if one of the clues to discovering the keys to untapping your mind’s strengths lay in a greater sense of self? Turning your thoughts into reality requires self-awareness.
Stacey McKinnon – The Societal Duty of Businesses. Happiness, meaning, and fulfillment for your people.
Businesses are often founded to make a difference in a particular industry. However, owners do not always consider the impact they will make in the lives of the people working for them. Business owners and leaders often struggle to focus on their people—especially when clients are calling, and the needs of the business feel urgent. The trickle-down effect eventually results in unhappy people at work, lack of meaning or purpose, and feeling unfulfilled when they return home or enter society every day. But what if we could change this result? What if businesses believed that it is their societal duty to help people be happier? Can you imagine the trickle-down effect then? Less depression, kinder people, better marriages . . . the list goes on. In this discussion, we will talk about how business owners and leaders can positively impact their people, including the importance of a culture of trust, motivating career paths, and valuing life balance.
Linda Cole – Moving Beyond Extreme Poverty: Women Speak Their Development Strategies
When women become active participants in defining their development strategies, change takes place. African Women Rising has been on the frontlines working in Northern Uganda for the last 15 years, an area long-damaged by conflict and extreme humanitarian aid dependency. The recognition of women living in extreme poverty as powerful agents for change is forging a shift in how we implement development and the meaning of community empowerment.
Chris Ragland – Climate Equity & Culture: Rethinking What Makes an Environmentalist
Chris will unpack environmental justice and the need for culture change to occur simultaneously with policy changes. Re-building relationships between the natural world and communities of color, centering awareness and resiliency into the minds and hearts of Black and Brown youth.
Allegra Roth – Feeding Our Soils, Feeding Ourselves: Making Land Stewardship a Viable Livelihood
This conversation in our continuing series on Sustainability will delve into nature-based climate solutions as well as carbon farming. Allegra will help us understand the complexities and nuances of both, as they’re very big ideas with distinct goals and benefits for our future.
Majora Carter – Community as Corporation: Talent Retention in Low-Status Communities
Billions of dollars go into education, training, health, and other support for low-status communities in America, yet economic stagnation persists – at times interrupted only by displacement as a result of population increases from re-urbanization and infrastructure improvements such as transit, parks, and traffic calming measures.
Jennifer Hernández – Climate Justice: Essential Practices to Advance Justice and Equity in the Climate Movement
In our continuing conversation during Earth Month, we will talk with Jen Hernandez about her work with the Central Coast Climate Justice Network, and her focus on an Electric Vehicle Blueprint for Ventura County.
Michael Chiacos – The Path to Carbon Zero – How to Solve the Climate Crisis
Michael will explain to us why climate change is the existential challenge of our time and the solution is straightforward. Generate 100% clean and renewable electricity, electrify transportation, buildings, and other sectors, and drawdown excess carbon in our working and natural lands.
Dyhia Belhabib, Ph.D. – Understanding the global importance of small-scale fisheries
Dyhia works at the intersection of sustainability and ocean criminality. She created the most comprehensive and largest database of ocean criminality in the world, Spyglass.fish. She’s a TEDx speaker on Diversity and Inclusion in science and climate justice. We will also get her views on the new Netflix film. Seaspiracy – its release this month is perfect timing for our conversation.
Lynda Weinman, Patrick Hall – Kindred Spirits, a collaboration between traditional ceramics and 3D printed clay
During the past year’s shutdown, Patrick and Lynda got busy. They collaborated on a series of pieces that combined traditional ceramics techniques and 3D clay printing. The result is that they both pushed their work in new, unforeseen directions and landed a prestigious exhibition at Sullivan Goss gallery Santa Barbara.
Bishop Lamont – Standing out within an industry that keeps artists boxed into predictable molds.
With the emergence of social media, streaming platforms, and new technologies, the journey of an independent artist establishing a global reach and taking control of their destiny can be a challenging yet significantly rewarding one if done correctly. We’ll also talk to Bishop about his activism and philosophy about giving back to the community.
Jenna Arnold – We’re doing the wrong *work* if we’re looking for concrete answers.
Our relationships, the systems of which we operate, our attempts to understand new sets of information can sometimes (who are we kidding, all of the time!) become polarized. We have forced each other and ourselves into a binary state of understanding and doing when in reality, living in the middle, embracing the uncertainty, plowing forward to a complete—yet impossible to achieve—understanding should be our focus in the next chapter of our work.
Tannis Thorlakson, Ph.D. – Driving Sustainability through Data: Agriculture’s Opportunity
Everyone is talking about the data revolution, but how can data be used to drive sustainability in agriculture? Hear Tannis Thorlakson, Ph.D. talk about her experiences helping farmers and companies use the power of data tackle deforestation, water scarcity, and soil health in our food system.
Carole Robin, Ph.D. – Staying Connected in our new Virtual Worlds
Carole has worked with thousands of MBAs and hundreds of high-profile execs and their teams for 40+ years to increase their EQ and interpersonal effectiveness by helping them understand the difference between contact and connection. She’ll unpack how to deepen relationships during COVID.
John Seigel Boettner – Riding on the Shoulders of Giants
We will talk with John Seigel Boettner, the Santa Barbara representative of Cycling Without Age. A worldwide movement providing joy and vitality to older adults through the magic of a bicycle ride. Memories are awakened by the wind, community renewed by a wave, and citizenship remembered when a silver-haired giant gives you a wink and a nod at the crosswalk.
Sharon Allen – Providing sustainable medical expertise to vulnerable communities all over the world.
We will talk with Sharon Allen, the co-founder of World Telehealth Initiative about their mission to provide sustainable medical expertise to the world’s most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and deliver core health services, through a network of volunteer health care professionals supported with state-of-the-art technology.
Jeff Steinberg – Sojourn Project: Experience history. Inspire the future
Jeff will talk about the past 20 years and through 90+ study trips to the American Deep South and Washington, D.C., how Sojourn Project has been immersing middle and high school students from diverse backgrounds in academic, transformative weeklong moving-classroom Journeys.
Aria McLauchlan & Harley Cross – The Opportunity Beneath our Feet
In this highly anticipated conversation, we will discuss why our future depends on our soils; and how Land Core’s Aria and Harley work across government, research, and the private sector to leverage our political and financial infrastructure to rebuild American agriculture into a force for regeneration.
Jan Rutherford – Leadership is a Design Problem
Jan Rutherford has been studying leadership since before he became a Green Beret. His exploration of this topic has led him to conversations with hundreds of leaders all over the world. We’ll tap into his expertise, especially to understand the unique challenges facing leaders during the COVID crisis.
Bree Hendrick – How COVID has changed the recruiting challenge for businesses
Bree Hendrick helps organizations find the best talent from around the country and has been doing that for years. Now with COVID’s constraints, the challenges for the workplace have multiplied. We’ll talk about how growing businesses are creatively finding key people to add to their teams.
Tim Goldstein – Diversity from a Neurodistinct Perspective
While diversity in the workplace is a common idea particularly in the tech industry, Tim will relate his personal autistic discrimination experience in the tech workplace including being fired multiple times for being different.
Matt Beane – Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines
As we look to a new normal of collaborating, we’ll talk with Matt Beane, an expert in understanding the workplace. We’ll go beyond how humans interact, especially under constraints of physical distancing, et al., and delve into a topic that’s long fascinated us, how we’ll work with smart machines.
Bittersweet Gratitude – Concert and Conversations with Creators
To close out the year and to find an appropriate way to celebrate our 10th year of TEDx in Santa Barbara we’ve asked friends to join us for a concert followed by a series of candid conversations. Join TEDxSantaBarbara host and Executive Producer Mark Sylvester as he welcomes special guests.
O.P. Almaraz – Cleaning Up After COVID
O.P. asks, “Is your building asymptomatic?” As the first restoration company in the US that is certified by the Global BioRisk Advisory Council, he knows what a clean workplace should look like. He has advice to employers, employees, and homeowners who want their buildings to be safe.
Jan Campbell – Finding a Vaccine for Violence
Jan has been working diligently to get in front of the crisis of domestic violence here in Santa Barbara, and working at the state level to understand and learn from the best practices of others. She has strong opinions on the impact of isolation and understands that home is not the safest place for some people.
Reggie Smith III, Ph.D. – The Transformational Power of Distance Learning
Distance learning brings education and training to where students or trainees are connecting their world to worldwide learning communities. This presentation will cover how all of these technologies can transform the world and foster a continuously learning economy for society’s good.
Cooper Bates – Redefining the relationship between Performance, Art, and the Audience in a Sequestered Society.
Cooper Bates produced a one-man show and since sheltering-in-place has had to figure out how to be an actor in a virtual world. We’ll talk about the role of the audience in art and the artist as a game developer.
Sandro Galea – A Wake-Up Call for Public Health
Dr. Galea thinks about health in a very different way than the discussion we’re used to surrounding healthcare. He is thinking much bigger. In fact, he’s concerned about our collective health and the factors that affect us as a society and the public at large.
Andreas Forsland, Tim Jin – What Did the Nonverbal Person Say to the Verbal Person?
Cognixion’s goal is to unlock speech for hundreds of millions of people worldwide affected by communication disabilities. We’ll talk with Founder and CEO Andreas Forsland and Tim Jin, a Cognixion Brainiac Council Member, exploring the world of AI-powered communication.
Dr. Keith Witt – Are we at the beginning of something extraordinary?
Dr. Keith has a unique point of view of our culture. He believes that our collective worldview is fraying at the edges, and the process of change we are all experiencing is existentially scary and dangerous. Specifically, he will discuss three ways to look at our culture: Integration, Disintegration, and Reintegration.
Scott Mann – It’s time to bridge trust and restore social capital.
Scott believes if we’re going to hand this country off to our children better than we found it, we will have to overcome the distrust and disengagement in this country by bridging beyond our groups. We’re going to have to get back to a level of connection that transcends race, gender, and politics.
John Greathouse – Looking Around The Corner
John Greathouse has been studying entrepreneurship since graduating with an MBA from Wharton. He suggests that new challenges will arrive from today’s solutions and are unanticipated, creating entrepreneurs’ opportunities.
Kerri Murray – Rethinking the Role of Shelter
All of our lives are being affected by Coronavirus in some way, but those living in refugee camps or in makeshift settlements are particularly vulnerable. Shelter is a critical need for people who are simply struggling to survive after losing their homes to disaster or conflict.
Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP – No one knows your child better than you do.
As one of our leading pediatricians, Dr. Gordon suggests there are too many unknowns about COVID to guide long-term decision-making. Recent news from the American Pediatric Society suggests that children and teenagers are not immune, and we need radical behavior change.
Donna Weng Friedman – Pandemic Empowerment: Finding Resilience in Music and Stories
In collaboration with WQXR, Donna Weng Friedman created Heritage and Harmony, a virtual concert that is both a recognition of the tremendous contributions to the musical canon by classical musicians of Asian descent and a reminder of the need to stand together against mindless intolerance.
Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D – Agree to be offended, then stay connected.
In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois asked the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?” Day-to-day many of us witness and tolerate marginalization. In this critical juncture in our history, Dr. Gaunt shares lessons from Black girls’ musical play and from embracing discomfort by agreeing to be offended or from vulnerable sharing about marginalization.
Lisa Biggs – Empowerment through Education
Lisa Biggs’ day job has her helping educators around the globe understand how maps tell stories about culture, history, and current events. Her passion project is taking storytelling skills and using them to help children.
Shannon Kenny – Humanizing Technology: Feminine Native Traditions and Startup Ideologies
Prontopia is putting the people back in the equation because human services are tragically hard to come by in the digital age. We cannot dismiss the complexities and interdependencies of people, and the earth, as too difficult for technology solutions.
Mariel Hemingway – Lives at Stake: Suicide and Mental Health During COVID
More people have suffered at the hands of depression and attempts of suicide in the state of California alone than even coronavirus.
Lisa Jones – COVID-19 and Race: Double Emergencies for Women of Color
Women of color face unique health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This disproportionate impact on women of color should not be dealt with by women and their families alone.
Than Baardson – Accelerating the Fight Against Human Trafficking and its Root Causes
Human trafficking occurs when a person is forced into service against their will—usually forced work or prostitution. Often one person controls another by exploiting a vulnerability. Than’s organization, UNSEEN, is working through collaboration across a broad spectrum of participants worldwide to reduce trafficking.
Simone Akila Ruskamp, Krystle Farmer Sieghart – Healing Justice
Formed in response to the destabilizing impacts of racism and anti-blackness, we aspire to build resilient communities for the African diaspora and other marginalized people along the Central Coast.
Dr. Sangwon Suh, Ph.D. – COVID-19 and the Value of Actionable Information
A sustainability scientist draws a parallel between environmental problems and the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the importance of rapid testing, tracing, and isolation.
Matthew Bershadker – Pets, Poverty and the Pandemic
As the head of the ASPCA, Matt has a deep understanding of the effect of poverty on our nation’s animals. Couple that insight with the Pandemic and you’ll look forward to hearing about what he describes as a seismic shift in the animal welfare community.
Dr. Harry Grammer – Breaking Down Privilege
Harry was on the 2018 TEDxSantaBarbara stage and returns to talk about the confluence of COVID and Social Justice. We’ll discuss understanding the transformation that needs to happen as we come to grips with the amount of work facing us moving forward.
Dr. Wizdom Powell, Ph.D., MPH – It’s time for radical healing
Dr. Powell will discuss how the combined impact of COVID-19 and racism is brewing a lethal force of mental health syndemics — or the social patterning of co-occurring disease conditions. COVID-19 has all the ingredients of a trauma pandemic in the making.
Michael Lewis – The Future of Retail
Michael has a long history of innovation in the retail industry. His current project is using technology to monitor what’s going on within a physical store to understand how merchants can make shopping safe and give consumers peace of mind.
Geoff Green – Philanthropy as a Radical Act
The role of philanthropy during the COVID Crisis.
Geoff makes conversations about philanthropy fascinating because he is fascinated by it. While now may seem the wrong time to ask for donations, Geoff makes a case that now is the exact time to put your money to work, especially during an emergency.
Dr. Yonette Thomas – Is racism a public health crisis?
Health encompasses mental, social, economic, and educational success and stability – all of which are eroded by structural racism. If US institutions want to combat racism like the public health issue it is, they need to address not its symptoms, but its causes
Seth Streeter – Leaping forward into deferred dreams
Leaping forward into deferred dreamsHow to design and ignite your 3.0 lifeSeth Streeter was on the TEDxSantaBarbara stage in 2016, talking about a new way to think about how we manage our money and our lives. In this conversation, we will look at how our current climate is an opportunity to take another look at our goals.Seth StreeterSeth co-founded Mission …
Garrett TeSlaa – Rethinking Public Safety
Rethinking Public SafetyPeace isn’t the absence of crime, it’s the absence of pain.Garrett addressed many issues related to public safety in this 30-minute conversation. We began with misconceptions the general public has about law enforcement which led to a discussion about the need for training and continuing education. Garrett explains the importance of refreshing something he called, “perishable skills.” He …
Sigrid Wright – The pandemic did not fix our climate problem
Rethinking how we come back online.
Sigrid has a challenging role as the CEO of the Community Environmental Council. She’s thinking about emissions issues, protecting our food system, including how our ecosystem will recover after COVID. She has some definite ideas of how we can move forward.
James Joyce III – COFFEE WITH A BLACK GUY
James says we’ve been having conversations about race in Santa Barbara for four years, starting with his Coffee with a Black Guy series. James joins us to talk about the community reaction to the senseless murder of George Floyd has us questioning everything.
Noah benShea – TEN TRUTHS TO GET YOU THROUGH TOUGH TIMES
Noah benShea is one of North America’s most respected and beloved poet philosophers. He is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated, Best Selling author of 25 books. He is a scholar and theologian who has spoken to numerous universities and institutions, including The Library of Congress and The US Department of Defense.
Ep 06: Sea Level Rise – TEDxSantaBarbara BTS Podcast
In this episode Mark Sylvester talks to Dr. Andy Brooks about the March TEDxSantaBarbaraSalon Sea Level Rising: The Local Socio-Economic Impacts, and the April TEDxSantaBarbaraAdventure at the Carpinteria Salt March, part of the UC Natural Reserve System.
John “Revelator” Irving 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
“Your destiny is attracted to your greatest gift.” – John “Revelator”
Scott Mann 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
The Generosity of ScarsIn these trust-depleted, distracted times, your darkest struggle can be your greatest gift to those you lead, if…you are willing to pay the price.Scott MannGreen Beret – Warrior StorytellerRetired Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann spent nearly 23 years operating in the trust-depleted communities of Afghanistan, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia, building deep relationships and mobilizing thousands of indigenous …
Tami Relph 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
A lack of environmental security has contributed to most, if not all, conflicts throughout history.
O.P. Almaraz 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
Mediocrity is the cousin of poverty.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
Solving plastic pollution will take more than straws.
Jude Kadi 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
One person can change a community, a community can change the world.
Zoë Silverberg 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
All the world is a narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to fear.
Dean McFlicker 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
Dean is a network TV exec, an original cast member of Newsies, and a remarkably GPS-dependent person.
Ben Bergeron 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
A disciplined life is a happy life.
Julian Reeve 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
Step up, or get out – perfection’s calling to us all.
Darren Ross 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
By Listening Carefully & Responding Creatively, we create extraordinary moments
Erik Talkin 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
Food keeps you alive. How can food build new communities around the world.
Lori Dennis 2019 TEDxSantaBarbara Speaker
How a Set of New Sheets Keeps Families Off the Streets
Words, Words, Words. Jessica Cadiente, Library Director, Santa Barbara Public Library
Jessica will expertly guide our Salon discussion by leading us through an evening that starts off talking about language and its power, then transitions to the power of language in books.
What’s The Future of Food? Jessica Vieira, Director of Sustainability, Apeel Sciences
In this TEDxSantaBarbaraSalon we’ve invited Jessica Viera, Director of Sustainability at Goleta-based, Appel Sciences. She’s curated a set of TED talks related to our topic that will open your mind to new ideas that you may not have considered.
Meet our TASTES of TEDx Curator, Tara Jones Haaf
In this short show we learn more about Tara and her vision for the Tastes of TEDx program and a bit about how she curated our recent Salon – if you missed it, you’ll not want to miss the next one.
TEDxSantaBarbara Adventure: Behind the Scenes at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History holds a vast treasure of specimens collected over the past 100 years. Dr. Krista Fahy will lead us through her favorites as she show us the Museum’s Vertebrate Zoology Collection. You’ll see otters from the 1800’s and hear what she’s learned by studying their hair, as well as birds from around the region and what can be learned by examining them.
TEDxSantaBarbara Adventure: Happy Hour Tour of the Funk Zone
In this episode, Tara and Mark discuss the hidden gems of the Funk Zone and what she’s prepared for our 90-minute tour on June 18th. She explains why we’re only having 20 people join us on this Adventure, so don’t miss your chance to get this unique perspective on this growing area of town.
Who’s Watching Us? Michael Mongold, Director of Information Security at Deckers Brands
Hear our “Who’s watching us?” TEDxSantaBarbara Salon guest moderator, Michael Mongold, Director of Information Security at Deckers Brands and Mark Sylvester discuss this fascinating topic in this short podcast. Tickets available here for the May 28th event.
Improv team Deconstructing Barbara
Improv team Deconstructing Barbara carefully observed the entire TEDxSantaBarbara 2018 event, “Yes, and…” and put their own improvisational twist on a TED talk at the end of the event. This is best viewed after watching the other talks.
Why we need more uncivilized men – Traver Boehm
Traver Boehm returns to the TEDx Santa Barbara stage two years after speaking about his month in pure darkness for a “Where are they now?” segment. In it he describes the incredible turn his life took as soon as he walked off of the stage and began speaking to men about his ideas around masculinity. Traver doesn’t believe the modern man is lost, only that he has become painfully overly civilized.
Rock Bottom’s Back Side – Tim Bauer
What do you do when you find yourself staring up at the place you thought was rock bottom? “Tinier Tim” Bauer returns to share where he’s been and what failure has taught him since delivering his talk on Becoming Failworthy while losing one pound 225 times.
How I redefined my labels and left my Bully Behind – Chloe Howard
Bullying is an epidemic. Chloe asks the question, “Can someone truly accept the differences in another, without first accepting the differences in themselves?” When we love and accept ourselves, we are less likely to bully others. What would this mean for the bullied, the bullies, and our world? Chloe gives an update on standbeautiful.me, an anti-bullying movement and book promoting the acceptance of self and others. Chloe believes that when we love and accept ourselves we are less likely to inflict pain and shame on others. Chloe returns to the TEDx stage in 2018 after her she premiered in 2016 at TEDx Santa Barbara, STAND Beautiful.
Ep 07: The Crossroads of Show Tech and Marketing
In this episode, we talk with Christopher Foley, a member of the Core Team, who has been with us since 2010, when we produced TEDxAmericanRiviera. He’s the guy who makes sure that everything technical works as scheduled on the day of the show
Michael Lombardi | Leadership is destroying culture
Leadership has a robust effect on the culture of any organization. These tools for effective leadership will enable you to experience greater success in the workplace and in life.
Ep 06: Capturing the Look and Feel of the Theme
Each year we come up with an abstract theme that gives us a lot of latitude when it comes to selecting ideas and speakers. A conversation with our design team.
Ep 05: The Speaker Selection Process – TEDxSantaBarbara BTS Podcast
In this episode Executive Producer and host Mark Sylvester explains just how we select our speakers.
Tyson McDowell | Preserving humanity as AI takes us over
Rapidly advancing AI technology is driving us to be less and less human every day. It’s time to discuss the fundamental cause and get going on a fundamental fix. Hint: You are the key.
Sam Kadi | Unmuting millions of voices one story at a time
Would you risk your life to rescue many lives? How, in a place of unimaginable terror, hope grew from a water bottle and a rose.
Kevin Ward | Adult bullying: The epidemic no one talks about
Bullying doesn’t stop when childhood ends. Schoolyard bullies often become bullying adults, but there is a way to stop them in their tracks.
Kelton Temby | The heartbeat of a beehive
The heartbeat of a beehive – Pay attention to the bees. Their behavior indicates the health of your immediate environment.
Jennifer Bascom | What happens when you’re right?
We’re all addicted to being right. But is there also value in knowing how to be wrong?
Jeff Babko | Harmony in the silences: the secrets of good timing
In music, as in life, timing matters. Here’s how the three noble truths of timing can change your perceptions of just about everything.
Ian Bentley | Fashion on purpose
We need to be a global community that fights for the value of those most vulnerable, and we need to be conscious consumers without compromising on the quality and style that we love. Both can exist together.
Holly Lohuis | Pygmy seahorses, coral reefs and us
Coral reefs are one of the most threatened ecosystems on our planet. With an intimate look at some of the secret lives of the smallest of coral reefs inhabitants, we can develop a desire to do all that we can do to ensure these diverse ecosystems survive and thrive.
Harry Grammer | Incarcerated children are still children
Incarcerated children deserve a chance for a better future. Jail is not the answer, there is a better way for kids in the juvenile justice system to transform their lives.
Garrett TeSlaa | The importance of second responders
After a disaster, first responders are always on the job. But it’s the second responders who can transform tragedy into triumph.
Doc Searls | The Story isn’t the whole story
Journalism in the digital age is challenged by a business model of automated advertising that creates widespread distrust. Truth is getting lost in the process. What can we do about that?
Ep 04: Announcing our 2018 Speakers – TEDxSantaBarbara BTS Podcast
Episode 4 – Our 2018 Speaker Lineup In this episode, Executive Producer Mark Sylvester and host takes you through the 11 speakers we’ve selected for this year’s event. You’ll want to listen to him explain who’s going to be here, what they’re talking about, including some interesting information you won’t hear until the show itself. Be sure to listen to …
Ep 03: Volunteering – TEDxSantaBarbara BTS Podcast
In this episode, we celebrate our volunteers. Executive Producer Mark Sylvester and host explains how this event is 100% volunteer from the Core Team, to the Speakers, the Performers, and the staff that helps on the day of the event. Look for the red shirts.
Ep 02 : Our Partner Program – TEDxSanta Barbara BTS Podcast
In this episode, Mark talks about the Partner Program. The event is 100% financed by our generous partners. We have in-kind donations in addition to financial contributions. There are some fun benefits for partners this year.
Ep 01 Welcome to the Behind the Scenes at TEDxSantaBarbara Podcast
In this episode, Executive Producer Mark Sylvester introduces us to the TEDxSantaBarbara podcast and the upcoming shows in this capsule series This show is focused on providing an insiders view to the September 8th event.