TEDx Comes to SDSU on Oct. 11

San Diego State University will host the fourth annual TEDxAmericasFinestCity on Oct. 11. With a theme of Transformation Through Us, the event is positioned as a tool for helping the community drive change.
“Each one of our speakers is driving transformation in their niche,” said Patricia Stitson, the TEDxAmericasFinestCity organizer.
“We believe their ideas warrant not only spreading through the TEDx platform but, more importantly, across the San Diego community. Our goal is create opportunities for connection and true real-time collaborative problem-solving for change at the event and beyond.”
Transformation Through Us communicates the ability to spark change as a collective, carried throughout each level of our consciousness — individual, communal and global.
To learn what issues were essential to San Diegans, TEDxAmericasFinestCity recently held an interactive session at SDSU in which 100 attendees, acting as representatives from the community, gathered to share and brainstorm topics — both local and universal — about which they were passionate.
With the help of Sagatica, a San Diego-based company that creates culture-specific corporate leadership development programs, TEDxAmericasFinestCity analyzed the results of the session and identified six broad categories that encompassed the nearly 200 transformative ideas proposed by attendees:
• Community
• Technology
• Inner Empowerment
• Civic Collaboration
• Education
• Entrepreneurship
The event will mark the beginning of a new relationship that TEDxAmericasFinestCity is forming with the community.
Leading up to the event, the TEDxAmericasFinestCity team will be encouraging conversation using social media and other technology around these topics. The event will be a catalyst to introduce like-minded and not-so-like-minded individuals, speakers and local organizations who are forging transformation within and beyond San Diego.
“We hope that by generating online conversation, we can raise awareness around the transformative ideas proposed by attendees and spur them into action,” Stitson added. “The whole team is working very hard and is excited to bring this to our community.”
The speakers for this year are:
• David Malmuth, partner, I.D.E.A. Partners — Theme: Community
• Marni Bartlett, lead scientist at Emotient — Theme: Technology
• Yasmin Zahra Shah, co-founder, CEO, president of the board at VillageCore — Theme: Inner Empowerment
• Eric Kaufmann, president and founder of Sagatica — Theme: Inner Empowerment
• Xavier Leonard, civic technologist and designer — Theme: Civic Collaboration
• David Miyashiro, superintendent, Cajon Valley Union School District — Theme: Education
• Torrie Dunlap, CEO, Kids Included Together — Theme: Education
• Lambert Nintemen, SDSU student, captain, SDSU X-Team — Theme: Entrepreneurship
• Jeff Adler, CEO, Dlush — Theme: Entrepreneurship
For more information, visit http://www.tedxamericasfinestcity.com/