Join TEDxLivermore 2016 Event this Saturday, June 25

Join us this Saturday, June 25th, for TEDxLivermore at the Barbara Mertes Center for the Arts.

The Economics of Empathy ~ Empathy as currency for building community

Register at: http://tedxlivermore_2016.eventbrite.com

At home and abroad, our world appears increasingly divided. Income inequality, global and domestic terrorism, mass migration of displaced people, escalating racial tensions, and an increasingly partisan and incendiary political environment are just some of the challenges we are facing. If ever there was a time for empathy, it is now.

Join us to hear speakers from the California Bay Area, and around the globe, as they share how empathy impacts decision making, how virtual reality can create an exponential increases in empathy, how small gifts can make life-changing shifts, and more.

Some highlights from our line-up of 16 speakers for this day-long event:

Jim Ott, Faculty, Las Positas college professor, in Veterans Stories: Bearing Witness to One's Truth will share the discovery in his classroom that writing, and sharing about the struggle experienced by a returning vet made a profound difference for all involved.

Alexandra Ivanovitch, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires -(CRI Paris) will talk about the use of virtual reality to shift from linear to exponential empathy. Her work to create community participatory empathy at Paris's Nuit Blanche was on the heels of Charlie Hebdo, making this talk particularly timely.

Lorien Pratt, co-founder of Quantellia ('providers of 'Decision Intelligence''), will share how big data, artificial intelligence, and the human component can reveal effective levers in the search for solutions for these global issues that increasingly divide us, by modeling thousands of decisions, large and small.

Edward Kleinbard, a retired tax attorney (now on faculty at USC) is consulted by Congress, the IMF and top law schools. He will share statistics from his book "We are Better Than This." His search for a fiscal soul has revealed an America that, in spite of images to the contrary, actually operates as a low tax, small government country, where most resources go to the elderly and relatively affluent.

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