TEDx Sacramento Youth Day Promo Video

This is the promotional video for TEDx Youth Day @ Sacramento.

As noted on YouTube, credit goes to:

The Makers Lab
Urban Now
DOOMbird
wilsonfotografie
The Urban Hive

Special thanks also to Lisa Donchak for her excellent coverage of the event.

TEDx Youth Day will be streaming live

I know... enough with the TED stuff already.  But.... if you're the kind of person who is into new, thought provoking ideas, you'll want to catch this.  If you can't make it to TEDx Youth Day in your city tomorrow (11/20) you can watch it streaming live here:

http://www.livestream.com/tedxyouthday 

For the Sacramento TEDx event, go here:  http://www.livestream.com/TEDx Youth Sacramento

Quick preview of the presentation by one of the many speakers to present tomorrow in Sacramento.

Many of today's youth spend their time in Internet-based virtual worlds like Second Life or in role-playing games like Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft.  What is this doing to their brains? Alex Terrazas, President and Chief Scientist at Media Balance, addresses this question through a discussion of his research on the hippocampus (the brain area critical to cognitive mapping).  He says that by living in virtual worlds and relying on technology like GPS devices, we may be letting the hippocampus out of its usual job of mapping events to their locations. The question is, what is the hippocampus going to be used for now?

Impressive Line-up of Thought Leaders to Present at TEDx Sacramento

The line up of presenters at this year's TEDx Sacramento conference is impressive.

Here is the list (in alpha order):

• Brendan Boyle IDEO

• Sarah Cook

• Neeru Khosla

• William Rankin

• Rivkah Sass

• Julie Schweitzer

• Jay Silver

• Alex Terrazas

• Daniel Wetter

Musical guests and performers will include:

• DoomBird
• Dog Party
• The Bad Apples

On Twitter, Look for #TedxYouthSac

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In the interest of full disclosure,  I'm on the planning committee for this year's TEDx conference