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TEDx comes to Navesink in SeptemberWritten by Susanne Cervenka @scervenkaAug. 28, 2013 | app.com

If you go.

Tickets for TEDxNavesink cost $40 for individual tickets or $30 in groups of five or more. Student ticketscost $22. Information about TEDxNavesink is available at .www.tedxnavesink.com

Schedule

8:00 amRegistration Opens Note: Schedule below subject to change. 8:45 am to 10:30 am Ocean /People Brian Smiga: Welcome Cindy Zipf: Our Wild and Industry Free Ocean Ben Kalina: Collisions ofhuman, technological and geological time lines Tereza Nemessanyi: From Mom to Microsoft VP via socialnetworking – My Story. Erika Casriel: Remapping the Self in light of latest brain science ElizabethUrbanski: Selfies – Self image though history and today John Shammas: Selfies – how to do them, andhow I built the app 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Garden State Richard Veit: Human Culture in Middle Atlantic12000 BCE to 1600s Megan Paska: Permaculture gardening directly on the Navesink for 7 Arrows BillRosenblatt: 12 things you didn’t know about NJ Surfing Jon Mercantini: NJ as divided battle-ground fromTrenton to Victory Avi Karnani: NJ mapped to Silicon Valley contains ingredients for tech innovationSusan Pelligrini: History of music on Jersey Shore 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch Concurrent hands onactivities, student poster talks, and networking. 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Community / Innovation Advark Smile:Acoustic Music Session Don Sebastian: Innovation styles particular to NJ and how to build for themGabriella Levine: Open Hardware platforms for robotics (that monitor & clean water) Alon Hillel-Tuch: Thefuture of funding projects, organizations and start-ups Kerri Martin: Second Life Bikes Story HarrisonOwen: Wave Rider 2.0 – Collaboration models for change Cranston Dean: Acoustic Music Session 3:30pm to 5:00 pm Global Impacts / Synthesis Benjamin Horton: Eastern America as a local hotspot for sealevel rise Kat Lazo: Feminist TEDxJournalist Sean Dixon: Global challenges facing our ocean region KakiKing: Acoustic Music Session Robert Lucky:History of innovation in Shore region and the future of FtMonmouth Finale:Dance 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Reception at Monmouth Museum

MIDDLETOWN — A version of the global conference thatbrings together great thinkers to talk about “ideas worth spreading” is coming to Monmouth County nextmonth.

A group of about 20 local volunteers have come together to host TEDxNavesink: The Next Wave, afast-paced, day-long forum featuring about two dozen speakers that will speak about ideas for the futureof the Jersey Shore.

“It’s a non-fiction theater of ideas,” said Brian Smiga, an organizer of TEDxNavesink, which will be onSept. 20 at Brookdale Community College’s Performing Arts Center.

“It brings together global and urban thinkers as well as the best thinkers around here to express newideas.”

TEDx events are locally organized forums that mirror the experience of TED, a globally recognized

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conference that began 29 years ago by bringing together world experts in technology, entertainment anddesign.

Smiga said he attended TED for three years from 2002 to 2004, calling the conferences a “mind-opening”experience. And since then, he has wanted to bring a TEDx event to Monmouth County.

Planning for the event started last summer with the original location to be Sandy Hook. But superstormSandy changed those plans, moving the event from the spring to the fall and to Brookdale.

While some speakers will incorporate Sandy into their talks, all of which are 18 minutes or less, the focusis the future of the shore specifically drawing talent to the area.

Smiga said the various talks will fall under the umbrella of the sea and living at the shore, innovation andstartups and the history of innovation in Monmouth County — which he said was on the cusp of beingSilicon Valley during the 1960s. Some talks will also be about self, organizational development andentertainment.

The topics run the gamut from the historical perspective of “selfies,” photographs people take ofthemselves and post online with cell phones, to beach replenishment; crowdfunding to feminism.

Among the speakers are Tereza Nemessanyi, who runs Microsoft’s business with startups on the EastCoast and Harrison Owen, a Washington, D.C.-based author and consultant who has worked around theglobe helping communities, businesses and other organizations through critical issues.

Owen said that what he’s learned from his work is that the best resources come from the communitiesthemselves as they decide how they want to proceed in the face of conflict.

Chaos like Sandy, he said, is both “a mess and an opportunity.”

“If you didn’t have any chaos, you wouldn’t have any life,” he said.

Susanne Cervenka: 732-643-4269; .scervenka@njpressmedia.com