TEDxSeattle 2018: Tall Order

A tall order, by definition, is demanding. It’s a significant, and potentially unreachable, challenge. Meet the people setting the bar high, and taking the challenge head-on.

The Schedule & Speakers

8:00am McCaw Hall opens
9:30am – 10:40am Session 1, awakening

Hosted by KUOW’s Deborah Wang

• Sam Dinning, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney of King County’s juvenile division
  • Why we need to stop treating everyone equally.
• Amy Ansel, Founder of Titan Bioplastics & Titan Hemp 
  • Plant power—how hemp could change our world.
• Chuck Murry, M.D., Ph.D., Director, UW Medicine’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
  • He won’t fix your love life but he can repair broken hearts, literally.

11:10am – 12:30am Session 2, discovery

• Deseo Carmin, Spanish music with an edge
• barry johnson, Multi-Disciplinary Artist, children’s book author, and editor
  • Improve your life through multiple personalities.
• Sara Sanford, Executive Director, Gender Equity Now (GEN) 
  • Women, work, and fairness. There is strength in numbers.
• Colin MacDonald, Design Director at Parkour Visions, and play enthusiast
  • Why our world would be better with more obstacle courses.

12:30pm – 1:45pm Lunch Break (See below for details)
1:45pm – 3:00pm Session 3, revelation

• Jono Vaughan, Artist, transgender activist, and Asst. Prof. at Bellevue College
  • Honoring lives ended by violence.
• Kirk Grogan, Digital Strategist and marketing & sales consultant
  • Those ads that follow you on the internet? That just scratches the surface of how social media and search is affecting you.
• Anastacia-Reneé, Seattle Civic Poet, former Hugo House Poet-in-Residence, and author
  • Good poetry is never polite.
• Joe Kye, violinist-looper and vocalist

3:30pm – 4:30pm Session 4, transformation

• Anirudh Koul, Head of Artificial Intelligence & Research, Aira
  • The inspiring story behind the technology bringing sight to the visually impaired.
• Judy Twedt, Climate Researcher, atmospheric scientist, and data sound artist
  • The science of climate change gets a soundtrack.

Interactive Activities

During the breaks, a variety of interactive stations and conversation tables will be arranged for attendees to meet, mingle and discuss ideas and areas relevant to our current world. Topics often range from Education, Changes in Seattle, Access to Health Care, or the best hikes within an hour of the city. To ensure the topics are close to your heart, we’ve asked YOU for suggestions. You told us what’s important to you, and what ideas are worth discussing and sharing. These will come to life in activities and exhibits spread over two floors in the main lobby.

Joining the interactive experiences available during the break, we’ll also have art and entertainment from these area artists and musicians:

• Mariah Reading
• Jeremiah Birnbaum
• Jeff Mihalyo
• Ben Kimura
• Tyler George-Minetti
• Aimee Zoe

So many options for lunch.

Every year, we offer a variety of box lunches to pre-order and have waiting at McCaw Hall so you don’t miss a thing. The pre-order time has passed, but a few box lunches will still be available, as well as other concessions. Outside food is not allowed in McCaw Hall, so if neither of these options work for you, then we encourage you to step out and visit the other restaurants at the Seattle Center who are offering food discounts to everyone wearing their Tall Order badges. Locations and discounts listed below:

• Ceres Roasting Co. (10%)
• Premier Meat Pies (10%)
• Quincy’s (20%)
• Skillet: Counter (20%)
• Culture Kitchen at MoPOP (20%)
• La Marzocco Cafe, in the KEXP Meeting Space (10%)

TEDxSeattle 2018 only happens once a year. If you haven’t already purchased tickets, you can still do so online, or at the door.  Tickets are still on sale.

A look back at TEDxSeattle 2017

KOUW’s Deborah Wang hosting TEDxSeattle in 2017

Selfie with TEDxSeattle 2017 speaker, Aji Piper

A stretch and speak break during the morning’s session at TEDxSeattle 2017