VentureSpur will be a Sponsor of TEDxOU on January 27

by Kraettli Lawrence Epperson in LaunchOklahoma

tedxouVentureSpur is very pleased to announce that we will be an In-Kind Sponsor of TEDxOU!

This inaugural TED event at the University of Oklahoma will occur on January 27 on the Norman campus.

 

VentureSpur shares the TED organization’s thirst for new ideas, world-changing outlooks, and great stories! We are very excited to have been invited to participate and look forward to meeting leading thinkers and innovators from throughout Oklahoma at the event.

More information about the event can be found here: http://www.TEDxOU.com

More information about TED can be found here: http://www.TEDcom/

More info about TEDxOU from the event materials:

At the event, which is an independently organized, official TED event, 15 “ground-breaking thinkers and leaders in their fields will discuss such topics as how to find personal meaning in the business world and how to scale social change in the developing world,” said Jeff Moore, one of the organizers of the event. Moore is the executive director for the Creation for the Creation of Economic Wealth.

“‘TED’ stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design – three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future,” said Moore, explaining that TED was formed in 1984 as “a nonprofit devoted to ideas worth spreading,” originally as a conference that brought together people from the areas of technology, entertainment and design. Since then, its scope has broadened to “showcase ideas that matter in any discipline.”

“In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program, independent from TED, of local, self organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience,” Moore added, noting that OU is only the second Big 12 school to be granted the prestigious license to host a TEDx event.

Carrying the theme “Astound,” TEDxOU will include presentations by:

• Ken Parker, co-founder of RiskMetrics group and CEO of NextThought

• OU Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Director Ghislain d’Humieres

• Discovery Channel storm-chaser and TornadoVideos.net creator Reed Timmer

• Kyle Harper, director of the newly established OU Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage and an assistant professor of classics and letters specializing in Roman history.

More speakers will be announced periodically up until the event on tedxou.com.

Moore said it is hoped that TEDxOU will become an annual event at which some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers share information on topics about which they are most passionate.

The event will be held in Meacham Auditorium of Oklahoma Memorial Union.

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Kraettli Lawrence Epperson

Managing Director at JumpPhase Ventures
This blog is dedicated to providing advice, tools and encouragement from one entrepreneur to another. I want to keep this practical and accessible for the new entrepreneur while also providing enough sophistication and depth to prove useful to the successful serial entrepreneur. My target rests somewhere between the garage and the board room, where the work gets done and the hockey stick emerges.