Live Streaming of 2014 Ted Conference

If you can’t attend the 2014 TED Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, but would hate to miss it, you’re in luck. The well-known “TED Talks” conference will be webcast live at TEDxCSUSBLive at Cal State San Bernardino (CSUSB) on Tuesday, March 18, at the university’s Santos Manuel Student Union Theater. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” that started 30 years ago as a four-day conference in California. The organization has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers, to speak for 18 minutes on a diverse mix of topics. Many of these talks are then made available free at TED.com. The event will be held from 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Parking at the university is $5 per vehicle. The webcast will include pre-recorded TED Talks and discussion sessions led by CSUSB faculty and staff, including Kevin Grisham, assistant professor of geography and environmental studies and director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Others include James Clover, lecturer in the kinesiology department; Marilyn Stoner, professor of nursing; Larry Burns, director of CSUSB’s Career Center; and Heather Webster-Henry, a marriage and family therapy intern at the university’s Psychological Counseling Center. TEDxCSUSBLive will provide a rare opportunity for the CSUSB campus and surrounding community to watch one day of the annual TED conference as it unfolds. Tess Webster-Henry, coordinator of assessment, research, training and special projects at CSUSB’s Santos Manuel Student Union, said this will be the first time that TED Talks has come to the university campus. "Professors and professionals alike, whether on or off-campus won't want to miss this remarkable opportunity to watch the live webcast of TED 2014 conference with other TED enthusiasts," said Webster-Henry. “Watching the conference as it happens gives viewers a first glimpse of emerging ideas that can suddenly explode from the exposure of presenting them on such a platform,” she said. Notable TED speakers at past conferences have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown.