As regular readers of this site know, I’m a big fan of TED. Which is why I’m ecstatic that I’ve been asked to present at the inaugural TEDxScottsdale event on April 21st.

The theme for the first TEDxScottsdale is urban sustainability—a subject right up my alley.  From the website:

What are we doing in this desert? How can the merely four million of us now here live here going forward? Why would we want to? What can we do about living here?

That’s a lot to cover in just 3 1/2 hours. Will all of it be dealt with then? No. Will each basic question be intriguingly asked and answered? Resoundingly yes!

Each of you live here. You invest a large part of your waking day paying for the quality of the rest of that day. Can that quality improve? Invest 3 /12 more hours hearing from some people trying to do just that.

While I’m still working on the presentation outline, you can be assured that I will be integrating topics covered on this site, particularly urbanism, placemaking and community building.

Tickets

The event will be held of April 21, 2011 from 6-9:30PM at ASU SkySong in Scottsdale. As it is the inaugural TEDxScottsdale, seating is limited to 100 people.  You can request a FREE ticket here.

About TED

TED stands for Technology, Education and Design. It is an non-profit organization dedicated to ‘Ideas Work Spreading.’ Starting in 1984, they have held high-profile annual conferences in Long Beach California and Oxford, UK, each year, as well as TED India conference in Mysore, India.

About TEDx

Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis