2017 Event Gallery
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- Matthew Mitchell
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- Grace Leaf selfie of audience
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- The Bing Balcony View
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- Indaba Coffee Loves TEDxSpokane
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- Name Tag Table Volunteers
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- Mark Ostersmith ticket man
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- TEDxSpokane 2017
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- The Bing Crosby Theater
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- Aaron Hesse
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- Ammi Midstokke
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- Nick Smoot
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- Monty Lomazzi
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- Rhonda Young
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- Erika Prins Simonds
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- Judy Cornish
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- Chris Wood
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- TEDxSpokane stage volunteer
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- WSECU brought their word board
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- The audience takes their first break of the morning
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- Saint George's students perform with David Demand during the lunch break.
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- Ammi and Kristin chats through the crystal ball
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- John Tomkowiak shares his tag-cloud
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- Dave Paunesku
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- TED Talk "I Listen In Color"
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- Video "What you can learn about Obituaries"
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- Tucker Frye celebrating the applause
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- Leaving it better than they found it
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- Tucker Frye defying gravity
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- How high can one flip?
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- Tucker gets down on stage
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- Kristin on packaging's excess dilemma
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- Kristin on waste management
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- T-shirt shoots up to the balcony
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- Francis gets serious animation
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- Francis' brings community court
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- Natasha's three words to share
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- Natasha tells her story
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- Miserendino's predicaments
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- Kristin on how to rethink resource & recycling
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- Kristin's slide on plastic cups airlines use
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- Post-event celebration for those involved
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- Points well-taken & shared
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- They came to share ideas worth spreading
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- It's a wrap... onto video editing!
Register & Map
TEDxSpokane 2017 was hosted at the Bing Crosby Theater on October 21, 2017.
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The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W Sprague Ave, Spokane, WA 99201
Come again for the Fall 2018 Event.
WHY BECOME A TEDx PARTNER?
BE PART OF THE FUTURE OF TEDxSPOKANE.
Welcome to TEDxSpokane. We invite you to collaborate with us in creating a community of idea sharing and inspiration. This is how we change the world— one idea at a time. This high-energy daylong event will feature shared ideas and entertaining presentations citizens of the Inland Empire and beyond.
This October marks our sixth live event and it will originate from the historic Bing Crosby Theater in downtown Spokane. Our 2016 event was sold out, attended by 400 people and videos have been viewed by over a quarter of a million people online.
We believe that sharing ideas can change attitudes, lives and ultimately our world. TEDxSpokane is part of a growing phenomenon known as TED. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to sharing ideas. It started in 1984 as a conference of people seeking to share their knowledge in the worlds of technology, entertainment and design. TED now conducts live conferences featuring some of the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers. Videos from those conferences are available online and more than a billion people have viewed and grown intellectually as a result.
Those of us in the Pacific Northwest and Spokane have great ideas as well. That’s why we created TEDxSpokane and all of the activities involved with the nonprofit organization. Each year our volunteer organizers seek to find and give a stage to people in our community and others with great ideas. And each year, we connect with the international TED community and host viewing events to give national and international ideas a chance to be seen and heard on our local stage. We invite you to be part of TEDxSpokane.
JAMIE TENDER
TEDxSpokane, Founder and Licensee
BE PART OF SOMETHING MEANINGFUL.
We’re reaching out to a select group of organizations that are committed to the power of ideas and asking them to partner to help make TEDxSpokane activities possible.
We aren’t interested in selling ad space, our goal is to create lasting partnerships with organizations that want to be part of and add depth to the TEDxSpokane experience. Our presenters address some of humanity’s toughest challenges offering answers through innovation, enterprise and optimism. We seek to highlight local and regional ideas that inspire people to change their lives, their communities, and their world. Your partnership will help make this great event possible.
Join our community of thinkers, and benefit from an individually tailored partnership.
Patrick Ream
TEDxSpokane, Business Development
Organizers
JAMIE TENDER
Jamie Tender is the Head of School for Saint George’s, in charge of school advancement, teaching and learning, faculty and administration. As the Founder of TEDxSpokane, Jamie oversees all operations for the annual event, which began in 2011. He also serves as a speaker coach for several speakers each year. Each independently organized TEDxSpokane is Saint George’s gift to the community, bringing together thought leaders from throughout the country, while highlighting Inland Northwest’s connection to TED. Jamie has been with Saint Georges School since 2003, elevating the non-sectarian, independent school to a K-12 leader in providing International Baccalaureate education to students from the Inland Northwest, Asia and Europe. He holds a BA in Economics from Denison University and an MA in Sports Administration from Georgia State University. Jamie and his wife Elizabeth have a son playing hoops for the University of Redlands, a daughter modeling for IMG and another daughter gracing the halls of Saint George’s.
GRACE LEAF
Grace Leaf’s affiliation with TEDxSpokane began in 2012, when she served as its Emcee and a speaker coach. This is her second and last year serving as Curator, responsible for selecting the speakers and producing the live program. Grace also licensed TEDxCCS in 2013, serving as Curator at the Community Colleges of Spokane (CCS), only the second community college in the country to do a TEDx event. Grace holds a BA in Communication from Washington State University and an MA in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University. As the Director of Human Resources for CCS, she holds two globally recognized HR certifications–the SPHR and SHRM-SCP. Grace is the parent of a Saint Georges alum and a former Parent Association officer.
MIKE POUTIATINE
Mike Poutiatine is a university professor and educational consultant in Spokane. Mike has worked on every TEDx Spokane since we started doing them – Mike is a founding Board member of Northwest x Talks, the non-profit founded to support TEDx Spokane. In the photo – I am the one on the left.
CHARLIE WOLFF
Charlie Wolff works in business development for the City of Spokane, and a Saint George’s alum, organizes community engagement projects for TEDxSpokane. Charlie is committed to mobilizing the residents of Spokane and the region around ideas shared at TEDxSpokane events.
This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.