TEDxConejo - Michael Weiss - A Special Opportunity
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Michael Weiss is Partner/CEO of Imagistic, an award-winning web agency in Westlake Village, California. In addition to his extensive management, marketing and sales experience, Michael possesses a background in education and counseling. In his short talk at TEDxConejo, Michael celebrates the energy of an open mind and the awesome opportunities ... Read more
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- -: TEDxConejo - Michael Weiss - A Special Opportunity
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Michael Weiss is Partner/CEO of Imagistic, an award-winning web agency in Westlake Village, California. In addition to his extensive management, marketing and sales experience, Michael possesses a background in education and counseling. In his short talk at TEDxConejo, Michael celebrates the ene...
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- -: TEDxConejo - "G" Pe Benito - Spare Change
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Giuliana "G!" Pe Benito is a junior at Westlake High School. "Spare Change" was written while she waited for her parents to pick her up after she got very lost exploring Los Angeles by herself. She sat at the foot of a large corporate building and explored the process by which she came to recogn...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Erin Gruwell - The Freedom Writers
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Erin Gruwell is an educator and president of The Freedom Writers Foundation. When Erin landed her first job at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Ca, she discovered many of her students had been written off by the education system and deemed "unteachable." As teenagers living in a racially divide...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Amos Nachoum - No Demons of the Sea
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)There is something you need to know about Jaws. He was a fabrication. Photographer and explorer Amos Nachoum dispels the misconception of killer species in a photographic exploration presented at TEDxConejo2011. Amos Nachoum is a photographer and explorer. He has shot just about everything ther...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Kevin Chian/Ashley Chang/Anish Puri/Savannah Fisch - Student Group 1
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Student presenters are an important element of TEDxConejo, produced in association with Conejo Valley Unified School District. In this group, Kevin Chang talks about incorporating tablet computers into learning programs, Anish Puri speaks about student journalism, Ashley Chang addresses the impo...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Reza Aslan - Unity in Diversity
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, tells his own story of growing up as an Iranian-born emigre and explores the common narrative of what it means to be an American, the unity that we find in our diversity. At a time of unparalleled anti-Muslim sentiment...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Dr. Glenn Begley - The Complex Biology of Cancer (or Why Haven't We Cured It Yet?)
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Dr. Glenn Begley is Vice President and Global Head of Hematology and Oncology Research at Amgen The author of more than 200 scholarly papers and the recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Begley is one of the world's leading researchers in the study of Hematopoietic growth factors. His work has had si...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Samantha Guhan - Mussels and Curiousity
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Samantha is a junior at Newbury Park High School. Science has been her passion since middle school and she has won numerous awards in science fairs at county, state and national levels since the sixth grade. Most recently, she was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist of California by the ...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Nicholas Chhun - Change
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Nicholas Ryan Chhun is a senior at Newbury Park High School. "I have been playing bass guitar in Jazz Band for about 4 years now. My hobbies include playing in a hard rock band called "Quarantine" and composing music (mostly on guitar) for my own enjoyment." TEDxCONEJO TEDxConejo, an independentl...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Kristine Zhang - Piano
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)TEDxCONEJO TEDxConejo, an independently organized TED event, was held in Thousand Oaks, Ca on March 26, 2011. The conference theme was Energy, using that word very broadly to go beyond what powers our homes and transportation but really what fuels life. What energizes business, education, health...
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