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TEDx Fairbanks 2016 Event Schedule:
11:00 AM: Opening Remarks
11:15 AM: TEDx introduction video
11:30 AM: Dr. Ping Lan
Sparking Innovation in Alien Minds
This TEDTalk is based on Dr. Lan's efforts to crowdsource innovation by creating the Arctic Innovation Competition and helping growing new ventures.
11:45 AM: Dr. Mary Beth Leigh
Seeing the Elephant
This TEDTalk highlights projects combining ecology, dance, visual art, and other media to advance the arts, sciences, and public understanding of social-ecological issues.
12:00 PM: Break/Appetizers
12:30 PM: TED Video number one
12:50 PM: Allan Hayton
Athabascan Language, Land, Culture
This TEDTalk will tell the story of how the Athabascan languages of Alaska have developed over centuries in intimate conversation with the natural world.
1:10 PM: Misty Nickoli
Shattering the Glass to Build Bridges
This TEDTalk will discuss the effects of institutional racism from a personal perspective and suggest several ways in which we can curb microaggressions.
1:30 PM: Lunch
2:30 PM: TED Video number two
2:50 PM: Stephan Milkowski
Living Smaller in a Warmer World
This TEDTalk starts off with the understanding that many parts of the Western lifestyle are unsustainable, and that we will all need to change our lives in substantial ways.
3:10 PM: Bill Brody
Meditations on Art and Wilderness
This TEDTalk will tell the story of how Bill Brody came to paint alone on the glaciers in Alaska, and the lessons he learned along the way, in particular the value of silence and solitude.
3:30 PM: Closing Remarks