TedxHollywood
March 28th, 2013
9:00am-6:00pm
Freud Playhouse, UCLA
UCLA Department of Theater
1220 Macgowan Hall
Los Angeles, CA, 90025
Topics to be explored and presented by TEDx speakers include the following themes:
- Everyone is a Media Company: brands and organizations now regularly create and post content to engage audiences and customers.
- Succeeding in the Entertainment World Outside of the Traditional Hollywood System: learning from mavericks who have carved out successful careers in entertainment using ingenuity, elbow grease, talent, digital media and more.
- Storytelling That Drives Positive Change: stories that explain, inform and inspire. Stories shed new light on controversial topics, or advocate for a particular point of view.
- Sci-Fi Comes To Life Through Entertainment: great gadgets, gear and technology imagined by Hollywood show what is possible, and what could become reality in the not too distant future.
Initial Speaker list includes:
- Angela Ahrendts, Burberry
- John Forte, Musician
- Dick Glover, FunnyorDie.com
- Kina Granis, Musician
- Courtney Holt, Maker Studios
- Nadeem Kassam, Biobeats
- Tim Kring, Creator, Writer and Executive Producer, "Touch" and "Heroes"
- Rachel Shechtman, STORY
- Additional speakers to be announced
