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• VIDEO
  "The 48 Laws of Power"
• Alberto Almarza
  Associate Professor of Flute and
  Head of the Flute Dept, CMU
• Barry Ames
  Chair, Department of Political Science, Pitt
• Brian Anderson
  Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, WVU
• Greg Babe
  President and CEO, Bayer Corporation
• Don Carter
  Director, Remaking Cities Institute, CMU
• Justine Cassell
  Director, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, CMU
• VIDEO
  "Coal Country"
• Terry Collins
  Professor, Green Chemistry
  Director, Institute for Green Science, CMU
• Midge Crickett
  Nerdy and Verbose Cellist
• Mark Dixon
  Director/Producer, "50 in 500"
• Ben Evans
  Director/Producer, "50 in 500"
• Robert Ferry
  Architect, Founder, Land Art Generator Initiative
• Jerry Fletcher
  Professor of agricultural economics and Director of
  US-China Energy Center at WVU
• Vanessa German
  Interdisciplinary artist
• Jonny Goldstein
  Visual Storyteller
• Kelvin Gregory
  Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental
  Engineering, CMU
• Harald Haas
  Professor of Engineering, Edinburgh University
• Mk Haley
  Associate Executive Producer,
  Entertainment Technology Center, CMU
• David Houle
  Futurist, Author
• Tom Hurley
  President, Oxford Leadership Academy
• Jason Kush
  Instructor of music Slippery Rock University
• VIDEO
  "Laughs"
• Jeremy Levy
  Professor of Physics, Pitt
• Ron Lindblom
  Associate VP, Point Park
• Arun Majumdar
  Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Maura McLaughlin
  Assistant Professor of Astrophysics WVU
• Robert Miller
  Producer, Director, Screenwriter
• Elizabeth Monoian
  Architect, Founder, Land Art Generator Initiative
• Kent Moors
  Professor of Political Science and Director,
  Energy Policy Research Group, Duquesne University
• Ted Newman
  Professor, Physics, Pitt
• Joseph Nye
  Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
• Grant Oliphant
  President, The Pittsburgh Foundation
• Point Park Conservancy of
  Performing Arts Dance Department
  Andy Ostrowski
• Krishna Pendyala
  Non-traditional life coach, speaker, and author
• Point Park Conservancy of
  Performing Arts Dance Department
  Kiesha Lalama-White
• Greg Reed
  Director, Pitt Power and Energy Initiative
• Jeremy Rifkin
  Founder and president, Foundation on Economic Trends
• Daniel Schnitzer
  Founder and Executive Director, Earth Spark International
• Eric Shiner
  Director, Andy Warhol Museum
• Kiron Skinner
  Associate Professor of International Relations and Politics, Dept. of Social and Decision Sciences, CMU
• Michael Tarr
  Professor of Psychology and Co-Director, CMU Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• Emmanuel Taylor
  Electrical Engineering Graduate Student
• VIDEO
  Mr. W
• David Waldeck
  Professor of Chemistry, Pitt
• Jeannette Wing
  Professor of Computer Science and Head,
  NSF Computer Science Center, CMU
• Dennis Yablonsky
  CEO, Allegheny Conference on Community Development

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What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxPittsburgh, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxPittsburgh event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. Visit TEDx

About TEDxPittsburgh

POWER

Power is a word without boundaries. In a practical sense, it is the business of hundreds of thousands of people dedicated to bringing energy, convenience, and comfort to our daily lives. In a broader sense, it encompasses all of humanity as the measure of peoples' ability to control and influence their environment and destiny.

In November a group of regional leaders took a journey from the cosmic implications of power to the subatomic; from the philosophical to the practical; from work in Brazil, China, Haiti, and the UAE to the power that resides inside each of us. The presentations are captured through forty-five or so videos featured here. As you peruse these videos you will find illuminating perspectives on:

• Nanocrystal-based dyads for solar voltaic conversion
• Measurement of gravitational waves in the universe
• Applying microbiology to bring power to challenging environments
• Future interactions between humans and computers
• Perspectives on the use and limitations of international political power
• As well as the power of belief, art, inspiration, words, countdowns, hallucinations, and questions - and more than 20 others

TEDxPittsburgh is dedicated to placing intriguing ideas and perspectives before the receptive minds of intellectually curious people who have both the ability to see possibilities and the capability to nurture those possibilities into new and better realities. If you are reading this, you are probably one of those people.

We invite you to view these videos and join us on our continuous exploration. Just roll your cursor over the image and click to launch the video.

Aradhna Malhotra Dhanda
President and CEO
Leadership Pittsburgh Inc.