We’ve sent out our first round of tickets this morning. If you applied for a ticket at TEDxCMU, make sure to check your inbox! 
If you submitted an application but didn’t get an email from us, don’t worry – we are releasing another round of tickets next week.
Haven’t submitted an application yet? Fill one out here!
Chris Guillebeau
Chris Guillebeau is a writer, entrepreneur, and world traveler. He publishes the The Art of Non-Conformity (AONC) project for a small army of remarkable people. Being fearless means “being scared to death but doing it anyway.”
Chris plans to visit every country in the world by April 7, 2013. Check out his progress and send him a postcard.
MK Haley
Mk Haley has recently joined the faculty at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon as well as the Disney R&D lab at CMU after 16 years with Walt Disney Imagineering in California. With over 25 years at SIGGRAPH, the Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies, primarily involved with interactive installations, Mk has always best enjoyed mashing art and tech together, as well as academia and industry. Being fearless means “rather than taking risks with abandon, setting up your circumstances such that you have little to risk in the first place, and can therefore act without fear from the getgo.”
If you haven’t already, make sure you register for a ticket here. Registration for tickets closes on March 21. We will be announcing more speakers on this blog this week, so make sure you are following us. There are 3 easy ways to get updates:
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Hey there – a lot of people have been asking us about the questions on the online application.
Before we launched the application on Wednesday, we anticipated that there would be more people who wanted to attend the conference than our venue, UC McConomy, could hold. The auditorium holds 450 seats, and we received more than 450 applications within 3 days of putting the form online. Because we cannot seat everyone, we are using the questions as a way to invite the people who we feel would most benefit from the event.
TEDxCMU is more than a conference. It’s a day full of inspiration, wonder and community involvement. (I can’t reveal what we have in store, but you lucky ones who attend the event will find out first-hand)
We just sent out emails to our lucky first 25 applicants who got guaranteed seats to the event. We will begin emailing applicants starting Monday, March 15.
Do you have friends who have not applied for the event? Make sure you get to share this event with your friends – invite them to the online application here!
Our ticket application is now live. Apply for your ticket here!
For the last month, the TEDxCMU team at Carnegie Mellon University has been working very hard to piece this event together, and we’ve been simply blown away by the response we’ve received from our fans. Thanks for all your support, we’re doing our very best to ensure that TEDxCMU lives up to your expectations. A quick reminder, ticket registrations open in about 24 hours, check back tomorrow at 11:30am EST and make sure you apply for your ticket.
Now, I finally get to share some of the speakers who are confirmed for the event, and hope that you’re as excited about this as I am. This is just the start, we will be announcing more speakers as we get closer to the conference. In keeping with our theme, we asked our speakers what being fearless means to them, and here’s what they had to say. For complete bios, check out the Speakers page. So here they are, the first four speakers for TEDxCMU:
Chase Jarvis
A beacon of creativity with boundless energy, Chase Jarvis is well known as a visionary photographer, director, and social artist. He is widely recognized for re-imagining, examining, and redefining the intersection of art and popular culture through still and moving pictures. His recent push into personal work and fine art has rapidly gained the attention of curators and art critics, mainstream audiences, and celebrity circles worldwide. Being fearless means “having a willingness to embrace success and failure on the same terms.”
Have a look at his visual notebook of photos he’s taken with his iPhone.
Jonathan Fields
Jonathan Fields is a former private equity attorney turned lifestyle-entrepreneur, blogger, marketer, speaker and author of Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love (Broadway 2009). He has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, FastCompany, Entrepreneur, USA Today, People, CNBC, The Today Show, FoxBusiness, CBS Radio and hundreds of magazines, radio shows and websites. Being fearless means: “Fearlessness isn’t about being without fear, it’s about framing it in a way that allows you to move through it.”
Jonathan writes about the crossroads between family, passion, entrepreneurship, social media and marketing at JonathanFields.com
Nathan Martin
Nathan is the CEO of Deeplocal Inc. and has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work in art, music, and technology, and continues to write and speak about his passion for integrating the artists’ process into the design and development of improved ways of experiencing people, information, and objects in this world. Being fearless means “following your passions despite obvious reasons not to is living without fear.”
See what Nathan has to say about ‘gutter tech’ and how Deeplocal’s recent ventures have been shaping the future of the creative services industry.
Stacey Monk
Stacey Monk is the founder of Epic Change, a startup nonprofit that helps grassroots changemakers share their “epic” true stories in innovative ways to help them acquire the financial resources they need to create positive “change” in their communities. Creators of TweetsGiving, one of the first efforts that harnessed the power of Twitter to do good, Epic Change has been widely recognized for their innovative use of social media in creating social change. Being fearless means “following your heart and trusting someone else to lead the way.”
Read about what Epic Change has been able to do in the last few years and what they plan to do in the future.
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Watch the Livestream on March 4th at http://tedxcmu.com/watch