It’s been almost a year since TEDxCMU 2010: Fearless. But people are still tweeting, blogging and talking about it. Who said TEDxCMU was just Carnegie Mellon?

Speakers

Chase Jarvis

Photographer, Director and Social Artist

A beacon of creativity with boundless energy, Chase Jarvis is well known as a visionary photographer, director, and social artist.

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He is widely recognized for re-imagining, examining, and redefining the intersection of art and popular culture through still and moving pictures. While commercial work for brands like Nike, Pepsi, Volvo, Reebok, Apple, and Red Bull have earned him recognition from the International Photography Awards, The Advertising Photographers of America, Prix de la Photographie Paris, and numerous other industry buzz centers, 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. The online hub for Jarvis and his work is at ChaseJarvis.com.

Being Fearless: Being fearless means a having a willingness to embrace success and failure on the same terms..  

Chris Guillebeau

World Traveler and Writer

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.

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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.

Jonathan Fields

Author, Blogger and Entrepreneur

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).

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He writes about the crossroads between family, passion, entrepreneurship, social media and marketing at JonathanFields.comand 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. In 2009, SmallBizTrends.com named Career Renegade one of the top-10 small business books of the year. And, BusinessWeek named him one of the 20 people entrepreneurs need to follow on twitter (@jonathanfields). When not writing, speaking or building something, you can usually find him dancing around his living room with his wife and daughter.

Being Fearless: Fearlessness isn’t about being without fear, it’s about framing it in a way that allows you to move through it..

Nathan Martin

CEO, Deeplocal

Nathan Martin is the CEO of Deeplocal Inc. Prior to founding Deeplocal in 2006, Nathan was researcher and artist-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University where he led an interdisciplinary team in the development of a collaborative online mapping toolkit.

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As a founding member of both an art group and a touring punk/metal band, Nathan has spoken, toured and exhibited internationally since age sixteen. Nathan has over a decade of experience with mobile technology starting in 1999 as Mobile Device Specialist for MetaDesign SF and continuing in his work with clients including Palm Computing, Brodia, Panasonic, and Nike.

Nathan has taught Art and Design at several universities and holds an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Electronic Media Art. Nathan 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: Following your passions despite obvious reasons not to is living without fear.


MK Haley

Faculty at the Entertainment Technology Center

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.

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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: 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.

Raghava KK

Multi-disciplinary Artist

Raghava KK, recently named by CNN as one of the ten most fascinating people the world is yet to know of, is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in genres as disparate as painting, film, installation, multimedia, performance, and his own wedding.

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He began as a cartoonist in 1997 with leading Indian publications. He has been extensively featured by the Indian and international media and supported and endorsed by numerous celebrities and significant figures in the international art scene. His work conceptually grapples with the construct of identity, gender and sexuality, and the absence of interpersonal context in today’s world of online identity performance. He has lectured at New York University (New York, NY) and at several art institutions, including New Hampshire Institute of Art (Manchester, NH, USA) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Nimes, France). In 2007, he was invited as a guest of the city of Nimes to exhibit his work at the Carre d’Art Musee d’Art Contemporain. In February 2010, Raghava was invited to speak at the TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in Long Beach, CA along with director James Cameron, musician Sheryl Crow, playwright Eve Ensler, Bill Gates, and mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. He presently lives and works in both Bangalore, India and Brooklyn, NY.

Being Fearless: Being Fearless is the ability to remain true to oneself in the face of all odds.

RF Culbertson

Entrepreneur and Professor at Tepper School of Business

A graduate of CMU Class of ’75, Robert F. Culbertson III is an adjunct professor at the Tepper School of Business and CEO of VentureBeginnings, Inc. / GetAbby.

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Before coming to Carnegie Mellon he was co-founder and executive vice-president of technical development for LeaseTek,Inc. (now CFS Americas,Inc.). LeaseTek, a Pittsburgh-based company founded in 1983 that develops fixed asset-based management and accounting software, is the leading software provider for IBM PC and PC-based LANs in the world.

Being Fearless: Being Fearless means always asking questions, always asking why not, and always learning.

Stacey Monk

Founder, Epic Change

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.

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The organization began its work in Arusha, Tanzania, where Stacey met Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a former chicken farmer who used her income to build a school in her village that now serves over 400 children. 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, appearing in Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, CNN.com, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Ode Magazine and Twitterville, a book profiling successful business uses of Twitter by Silicon Valley journalist Shel Israel. Prior to launching Epic Change, Stacey worked with Deloitte Consulting, Genentech, the Santa Clara Social Services Agency and her own successful change management firm, Funken Consulting. A graduate of Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, Stacey began her career in performing arts management.

Being Fearless: Being fearless means following yourheart and trusting someone else to lead the way..?

Performers

DS Company

Dancers’ Symposium is a Carnegie Mellon student organization committed to providing numerous and varying dance opportunities on campus. The DS Company is a new addition to the organization which fulfills the need for artistic exploration in the dance community. It consists of students who are passionately involved with dance on campus. They often perform Random Acts of Dance in various locations across campus either making a visual spectacle or just plain busting a move. Keep your eyes open Pittsburgh, because DS Company is breaking out on campus and is planning performing in the city as well!

Jackson Chu

Jackson Chu, a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University studying design, hopes to share a different cultural experience with the community. Having resided in Vancouver, Canada for almost seven years, he was an active member in the community even before he arrived at Carnegie Mellon University, playing his Chinese ethnical instrument called an “erhu” in various occasions, including the Young Masters Project for the Vancouver Recital Society. After arriving on campus, he also engaged himself with various organizations including TSA and ARCC through a variety of events.

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Watch the Livestream on March 4th at http://tedxcmu.com/watch