80 TEDxNavesink Talk Videos (watched by over 800,000)
2016 MAKERS Speakers
Benjamin Heckendorn
Ben Heck: master modder and host of element14’s The Ben Heck Show
Jay Bhatti
Jay is a venture capitalist with a focus on consumer internet & e-commerce.
Bernadette Mullen
Speech and Language Pathologist, Special Education Teacher, Owner of Speech Start, Lecturer and Curriculum Director for SiLAS for Social Skills
Zaritza
Zaritza creates modern electro-pop/rock music infused with dramatic, romantic elements from her Russian classical roots.
Leonard Zax
A lawyer and city planner, Leonard is now President of the Hamilton Partnership for Paterson.
Garry Kvistad
Founder/owner of Woodstock Chimes®, member of Steve Reich and Musicians and NEXUS.
Christopher Dudick
Entrepreneur, Artist, Teacher and creator/founder of Small Factory Productions and SiLAS Solutions.
Yesi Morillo-Gual
Corporate Executive, Graduate Student, Extraordinary Mom, Entrepreneur, and Founder of Proud To Be Latina. She is the author of Rise, and the upcoming novel Stay.
Dina Long
Dina Long, Mayor of Sea Bright Borough and fellow Sandy survivor.
Michael Paoli
School is both an essential and ridiculous environment for growing kids and there is nowhere else I’d rather be.
Ken Carbone
Ken Carbone is a designer, artist, musician, author, teacher and blogger. He is the Chief Creative Director of the Carbone Smolan Agency in NYC.
Kevin Ryan
President and CEO of Covenant House International
Melissa Febos
Author, Assistant Professor at Monmouth University
Eileen Huang
As a poet in a STEM school, 16-year-old Eileen Huang navigates through many clashing cultures.
Andrea Syrtash
Relationship expert, author and on-air television personality.
Eric Clough
Principal at 212box, a New York-based multidisciplinary design firm, Eric Clough thinks outside his box
Rinde Eckert
interdisciplinary artist - singer, writer, actor, composer, and director.
Anna Zhang
Photographer and founding editor of Pulse Spikes magazine.
Previous Years' Speakers
Annika Lorienne & Ravind Kumar
“Radio For an Empowered Generation”
Dr. Lora Aroyo & Dr. Chris Welty
“To be AND not to be: quantum intelligence”
Mike Rayburn
“Become A Virtuoso”
Donald Katz
“Early-stage Tech and Urban Renaissance”
Bora Yoon
Entertainment — Music
Joe Iconis
Entertainment — Music
Philip Murphy
“A New Start for New Jersey”
Vinnie Brand
Entertainment — Comedy & Improv
Camilla Webster
“Art in Front of You”
Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva
“To Hold On, Let Go”
Dr. Karyn Marshall
“Shattering Records and Glass Ceilings”
David B. Srere
“The Real Reason Simple is Smart”
Abby Daly
“Books: Bridging the Gap”
Sarah Krüg
“Missing Link: The Patient’s Roar”
Mitchell Delmar
“Sanctioned Addiction”
Dan Neil
“Go, Cat, Go: An Appreciation of the Accelerator”
Michele Mitchell
“What’s Rape’s Brand?”
Ted Coiné
“The Power of Impatience!”
Lou Kerner
“Rise and fall of corporate accelerators”
Esther Dyson
“The Way to Wellville and Other Places”
Brian Reynolds
“Race: Climate Change vs. Smart Money”
Don Lincoln
“Beyond Invisible: Building Blocks of the Cosmos”
Kaihan Krippendorff
“Finding the ‘Fourth Option’”
Dr. Gary Lewandowski
“Break-Ups Don’t Have to Leave You Broken”
Dr. Gail Dines
“Growing Up in a Pornified Culture”
Baba Brinkman Rap-Up
Rap-Up
Gail Woods
Happy For Goals
Araiya Casriel
“Play” scene from Charlotte’s Web
Joe Iconis
Music/Cabaret
Todd Reynolds
Electronic Violinist
Karl M. Kapp
Life Lessons…from Video Games
Jens Peter de Pedro
Why we must go beyond pink and blue
John Dias
We Call it a ‘Play’ for a Reason
Matthew Urbanski
Creating Play Spaces for the Livable City
Baba Brinkman
A Brief History of Rhyme
Poornima Vijayashanker
Taking the Time to Tinker
Augie Carton
Beer Is Cuisine
Mark Burgess
The Rise Of The Social Employee
Timothy Sheehan
Get into Your Play - Wisdom from Dr. George Sheehan
America Rice
Loving Second Life Bikes
Marie Jackson
Healing Ourselves Through Play
Lois Holzman
Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age
John Shammas
Introducing TEDxSelfie 2.0
Augmented Asbury Park
Experience Augmented Asbury Park
Pat Rumbaugh
Saving Play: One Playful Step At A Time
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel
Playful Inquiry – Try This Anywhere
James Giunta
Hypnosis + Music = Hyp-Note-Therapy
Stanton Green
Play Ball: The Anthropology of Baseball
Peter Gray
The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders
Laurie Brekke
Growing Minds by Growing School Gardens
Mike O’Keeffe
Plays Well With Others: Using Improv Comedy to Become a Better Human
Dennis Daniels
Spiritual Drumming
Jillian Pransky
Mindplay to Expand Love in Your Life
Avi Karnani
“Talk: NJ as the next Silicon Valley”
Kerri Martin
“How to Build a Community, Told with Chalk”
Ben Kalina
Talk: “Coastal development — smarter than the storm?”
Erika Casriel
Erica Casriel: “Remapping the Self: Neuroscience Gets Personal”
Elizabeth Urbanski
Talk: “Self-Image: Caves to Selfies”
Richard Veit
Talk: “Original people of the mid-Atlantic”
Meg Paska & Michael Meier
Talk: “Local Farms: from Brooklyn Rooftops to Navesink Estates”
Ardvark Smile
Musical performance: “Ardvark Smile “
Alon Hillel-Tuch
“Emergence of an alternate path”
Robert Lucky
Talk: “Innovation and New Jersey — Storied Past and Uncertain Future”
Dr. Bill Rosenblatt
Talk: “Surprises about surfing in New Jersey”
Susan Pellegrini
Talk: “Asbury Park’s Rock (R)Evolution 1968-81”
Dr. Donald Sebastian
Talk: “Innovation clusters and how to build them on the shore”
Sean Dixon
Talk: “Energy Exports: Good, Bad, Ugly, and What you Need to Know”
John Shammas
Talk: ‘Software development is the new home economics”
Kat Lazo
“Feminism isn’t dead, it’s gone viral!”
Jonathan Mercantini
“Talk: Divided NJ from the Battle of Trenton”
Crossing the Delaware: 350 Years of New Jersey History
Tereza Nemessanyi
“Reinvention of a suburban mom”
Gabriella Levine
Talk: “Democratizing innovation with open hardware”
Cindy Zipf
Talk: “Our wild and industry-free ocean”
Ben Horton
Talk: “Is sea level rising?”
Harrison Owen
Talk: “Dancing with Shiva (or Sandy, or Katrina):”
Brian Smiga
Executive, Artistic and Production Director