TEDxUWMadison

04/16/2021

Thank you to our speakers Kunal Khadilkar and Emilie Songolo for two very insightful and compelling TEDx Talks surrounding racial inequality. We saw a record number of attendees this year!

Our next portion of the event will begin at 2 pm TODAY. Speakers Dr. Dietram Scheufele, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, and Dr. Hart Posen will discuss their efforts to combat the coronavirus.

Register: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hKaxolm5RKmSFr_fH5Cy6g

2020 has been a very different year and we think it's time to take a moment and reflect on what we all have gone through. This event is focused on highlighting the voices of those battling the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as well as racial injustices. For the first time, we are going virtual meaning that...

04/15/2021

Last but not least we would like to introduce M. Adams.

M Adams is a community organizer and co-executive director of Freedom Inc. Born and raised in Milwaukee, she has been in Madison since 2003.

As a q***r Black person, Adams has developed and advocated for a strong intersectional approach in numerous important venues. Adams is a leading figure in the Take Back the Land Movement, she presented before the United Nations for the Convention on Eliminating Racial Discrimination, she is a co-author of Forward from Ferguson and a paper on Black community control over the police, and she author to intersectionality theory in Why Killing Unarmed Black folks is a Q***r issue.

She plans to speak on her personal experience in advocacy against racial inequality.

04/15/2021

Join us for TOMORROW 11-12:15 and 2-3:15 to hear our TEDx experts discuss two pandemics we continue to experience: racial injustice and covid-19. There will be an opportunity for Q&A following each TEDx Talk.

Register: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hKaxolm5RKmSFr_fH5Cy6g

04/14/2021

For our next speaker, we have Shiva Bidar-Sielaff

Shiva Bidar serves as Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer leading the overall vision, coordination and strategic leadership for the design and implementation of UW Health's initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is responsible for internal strategic initiatives as well as partnerships with community organizations to better connect and serve communities of color and LGBTQ+ communities. In addition, Shiva served as a City of Madison Alder from 2009 to 2021, including two terms as Council President.

Shiva is the Co-chair of the Latino Health Council of Dane County, an executive committee member of the Latino Support Network, a Madison College Board Trustee, and a Madison Community Foundation board member.

Shiva’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including 2019-20 UW Outstanding Women of Color Award, the 2018 Centro Hispano of Dane County Visionary Award and the 2018 Wisconsin LGBT Chamber Advocate of the Year.

Shiva completed her undergraduate studies at the Université du Hainaut, Mons, Belgium, her Master’s degree from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. She obtained her Certificate in Diversity Management in Health Care (CDM) from Institute for Diversity in Healthcare & Georgetown University.

04/14/2021

Introducing our next speaker, Prof. Dietram A. Scheufele

Dietram A. Scheufele is the Taylor-Bascom Chair in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Morgridge Institute for Research. His work examines the social effects of emerging science and technology.

He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Communication Association, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.

Over the course of his career, he has held fellowships or visiting appointments at a number of other universities, including Harvard, Penn, the Technische Universität Dresden, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and - most recently - the Universität Wien. His consulting experience includes work for DeepMind, Porter Novelli, PBS, WHO, and the World Bank.

04/14/2021

Our next speaker will be Dr.Hart E. Posen

Hart Posen is a Professor of Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and was previously on faculty at the University of Michigan. Before his Ph.D., he spent over a decade as an entrepreneur in the technology and retail sectors. He studies strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship from a behavioral perspective, using computational social science methods to develop models of how collective intelligence emerges and evolves in organizations via learning processes. Posen is frequently invited to lecture to audiences in North America, Europe, and Asia. His commentary on economic issues has appeared in various media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, NPR National News, Marketplace, CNBC, and the BBC.

04/12/2021

Our next Speaker will be Emilie Songolo.

A native of Cameroon, Emilie is UW-Madison’s Head of International and Area Studies (IAS) for libraries. She is also Senior Librarian for African, Global and Francophone Studies at UW-Madison. Besides her commitment to equity in collections, access and research, she fosters a culture of growth, respect, dialog and trust.

Emilie’s leadership is acknowledged at UW-Madison, in the community and on the national and international arenas. A long-time member of the campus African Studies Program, she serves as a member of the program’s Steering Committee. Because of her experience in International and Area Studies, she was recently appointed to the newly-created Center for Research Libraries’ Collections and Services Policy Committee (CSPC). Her current research focuses on the acquisition, preservation and access of African ephemera and media. She has published on women in African cinema and given multiple presentations in local, national and international professional conferences. In 2014, she launched the Madison Area International Women’s Day Conference to examine and address gender disparity locally and globally. Emilie is the recipient of multiple awards including the UW-Madison Librarian of the Year (1996), the UW-Madison Outstanding Woman of Color( (2015), the Dr. Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence (2001), the UW-Madison Academic Staff Assembly Commendation for Outstanding Service in the Community (2009), the Woman Leader in Global Health-WGH, Midwest Chapter (2019) and the Outstanding Woman of Achievement Award - Wisconsin Women of Color Network (2017). She is a graduate of the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mount Holyoke College, and UCLA where she earned her Master’s of Library and Information Science.

04/11/2021

Introducing our event's first speaker, Kunal Khadilkar.

Kunal is a Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University, pursuing a Masters degree in Computational Data Science. His interests lie in data science, machine learning, AI, and how it can be used to make the world a better place.

He is actively involved in the AI community and in the past has worked with Adobe, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and IBM on large-scale machine learning initiatives. Kunal was one of the select few to represent India at the inaugural India-Singapore AI for Social Good Hackathon, and his work was recognized by both the Governments of India and Singapore.

Kunal has always been passionate about using “AI for Social Good” and has had experiences participating, speaking, and judging in hackathons and conferences around the world. Last year, he was selected as one of the 'Rising Stars of Social Impact' by Harvard's CRCS Rising Stars Workshop and won the best poster award, for his research efforts in this area. His most recent work on uncovering gender bias and colorism in movie industries has received widespread media attention that include Vice, Pittsburgh NPR (WESA), The Hindu, Times of India and Government of India's AI portal, among others.

04/08/2021

2020 has been a very different year and we think it's time to take a moment and reflect on what we all have gone through. This year's conference is focused on highlighting the voices of those battling the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as well as racial injustices. For the first time, we are going virtual meaning that our ideas are truly boundless and we hope to impact all of you, no matter where you are. April 16th 11-12:30, 2-3:30

Register: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hKaxolm5RKmSFr_fH5Cy6g

Joining us this year to speak on COVID-19:
Dr. Grace Flood
Dr. Hart E Posen
Dr. Dietram A. Scheufele

Joining us to speak on racial injustice:
M. Adams
Emilie Songolo
Kunal Khadilka

12/06/2020

Hi everyone! Our upcoming 2021 event will be held virtually in late February - early March! Here is the speaker nomination form, if you or someone you know doing some cool things that you'd like to talk about!

https://forms.gle/xMVWTH6LAuwSsj1P7

Welcome! If you are interested in either speaking, or nominating someone to speak at our next event in March 2021, please fill out this form.

02/26/2020

Hi everyone! Our 2020 event is officially SOLD OUT! Thank you everyone who bought tickets; we will have a waitlist if you still wish to purchase tickets for our event.

We will know the day of our event after we begin whether there will be open spots for the event.

Thank you all again and see you this Saturday

02/26/2020

Hello followers! We would like to introduce our seventh speaker, Christina Olstad.

Christina Olstad joined UW-Madison as the Dean of Students in July 2019. Dean Olstad has nearly twenty years of experience in higher education administration. She received undergraduate and master’s degrees in social work from Augsburg University and an Ed.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Vermont.

Prior to joining UW-Madison, Dean Olstad served as Interim Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, Housing & Residence Life at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. She’s also held positions at Augsburg University, the University of New England, the University of Vermont, and Semester at Sea.

02/25/2020

Hello followers! We would like to introduce our sixth speaker, Dr. Patrick Re*****on.

Dr. Re*****on is Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences and Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was an epidemiologist at the CDC and the Wisconsin Division of Public Health for 15 years, prior to joining the UW in 1997. While at the UW he has served as Associate Director of the Carbone Cancer Center and was the founding director of the Population Health Institute and the MPH Program. His research focuses on developing methods to measure the health of communities and communicate this information to the public and policy makers.

He is the founder of the RWJ-funded “County Health Rankings” that ranks the health of the counties in the U.S. and examines strategies to improve population health. Dr. Re*****on earned a BS degree in molecular biology and an MD from UW; and completed an Internal Medicine Internship at the Virginia Mason in Seattle; the Epidemic Intelligence Service and Preventive Medicine Residency at the CDC; and an MPH degree from the University of Minnesota. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications and teaches courses on public health to undergraduate, medical, and public health students.

02/23/2020

This is the last week to buy tickets to our February 29th annual LIVE TED EVENT!

Get tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedx-uwmadison-empower-engage-discover-tickets-93203346719?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Welcome back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Annual TEDx event! We are so excited this year to bring you a variety of speakers from a diverse set of backgrounds. This event will include access to our exclusive event which features 8+ speakers. Topics for our event will range from the meanin...

02/21/2020

We are excited to announce our fifth speaker, Dr. Jeff Snell. Tickets to our February 29th event are still available at http://bit.ly/TedxUWMadison

Jeff Snell believes in social innovation as a powerful tool to solve social problems—the result of his career path, including leading one of the largest youth development organizations in the country and raising $100 million, followed by helping build a private foundation with assets projected at $1 billion, and then working as a university administrator and teacher, receiving the inaugural award for most innovative instructor and selection into the international honor society for Jesuit colleges and universities, and serving as an entrepreneurial mentor for the National Science Foundation’s iCORPS program. His current role at the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes working with faculty and students on their models of social innovation to scale their technology and implement ideas for positive social impact.

He’s also working on designing a social innovation model—something he’d like all of us to consider getting involved with as changemakers—to solve the persistent problem of so few children in the foster care system enrolling in higher education and completing a degree (less than four percent, nationally). He believes we can, and must, do better: either we care for foster kids entering adulthood by investing in more prisons and social programs, or we provide a productive pathway to self-sufficiency, reaping huge benefits that will bring smiles to faces across the vast political and socio-economic spectrum.

02/20/2020

Tickets are running low for our 2020 TED event!

Get yours now at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedx-uwmadison-empower-engage-discover-tickets-93203346719?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Welcome back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Annual TEDx event! We are so excited this year to bring you a variety of speakers from a diverse set of backgrounds. This event will include access to our exclusive event which features 8+ speakers. Topics for our event will range from the meanin...