TEDxNashville2022 is a weekend of inspiring talks, performances, and interactive workshops designed to explore all the different ways to interpret “The End of Impossible.” TEDxNashville is excited to get back to the two-day, big stage, in-person conference you’ve come to know and love, Saturday August 27th from 10am – 4pm and Sunday August 28th from 1pm – 4pm.
These are a few of their speakers: Dr. Thema Bryant, Yola, Bob Kabeya, Daisha McBride, Dr. Alex Jahangir, Jane Landers, Natalie Hemby, Michael McRay, Danielle Krysa, Mosheh Oinounou, and more.
TEDxNashville is an event like no other. It is a beacon gathering those who embody the values that define their mission: Curiosity, Creativity, and Collaboration. Come and join this unique community and meet other people who, just like you, seek out inspiration and are driven to be excellent in thought and action. Two days of inspiring TEDx Talks in downtown Nashville, TN, at the Nashville Symphony’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, located at 1 Symphony Place, Nashville, TN 37201
A global pandemic, ongoing war, cryptocurrency, self-driving cars, and the metaverse. What once felt like the stuff of video games is now a reality. Join TEDxNashville to explore, learn, celebrate, and question the issues of today and the ideas of tomorrow. They have brought together some of the brightest minds that are at the forefront of what’s next: The End of Impossible for two days of music, inspiration, and ideas.
In addition to the usual talks, they will have a series of breakout sessions where the audience will get to encounter “The Dark Magic of songwriting,” hosted by Sugarland’s Kristian Bush; explore “The World of NFTs, and Why They Matter,” led by the founders of the very first NFT community in Nashville; be transformed by “The First Sentence of Your Life Workshop,” led by 2022 speaker Michael McRay; and be uplifted by Google’s celebrated “#I Am Remarkable.” You must prebook your breakout session for Saturday (limit one per attendee); see your confirmation email to book.
Box seats and general admission still available. Tickets: Two-Day $89/ticket, Saturday Only – $60, Sunday Only – $40. Corporate Package: 4, 6, 8, and 10 seat options available with some VIP perks. Lunch: preorder your Saturday lunch from Taziki’s — $15 order ahead, $20 day of event.
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About the Speakers
Dr. Thema Bryant is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, the president-elect of the American Psychological Association, and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A member of the Association of Black Psychologists, she incorporates culturally based interventions in her teaching, research, and practice, including sacred dance and spoken word, and will explain on the TEDxNashville stage why we need to decolonize psychology.
Dr. Alex Jahangir was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1978, six months before the Iranian revolution overthrew the Shah and installed the Islamic republic. His family emigrated to the United States when he was in high school, and Alex is now a professor, trauma surgeon, the executive medical director of Vanderbilt’s Trauma, Burn, and Emergency Surgery Patient Care Center, and also the Head of Metro Nashville’s Covid Task Force. At TEDxNashville, Alex will explain how leaders can build trust quickly in a trauma situation.
Singer-songwriter and rising superstar Yola has been nominated for half-a-dozen GRAMMY awards. She made her acting debut this year as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the musical drama, Elvis. She gives her TEDxNashville Talk about why she almost didn’t learn to play guitar.
Daisha McBride is a hip hop artist also known as “The Rap Girl.” Daisha released her third album, Let Me Get This Off My Chest in 2021. She is taking the TEDxNashville stage to present a sampling of her music and explain why she wasn’t “supposed” to succeed, based on where she grew up, what her life was like, and the opportunities that seemed to be the only ones available. Her talk will explore how the narrative of “what’s impossible” steals the dreams we all have as kids.
The story begins in the pews of a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and then continues over a 7,000-mile journey to Minneapolis when his father was granted asylum. He began recording his new project Gaps with the intention of bridging the funk-rock inclinations of Minneapolis with the ebullient Congolese sounds of his upbringing, and takes the TEDxNashville stage to talk about how to maintain your own voice in spite of the pressure to please others.
