Announcement: Welcome, speakers of TEDxSalem 2014!

As orga­niz­ers of TEDxSalem, prob­a­bly the most com­mon ques­tion we get is, “Who’s speak­ing this year?” So I’m super proud to be the first the break the news to you. We have our speak­er line­up.

We got about 30 appli­ca­tions, each of them unique and spe­cial. Thank you for your care, time and effort!

Here are our speak­ers, by name and top­ic. As the weeks unfold, you will be hear­ing more about them and their top­ics, so stay tuned.

Jef­fer­son Smith — The Next Gold­en Age…of Radio

Simon Tam — Make Every Word Count

Cather­ine Miller — “Meow: You’ve been Memed”

Roger Anun­sen — Plug­ging Your Brain Drain

Mark Frohn­may­er — Equal­iz­ing the Vote

Kyle Ter­ry — The Dark Side of the Web: Explor­ing Dark­nets

Devon Lyon — The future of inde­pen­dent film­mak­ing

Richard Sur­roz — The Chang­ing Par­a­digms of Per­son­al Com­put­ing; wear­ables and beyond

Travis Jank — Bit­coin

Jonathan Chase — Think­ing in Con­nec­tions: The inner work­ings of the autis­tic mind

Andrew Sen­ner — Aquapon­ics

Jes­si­ca Amos — The pow­er of sto­ry­telling