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Hailey is a modern day Athena from the Ferndale area looking to share the good word about her 25 years of adventure in comedy, careers, connection, and gerneral role as Idea Goddess.  

Learn more about Hailey at About Hailey Z.  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.   Learn more at TEDxDetroit.com

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Ted is a father and a husband, a Detroit lover and supporter and an entrepreneur and champion of small business. He’s the founder of Hatch Detroit, Ballgame Consulting and 4DetroitDudes.  

Learn more about Ted at Hatch Detroit.

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.   Learn more at TEDxdetroit.com

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Veronika is a designer and entrepreneur creating crazy post apocalyptic gear to help inspire pride within the homeless and help their livelihood. She is the founder of The Empowerment Plan, a company that employs the homeless and the inventor of the Element S, a coat which is self heated, waterproof, and transforms into a sleeping bag at night.  

Learn more about Veronika at TheEmpowermentPlan.org  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

Learn more at TEDxDetroit.com

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Singer and songwriter Chris Bategate signed with Ann Arbor based Quite Scientific Records in 2007. His most recent full-length release, Salt Year, elicited NPR’s Stephen Thompson to offer, “If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young and enormously promising career, it’s the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty.”  

Learn more about Chris at ChrisBathgate.org  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

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Bobby Smith used the sport of fencing as his way out of a low-income environment. For the past two years, En Garde Detroit has used fencing to teach over 2,000 kids, sharing lessons and developing well-rounded youth in Detroit. Bobby is passionate about social ventures and inspiring others to seek economic freedom.  

Learn more about Bobby at En Garde Detroit  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

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Dr Pruneau is the Director of the Wayne State Planetarium. He carries an active research program on the study of the Quark Gluon Plasma at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland. Dr Pruneau is a member of the American Physical Society, the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Union of Concerned Scientists.  

Learn more about Dr. Claude Pruneau at Wayne State  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.   Learn more at

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Randal Charlton is an entrepreneur, author and leader with a track record of success in commercializing research, biotechnology and economic development. Most recently, he co-founded biotech standout Asterand, which went public in 2007 after ten years of double digit growth. Randal currently serves as the executive director of TechTown.  

Learn more about Randal at TechTown  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.   Learn more at

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Julie Clark, a former English and art teacher from Detroit, started The Baby Einstein Company in her basement. Five years, 30 children’s books, 10 videos, and six music albums later, she sold Baby Einstein to Disney for an undisclosed sum. She recently authored You Are the Best Medicine after being diagnosed with breast cancer.  

Learn more about Julie at youarethebestmedicine.com  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

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Rob Bliss is a 22 year old creative event organizer from Grand Rapids. He has created the world’s largest pillow fight and zombie walk, launched 100,000 paper airplanes onto a crowd of 30,000 people, built a 500 ft. inflatable water slide in the middle of downtown and created the world’s largest LipDub video.  

Learn more about Rob at Status Creative  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

Learn more at TEDxDetroit.com

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The award winning author of the “Who I am” Series, Tara founded TMI, LLC, which promotes diversity and inclusion through books, curriculum, training and consulting. She is a passionate advocate for students and professionals alike, leading several community groups focused on developing the next community thought leaders.  

Learn more about Tara at TaraMichener.com 

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

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Musical performance of Living You by Mayaeni at TEDxDetroit 2011.  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

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Matt is the founder of Final Five Productions. With Detroit as his canvas, he is a believer in the idea that passionate work and commerce go hand in hand. Relatively new to the “art as business” world, he’s pretty much making it up as he goes along, and thinks you should too.  

Learn more about Matt at Final Five Productions  

TEDxDetroit Detroit and Michigan are home to talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, geeks, poets, scientists, thinkers and doers. We gather together every year at TEDxDetroit to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration.  

Learn more at TEDxDetroit.com

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The area's leading creators, catalysts, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers and doers will gather on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 to share what they are most passionate about - positive ideas for the world from Detroit.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
8am to 6pm
Orchestra Hall at the Max M Fisher Music Center near the campus of Wayne State University

Learn more at TEDxDetroit.com

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