TED Session Presented by INTX will be Sponsored in Part by ESPN
Washington, D.C. — The speaker and presentation ranks for INTX: The Internet & Television Expo 2016 have been further bolstered by new additions announced today.
Author and co-founder of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, joins the speaker line-up as a guest of Re/code. In addition, TED Conferences has unveiled four dynamic speakers for the TED Session presented by INTX, which will focus on the power of disruption to spark ideas and growth.
INTX is the signature annual event for the media and entertainment industries. Produced by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), this year’s show will run from Monday May 16 through Wednesday May 18 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Huffington Joins Re/code Segment during Monday INTX General Session
Arianna Huffington will join Kara Swisher, Executive Editor of Re/code, during the Re/code segment of the INTX General Session that runs from 11:00 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. on Monday, May 16. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, nationally syndicated columnist, and author of more than a dozen books, Huffington will chat with Swisher in an unbridled conversation about media and politics today. The news and blog site The Huffington Post is one of the most widely visited and frequently cited digital sites on the Internet. Huffington recently released her latest book, “The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night at a Time,” which examines the importance of sleep as a gateway to a more fulfilling life.
TED Session presented by INTX on Tuesday
Staged and curated in partnership with TED Conferences, LLC, the first-ever TED Session presented by INTX will be on Tuesday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The TED Session presented by INTX is sponsored in part by ESPN.
Tapping their rich network of inventive thinkers – including an inspiring group of global innovators in the TED Fellows program – TED curators will introduce four speakers who are harnessing disruption to spark growth and to revolutionize the fields in which they work. Speakers include:
Negin Farsad, named one of the Funniest Women of 2015 by Huffington Post, named one of the 10 Best Feminist Comedians by Paper Magazine, and selected as a TED Fellow for her work in social justice comedy. She is the author of How to Make White People Laugh, a memoir-meets-social-justice-comedy manifesto (published by Grand Central, a division of Hachette) and she is the director/writer/star of the rom-com 3RD Street Blackout – both set for 2016 release. She has written for/appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, PBS, IFC, Nickelodeon and others. Farsad is director/producer of the feature films The Muslims Are Coming!, starring Jon Stewart, David Cross, and Lewis Black, and Nerdcore Rising, starring Weird Al Yankovic (both available wherever movies are streamed/downloaded). Farsad has sued New York State’s MTA over the right to put up funny posters about Muslims, and won. She started her comedy career as a Cornell and Columbia-educated policy advisor for the City of New York.
Adam Foss, Assistant District Attorney in the Juvenile Division of Suffolk County. Foss has become one of Boston’s leading voices for compassion in criminal justice. Recognizing that prosecutors have a unique opportunity to intervene in offenders’ lives, Foss co-founded the Roxbury CHOICE Program, a collaborative effort among defendants, the court, the probation department, and the D.A. to recast probation as a transformative experience rather than a punitive process. In addition to his work with the DA’s office, Foss is the founder of the SCDAO Reading Program, a project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students.
Jesse Genet, Founder and CEO of Lumi.com. Lumi makes it easy for businesses to order the branded packaging and supplies they need to ship their products. Genet has been an entrepreneur since 16 when she started her first company, printing t-shirts in her parents’ Michigan basement. Before launching Lumi.com, she invented and launched Inkodye — a fabric dye that develops its color in the sun. Together with her co-founder Stephan Ango, they’ve stocked Inkodye in over 1,500 retail stores. At 28, Genet has raised over a quarter million dollars on Kickstarter, been featured on Shark Tank, appeared on HSN, and most recently participated in Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator. She studied Industrial Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, lives full-time in an Airstream trailer, and works with the Lumi team out of the industrial Lumi HQ near downtown Los Angeles.
David Sengeh, born and raised in Sierra Leone, where more than 8,000 men, women and children had limbs amputated during a brutal civil war. He noticed that many people there opted not to wear a prosthesis because proper fit is such an issue. Sengeh has pioneered a new system for creating prosthetic sockets, which fit a prosthesis onto a patient's residual limb. Using MRI to map the shape, computer-assisted design to predict internal strains, and 3D printing to allow for different materials to be used in different places, Sengeh is creating sockets that are far more comfortable than traditional models. These sockets can be produced cheaply and quickly, making them far more likely to help amputees across the globe. Sengeh was named one of Forbes' 30 under 30 in Technology in 2014, and in April 2014, Sengeh won the $15,000 "Cure it!" Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize.
Additional sponsorship opportunities still are available for the TED Session presented by INTX. For more information on TED Session sponsorship, as well as other sponsorship opportunities, please contact NCTA Convention Headquarters at 202-463-7905 or NCTA’s Industry Affairs Department at 202-222-2430.
Registration and information
Media can register for INTX 2016 by visiting the registration page or by emailing NCTA’s Pam Ford at [email protected] or calling her at (202) 222-2356.