Meet Johnny Poore
What is your passion? As corny as it sounds, my passion is finding solutions and helping people or a situation. I seem driven to find answers to the unsolvable or difficult. My wife works it very well by prefacing whatever she wants done with, ” I know this probably isn’t possible” or “I doubt if you […]
TEDxPeachtree Merges with TEDxAtlanta for 10-Year Anniversary Conference
Anniversaries create space for reflection, and the 10-year anniversary of TEDxPeachtree is no different. An army of volunteers, speakers, exhibitors, and attendees came together for nine years in a row to celebrate ideas worth sharing. We’ve made a lot of friends, created happy memories, and engaged in valuable dialogue. In a city known for reinventing […]
Ride to the Garden
I’ve called Atlanta home for nearly 17 years and crisscrossed its streets countless times — almost always behind the wheel of my car. But I’ve always been a curious person and making new discoveries, and I love to cycle and have fun. So when I had the chance to bridge both interests recently, I jumped […]
TEDxPeachtree 2016: Bringing everyone #together
On Friday, almost 600 people flocked into the historic Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta. They weren’t coming for a sporting event or a music festival or a big-name singer (all pretty standard reasons Atlantans and visitors alike brave downtown traffic). Instead, they were venturing into the world of tricky one-way streets and oddly-priced parking decks […]
The Ripples, Waves and Energy of TEDxPeachtree 2015
TEDxPeachtree 2015 Recap On the campus where some of the brightest and most innovative young minds in our country study, 16 of the most innovative and slightly older minds took the stage at TEDxPeachtree 2015. This year’s “brain-spa” and presentation of ideas worth sharing took place at the Ferst Arts Center on the Georgia Tech […]
TEDxPeachtreeSalon Poetry Slam Recap
Friday night was a first for TEDxPeachtree – we held our first ever live-lit event! The first (hopefully annual) TEDxPeachtreeSalon Poetry Slam was held at the Atlanta landmark Manuel’s Tavern. We were overwhelmed with the support we received from the Atlanta creative community, and proud to have such spectacular talent on stage. Ten excellent local […]
Illuminated: The Brilliance of TEDxPeachtree 2014
The theme of this year’s TEDxPeachtree was “illuminate,” but it is nearly impossible to use one word to describe the October 17 gathering. Brainwave-derived art, personalized cancer treatment, artificial intelligence, talking dogs, mathematical origami and other amazing skills and discoveries were presented to a captivated audience at the Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta. Thirteen men and women, […]
Why I bring my team to TEDxPeachtree
I am a firm believer in lifelong learning as a way to constantly evolve ourselves by feeding our minds with new ideas and experiences. TED Talks and more specifically TEDxPeachtree, offers me the opportunity to put away my mobile phone and laptop for a day to learn, mingle, and share with like-minded individuals from other […]
TEDxPeachtree 2013: It’s a Wrap!
On November 8, 2013, TEDxPeachtree successfully catalyzed a capacity crowd of more than 500 attendees at the historic Buckhead Theatre with 17 informative talks categorized into four sessions. All speaker videos can be found here. Catalyze, the 2013 conference theme, sought to capture and share the ingenuity of the human spirit and shine a light on works that could […]
TEDxPeachtree 2012: The Live Multiplier Effect
Like many of you, I had seen TED talks on the Internet. I often watch them when I’ve got a spare moment, taking a leisurely 20 minutes here and there to stuff my head with new ideas before getting back to work or moving on to something else. Attending TEDxPeachtree on November 2, I expected […]