Theme: Connected

TEDxCincinnati Main Stage Event is June 17. Please join us. We have 8 speakers and 4 performances. It will be a night of Connections!

Memorial Hall
1225 Elm Street
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202
United States

Exhale Dance Tribe

Exhale Dance Tribe is Cincinnati’s first contemporary dance company. Comprised of performing artists and dance educators, Exhale celebrates the full range of modern and rhythm-based dance. Their performances and original choreographies speak to our region’s need for expressionistic and multilingual dance rooted in rhythmic language and storytelling. @exhaledancetribe on FB @exhaledance on Instagram

Serenity Fisher and the Cardboard Hearts

Serenity Fisher and the Cardboard Hearts blend playful pop-rock with a Tim Burton-esque quirkiness. A wordsmith, Serenity Fisher entices stories into becoming songs using truth-telling, highly-visual lyrics, and dreamy melodies. Cellist Michael G. Ronstadt, brings a rich musical heritage and absolute knack for improvising. Violinist Rose Reidmiller Gowda has a flair for creative improvisation and for exploring dark and light tones. Bobby Fisher on guitars, mandolin and ukulele, provides tasteful ambient swirls as well as old school face melting solos. Rounding out the sound with drums and percussion is ethnomusicologist Matt Halvorson. Serenity Fisher and the Cardboard Hearts make music that delights the ear, weaving timeless sounds with irreverent, collective, unabashed all round good-time-having.@SFCHmusic on Twitter and Instagram, @serenityfisherandthecardboardhearts on facebook

Voices of Destiny from P&G

Winners of the 2016 CincySings competition, the P&G Voices of Destiny (VoD) group was founded to entertain and provide a creative outlet as part of the African Ancestry Leadership Network (AALN) within Procter & Gamble. The group is comprised of a cross section of P&G scientists, marketers, logistics, IT, human resources and more. VoD exists to inspire, encourage and delight audiences inside and outside of P&G, while fostering an inclusive and fun environment. They perform cover songs.

Amy Vetter

Amy is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, business executive, national speaker, CPA, and yoga practitioner. She is also the author of the book, Business, Balance & Bliss: How the B3 Method Can Transform Your Career and Life. In her book, Amy has created a methodology, backed by scientific research and illustrated by inspirational, real-world stories, on how to live a more authentic life to achieve work-life harmony. As a third-generation woman entrepreneur, Amy has launched and sold multiple businesses including owning and operating her own yoga studios, accounting practices and other business ventures. Amy has held a variety of corporate leadership roles overseeing sales, education, and marketing functions. Amy regularly contributes her insights to Entrepreneur and Inc.com. She was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Accounting in 2016 by CPA Practice Advisor, and received the Audience Choice Award Winner for the 2017 TEDxCincinnati salon event.

Cameron Byerly

A graduate of Durham Academy and Junior at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Cameron Byerly is a student of the Great Books of Western Thought program. Cameron has sailed around the world and circumnavigated the Mediterranean as part of two Semester at Sea programs and participated in academic and humanitarian trips in over 20 countries. His volunteer work includes Special Olympics,co-leading the Environmental Program at his college, and tutoring children in the STAIR initiative. An enthusiastic filmmaker, he is currently adapting George Orwell’s wartime essays into short videos. Cameron was recently awarded the Hodson Grant for an internship at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco

Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco was appointed Hamilton County Coroner in February 2012 and later elected to the position in November 2012 and again in November 2016. She is the first female coroner and Asian Indian ever elected to a political post in Hamilton County. Dr. Sammarco was born in India, but raised and educated in Cincinnati. She is a board certified neuroradiologist having attended University of Cincinnati for electrical and computer engineering at College of Engineering and College of Medicine. @sammarcocoroner

Dr. Mark Rittenberg

For over twenty years, Dr. Mark Rittenberg has helped organizations create communities of excellence and empowered individuals to become true leaders with the ability to actualize a vision — all through the power of communication. His experience as an educator and consultant extends around the globe, across cultures and across industries. Dr. Rittenberg is professional faculty and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he teaches leadership communication. He has also taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the University of San Francisco, Case Western Reserve University, and the Olin School of Business at Washington University. Dr. Rittenberg holds a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco, an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Education from San Francisco State and a BA from UC Berkeley.

Prerna Gandhi

At the age of 13, Prerna Gandhi survived an acid attack in her home town of Rohtak, India. The attack left third-degree, full-thickness burns over 40 percent of her body, including the right side of her face, neck and upper body. At 16, her outlook for a bright future changed dramatically when she was accepted for treatment at Cincinnati’s Shriners Hospital. During her medical stay, she developed a strong relationship with her host family. Now, as a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash, she plans to major in marketing and business analytics and dreams of changing the future and redefining the meaning of beauty. Twitter- @prernagandhi29 Facebook-Prerna Gandhi Facing the Future - Prerna Gandhi, www.gofundme.com/prernanoni

Scott Mann

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann spent 23 years in the United States Army, 18 of those as a U.S. Army Green Beret. Scott’s problem-solving abilities were honed during long deployments in places where trust was absent and conflict rampant. Oftentimes, he had only seconds to make real connections with local communities using his head, his heart and when threats closed in against these communities, his hands. Similar to the way he empowered local tribes in Afghanistan to make transformative decisions with few resources, Scott teaches corporate leaders, teams, law enforcement and high-performance entrepreneurs to create strategic opportunities through the same advanced relationship-building techniques. Mannup.com Facebook: Official Scott Mann Twitter: @realscottmann Instagram: @realscottmann Podcast: MannUp Report (iTunes) Link'd In: Scott Mann

Siri Imani

Siri Imani’s poetry is infused with hard truths, tough love and visions of a better tomorrow. At the age of 15, she became the youngest cast member of Coochie Chronicles: The Spoken Word Stage Play. She has performed as a vocalist and violinist at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, with the Cincinnati Pop’s Orchestra, and opened for Manhattan Transfer. Driven to always beat her personal best, Siri has won many local and state poetry slams and finished 3rd place in the national competition, Last Poet Standing, 2016. As a social activist she has loaned her poetry and passion to Black Lives Matter, the 2017 Cincinnati Sister City Women’s March and LGBTQ causes and events. Siri Imani is an engaging host and workshop facilitator that seeks to challenge her attendees and foster understanding, acceptance and dialogue with everyone she encounters. https://www.facebook.com/siriimaniartistpage

Tanmay Bakshi

Tanmay Bakshi is a Software/Cognitive Developer, Keynote Speaker, Algorithm-ist, IBM Champion for Cloud, Honorary IBM Cloud Advisor and author of Hello Swift! Tanmay is host of an IBM Facebook Live series called Watson Made Simple with Tanmay and has over 12,000 followers of his YouTube channel Tanmay Teaches, with a resolve to help 100,000 children and other beginners on their journey to innovate through coding. Tanmay supports initiatives like STEAM, Everyone Can Code, Girls Who Code and Kids Can Code. At the impressive young age of 9, his app tTables, which helps practice multiplication tables, was accepted into the iOS app store; at the age of 12, he presented one of his many algorithms, AskTanmay, the world’s first web-based NLQA (Natural Language Question Answering) System to be powered by IBM Watson, at IBM InterConnect 2016. Tanmay has been exploring and experimenting with cognitive computing and creating his own, custom-built Machine Learning algorithms in the fields of Audiology, Electroencephalogram Pattern Recognition and bridging numeric with image patterns. Twitter: @TajyMany LinkedIn: Tanmay Bakshi YouTube: tanmay bakshi Facebook: Tanmay Bakshi

Tish Hevel

Tish Hevel is a communications professional with significant experience in broadcasting, public relations and nonprofit work. She started her career in television, advancing to manage newsrooms in three cities. Her PR work included a month-long assignment in London on behalf of a worldwide sponsor at the 2012 Olympic Games. Tish also served as Chief Communication Officer for the American Red Cross across 42 counties in Ohio. She founded the Brain Donor Project to support the NeuroBioBank of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after her family’s experience in donating her father’s brain when he died from Lewy Bodies Dementia.