TRIMESTER - Rotunda Library Newsletter Sept Supplement 2012 | Page 2

2 TEDMED is a community of people who are passionate about imagining the future of health and medicine. Once a year, TEDMED holds a "grand gathering" where leaders from all sectors of society come together for three and a half days. They explore the promise of technology and the potential of human achievement. This unique event combines dazzling celebration, high-powered learning and unforgettable theater. TEDMED is the only place where a Nobel Prize winning neurobiologist has a conversation with a four-star general… where an opera singer (with a double lung transplant) chats with a NASA space physician… and where a ballet dancer talks to an exoskeleton designer. Together, they weave a tapestry that combines the best thinking from every field and creates infinite new possibilities. TEDMED has no agenda and no policy prescriptions. Instead, seeking to serve the nation -- and the world -- by creating a safe place where people with very different ideas can come together to talk, to learn and to celebrate the amazing world we live in. TEDMED's curated conference audience includes thoughtful individuals from every realm of science, business, technology, government, religion, law, military, media and the arts. At TEDMED, you hear ideas you would never otherwise hear...meet people you would never otherwise meet...and discover opportunities you would never otherwise find This year, TEDMED introduced two new concepts at the annual TEDMED Conference, simultaneous live HD streaming of the conference to numerous health related institutions and med schools internationally and a Great Challenges program. There were many great speakers in this years TEDMED 2012 which readers may be interested to watch when videos are published on www.tedmed.com Trimester Rotunda Library Newsletter