Past IDEAS Speakers Emcee Benefit Gala
Both emcees at Friday’s Silk Road Gala have been featured at IDEAS Boston: Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute, (2040) and Jeannie Suk, professor of law at Harvard Law School (2011). The gala benefited the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence.
More Ideas from IDEAS Boston Audiences: Sessions Three and Four
Here is another sampling of the tweets you’ve posted about about IDEAS Boston. Thanks for sharing your ideas. We’ll do it again next year. Mark your calendars for October 30.
Getting ready to Tweet from the PM session of @IDEASBoston! Excited to hear Judy Neufeld, ED of @EmergeMass. Join the convo at #IDEAS2012
Prof. Simon Johnson of @MITSloan discusses global economic trauma at @IDEASBoston #ideas2012
pierce reynoldson @preynoldson
Flying car gets 30mpg. @IDEASBoston
Laura Henze Russell @LauraHRussell
@IDEASBoston how can we use supply chain management to track toxic exposures in people?
Excited to speak during last session of @IDEASBoston starting at 3pm about #womeninpolitics. Follow along #ideas2012
Christine Slater @XtineSlater
“Women win at the same rate as men do.” -@EmergeMass ED @jpneufeld at @IDEASBoston #electwomen #ideas2012
Thanks to @IDEASBoston @tomashbrooknpr for having me! Fun talking about importance of recruiting and electing women to office! #ideas2012
@dcancel says Better to be out of your mind than lost in your head… Don’t overthink it, do it! @ideasboston #ideas2012
Check out this phenomenal poetry project! – http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html Thanks Robert Pinsky! @IDEASBoston #ideas2012
Ideas from IDEAS Boston Audiences: Sessions One and Two
As we did last year, we will share with you some of the tweets from the first two sessions of IDEAS Boston 2012 at UMass Boston.
WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s On Point, is reading tweets from the stage this year. Use the hashtag #ideasboston, and yours could be read. Right before the lunch break, he asked public policy expert Jeffrey Liebman an audience question.
Wesley Morris drops PPT in favor of storytelling about where we have advanced in our views on race #ideas2012 @IDEASBoston
Barack Obama, Vin Diesel, the musical stairs at the Museum of Science and games for climate change. @ideasboston topics so far #ideas2012
Enjoyed @lindajkillian explain the swing voters at @ideasboston because we do struggle with social vs fiscal aspects of the two parties.
@MassEOHED Sec. Bialecki welcomes @ideasboston to Boston and celebrates Innovation Week in Massachusetts #ideas2012 http://ow.ly
@IDEASBoston somethings not right expecting big ROI on humn serv prgms success-why not put invstmt back into prgram to extend it if working
pierce reynoldson @preynoldson
I wonder if Mendler de Suarez could design a game with Desteno that teaches compassion. @IDEASBoston
Tom Ashbrooks coat brushed my hair during lunch. <3. #ideasboston #ideas2012
IDEAS Boston Performers to Express Creative, Musical Ideas
It has become an IDEAS Boston tradition to feature up-and-coming musical performers. After all, at its core, IDEAS Boston at UMass Boston is designed to foster creativity, innovation, and ideas.
This year, audiences will be inspired by three performers from Berklee College of Music: singer-songwriter Christina Apostolopoulos will perform between the first and second sessions, Daniel Woods will do the honors between the third and fourth sessions, and SugarCane Trio takes the stage during the closing reception, which starts at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Christina Apostolopoulos
Berklee College of Music
Singer-Songwriter
Christina Apostolopoulos is a third-year guitar performance major at Berklee College of Music whose musical influences range from Ella Fitzgerald to Elliott Smith. This singer-songwriter has won several songwriting contests, is the lead guitarist for the Boston-based rock band Key Party, and is currently working on her second CD.
Daniel Woods
Berklee College of Music
Singer-Songwriter
Daniel Woods is a singer/songwriter from Chicago who has shared the stage with Terri Lyne Carrington, Nona Hendryx, Vernon Reid, the Clark sisters, Bilal, and Lalah Hathaway. Inspired by Donny Hathaway, Jeff Buckley, Marvin Gaye, Richie Havens, and Tracy Chapman, Woods aims to create a sound that reaches into the soul of his listeners and captures their hearts.
Sugarcane Trio
Berklee College of Music
Indie-Jazz Trio
The Sugarcane Trio is an indie-jazz trio with influences that range from jazz to Motown to alternative folk and pop. Composed of jazz-schooled musicians and led by Jon Aanestad, a classically trained violinist and Berklee World Tour Scholarship vocalist, the trio has a succinct sound, loves catchy hooks, and makes a point to pay close attention to the melody when improvising.
Get Inspired at 2012 MassChallenge Awards Ceremony Tuesday Night
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick isn’t just declaring this week Innovation Week for nothing. IDEAS Boston at UMass Boston is on Wednesday and Tuesday at 6 p.m., one of our marketing partners, MassChallenge, is hosting its annual awards ceremony at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
More than 1,200 business and community leaders will be in attendance to hear one-minute pitches from the top 26 startups of the MassChallenge 2012 Accelerator. These startups were selected from 1,237 entrants.
After you hear the pitches, find out who will win more than $10,000,000 in prizes (more than $1,000,000 in cash and more than $9,000,000 of in-kind benefits).
Actor and comedian Orlando Jones is hosting the event; Governor Patrick is delivering the keynote address.
To register, go to MassChallenge’s EventBrite page.
2004 IDEAS Boston Speaker Launches New App
Internationally known landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy, a speaker at IDEAS Boston in 2004, has launched an online landscape design service, as well as the Home Outside Palette App for iPhone and iPad.
The app includes starter templates that can be manipulated and used to plan DIY projects, communicate ideas to designers or contractors, or to just have some fun.
Meservy and her design firm, JMMDS, located in Saxtons River, Vermont, have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Elle Decor, Vogue, Garden Design, Landscape Architecture, and numerous other leading newspapers and magazines. The firm’s best‐known work, the three‐acre Toronto Music Garden, was designed in collaboration with noted cellist Yo‐Yo Ma and received the Leonardo da Vinci award for innovation and creativity.
Published in 2009, Meservy’s book The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach is an in‐depth guide to the conception and creation of this award‐winning public garden. Her 2009 book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You, received the Garden Writers Association 2010 Gold Medal for Best Book Writing.
2005 IDEAS Boston Speaker to Receive (B.I.G.) Award
Paula Johnson, 2005 IDEAS Boston speaker and chief of the Division of Women’s Health and Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is being presented with the B.I.G. Award by Big Sister Association of Greater Boston at its annual gala on November 10. The Believe in Girls (B.I.G.) Award is being presented to recognize Dr. Johnson’s significant contributions to advance the health and well-being of women and girls, and for serving as a role model for young women today.
