2014 TEDxFIU tickets go on sale Monday

Tickets for the third annual TEDxFIU go on sale Monday, Oct. 6, at 10 a.m. Based on the success of the event in the past two years, they are likely to go fast.

Tickets are $35 each for the general public and $20 for students through the Wertheim Performing Arts Center online box office.  Limit is two per person.

TEDxFIU 2014 will be held at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Nov. 13. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., and the event begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. Meet and mingle with speakers after the event at a catered reception.

If you can’t get a ticket, TEDxFIU will be aired simultaneously in the GC Pit at MMC and the Wolfe Center at BBC. The talks will also be streamed lived on tedxfiu.com.

This year’s theme is “Fearless Journey.” Talks will feature entrepreneurs and scholars, a novelist and a racecar driver, a cancer survivor and a singer-composer – all from the FIU community. Among the speakers, researcher Nicole Ruggiano has created a new paradigm on how to age with greater dignity. Alumnus Doug Jefferies has established a global humanitarian organization and novelist John Dufresne is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Alumnus David Menasche decided to journey across America after learning he had brain cancer. Menasche’s story is the inspiration for the forthcoming Warner Bros. film The Priority List in which Steve Carrell will portray the FIU graduate.

Read more about the speakers at the TEDxFIU website.