In a world when ideas worth spreading can seem far and few between, TEDxPeachtree was a flood of new ideas and breakthroughs. With a worldwide audience and a conference hashtag #tedxpt that trended nationally on Twitter, TEDxPeachtree 2011 was a success.Throughout the eight-hour program, speaker after speaker took to the stage to give the 18-minute […]

Our very own Al Meyers, founder of TEDxPeachtree, was interviewed on Atlanta Business RadioX last week about the event. You can find the show link here. Al explains the history of TED and TEDxPeachtree and how the event is about the “power of ideas and the inspiration to act on your ideas.” In February 2009, Meyers […]

Interview with Dr. de Waal is a C. H. Candler Professor and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Primate Center. How did you start on this path? I was always interested in animals, kept many as a child, and then later went on to study biology. Moving to primates was more of an […]

How did you start on this path? I was concerned by the lack of innovation momentum in the United States at the turn of the millennium. There was so much excitement about entering a shining new era but we lacked solid innovation traction since 2000. The steady growth of China as a global economic power, […]