This year’s selected theme is “A Shrinking World” and will feature an incredible group of speakers: Mike Schoenfeld, Todd Sears, Bryan Oliver-Smith, Scott Huettel, Josh Sommer, Femi Sokoya and Eric Scott, John Broadbent, Shikha Nayar, Sherryl Broverman, Jia Lang, and Miguel Nicolelis.

2013 Speakers:

• MIKE SCHOENFELD, Vice President of Public Affairs and Government Relations at Duke
• TODD SEARS, Founder and principal at Coda Leadership Consulting, LLC
• BRYAN OLIVER-SMITH, President and CEO at Urban Planet Mobile, a mobile and digital education company
• SCOTT HUETTEL, Professor of Neuroeconomics at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
• FEMI SOKOYA & ERIC SCOTT (student speakers)
• JOHN BROADBENT (student speaker)
• SHIKHA NAYAR (student speaker)
• SHERRYL BROVERMAN, Professor of Biology and Global Health at Duke, Founder of WISER secondary school for girls in Kenya
• JIA JIANG, Entrepreneur, Rejection Therapy: 100 days of 'no'
• MIGUEL NICOLELIS, Professor of Neurobiology at Duke School of Medicine

About TED

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. 

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.