Ignite Change Saturday at TEDxFortWayne

April 27, 2013 is less than a week away.

It’s the date of this years TEDxFortWayne event. It’s a day that will inspire a group of folks who attend to create change in their lives and subsequently in the lives of those around them.

If you don’t have your ticket, or need additional, visit the website and today at http://tedxfortwayne.com/.

Karen Francisco wrote a piece in last weeks paper that you should read if you are on the fence.

My involvement began a couple years ago when my friend Craig Crook hosted a meeting of Linchpins.

Linchpin was the latest book from Seth Godin at the time and at this meeting Craig announced that he was wanting to do a regional version of TED in Fort Wayne.

These type of TED events are called TEDx and you have to get permission, approval and agree to rules and guidelines to do this and Craig was able to pull it off with a few hundred volunteer hours from a host of folks who jumped in.

I was not one of them who was actively involved the first year in 2011 because as soon as I found out the date in May, I knew I had family commitments with my stepdaughter Abby graduating from Purdue the same weekend and also my daughter Rachael getting married at the end of the month.  In between my other daughter, Tiffany and her husband Jon were due to deliver their first child.

So I supported from the sidelines on Twitter and encouraging others to check it out.

TEDxFortWayne 2012 was a different story.  Last year I jumped in and was part of the curation team and we had a blast selecting speakers and videos.

The 2012 TEDxFortWayne theme was ReThink Fort Wayne.  After the event, videos from the event were posted online and I decided to devote 1 day each week to spotlighting a different TEDxFortWayne speaker or perfomer and featured them for 21 weeks on this website.

See you Saturday…