TEDxFSCJ is Now Accepting Speaker Submissions for 2018 Main Event

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – TEDxFSCJ is accepting speaker submissions for its 2018 Main Event. Speaker applications will be accepted from Tuesday, August 1 through Saturday, October 7 at midnight.

The theme for the 2018 Main Event is BARRIERS. Whether we embrace them or break them, build them up or tear them down, barriers exert a tremendous impact on us all. TEDxFSCJ will explore the many, even contradictory elements of barriers—personal and political, natural and artificial, empowering and constraining.

For those who are passionate about sharing knowledge, broadening understanding and wish to share ideas and further explore the complex notion of barriers, TEDxFSCJ invites you to submit your application online at TEDxFSCJ Speaker Application on or before the October 7 deadline. Applications are open to FSCJ students, staff, faculty and administration, as well as members of the Jacksonville community.

TEDxFSCJ 2018 is scheduled for Saturday, April 7. The event will take place at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s (FSCJ) Kent Campus at 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32205.

For more information, email TEDxFSCJ@gmail.com or visit tedxfscj.com.

About FSCJ

Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) is a public, nonprofit higher education institution that offers more than 150 degree and certificate programs to meet the education and training needs of more than 50,000 students per year.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

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, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. 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. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Monica Lewinsky, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a "wish," or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to  thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.