t h e FUTURE o f t h e FUTURE Bing Crosby Theater Saturday, Oct. 21, :00AM - 4:00PM

t h e FUTURE o f t h e FUTURE Bing Crosby Theater Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 9:00AM - 4:00PM

Predictors and Prognosticators: The Future of the Future There is a Chinese proverb that says, To prophesy is extremely difficult, especially with respect to the future. This is the journey we invite you to today. In 1970, Alvin Toffler published his groundbreaking book, Future Shock. In it he mused that in dealing with the future it is much more important to be imaginative and insightful than to be right. This is the spirit in which we enter into our explorations today to imagine the world of tomorrow. This year s event will explore the world of the future; not just what we think might happen, but also the whys and hows of considering what is becoming. It will be a bountiful day of looking to what the future may hold for all of us. TEDxSpokane 2017 will be live-streamed at the following locations: Downtown Public Library Touchmark South-Hill The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker

Schedule Session I The Future - what is it and how does it work? 9:00 to 10:30am Session II The Future - what is happening now to influence then? 11:00am to 12:30pm Lunch 12:30 to 2:00pm Session III How can we be better stewards of the future? 2:00 to 3:30pm Welcome Matt Mitchell Rhonda Young Monty Lomazzi Nick Smoot TED Video: What s Next in 3D Printing Ammi Midstokke Aaron Hesse Chris Wood Judy Cornish Erika Prins Simonds TED Video: I Listen in Color Dave Paunesku John Tomkowiak Tucker Frye & the SOL/ Odyssey Crew TED Video: What I Learned from 2000 Obituaries Tabitha Wolf Francis Adewale Kristin Kinder Natasha Miserendino Audience Advisory A theatrical fog machine will be used briefly on stage and may trigger respiratory symptoms if you are sensitive to theatrical fog. Please avoid the first five rows if this applies to you.

Session I Speakers Matthew Mitchell, has researched the future for 20 years and helps organizations, governments, institutions, and individuals invent better futures through policy, investment, and planning. Recent research has revealed that many people have a conceptual future gap in which the brain is unable to fully connect our current selves with our future selves. Matthew will present a research technique designed to help individuals and groups explore their possible futures, collect innovative ideas, and develop actionable visions. Rhonda Young is a professor of civil engineering at Gonzaga University specializing in transportation systems. She studies the role of transportation on safety, mobility, and efficiency of communities and regions, and she is excited about creating more livable and economically healthy communities. Rhonda s talk looks at future transportation technology and its likely impacts on our society, while asking the audience to consider their own mobility. Monty Lomazzi is a Racing Drone Pilot and the Chapter Organizer for SpokaneFPV, a MultiGP drone racing chapter. Monty uses fields, parks, even backyards across the globe to redefine what it is to pilot remote vehicles of all types. By pushing the limits, the systems used are being forced to become lighter, faster, and smarter which results in deliveries in half the time, calling for help only one minute away and the autonomous school bus that has a better driving record than you. That future we heard about is now. Nick Smoot has founded and sold three tech companies. He is a Milken Institute Young Leader and a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Nick has been interviewed for or contributed to Bloomberg, Forbes, USA Today, Fast Company, Mashable, Virgin, LinkedIn, Inc. Magazine and Huffington Post. He has also been kissed by Richard Branson. As the founder of Innovation Collective and Mountain Man Ventures (VC fund), he is focused on redefining how people and cities participate in the future of work. Ammi Midstokke is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who specializes in autoimmune and gastrointestinal disorders. She lives in her off-grid cabin in Idaho and spends time fantasizing about creative ways to protect her garden, optimizing solar panel positioning, and getting lost in the mountains with her dog. She will be presenting on the benefits of developing personal connection to the systems that support us, from controlling our own supply chain to accidental conservationism.

Speakers Aaron Hesse is an electrical engineer and building technology specialist. He currently designs and oversees the construction of network infrastructure at Avista Utilities. Aaron is passionate about making buildings more connected and efficient. He will be speaking to us on the future of building technology and its role in disrupting the utility industry. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Session II Speakers Chris Wood is educated as a mechanical engineer and has provided engineering, operations, sales and marketing leadership roles in industries varying from dirt clods (wheat, cattle and timber operations) to clean rooms (defense, telco and aerospace electronics). His broad business experiences and skills in the methodology of Toyota s Business Model, also known as Lean Thinking, have helped shape many of his future-forward views of the world. Judy Cornish is an elder law attorney, author, and the founder of the Dementia & Alzheimer s Wellbeing Network (DAWN). She spends her time running DAWN, Palouse Dementia Care, and teaching the DAWN Method. She is passionate about recognizing the skills we can use with dementia, and teaching people how to support the dignity and autonomy of those who are living with dementia. Her talk will be about three simple skills retained in dementia and how we can live fulfilled lives through recognizing the pattern. Erika Prins Simonds is the program coordinator for a non-profit, Spark Central. With a degree in International Studies and Spanish from Whitworth University, Erika traveled the world and lived in many places, yet, it was at Whitworth that she discovered how people s perspectives differ. She asks the question of how and why we think differently, and how to cross that gulf. Erika s talk explores the part language plays in how we understand each other. Dave Paunesku studies the motivation to learn and how learning contexts can stifle or energize that motivation. His center at Stanford University, PERTS, helps educators leverage behavioral sciences research to cultivate students passion and persistence for learning. He asks: what must our schools do differently to prepare students for a rapidly changing world in which knowledge and skills quickly obsolesce? John Tomkowiak, MD, MOL, is the founding dean of the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. He has expertise in the areas of innovation in medical education, accreditation, and transformational leadership. With experience at many medical schools, Dr. Tomkowiak brings expertise and passion to training doctors to be leaders in their communities, to personalizing medical students education so it is relevant to their careers, and to developing physicians who are prepared to practice innovative healthcare.

Lunch If you ordered a lunch, you may pick it up at the Montvale Event Center in the Montvale Hotel: Head West on Sprague Ave towards Monroe St. Turn Left onto Monroe St. Turn Right onto W 1st Ave. Your destination will be on your left. If you did not order a lunch, the following establishments will offer a discount on your meal with a TEDx bracelet or TEDx name tag: Fire Pizza 816 W Sprague Ave Spokane, WA 99201 For a more detailed map and directions to the Montvale Event Center, scan the following QR code: Brooklyn Deli 122 S Monroe St Spokane, WA 99201 Scratch 1007 W 1st Ave Spokane, WA 99201 Nudo 818 W Sprague Ave Spokane, WA 99201

Session III Speakers Tucker Frye says that dance kept him out of trouble and pushed him to better himself. After high school, Tucker and his friends lost touch and he described himself as a loner in his early adult years. After befriending Dmitry Bistrevsky and David Moyle, Tucker realized that a community can be created with something as simple as a common interest. He will talk about building community using gymnastics, hip-hop, and parkour. SOL: Marcus Harris, Khay Tanphantourath, Hector Aizon. Odyssey: Dalton Conley, Daniel Grable. Tabitha Wolf is passionate about transgender issues. By day, she is an Applications Analyst for MultiCare Health System, but in her free time she helps run Spokane Trans People, the premier transgender support group/ social club in the Inland Northwest. Tabitha s talk will address the future of gender, and how the seemingly static concepts of male and female might evolve in the coming decades. Francis Adewale graduated from EWU. Born in Nigeria, he came to the US in 2005. As an Asst. Public Defender for the City of Spokane, he helped establish Spokane Community Court and has received many awards including the City of Spokane Human Rights Award. His talk will expound on a program that seeks to address the homeless housing problem by moving people out of jail into housing, treatment, social services, and reduced ER usage, while participants give back to the community through service. Kristin Kinder has lived in eco-conscious Germany. From dumpster diving all over the country, she helped Fortune 500 businesses see the waste they generate in a new light. As Ecova s Product Manager for Waste, her background in recycling education and behavioral change prepared her to develop waste programs that improve clients cost savings, efficiency, and recycling rates. By the end of her TEDx Talk, she will have convinced you to rethink how you use resources every day. Natasha Miserendino is passionate about food, teaching, and the community. Natasha works at Umpqua Bank as a Lending Production Specialist. In her spare time, she runs a vegan food blog and is in the process of writing a cookbook geared towards healthy meals. Natasha hopes to be able to teach young adults culinary skills and the benefits of a fresh, wholesome diet. Her talk will be about the power behind words and the impact they have on others.

The miracle of your mind, is that you can see the world as it isn t. You can remember the past, you can imagine the future. - Kathryn Schulz

X TED Spokane History Jamie Tender, Head of School at Saint George s School, has always been a huge-fan of TED talks. In 2011, Jamie and the previous Head of School, Joe Kennedy, began making plans to bring a TEDx to Saint George s School to share with the Spokane Community and thus his journey to start TEDxSpokane began. Before TEDxSpokane, Jamie licensed TEDxSaintGeorgesSchool as an educational opportunity for the students at Saint George s. After attending TED Global 2012 in Scotland, Jamie was awarded a TEDx site license under the name of TEDxSpokane. In 2012, TEDxSpokane hosted a live event that featured 15 speakers. Our live audience and those who viewed the videos online heard from professors, teachers, parents, students, administrators, artists and citizens as they shared their ideas under the banner theme Creativity, Action and Service. That audience continues to grow as people share links to these videos. We re excited to be licensed by TED, and in 2017 we will once again provide an opportunity for a growing number of people to share and discuss ideas that help them grow and seek to improve our world. A select group of organizations that are committed to the power of ideas and have partnered to help make TEDxSpokane activities possible. TEDxSpokane is organized by people from Spokane and across the great Pacific Northwest. For the first 5 years of the conference, Saint George s School, a college prep and IB World School in north Spokane, served as host and major contributor to the conference. In 2017 Jamie and the TEDxSpokane planning team felt it was necessary to grow the event, and started Northwest X Talks to become our own non-profit fiscal agent for the conferences. Our primary mission is to design, produce and support the annual TEDxSpokane conference. Northwest X Talks also may serve as an agent for other talks, speaker series, and other venues for ideas worth spreading as the organization sees the need or opportunity.

More About TED TED is a non-profit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics from science to business to global issues in more than 100 languages. TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we re building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world s most inspired thinkers and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long. TED is owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation. Our agenda is to make great ideas accessible and spark conversation. TEDxSpokane is created and supported by Northwest X Talks, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to bringing the best of independently organized TED events to our region. It s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra

Steering Committee Conference Convener Jamie Tender Asst. to Convener MacKenzie Crittenden Curating Team Chair: Charlie Wolff Members: Mike Poutiatine Marketing Team Chair: Grace Leaf Members: Erle Furbeyre (website) Josh King / Tinderbox (partner providing in-kind support) Jamie Tender Charlie Wolff Merchandise/Swag Czar: Paul Curigatti Sponsorship Team Chair: Mark Ostersmith Members: MacKenzie Crittenden Mike Poutiatine Patrick Ream Jamie Tender Charlie Wolff Friends of the Bing Jerry Dicker Mark Holman Jeff Peterson Hugh Russell Nickie White Design/Production Team Chairs: Mike Poutiatine & Charlie Wolff Members: Callie Bostic John Carter Travis Cullitan Caren Furbeyre Erle Furbeyre (website) Tom Holmberg (SWX) Grace Leaf (event MC) Tony Shuler Speaker Coaching Leader: Mike Poutiatine Coaching Team: Mike Burns Kristine Hoover Grace Leaf Jamie Tender Suzanne Ostersmith Russell Werkman Charlie Wolff Hospitality Chair: Kelly Clark Speaker Travel and Support MacKenzie Crittenden Local Lunch Coordination Nickie White Interns Alexis Coffell Jacqueline Lee Volunteer Coordinator Chair: Heidi Mitchell Members: MacKenzie Crittenden Speaker Coordination Chair: MacKenzie Crittenden Lunch Entertainment David Demand Mike Poutiatine Community Engagement MacKenzie Crittenden Charlie Wolff Live-Feed Wranglers Caroline He Sydney Lennemann Northwest X Talks Board of Directors Chair: Jamie Tender Members: Caren Furbeyre Grace Leaf Mark Ostersmith Mike Poutiatine Charlie Wolff

Sponsors WSECU (Lead Sponsor) Asuris Broadway Trucking Fellow Co-Working Indaba Coffee Itron KHQ TV Potlatch Washington Trust Bank Wolff, Hislop, & Crockett In-Kind Sponsors: Garland Printing HUB Sports Center Overbluff Cellars Saint George s School Spokesman Review (Exclusive Print Media Partner) Tinderbox Consulting Grace Leaf Mike and Sally Poutiatine Caren and Erle Furbeyre Mark and Suzanne Ostersmith Barb Stanton and Matt Miller The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Anonymous