TEDxManhattan's 2013 lineup

The third annual “Changing the Way We Eat” conference will be live-streamed so those that can’t be in New York can hear the all the speakers.

Thu, Feb 14 2013 at 11:11 AM

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Farming & Agriculture, Health & Well Being, Organic Foods, Sustainability

Photo by TEDxManhattan

This weekend, the third annual TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” conference will be held in New York City. Leaders in the field of sustainable food will give talks throughout the day. These speakers have various backgrounds in food and farming and will share their insights and expertise with a live audience. If you can’t be there, you can watch it live online.

This year’s speaker lineup includes:

LaDonna Redmond, Senior Program Associate, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Fred Bahnson, Director, Food, Faith, & Religious Leadership Initiative, Wake Forest University School of Divinity
Simran Sethi, Journalist, educator and strategist
Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, Stonyfield Farm
Tama Matsuoka Wong, Principal, MeadowsandMore
Anna Lappé, Founding Principal, Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund
Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, NRDC and NRDC Action Fund
Steve Wing, Associate Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Hoffman, Chef/Owner, Back Forty and Back Forty West
Bill Yosses, Executive Pastry Chef, The White House
Maisie Greenawalt, Vice President of Strategy, Bon Appétit Management Company
Lindsey Lusher Shute, Executive Director and Co-Founder, National Young Farmers’ Coalition
Cheryl Kollin, Founding Principal, Full Plate Ventures LLC (TEDxManhattan Challenge winner)
Ann Cooper, Renegade Lunch Lady; Partner, Lunch Lessons, LLC; Director, Food Services Boulder Valley School District; Founder, Food Family Farming Foundation: The Lunch Box, Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools
David McInerney, Co-Founder, FreshDirect

TEDxManhattan will be streamed live on the Internet on Saturday, February 16^th from 10:30 A.M. – 5:45 P.M. with breaks throughout the day.

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