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TedxBirmingham Brings Innovative Ideas To Imagine Magic City Possibilities

| March 30, 2017 @ 5:01 am

By Michael Tomberlin

It’s fitting that the Magic City TED talks would kick off with an illusionist.

TEDxBirmingham held its 2017 TED Talks event March 25 at the Alys Stephens Center. A dozen speakers offered their thoughts about everything from the high cost of prescription drugs to how we view models of color. They hit on subjects from autism to Syrian refugee camps and posited a different way of thinking and approaching each.

“We try to add something new to TEDxBirmingham every year,” said organizer Matthew Hamilton. “We’ve kind of tried to follow this model of ‘tick-tock,’ kind of how Intel does, so we will grow something one year and we will add something the next year, so it’s become a really good rhythm for us to introduce new things to our attendees every year.”

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