Florence Hudson spoke on March 23 at the TEDxNJIT Conference at the New Jersey Institute of Technology campus in Newark. The theme of the event was Sustainability on a Smarter Planet. There were about 100 people in attendance, Mike Ehrlich *87 (Princeton PhD Economics 1987) was one of the organizers from NJIT, and the live stream on the Internet had people from 21 states and 14 countries watching live. The photo above shows Erhlich, Hudson and Tom Blum '80.
Here's what TED is:
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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