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past and present have com etogether in order to create an'un-real'reality."

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Where do ideas about body, self-censorship, third person narrative, distance and "not belongingness'come together? In the interdisciplinary art istic expression of Morehshin Allahyari, who extends her art ist'svoice to address the social, pol itical and cultural issues of Iran, where she was bom.

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Since moving to the U.S. from Iran in 2007, Allahyari has focused on intercultural projects conceming herdai ly l ife as an Iranian in the United States. She is one of the cofounders and art ists of "Dialogue:presented by IRUS art" - a collaboration between artists in Iran and the United States. Iranian andAmerican teams of IRUS artists ini tiated a creat ive piece and mailed incomplete works back and forththrough complet ion. The goal was to present the perspectives of each group in a respectful , trusting andencouraging manner. Along the way, art is ts not only created art but a lso participated in a functiona ldialogue with one another as individuals.Allahyari, who holds an MA in digital media studies from the University of Denver , has been part ofexhibi tions, festivals and conferences in Denver, Chicago, New York, Ber lin and Sao Paulo, amongothers. She currently is co-curating another collaborative project, "Your Night/My Day," which "excavatesthe process of the cultural exchange - or lack thereof - between Iran and the United States."

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Categories S P E A K E RThe Interfaith A m igos: "N oneof us can get there alone. W eneed each other to heal theglobal problem s w e arefacing. "

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Known for their unique blend of sp ir itua l wisdom and humor, Imam Jamal Rahman, Pastor DonMackenzie and Rabbi Ted Falcon - the Interfaith Amigos - openly address the usual taboos ofinterfai th d ialogue in order to create a more authentic conversat ion. The events of 9/11 brought the threetogether to share a message of deep hope and profound possibi li ties for healing both person and planet .Mackenzie reti red in 2008 as minister of Universi ty Congregational Uni ted Church of Christ in Seatt le . Hisinterest in interfai th work began as a student and cont inued whi le l iv ing and teaching in Sidon, Lebanon,in the year pr ior to the Six-Day War in 1967. Falcon has taught Jewish t rad it ions of Kabbalah, medita tionand spiri tuality for more than 35 years. He served as a rabbi in Los Angeles and founded Makom OhrShalom, a synagogue for Jewish spiri tual ity; he also founded Bet Alef Meditat ive Synagogue in Seatt leand served as rabbi there for 16 years. He authored A Joumey of Awakening: Kabbaf is tic Meditat ions onthe Tree of Ufe and co-authored Judaism for Dummies. Rahman is co-founder and Muslim Sufi ministerat In terfai th Community Church in Seat tle. His books include The Fragrance of Fa ith - The EnlightenedHeart of Is/am and Out of Darkness into Ught-Sp iritua/ Guidance in the Quran with Reflections fromJewish and Christian Sources.

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Categories S P E A K E RM ick Ebeling: "Ideas thatonce seem ed im possib le areen tirely 'not im possib le'w hen the right people areconnected and em powered ."

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BRAIN IACMick Ebeling wanted to be a basketbal l player when he grew up. But instead of making sports headlines,he's spent the past decade making waves in the creati ve wor ld as founder of The Ebeling Group, anintemational production company and creative think tank responsible for Grammy nominated musicvideos and commercials for Fortune 100 brands.His most meaningfu l project brought together a team of programmers, hackers, artists and inventors todeveloped the EyeWriter - a low-cost , open source eye-tracking device that al lows paralyzed artists todraw using only the ir eyes. An ini tiative of Ebel ing's nonprof it Not Impossible Foundat ion, the f irstEyeWriter was buil t for an L.A. street artist , Tony "Tempt" Quan, who is completely paralyzed by ALS(Lou Gehrig's disease). Time magazine named the EyeWriter one of the 50 best inventions of 2010.The Not Impossible Foundat ion matches ordinary prob lems with extraordinary people - fusingimagination and technology - to create low-cost, do-it-yourself solut ions for real-world issues.

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Categories S P E A K E RTem ple G randin: "The w orldis going to need all of thedifferent kinds of m inds towork toge ther."---------------------------------

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A U TIS TIC A C H IE V ERTemple Grandin thinks in p ictures rather than language, and that v isual thinking has given her uniqueinsight into the minds of animals. She has used that insight to transform the bi ll ion-dol lar meat indust ryby developing animal welfare guidelines and designing humane handling systems for l ivestock-improvements that have decreased the amount of fear and pain that an imals experience in the ir f ina lhours before slaughter. Diagnosed with autism as a child, Grandin makes the case that the world needspeople with al l k inds of minds-v isual thinkers, pattem thinkers, verba l thinkers- inc luding autist ic mindslike hers. It's a message that resonates. She spoke at TED2010 and has been featured in PeopleMagazine, the New York Times, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, Time Magazine, and Discovermagazine. She also has been wide ly interv iewed on televis ion and on Nat iona l Publ ic Radio. She is thefocus of Temple Grandin, a 2010 HBO film starr ing Claire Danes as Grandin. The fi lm won seven Emmyawards, including Best Made-for-Television Movie, Best Director and Best Lead Actress.Grandin has written more than 300 art icles on animal handling, wel fare and facil ity design and wrote thebooks Think ing in P ic tures, Uvestock Handling and Transport, and Genetics and the Behavio r o fDomestic Animals. Her book Animals in Translation was a New York Times best seller. Still, of all heraccompl ishments, she's most passionate about the actual hands-on work she does to improve the l ivesof animals and people with autism. -I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in therea l world, " Grandin says. " INe need a lot more of that and less abst ract stuf f. "

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Categories S P E A K E RM artha S y mko-D avies: "S o laris the m ost abundant sourceof renew able energy. Im aginethe grow th that can occur inth is fie ld ."

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P H O TO V O L TA lC IN CU B A TO REnough solar energy falls on the earth every minute to meet the world's energy demands for an entireyear. Martha Symko-Davies wants to hamess that power.The research senior supervisor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory manages a photovoltaicincubator program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The program provides mi ll ions infunding to start-up companies with cut ting-edge approaches to generating solar power and the capaci ty togo from prototype to p ilot production of their product in 18 months. She 's also looking for approaches thatwill work at a cost of less than $1 per watt.Symko-Davies calls the revolutionary science that she seeks to fund "disruptive innovation."*Solar is the most abundant source of renewable energy.t i says Symko-Davies. who holds a PhD inmaterial sc ience from DU. *Imagine the growth that can occur in this f ie ld. We see new science emergingwith these companies. It makes you optimistic."

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Categories S P E A K E RR ichard Voyles : "Robotsaren't very smart on theirown. W e w ant to make themm ore autonom ous so they canw ander around the rubble bythemselves . "

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ROBOT IC ISTDU Associa te Professor Richard Voyles is carving a niche develop ing robots that can wriggle, f ly or rol linto the Earth's harshest environments to collect information and perform life-savinq functions moresafely and more eff ic iently than ever.His soda-can-size TerminatorBot i s a two-armed torso that uses i ts limbs to move its body as well as topick things up and move them out of its way. The lack of legs keeps the robot small enough to accessspaces where humans or search dogs can't go - such as structures that collapse after an ear thquake orother disaster. "You can insert this robot into a void and let it crawl through the debris to look forsurvivors who are t rapped in there," Voyles says.Funded by the National Science Foundation, Voyles and his collaborators also developed roboticAquapods to search out oi l and other contaminants in coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico. There evenare appl ications for colonoscopy robot ics that would make the process more comfortable for pat ients.Also in the pipel ine are basketba ll -s ized robots that can climb steep pi les of debr is and others that canslither like a snake through tiny openings - whatever it takes to get to places people can't go and gatherthe information they need.Voyles ' robots could even help in the explorat ion of other planets. TerminatorBots, only a few thousanddollars apiece, could roam around extraterrestrial landscapes and allow scientists to create detailed mapsthat include soil analyses.Voyles and his team have designed several di fferent TerminatorBot types that vary in the design of theirlimbs. "They each have different capabili ties, so we could send out a whole army of them and have themperform different tasks and even help each other. Together they can be very versat ile. That 's whatmakes them so great .B

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