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Doug Carmean, Intel Fellow; Jared Gutstadt, Jingle Punks; Michael Hawley, Digital Pioneer; Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and Moj Mahdara, Made with Elastic Added to Speaker Schedule

LOS ANGELES, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2013 TEDxHollywood event, taking place March 28 at the UCLA Freud Playhouse, has added five new speakers including Doug Carmean, Intel Fellow; Jared Gutstadt, Jingle Punks; Michael Hawley, Digital Pioneer;  Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and Moj Mahdara, Made with Elastic.  The focus of the 2013 TEDx Hollywood event is exploring how content, technology and brands entertain and inform.

Topics to be explored and presented by TEDxHollywood speakers include the following themes:

• Everyone is a Media Company:  brands and organizations now regularly create and post content to engage audiences and customers.
• Succeeding in the Entertainment World Outside of the Traditional Hollywood System:  learning from mavericks who have carved out successful careers in entertainment using ingenuity, elbow grease, talent, digital media and more.
• Storytelling That Drives Change:  stories that explain, inform and inspire.  Stories shed new light on controversial topics, or advocate for a particular point of view.
• Sci-Fi Comes To Life Through Entertainment:  great gadgets, gear and technology imagined by Hollywood show what is possible, and what could become reality in the not too distant future.

The full TEDxHollywood  speaker list includes:

• Angela Ahrendts, Burberry
• Doug Carmean, Intel Fellow
• John Forte, Musician
• Dick Glover, FunnyorDie.com
• Kina Grannis, Musician
• Jared Gutstadt, Jingle Punks
• Michael Hawley, Digital Pioneer
• Courtney Holt, Maker Studios
• Eugene Jarecki, Filmmaker
• Nadeem Kassam, BASIS
• Tim Kring, Creator, Writer and Executive Producer, "Touch" and "Heroes"
• Moj Mahdara, Made With Elastic
• Rachel Shechtman, STORY

TEDxHollywood will host 450 attendees who will be able to rewind time and watch previous TEDTalk videos delivered by creative and technology visionaries who made prognostications about the future of digital content and its impact on the entertainment industry. The organizers of the 2013 TEDxHollywood event are Ken Hertz, entertainment attorney, Hertz & Lichtenstein and founder of memBrain LLC, a brand and licensing company and Dan Alder, president, Media Eagles.

How to Attend TEDxHollywood

For more information about TEDxHollywood, please visit www.tedxhollywood.net.    

For TEDxHollywood tickets, speaker suggestions, volunteer opportunities, sponsorship or other event-related information, please email info@tedxhollywood.net.   For information about TED, please visit www.ted.com.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, California, along with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs; the annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.

TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, the recently launched TED-Ed platform for students and educators, the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide, and TEDBooks, short e-books by speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED's stage. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Follow TED on Twitter or on Facebook.

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