As is usually the case with a TED independent event, the Tedx njlibraries conference drew a number of people from all different disciplines to engage in meaningful conversation about important topics, and listen to presenters that gave talks about many different subjects. With the 2010 TEDx event in New Jersey, the main focus was on libraries and how they could be used to contribute to a better community.
This is a very elite group that specialized in various areas of this type of organization. All of the attendees for this conference were specifically invited and the events of the conference were only limited to these participants and not open for the public due to the fact that it is such an elite event. Some of the many attendees included the following names:
Steve Garwood – Bordentown, NJ, Librarian at Princeton University.
Fu'ad M. Butt – Somerset, NJ, Corporate Vice President at the New York Life Insurance Company.
Sean R. Pitowski – Lawrenceville, NJ, Adjunt professor at Rider University and Princeton University support for technical concerns.
Alice Yucht – Highland Park, NJ, itinerant resources, known as Alice in InfoLand.
Claudine Caro – Kendall Park, NJ, Designer for Instruction at the Performance Development Group.
Merrick Rosenberg – Marlton, NJ, President and CEO of Team Builders Plus.
Julie M. Meyer – West Chester, PA, Designer for Instruction at Penn State University at Great Valley.
Steve Downs – Princeton, NJ, Assistant Vice President with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Paula Pagniez – Princeton, NJ, Program Development Director at GreenMicrofinance.
Margaret Smith – New York, NY, Librarian of Physical Sciences at the New York University.
Jane Dysart – Toronto, Ontario, Partner at the Dysart and Jones Associates law firm.
Elizabeth Dickson – Princeton, NJ, Research Assistant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and for Pioneer Portfolio.
Catherine Hall – Philadelphia, PA, Research Assistant for Drexel University and The iSchool.
Angel Brady – Bucks County, PA, HR Center Technologist in Education at Princeton University.
Leslie Kahn – Springfield, NJ, Reference Supervisor at the Newark Public Library.
Rich Gopstein – Skillman, NJ, Director of the Access and Identity Services at Bristol Myers Squibb.
Erin Dorney – Lancaster, PA – Librarian for outreach at Millersville University.
Khurt Williams – Skillman, NJ, Senior Advisor on Security of Information for Bristol Myers Squibb.
David Fairnak – Summit, NJ, Systems Compliance and Security Analyst for Bristol Myers Squibb.
Julie Strange – Laurel, MD, Operations Coordinator for the Maryland branch of AskUsNow!.
Mary Wilson – Rockaway, NJ, Assistand to the Director of Paterson Public Library.
Don Buckley – New York, NY, Director fo Communications Technology for Columbia University.
Lanora Melillo – Woodbridge, NJ, Circulation and Reference Assistant at the Middlesex Public Library.
Lauren Eder – Lawrenceville, NJ, Professor at the Rider University for Computer Information Systems.
Barbara Figge Fox – Princeton, NJ, Writer and Journalist for Not in Our Town, the Princeton Comment, and the U.S. 1 Newspaper.
Melissa Hall Klepacki – Hopewell, NJ, the founder of the PrincetonScoop.
Janie Hermann – Lawrenceville, NJ, Chair for the 2010 TEDx New Jersey Libraries event.
John LeMasney – Ewing, NJ, the founder of the 365sketches.org project.
Janice Painter – NJ, Princeton Public Library.
Amy Kearns – Central, NJ, member of CJRLC..
Susan Promislo – Philadelphia, PA, Senior Communications Officer for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.
Misum Lyu – Plymouth Meeting, PA, member of the Eastern NJ RLC and INFOLINK.
Ed Tseng – Lawrenceville, NJ, the founder of the Tseng Performance Academy.
Afsheen Shamsi – Princeton, NJ, CAIR-NJ Director for Public Relations.
Dorry Bless – Milford, NJ, writer of Circle of Life Ceremonies and life cycle celebrant.
Denise A. Evarts – Milford, NJ, Artist.
Diane K. Campbell – Flemington, NJ, Librarian and Assistant Professor at Rider University.
Tina Hertel – Whitehall, PA, Librarian at Lehigh University.
Brian K. Auger – Bridgewater, NJ, Director of the Somerset County System of Libraries.