Sixth Annual Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival 2012

UPDATE:  Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival still attracts top names as it hits five-year mark, MARCOS CABRERA Herald Staff Writer, 09/24/2012

ABSTRACT: Thirty authors and participants in the Sixth Annual Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival are featured with links to their respective websites and videos. An ADDENDUM provides links for SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, TICKETS and CONTACT INFORMATION.

The Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival 2012

Friday, September 28 - Sunday, September 30, 2012

David Brooks, author of "The Social Animal".

DAVID BROOKS, Political & Cultural Commentator, The New York Times

David Brooks on facebook 

Leading@Google: Chip Conley

CHIP CONLEY, Author and Joie de Vivre Founder

Cruise Insider Special Edition: Regent Seven Seas Cruises

MARK CONROY, President, Regent Seven Seas Cruises

TEDxSanJoaquin - Pam Eibeck - The Role of Universities in Community Development

PAMELA A. EIBECK PhD, President, University of the Pacific

Sir Harold Evans: Innovation

SIR HAROLD EVANS, Former Editor of the Sunday Times & Writer of Best Selling Histories

TEDxSF - Dr. Alex Filippenko - Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe

ALEX FILIPPENKO PhD, Professor of Astronomy and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley

Kathy Freston for Farm Sanctuary

KATHY FRESTON, New York Times best-selling author with a concentration on healthy living and conscious eating

TEDxStanford - Esther Gokhale - Find your primal posture and sit without back pain

ESTHER GOKHALE, Founder Esther Gokhale Wellness Center- Gokhale Method – a systematic process of restoring pain-free posture and movement

TEDxToronto – Dr. Brian Goldman –Redefining the Practice of Medicine

BRIAN GOLDMAN, M.D., Host of the CBC show White Coat, Black Art

Mike Greensill and Noel Jewkes - If Dreams Come True.m4v

MIKE GREENSILL, Jazz Pianist

ROBERT C. GREGG, Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, Classics (Emeritus), Stanford University

Richard Haass on Leadership

RICHARD HAASS, PhD, President, Council on Foreign Relations

National Geographic Live!: Pico Iyer: A Portable Life

PICO IYER Essayist & Novelist

Scott James (Kemble Scott) » Introducing Numina Press.m4v

SCOTT JAMES, Journalist, Columnist & Fiction Writer

National Geographic - In search of Human Origins with Donald C. Johanson. Pt1

National Geographic - In search of Human Origins with Donald C. Johanson. Pt2

National Geographic - In search of Human Origins with Donald C. Johanson. Pt3

DONALD C JOHANSON, Paleoanthropologist, Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Science at Cal - Homayoon Kazerooni - Exoskeleton Systems

HOMAYOON KAZEROONI PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Laboratory

Authors at Google: Adam Lashinsky, "Inside Apple"

ADAM LASHINSKY, Senior Editor At Large, Fortune 

Sheldon Laube Extended Version

SHELDON LAUBE,  Chief Innovation Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research (CAR)

Michael David Lukas, The Oracle of Stamboul, One Book One Marin

MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS, Novelist

TEDxStanford - Martha Muña - When philanthropy works

MARTHA MUÑA, National Student Director of KaeMe Foundation, a non-profit that works with Ghana's Department of Social Welfare

Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom

PETER NORVIG, Director of Research Google Inc. 
Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery

TEDxMonterey - Ramon Resa - Personal Empowerment & Resilience in the Face of Obstacle

RAMON RESA M.D., Speaker, Author, Pediatrician

Peter Ricchiuti: Finance Expert, University Professor, Humorous Speaker

PETER RICCHIUTI (Ri-Shooty), Professor of Finance, Freeman School of Business at Tulane University

Tina Seelig: "InGenius", Authors at Google

TINA SEELIG, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University

Harley Shaiken Quotes

HARLEY SHAIKEN, Professor, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education

Kathryn Stockett on Novel's Success

KATHRYN STOCKETT, Novelist

Captain Sully Talks About Landing on the Hudson River

CHESLEY B. “SULLY” SULLENBERGER, III, CAPTAIN, US AIRWAYS (Retired)

Aviation safety expert and accident investigator, CBS News Aviation and Safety Expert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Safety Reliability Methods, Inc.

Dr. Brian Swimme: Journey of the Universe

BRIAN THOMAS SWIMME, PhD, Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies

100 Story Project - Taelen Thomas as Jack London

TAELEN THOMAS, Entertainer, Orator, Actor, Poet and Teacher

Damian Woetzel and Yo-Yo Ma - US China Forum on the Arts and Culture

DAMIAN WOETZEL, Director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program

ADDENDUM:
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

TICKETS

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Phone: (831) 626-6243
e-mail: info@carmelauthors.com