Live from Newark: TEDxNJIT Simulcast, March 23, 2012 to viewers worldwide

A TEDxNJIT event will take place again on March 23, 2012 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the New Jersey Institute of Technology campus and also via an accompanying live simulcast broadcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, will focus on sustainability and will feature leaders in the field. It will bring together faculty and students to share their passion for innovation and sustainability. NJIT's inaugural TEDx event took place last November.

"With the success of our first TEDxNJIT event, we wanted to improve from the feedback we received and create an even better event," said event organizer Kevin Ly, a sophomore from West Orange who attends NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College and the College of Science and Liberal Arts, majoring in biology. "We decided our next TEDxNJIT event should focus on sustainability, a topic of interest to everyone, especially people living in an urban environment such as Newark."

The event in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus costs $30 a ticket for the public as well as NJIT faculty, staff and alums. Student tickets cost $15. To purchase tickets, register online at www.tedxnjit.com/register. One hundred tickets have been made available. Food and drinks will be available and is included in the ticket fee.

TEDxNJIT follows other TEDx university events, such as those at Harvard and Princeton universities earlier this year. TEDxNJIT not only targets the NJIT community, but those at surrounding colleges and universities in Newark including: Rutgers, Essex County College and University of Medicine and Dentistry.

Confirmed speakers include NJIT Associate Professor Richard Garber, an architect known for designing sustainable structures; NJIT Senior Vice President of Research and Development Donald H. Sebastian; NJIT student Tony Sorgi, who has been doing a project related to books everyone should read to make the world a better place; small business owner David Rosenberg, who previously ran a firm that made sustainable concrete and now runs a technology company that builds advanced farms in urban environments using aeroponics; Florence Hudson, Energy and Environment Executive, IBM and energy blogger Peter Spitz (chemengineeringposts.wordpress.com/) For an up-to-date listing of the speakers, see www.tedxnjit.com/speakers.

Provided by New Jersey Institute of Technology