Program

8:00 Morning mixer / breakfast

8:50 Pre-Show

• Ed Begley, Jr: Welcome
• An Introduction to TEDx

9:00 Welcome + Why We Gather

Samantha Morales Johnson Yang: Land Acknowledgment 

• Dianna Cohen: How Do We Solve Plastic Pollution by 2040?
• Special Guest: Welcome Remarks
• Esteban Gast: Introducing Your Host
• Antonique Smith: Performance and Remarks
• Gary Bencheghib: What Rivers Tell Us About Plastic Pollution
• Melissa Aguayo: Turning Off the Plastic Tap
• Marcus Eriksen: The Gyre Within: Reflections from a Plastic Sea
• Pam Longobardi: Plastic’s Crime Against Nature

Plastic Pollution and Health

• Dr. Leonardo Trasande: The Plastic Paradox
• Arlene Blum: Towards the Summit: A World Free of Toxic Plastics
• Johanna Hellrigl: The Plastic You Eat
• Kris Thayer: California’s Microplastic Strategy
• Ken Cook: Let’s Get Plastics Out of Our Food!

Coffee + Conversation Break

Musical Performance by Levi Evans

Plastic Pollution and Climate

• Rick Smith: Climate Change, Plastic Pollution and the Fight for Human Health 
• Suzanne Smoke, Ginew Kwe: Protecting the Lifeblood of Our Mother
• Abigail Barrows: How to Live Like an Oyster
• Heather White: Eco-Anxiety: A Message from Our Future Selves
• Vasser Seydel: How to Quantum Leap into a Plastic Free Reality

Plastic Pollution and Social Justice

• Jo Banner: Restoring Accountability: A Solution to the Plastic Crisis
• Vien Truong Shakman: Courage and Co-Power
• Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr: A Crisis of Imagination

Lunch—Sand and Sea Room

1:00 Afternoon Session: Solutions

Musical Performance by The Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center Sr. Jazz Band

• Esteban Gast: Welcome Back

Plastic Pollution and Culture Change

• Segment Host Liz Havstad: Remarks
• Hayden Begley: An Inconvenient Choice
• A Message from Fran Drescher
• Kristy Drutman: A Heart-Based Approach to Solving the Plastic Crisis
• Gina Ciganik: The Plastic Problem Hidden in Plain Sight
• Dr. Manasa Mantravadi: School Lunch: The Plastic Generation’s Greatest Cure
• Suzie Hicks: Don’t Teach Plastic Recycling—Teach This Instead

Coffee + Conversation Break

Plastic Pollution and Business

• Dr. Jane Muncke: You Are What You Eat: Unwrapping Plastics
• Dr. Dagny Tucker: The Power of Reuse: Ending the Violence of Single-Use
• Phoebe Yu: The Hidden Plastics in Your Closet
• Sea Briganti: Design to Disappear: How Seaweed Can Heal the Planet
• Fireside Chat—Hoa Doan, John Felts, Lauryn Menard: A Race to Scale: Replacing Plastic with Materials from Nature—with Moderator Aidan Maguire
• Nichola Tucker Gray: So You Want to Make a Plastic-Free Brand

Coffee + Conversation Break

Musical Performance by The Living Sisters— Inara George, Eleni Mandel, Alex Lilly, Becky Stark

Plastic Pollution and Policy

• Andy Keller: The Plastic Bully Playbook
• Sumona N. Majumdar: Plastics On Trial
• Special Guest
• A Message from Sylvia Earle

Thank You + Farewell

• Julia Cohen: Closing Remarks
• Esteban Gast: Thank You and Farewell

Closing Reception—Sand and Sea Room

Musical Performance by The Hot Club of LA with special guests including Kat Edmonson