--- title: 2012 TED Simulcast - Spending Leap Day at the Nelson Atkins Museum description: 2012 TED Simulcast - Spending Leap Day at the Nelson Atkins Museum --- [Blog | Brainzooming ](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog) # [2012 TED Simulcast - Spending Leap Day at the Nelson Atkins Museum](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/2012-ted-simulcast-spending-leap-day-at-the-nelson-atkins-museum) Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Feb 29, 2012 10:50:45 AM Today is Leap Day, an extra day every four years to get more work done, have some fun (creative or otherwise), or try something completely new. Last Leap Day, I was in the process of [saying goodbye to a key member of my market research team](https://www.brainzooming.com/february-29-what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-day/657/) as she left for an exciting new market research job. Leap Day 2012, however, will be much more fun than in 2008. This Leap Day I will be with the rest of The Brainzooming Group at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City to watch the 2012 TED simulcast. The 2011 TED simulcast was incredible, and a very different experience than watching individual videos. It was also tremendously taxing after live tweeting all day. This year, I will probably do some live tweeting, but will try to add some creative variety. Maybe it is a good opportunity to even try [illustrating some of the TED simulcast presentations](http://mashable.com/2011/03/13/sxsw-panels-illustrated/). That would really be a creative stretch worthy of Leap Day since I sketch, but not nearly as fast as I live tweet! [Here is the schedule for today’s 2012 TED Simulcast:](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/guide.php#Wednesday,February29,2012) **Session 4: The Lab (10:30 am – 12:15 pm CST)** - [Henrik Schärfe](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1145), Roboticist - [Regina Dugan](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1161) , Director of DARPA - [Jack Choi](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1178), Technologist - [Marco Tempest](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1012), Techno-illusionist - [Donald Sadoway](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1143), Materials engineer - [Vijay Kumar](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1248), Roboticist **Session 5: The Earth (1:00 pm – 2:45 pm CST)** - [Karen Bass](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1193), Natural history filmmaker - [Sharon Beals](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1165), Photographer - [Wade Davis](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#62), Anthropologist, ethnobotanist - [James Hansen](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1147), Climatologist - [T. Boone Pickens](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1170), Entrepreneur and energy theorist - [Civilians Investigative Theater](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1187), Theater company **Session 6: The Crowd (4:15 pm – 6:00 pm CST)** - [Cameron Carpenter](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#587), Organist - [Reid Hoffman](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1162), Social entrepreneur - [Lior Zoref](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1182), Crowdsourcing advocate - [Jen Pahlka](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1222), Code activist - [Frank Warren](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1144), Secret keeper - [Reggie Watts](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1160), Vocalist, beatboxer, comedian **Session 7: The City (7:00 pm – 8:45 pm CST)** - [JR](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#913), Street artist - [Edward Glaeser](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1203), Economist - [Eduardo Paes](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1207), Mayor of Rio de Janeiro - [Suja Lowenthal](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1205), Vice mayor of Long Beach - [Mama Foundation for the Arts: Gospel for Teens Choir](http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/program/speakers.php#1206), Teen choir My live tweets will be either on the [@Brainzooming](http://www.twitter.com/brainzooming) Twitter account and/or my live Twitter account at [@BZLiveTweets](http://www.twitter.com/bzlivetweets). You’ll be able to follow 2012 TED Simulcast tweets with the overall [#TED hashtag](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23TED) on Twitter as well. If you’re at the Nelson Atkins Museum for today’s sessions, tweet or DM me! – *[Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/?page_id=1197)* ****** ***Download ******the [free ](https://www.brainzooming.com/resources/ebooks/)******[ebook, “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”](https://www.brainzooming.com/resources/ebooks/) to help you generate fantastic creative ideas! ******For an organizational creativity boost, contact **[**The **](https://www.brainzooming.com/date/2011/10-lessons-to-integrate-creativity-in-busines/category/category/category/?page_id=1188)**[Brainzooming](https://www.brainzooming.com/date/2011/brainzooming-overview/) Group**** to help your team be more successful by rapidly expanding strategic options and creating innovative plans to efficiently implement. ***Email us at**** [info@brainzooming.com](mailto:info@brainzooming.com) ****or call us at 816-509-5320 to learn how we can deliver these benefits for you.******   [View full post](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/2012-ted-simulcast-spending-leap-day-at-the-nelson-atkins-museum) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Mike Brown" }, "dateModified" : "2023-08-29T02:38:52.511Z", "datePublished" : "2012-02-29T10:50:45Z", "headline" : "2012 TED Simulcast - Spending Leap Day at the Nelson Atkins Museum", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 250, "url" : "https://462042.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/462042/Imported_Blog_Media/ted-live-20121-4.jpg", "width" : 250 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/2012-ted-simulcast-spending-leap-day-at-the-nelson-atkins-museum", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "name" : "Blog" } } ```