YouTube sensation Jordan "DJ Earworm" Roseman is coming to Penn State in October.
Roseman is one of 14 speakers attending a TEDxPSU event scheduled for Oct. 10. The day's theme is "attend, listen and enlighten," Zach Zimbler, president and general of The Lion 90.7 FM, said during a radio announcement of the speakers on The Lion Wednesday night. Zimbler (junior-supply chain management and information sciences and technology) said Roseman is famous for his music "mash-up" videos in which he combines several pop songs into one.
Schreyer Honors College Dean Christian Brady said during the announcement that Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1984 dedicated to ideas worth sharing out in the open.
TED features videos of speeches and talks on its website -- ted.com -- that have been viewed by more than 250 million people, TEDxPSU executive director Steve Garguilo said.
The X in TEDxPSU signifies an independently organized TED event. The TEDxPSU event is headed by an executive team made up of Information, Science and Technology (IST) alumni and Zimbler, a current IST student.
With a list of potential speakers well into the hundreds, Garguilo said it took an organization committee of more than 100 people to reduce the list to 14. The committee wanted to bring in speakers from outside of Penn State as well as showcase some of Penn State's researchers, Garguilo said.
As Zimbler announced the speakers he provided their backgrounds, which ranged from architecture, humanities, business, sociology and more.
Michael Pritchard, inventor of the Lifesaver water purification bottle, and Tonee Ndungu, a media consultant from Kenya, will also speak.
Garguilo said each speaker brings something unique to the podium.
"We are equally excited about everybody," he said. "Everybody is going to have an amazing talk," he said.
Garguilo and his team have been working on the event since March -- he is looking forward to seeing all the hard work come together.
"I think TED is truly a revolution of global education," he said.
