TEDMED begins this week in Washington, D.C. For those attending activities at the Kennedy Center, registration is underway. Tonight, an opening reception in “The Hive” — a 30,000-square-foot space dedicated to exploring innovation around health and medicine (and the main social destination for TEDMED delegates) — officially kicks off the conference.
In addition to the well-known TED “talks” on a variety of health-related topics, the conference is sponsoring several activities promoting the health of its participants. Delegates are encouraged to participate in runs, yoga and meditation, as well as morning “Walk ‘n Talks” of more than 1,000 steps from TEDMED hotels to the Kennedy Center.
As a sponsor of TEDMED 2013, Kaiser Permanente has a booth in The Hive that has been created around a single word: THRIVE. Using a mixture of innovative technology (from KP’s Garfield Center and the Center for Total Health), the interactive showcase presents a model for the future of health care and sick care. The booth experience demonstrates how we thrive in healing environments, in living environments and beyond. If you are at TEDMED, please stop by.
The Center for Total Health will live stream TEDMED sessions from Wednesday morning through Friday mid-day, with discussions following each session facilitated by the Innovation Learning Network. Thursday will feature a lunchtime recess break led by Playworks and an evening reception for delegates spotlighting start-up innovators.
We’ll be covering all the Center for Total Health activities here on the blog all week, so stay tuned for more. And if you want to follow — or join — the conversation on Twitter, you can follow hash tags #TEDMED and #kpcth all week.
