Welcome, TED, to Grand Rapids. We’ve been a fan of the TED Conference for years, previously having been a fan of its founder and information architecture icon Richard Saul Wurman. Information Anxiety is still among my favorite books. I attended TED twice in those earlier days, when it was more like a secret club that could fit in one room, before Chris Anderson converted the franchise into a global phenomenon. I’m glad to see good ideas like this spread, and now locally with TEDxGrandRapids. It’s why we’re supporting the effort.

Here’s a little clip where they asked me to talk about innovation:

Thank you to all who are putting TEDxGrandRapids together. While I can’t attend personally – I’ll be assuming my new duties as President of APDF at the Annual Exchange in San Francisco – I’ll be rooting for West Michigan from the West Coast!