Herbert Reininger

Artist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Designer, Global soul, Idea generator, Life mentor, Parent, Web guru, World traveler

Since they were first made publicly available in 2009, TED talks have intrigued me. I wondered, can TED talks be a relevant tool for relating, learning, and sharing at Penn State? Shortly after I started working as a creative director (http://reiningers.com) at the Penn State University in 2007, together with a small team I invited colleagues from our office to watch TED talks over lunch, we supplied pizza and soft drinks, and I served as moderator, presented the theme, introduced the talk, and facilitated the follow-up conversation. People loved it! When I saw a small poster in early 2010 calling for volunteers to help organize the first TEDx event at Penn State (http://tedxpsu.com), I was very excited to get involved in TEDxPSU. Admittedly, I didn't fully know what I was doing at first, but our team managed to spread tremendous excitement around campus and organized a memorable first event that generated considerable buzz. More than a thousand people showed up and several of the talks from this event are now featured on ted.com. Since then I helped organize other TEDx events at Penn State, each experience enriching my personal and collective involvement in the global TED phenomenon. Other opportunities emerged - to participate in the weeklong TEDxSummit 2012 in Doha, Qatar, and later in a groundbreaking corporate TEDx event, TEDxJNJ, within the corporate world of Johnson & Johnson. TEDActive 2013 proved to be yet another culminating TED experience, meeting hundreds of fellow TEDx organizers, TED fellows and TED celebrities, while enjoying live the incredible energy of thousands of attendees at TED 2013 in Long Beach, California. And on March 17, 2013, I stood on the TEDx stage at TEDxPSU with my own TED talk "Water is One "(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhCkjRXgnDw). TEDxPSU licensee from 2012-2021.

First change myself, then change the world.

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.

Meditation and Yoga, User Centered Design

Left and right brain user. TEDxPSU (11x), TEDxJNJ (2x), TEDxUNPlaza, TEDxMidAtlantic. TEDxSummit 2012, TEDFest 2017, TEDSummit 2016, TEDActive 2015, TEDActive 2013. TEDx Speaker: http://youtu.be/YhCkjRXgnDw

Imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian accent.