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TESLA’S SPIRIT AWARD CONFERENCE 2020 New York

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TESLA’S SPIRIT AWARD CONFERENCE 2020 New York

You are invited to participate!

Dear friends:

January 11, 2020 at the New Yorker Hotel in NYC, the Tesla Science Foundation will hold its 8th Annual Tesla Spirit Award Conference. This year’s conference will also be a celebration to TSF’s 10th Anniversary. We will have guests and speakers from all over the world and with a variety of experience, broken down into three groups.

The morning program will begin with progress reports from various Tesla organizations, connecting all of the great work each group does, and to encourage us all to continue to work together for our common goals and to advance Tesla’s legacy. This is a great opportunity for like-minded individuals and groups to come together, learn about each other’s work, and inspire more great progress for all of us.

Second, we will have the “Tesla Ways” program, where routes in the US and Canada will show important Tesla sites. We will demonstrate the new website and software that will show us all of the places Tesla lived and worked during his 60 years in the US.

Part three of the program will be “How to Make a Tesla Club at Your School” and is designed to assist startup chapters in schools, universities, community centers, libraries and the like. TSF has been helping spread interest in Tesla this way for almost 5 years, working with the Tacony Academy, Franklin Institute, and the Tesla Museum in Belgrade. We have a great network of teachers, artists, engineers and more.

The whole day will also feature an art exhibit, where Tesla-related art from the past year will be on display. There will also be displays of equipment that we hope will be used in future Tesla clubs.

In the evening, there will be a Teslin Narod panel discussion (in Serbian) organized by TSF, the Serbian Consulate in New York, and the program will be led by Katarina Radivojevic, one of Serbia’s most popular actresses.

We will be recording the entire program and will post it to TeslaTalk.tv and there will be a team interviewing speakers in the New Yorker’s Tesla Room, Room 3327, where Tesla lived for many years. The film crew has been working for three years on a film about Tesla enthusiasts that will include our program.

We hope you will be able to make it and be involved!

TESLA’S PEOPLE AWARD CONFERENCE 2020 New York PROGRAM

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TESLA’S PEOPLE AWARD CONFERENCE 2020 New York PROGRAM

January 11, 2020 – The New Yorker Hotel 

Sponsored by Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia in New York & Tacony Academy Charter School Philadephia

Host:  Lana Asanin

08:00am – 09:00am Registration 

09:00am – 09:30am Opening ( movies – TOWARD THE LIGHT Sava Sajko, TESLA’S LEGACY Richard Wesley Mathias, TESLA and MARK TWAIN Marina Bulatovic, TSF 10yrs Report, TESLAFY ME Janja Glogovac, Video presentation Nataša Cvijović ) 

09:30am – 10:00am Conference Opening: Speech of Katarina Radivojevic, Opening speech by President / Founder Nikola Lonchar and Consul Olgica Vlacic from the Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia New York 

10:15am – 11:15am  – Progress report from Tesla organizations  ( 7 to 15 minutes per presenter ) 

  • Joseph Sikorski 
  • David Wrigley
  • Jim Missall
  • Helena Bulaja

11:15am – 11:30am coffee break 

11:30am – 12:45pm Progress report from Tesla organizations  ( 7 to 15 minutes per presenter )

  • Mark Alessi 
  • Vic Djurdjevic
  • Fred Immendorfer
  • Robert Meyer   

12:45 – 01:00pm Meet the Artists

01:00pm – 02:30pm Lunch break 

02:30pm – 03:30pm Nikola Tesla Clubs – Education ( Panel )  

  • Ashley Redfearn, Executive Director of American Paradigm Schools
  • Thomas Scheid, CEO/Principal Tacony Academy Charter School
  • Harry Oung 
  • Brian Yetzer
  • Mano Divina  
  • Craig Dovidio 
  • Rainie May 
  • Jeffrey Luttrell
  • David Immendorfer 
  • Lakeya White ( fundraising for nonprofits )

03:45pm – 04:00pm Coffee break 

04:00pm – 04:15pm Special guest

04:15pm – 04:30pm TESLA WAYS USA  

04:30pm Networking at Art & Tech Exhibition 

06:00pm Tesla’s Legacy through the Next Gen – konzul Olgica Vlacic i Katarina Radivojevic  

Camera: 

  • Craig DoVidio 
  • Kevin Wood

Photography and Digital Marketing: 

  • Milica Savic

Art Exhibition: 

  • Rainie May
  • Sara Radovanovitch
  • Anna Parfonova
  • Mariana Moreno
  • diNo, Erin and Isabella 
  • Brian Yetzer, DCCC graphic design students 
  • Children art show from Novi Sad ( Children awarded ,,U slozi je spas,,) 

Tech Exhibitions:

  • Steve Matza and TSF “Tesla Technology Exhibition”
  • Ken Nekic “The Nikola Tesla Innovation Club & Innovation Labs”
  • David L Head “African American contributions Transportation in America”

Tesla’s Legacy through the Next Gen lens panel description:

At 6 p.m. there will be a panel discussion and a musical entertainment program.

The entrance is FREE.

Tesla’s Legacy through the Next Gen lens and the program will be presented by

Katarina Radivojevic.
 

The program will open with a short movie.

MICHAEL IDVORSKY PUPIN – A PATH TOWARD LIGHT
by author and producer Sava Sajko who will attend the screening.

The movie features Pupin’s specific relationship with his compatriot Nikola Tesla and the reconciliation that took place after 30-year long dispute.
 

Tesla’s Legacy through the Next Gen lens:

Panel discussion with the Serbian New Yorkers – Leveraging the Serbian community to excel professionally while exemplifying Tesla’s values of Innovation

Participants:

  • Olgica Vlacic- Acting Consul General of the Republic of Serbia in New York
  • Mladen Milosevic  –  Founder and CPO of Blloc Inc.
  • Marko Jevremovic – Vice President at JP Morgan
  • Aleksandra Denda – Jazz Soul Vocalist 

Moderated by: Predrag Obucina, Professor of the Serbian language at the Columbia University

The panel discussion will be followed by authentic music and folklore dances of the Serbian culture and heritage.

Performed by New York-based:

Children’s folk ensemble: “Opancici”

Vocal group: “Rosa”