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Join us at The NEXT on Friday April 11th, 9am-Noon at the Carolina Theatre!

Come hear a dynamic set of speakers as the 2nd annual Paradoxos festival in Durham delivers on its promise to collide people and ideas. The NEXT is just one part of this multi-day festival. The NEXT brings you topics ranging from strategic gaming and Morse code to analytics and jazz, race in the newsroom and fluid sexuality.  

Festival passes are $25. Get ‘em here.  

This year’s speakers include:

Event MC: Jeff Polish, The Monti

Alice Gray Stites, 21cMuseum
“The Role of Contemporary Art in Creating Community and Commerce”

Mike Bechtel, Ring Leader Ventures
“Oedipus Wrecks: Startups Don’t Have to Kill Their Fathers’ Businesses”

Beck Tench, Museum of Life + Science
“Swimming With Sharks”

Phaedra Boinodiros, IBM
“The Ultimate Power of Games at Work”

Cicely Mitchell, Founder at The Art of Cool Project
“So When Do You Snap?”

Chris Hazard, Hazardous Software

Leoneda Inge, North Carolina Public Radio
“A Colorblind Newsroom”

Rebecca Conley, Footnotes Tap Ensemble and Walltown Children’s Theatre
“The Space Between the Noise”

Scott Swimmer, DRUMSTRONG

Pete Sigal, Duke University

Jared Draughon, Must Be the Holy Ghost
Performance

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Event Director: MaryBeth Panagos, Kymanox

Produced by the Durham Chamber of Commerce, a founding partner of Paradoxos.

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ABOUT PARADOXOS:

For the second year in a row, musicians, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, beer drinkers and foodies alike will descend on downtown Durham for the second annual Paradoxos festival. This is the event you don’t want to miss. Come one, come all. Get your pass for April 9th-12th. Check out the full list of EIGHTEEN events.