Surf Air Partners with TEDWomen 2015 to Kick off of New Routes to Monterey, CA
May 28 2015 - 12:07PM
Business Wire
Select 2015 TEDWomen Speakers to Take Inaugural
Flight to Monterey, CA
Surf Air, the nation’s first All-You-Can-Fly private membership
airline, announced today that it has partnered with TEDWomen to fly
some of their key speakers to Monterey, Calif., where the
conference is hosted this year. This marks the first flights to the
new destination for Surf Air, which begins service from Los
Angeles, the Bay Area and Napa on July 13th.
“Our partnership with TEDWomen is a great way to kick of our
relationship with the community of Monterey,” said CEO of Surf Air,
Jeff Potter. “As a forward thinking, innovative company, TEDWomen
aligns perfectly with our values and mission.”
TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, opened its
TEDWomen 2015 conference yesterday at the Monterey Convention
Center in California and will run through Friday. Themed
“Momentum,” the event will feature a live program of more than 40
speakers and performers over three days. TED will broadcast the TED
Talks in real time to nearly 250 simultaneous TEDxWomen events held
in 68 countries around the world.
TEDWomen 2015 will feature speakers sharing ideas and inventions
in six sessions of TED Talks on Thursday, May 28, and Friday, May
29. The conference also includes interactive ‘Learning Tracks’
designed to demonstrate how good ideas can lead to transformational
change. The event is produced by TED in association with Pat
Mitchell, the co-curator and host of TEDWomen since its launch in
2010.
This year’s event marks the third year TED has hosted a TEDWomen
conference since 2010, and the first time it has done so at the
Monterey Convention Center—home of the first TED conferences more
than 30 years ago. Notable speakers at 2015 TEDWomen include Jimmy
Carter, Jane Fonda and Billie Jean King, among others. A full list
of 2015 TEDWomen speakers can be found here.
ABOUT SURF AIR
Surf Air is the nation’s first private air travel club offering
unlimited monthly flights. Geared toward frequent regional business
and leisure travelers, Surf Air provides a hassle-free flying
experience in the company of an inspiring Member community. Its
growing fleet of executive private aircraft operates from
convenient private airports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los
Angeles Metro Area, Santa Barbara, Truckee/Lake Tahoe, and Napa,
with service soon to launch in Monterey, Sacramento, Palm Springs,
and additional locations to follow. For more information
visit www.surfair.com, facebook.com/isurftheskies and youtube.com/isurftheskies.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth
Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes
or fewer) delivered by today’s leading thinkers and doers. Many of
these talks are given at TED’s annual conference in Vancouver,
British Columbia, its TEDWomen conference and its TEDGlobal
conferences—then made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers
have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir
Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include
TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; the Open
Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive
transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers
worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual
million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with
a “wish,” or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which
provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host
local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the
TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe
to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and
activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, on
Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TED or Instagram at
https://instagram.com/ted.
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