Darren McDaniel is a strategist, sociologist, educator, entrepreneur, and hat-juggling creative — a deliberate idealist. Darren is the Founding Director of Orlando's Urban ReThink, a community hub geared to empower independent professionals and stimulate collaborative minds. By creating a model where seemingly disparate groups and ideas collide and collaborate in new ways, Darren seeks to incite purposeful action, economic growth and community evolution. In addition to his work helming Urban ReThink, Darren is a professor of Digital Storytelling at Full Sail University.


About TEDx, x=independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.

The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*

(*Subject to certain rules and regulations)