Watch live interviews from TED Long Beach next week!

Together with our partners at the TED Fellows program and the Kauffman Foundation, we’re excited to announce that next week, we’ll be streaming live interviews from TED Long Beach.

“Innovation + Entrepreneurship with the TED Fellows” will give viewers a rare live look behind the scenes of the TED conference and give audiences a chance to get to know some of these amazing Fellows. Beginning Tuesday, March 1st through Thursday, March 3rd at 10:30am PT/1:30pm ET, we’ll be hosting live Q&A sessions with some incredible thinkers, including:

• Erik Hersman, Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African
• Adrian Hong, Human rights entrepreneur; director, The Pegasus Project; former director, Liberty in North Korea
• Sey Min, a Korean data-visualization designer who works with live data sets to creatively display information
• Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Chilean primatologist who studies play behavior among bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Suzanne Lee, British artist and fashion designer who "grows" clothing with bacteria
• Jon Gosier, Founder, Appfrica, a business incubator in Kampala

Anyone can submit questions for the Fellows via Twitter by using the hashtag #TEDFellow, by email to TEDFellows@casefoundation.org, or through our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/casefoundation.  A schedule of the interviews is available at http://www.casefoundation.org/ted/longbeach2011 and profiles of the fellows that will be featured can also be found there. 

Curious to know more about the TED Fellows program or know someone who might be a great Fellow? More information can be found at www.ted.com/fellows and applications for 2011 Fellows are open until March 11 at www.ted.com/fellows/apply.

Be sure to check back next Tuesday for the first interview!