Students in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts officially began marketing talks Tuesday for the TEDxLSU event scheduled for March 9.

The event will feature 24 speakers , including Baton Rouge locals and University students. The University’s Janice H. Pellar Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Project will produce and offer multimedia assistance for TEDxLSU, which is an independent program approved by TED.

Theatre design and technology senior Adam Waguespack said Pellar Project members are helping to facilitate the talk by assisting with production and multimedia aspects.

Students also discussed their upcoming trip to TEDxBroadway at the Tuesday meeting. Waguespack said he hopes traveling to New York for the Broadway event will be similar to what other groups do when TEDxLSU takes place on March 9 in the Reilly Theatre on campus.

The TEDxLSU event will give students the opportunity to network themselves and will hopefully bring money into the college, Waguespack said.

“I’m excited to see the events and possibilities an event like this can bring,” Waguespack said.

Waguespack also said the students involved are not just there to assist with production, but will bring ideas as well.

Joey Watson, a teaching associate at the University, is the curator for the event.

“TED is about the sharing of ideas,” Watson said.

Watson said when the right people get together with ideas, “positive things can happen in your community.”

The theme for the event will be “evolve,” and although the lineup of speakers has not been released, Watson said they will address how the University, Baton Rouge and Louisiana have evolved and are continuing to evolve.

Watson has already received a license to conduct another TEDx talk in 2014 and said he hopes that this first TEDxLSU will help educate the local community about TED and the significance of sharing ideas.

Watson said an annual event like the TEDxLSU talk is important to the community and bringing people together.