Mick Ebeling Coming to Eccles Center

Not impossible. It's more than a mantra for entrepreneur-visionary-humanitarian Mick Ebeling, whose practical solutions to real-world problems have changed lives. Ebeling and his team at Not Impossible Labs garnered national attention when their low-cost, DIY tool (the Eyewriter) unlocked a paralyzed graffiti artist's talents, allowing him - and, consequently, others - to communicate and create by using just eye movements. Ebeling, who also happens to be the founder of an acclaimed production company, comes to Park City on Friday, January 16 as part of the Park City Institute / Strategic News Service "Future in Review" Speaker Series. The evening, "Not Impossible: Technology for the Sake of Humanity," takes place in the intimate Black Box Theater of Park City's Eccles Center; 7:30p.m. Tickets are $25.

"I have a process," says Ebeling. "And that process is: You commit and then you're going to figure out how you're going to do it." Forget obstacles. Forget inexperience. Ebeling has a knack for tackling the problem by gathering the right people and the right tools and technology in order to create the solution to a problem; then, he produces media to make sure those solutions take flight.

For example, when he came across the story of a boy named Daniel who had lost both arms in war-torn South Sudan, Ebeling and his team came up with a way of creating prosthetics using a 3D printer. Not only did he outfit Daniel with affordable prosthetics, but he made the technology accessible to others by setting up the world's first 3D printing prosthetics lab and teaching the people living in Daniel's village to continue to design and print the prosthetics after Ebeling left.

"Mr. Ebeling has a motto, 'If not now, when? If not me, who?'" explains PCI executive director Teri Orr. "His ability to ditch the sidelines and to jump in and make a difference is important and inspiring. When some of us just want to throw up our hands at the state of the world, his positive, can-do, creative message is just right."

Not Impossible's creations tap into technological innovation in such a way that the inventions become accessible and affordable for the people who need them most. As founder and CEO of the philanthropic Not Impossible, LLC, his work has captured the attention of Time (which named the Eyewriter one of the Top 50 Inventions of 2010); more than 2 million YouTube viewers (Project Daniel); and he's received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award (2014). Named one of Creativity's 50 Influential People of 2014, he also excels at his day job as the founder of the Ebeling Group, a film production company responsible for creative graphic sequences in "Quantum of Solace" and "Stranger than Fiction." Ebeling's production company has received some of the advertising industry's most prestigious awards.

Sharon Anderson Morris, SNS Programs Director and Managing Director of SNS FiReFilms, will facilitate Mick Ebeling's "Not Impossible: Technology for the Sake of Humanity" talk. The evening concludes with a question and answer session with the audience. Ebeling will also sign his new book, "Not Impossible" (notimpossible.com) following the talk.

PCI's partnership with the innovative Strategic News Service allows the Park City, Utah-based, non-profit organization to introduce the community to some of the world's greatest minds and ideas. Following Mr. Ebeling's January talk, the series continues with John Delaney, University of Washington Professor of Oceanography (February 20, 2015); and Nancy Stagliano, Co-Founder and CEO, CytomX Therapeutics (March 20, 2015).

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