May 2011
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Tweeting TEDxAthens
TEDxAthens is organized by a team of people that share a common passion — spreading ideas that could change peoples’ perspectives. Ideas that could conduct to small or great innovations, ideas that could affect every person in a different but significant way. TEDxAthens 2010 was “starting from scratch” in an effort to indicate how important it is to trust our dreams and beat our own fears to...
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TEDxSydney is this Saturday! →
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In the Spirit of TEDxChange, Help Small Farmers
Amie Newman is a Communications Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the spirit behind TEDxChange, she shares Bill Gates’ small farmers challenge:
Can one person change the world? Of course! As Melinda Gates says, “The future is not fixed. We all have a hand in how it plays out.” If there is an idea worth spreading, there’s an idea worth doing, right? ...
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The TEDxRaposos Revolution
My name is Glauco. I’m Brazilian. I came back from a trip in 2010 with a sure: I must do “The Revolution”. But I had a problem: I hadn’t known how. So, I’d begin to search the way to do that and one of my ultra-revolutionary-attitude was…to search Google. Between the results of my research there was a blog of a guy called Denis Russo that had written some interesting...
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“Zé Cláudio is a Brazil nut collector who lives in Pará, in the Amazon forest....”
– TED Fellow Juliana Ferreira on Zé Cláudio Ribeiro, a speaker at TEDxAmazonia, and a fighter of the illegal timber industry in Brazil. Ribeiro was murdered —along with his wife — this morning in his home in Para, Brazil. Her blog about his death, and what he was fighting for, can be found...
katebomz asked: Hey, Why isn't Kenya nor Tanzania or rather "East Africa" on the region tab?
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The TEDx-perience, from TEDxPECCHD
The preparations finally pay off. The music begins and the ball rolls. From the keen eye of a curator, I bring my entire experience in organising my first TEDx Event which has been, mark my words, truly wonderful.
THE BACKDROP In late september 2010, just a month after the college had actually started, we had this idea of re-incarnating our insti’s technical festival which used to...
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TEDxDubai wins at Promax Arabia
The TEDxDubai 2010 REBOOT opening sequence won two gold awards at the recent Promax Arabia. We won best Opening Sequence and best Audio. A big thank you to Andrea Dionisio and all the staff at Metaphrenie. You guys rock. As Gold winner the sequence will compete in other Promax conferences around the globe. Opening Sequences Worth Spreading, from Dubai to the world.
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Beirut, Ramallah, TEDx and Passion
I’ve been asked to write a blog in English though so far my focus has been centered on the Arabic version of the website, and will remain… I have been asked to talk about that beautiful evening of Thursday last, December 9th, 2010 in Awkar Lebanon, about that insightful lecture by Micheal Sandel entitled “Justice-The Right Thing To Do or The Freedom to choose” and about the...
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TEDxTokyo: All set to share ideas and inspiration...
TEDxTokyo takes place this weekend - join us live on Saturday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. JST (Friday, May 20, from 8 p.m. EDT)
In the wake of the devastating March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and radiation menace, TEDxTokyo abruptly altered focus. Our third major event, TEDxTokyo 2011: Enter the Unknown, explores practical and inventive methods of rebuilding and renewing Japan,...
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TEDxOttawa is in the works!
Hear ye, hear ye! Come one, come all! Welcoming the event of year, the one and only TEDxOttawa: Creative Actions!
We the event planners of this year’s TEDxOttawa event have a HUGE announcement. There is an event currently in the making to show Ottawa how amazing the hard working people of Ottawa really are. We don’t want to keep this quiet, we want to spread the word as much and as fast as we...
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Enzo's TEDxSKE Experience
We held our TEDxSKE salon on Thursday 21st of April, 2011. We left home as usual, at 8:30 pm. Our 11 years old boy was at his PC watching one of the exhilarating episodes of family guy. He had no desire to come with us. He already went twice and the first time, the novelty effect, he was really happy to participate and to be with adults and university students. He felt big. And He had the...
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TEDxAntananarivo's Promo Video
In developed countries, cancer is the second leading cause of mortality AND one of three leading causes of mortality in developing countries. According the latest WHO statistics, cancer causes around 7.9 million deaths worldwide annually. Of these deaths, around 70% or 5.5 million now occur in the developing world. A disease once associated with affluence now places its heaviest burden on...
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TEDxUCP: About the Theme - WAKE UP!
By Naiha Abid
Co-curator of TEDxUCP, Student at University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
TEDxUCP proudly announces its very first event ever on the 18th of June 2011 (tentative) at the campus of University of Central Punjab. The event that would serve its audience with a cup of caffeine, we’re here to make a difference.
Dissatisfaction and helplessness have infected all our people....
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Looking back at TEDxMuscat
Jim Stolze is the Organizer of TEDxAmsterdam, a TEDx event in Amsterdam. He is also a recently-appointed TEDx Ambassador. This is his experience from TEDxMuscat, a TEDx event held in Oman on May 3rd:
I think by now most of us know how exciting it is to attend a TEDx event. Just imagine what it’s like to be in the Middle East right now AND be able to attend a TEDx. You’ve probably...
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TEDxDubai 2011 The Beauty of Small Things
After Dream|Do|Be in 2009 and REBOOT in 2010 we thought it would have been interesting to explore those little things in life that have a great impact on our society.
We are living in a city that is world renown for the massive scale of its projects and landmarks, but we are also aware that any vision starts with a small step, one initial sparkle that can change everything.
TEDxDubai 2011...
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TEDxUIMP: Educational Challenges in the 21st...
Through books, a conversation with your teacher, over internet, after making a mistake, through encyclopedias, a poem, your grandmas recipe diary, chess games, movies, traveling, in classrooms, coffee shops or in pijama parties, through an interactive presentation or playing videogames…Great ideas have been shared from generation to generation in many different ways. There are many ways of...
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TEDxAlcatraz - Bob Weir - Masters of War > Bird... →
Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir at TEDxAlcatraz’s December 2010 “A Suspension of Disbelief.” Bob plays Masters of War then takes us into the gentle Bird Song, a tribute to Janis Joplin. Following Bob was TEDFellow Teru Kuwayama, talking about his photos from embedding with the US troops in Iraq & Afganistan.
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TEDxUlaanbaatar Program Finalized
Our TEDxUlaanbaatar conference program has been finalized with more detailed on the four sessions that will make up the incredible day-long event.
After the team behind TEDxUlaanbaatar opens the event, featuring the TEDx Introductionvideo that has welcomed hundreds of thousands of people to TEDx events around the world,
Session 1 : “Exploring the Past” will feature an...
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TEDx Africa Organizer Interviews: Bernelle Verster...
Kelo Kubu, Organizer of TEDxSoweto, is a TEDx Ambassador in Africa. In this interview series, she’ll be talking with TEDx Organizers in Africa on what inspires them to host TEDx events in their community.
She starts in Cape Town, South Africa with TEDxCapeTown organisers Bernelle Verster and Justin Beswick.
Kelo Kubu: How did you get involved with TEDx and what inspired you to host...
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TEDxMoncloa - Design Thinking
Last week Carmen Bustos, TEDxMoncloa speaker, ran a workshop about Design Thinking. Some of the future attendees at TEDxMoncloa participated in such an event. During the day we could learn and enjoy with a methodology which involves all the activities related to innovation, from a creative perspective and where everything is based on the person himself.
Participants came from several...
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TEDxKids@Brussels: Helping Kids to Save the World
TEDx@Brussels is a TEDx event in Brussels, Belgium.
Last December, at their regular TEDxBrussels event, they asked “Who’s going to save the world?” and got some great answers, but later realized that if anyone can save the world, it’s today’s kids.
Their upcoming TEDxKids@Brussels event was conceived as a way to help kids do just that.
The event will host a combination...
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Fearlessness in Action at the TEDxDU Salon
Fearlessness is defined as “brave, bold, intrepid” and is a common trait amongst TED.com speakers. Is fearlessness innate? Is it a learned trait? What are the key ingredients to facing the world without fear?
The TEDxDU Salon (http://tedxdu.com/) event on April 14 offered several answers to these questions and more.The event opened with University of Denver (DU) graduate, Julie Markham,...
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The TEDxUlaanbaatar Program
The TEDxUlaanbaatar conference is set for Saturday, August 20th, 2011 and our theme will be Legacy: Honoring Tradition, Designing the Future. This encompasses Mongolia’s unique and ancient past, its present transitioning economy and culture and its wide-open future. The TEDxUlaanbaatar program will be divided into four sessions, each with its own unique theme:
Exploring the Past
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TEDxBrownUniversity, Just One Week Away!
Hello TEDx’ers,
The TEDxBrownUniversity team is gearing up for College Hill’s first ever TEDx event next Wednesday on May 4th, 2011. The buzz has been building on campus and we are very excited to share the brilliant thinkers and engaging content featured in our program. The inaugural TEDxBrownUniversity will showcase five Brown University professors in a series of short talks and...
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TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - 10 days to go, two...
We’re prepping the speakers, discussing our delicious lunch and snack menus, selling tickets on and off-campus; we’re Tweeting (@TEDxLBS), blogging, Facebook-ing, marvelling at the loveliness of our website (www.tedxlbs.com) …
Little more than ten days to go until May 6th and London Business School’s first TEDx event, with speakers from design, fashion, healthcare,...
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TEDxFlushingMeadows, It a wrap!
The 2011 TEDxFlushingMeadows is over. We ran at a frenetic pace, packed quite a lot in and was awed by the quality of TEDxTalks, Spoken Word, Videos, Comedy, Dancers, Drummers and the guided museum tour!
We must give Special Mention and thank you to:
Zac Shavrick who went above and beyond! Zac helped to review and curate the videos presented, he helped with set-up, registration, releases, running...
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TEDxThessaloniki's Mysterious Event Promo Video
TEDxThessaloniki took place on April 2nd, 2011 at the Olympion Cinema in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Their theme was “Why Not?” — taken from the quote “Some men see things as they are and ask why, others dream things that never were and ask why not?”
In the weeks before the event, the TEDxThessaloniki team collaborated with producers at HelloKinetic to create a...
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A Cosmic TEDxVorobyovy-Gory
In Russia, 2011 was deemed the “Year of Cosmonautics”, and it was also the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
On March 19, 2011, TEDxVorobyovy-Gory held its third event at the Memorial Museum of Astronautics in Moscow, Russia.
The theme? Space, of course.
The venue played an important part in the execution of the event — during breaks, attendees...
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TEDxKoeln alive and kicking.
Hello TEDx Community.
The license for staging a TEDx event in Cologne has been granted for some time. As the licensee I want to share a rough sketch of what my fellow organizers and I envision TEDxKoeln to be, when it will happen later this year:
We understand TED as a place where influential people meet on a global scale to share ideas for tackling challenging problems. With our TEDxKoeln we...
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Getting ready for TEDxIkeja
Hello! The TEDxIkeja is moving really fast. The team has been getting really impressive feedback on this project, especially from a lot of people who have written, BBMed, tweeted, and called to tell us they’d love to be part of it. Thanks a million, guys!
So we’ll be giving you regular updates on this one-of-a-kind event, which we are sure will spark an economic renaissance in our...
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TEDxObserver's "Letter to the Editor"
TEDxObserver was a TEDx event organized by the Observer newspaper on March 19th, 2011.
And, like any newspaper, they received a slew of positive “Letter to the Editor” feedback in regards to their event, lauding the Organizers for pulling together great speakers and creating an enlightening overall experience:
“There wasn’t a single speaker that didn’t engage me...
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TEDxAddis: A Platform for Impossible Thoughts
On December 18, 2010, the local community of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia gathered to put on TEDxAddis, an event focusing on the innovations and socioeconomic changes of their country.
Their slogan for the day was, “Be encouraged and encourage others. Be inspired and inspire others.”
Sentayehu Seifu, head of an organizational team made up of students, entrepreneurs, and other locals,...
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Taking TEDxBuenosAires Outdoors
The second TEDxBuenosAires event on “The Revolution of Ideas” was held on April 8 at the La Rural community center in the heart of Buenos Aires.
Over a thousand people attended the event and enjoyed speakers such as Argentine rugby player Agustin Pichot and musicologist Marcelo Arce.
Those who could not get a ticket to the venue did not have to worry about missing the show...
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TEDxGallatinSeniorSymposium Final Preparations
Now in its third year, the TEDxGallatinSeniorSymposium will take place tonight at 7:00 PM at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study in New York. A completely student organized event, we have been working around the clock to make sure this year is the best one yet. As always, it is an incredible opportunity to be a part of the TEDx community, and be able to host events in a format where...
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TEDxAHUT is almost here!
We are hosting the TEDxAHUT event on Apr 22, 2011 in Ma’anshan, Anhui, China and has been preparing it since Mar 28.
We are a part of the TEDx University Day event and will host a TEDx event on Apr 22, 2011 together with over a hundred universities in China. We just have our first meeting in Apr 10. Can’t believe that TEDxAHUT is within 10 days!
On that meeting, the majority team members...
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Bring a Brown Bag Lunch to TEDxSMUTuesdays
TEDxSMUTuesdays are a weekly brown bag series held from January to May at the Skunkwork’s Innovation Gym at Southern Methodist University.
Each week, a diverse group of attendees that includes students and Dallas community members, gather to view a TEDTalk and partake in lively discussion. This TEDx Salon event creates continuous dialogue around TED and TEDx beyond the yearly TEDxSMU, as...
