June 2011
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Visiting TEDxMedellin
Medellin, Colombia, was not at all what I expected. While considering taking a trip to Medellin to attend the first TEDx hosted in the city, I was warned to be careful; there was a lot of history there with violence, kidnapping and drugs. I tucked the information in the back of my mind, I still wanted to go to Medellin. My plane arrived late on a Monday night and I was...
riddleinlife asked: hi, i am a TED fan for years and wanna do some features on TEDx organizers. is there a list of past TEDx events and its organizer that I could look at? Many thanks!
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A Viewing of TEDxValencia
On Friday 6th of May, together with our customers and partners, we followed in streaming TEDxValencia, celebrated under the motto “Questioning Paradigms of Education”.
Valencia is an ideal region for the TEDx event, with a great creative potential, but with a public administration who turns its back to innovation. Therefore, from a Valencian company such as Proyecto Creativo Rafa Armero, dedicated...
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“How TED impacted my life.
My name is Fabian Hemmert, I am 29 years old. I am...”
– Fabian Hemmert, 2009 TEDxBerlin speaker, whose talk on the shape-shifting future of the mobile phone went on TED.com. His story, along with the story of other TEDx speakers who made it to TED.com, can be found here, in celebration of five years of TEDTalks.
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A Recap: Celebrating 2000 TEDx Events
In November 2010, was the 1000th TEDx event. On Monday, June 20th was the 2000th TEDx event. We asked the community their favorite memory from one of these 2000:
Favorite memory: organising TEDxWarwick 2011 with a bunch of incredible people at University of Warwick. — Matthieu Baril
Organizing TEDxLaçador meet people from TEDxPune, TEDxSinCity, the ones from Brazil, help to spread good...
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The birth of TEDxReghin
We are very happy to announce that another TEDx event is taking place in Romania in the idyllic land of Reghin — TEDxReghin. How did it all start? You know that we (TEDxTimisoara) have a true passion for spreading ideas, for TED and for the TEDx community. Our founder — Vlad Fiscutean — started to empower local leaders in different cities of our country to organize their own...
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TEDxEverest: High altitude ideas
If I had to pick a favorite moment during the three days I spent camping underneath the 29,000-foot peak of Mount Everest, it would probably be watching Hans Rosling’s TEDIndia talk projected onto the side of our dining tent. Most of our group asleep, I sat alone with our Nepali porters and cook, who stared with rapt attention while Rosling gestured dramatically, using his now-famous pointer to...
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Salons: Building Community for TEDxOrlando
When my husband Dave and I first decided we wanted to organize a TEDxOrlando event, one of the first decisions we faced was how to structure it.
One of us was more interested in a big, exciting event with speakers and hoopla, the other was more interested in small, frequent, intimate meetings where people would have a chance to get to know each over other time. We settled on our favorite...
Today is the 2000th TEDx event! What is your... →
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“I felt bliss and anxiety after giving my TEDx Talk. I’ve never known...”
– Onic V. Palandjian, TEDxThessaloniki
Watch Onic’s TEDx Talk here.
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TEDxKids@Brussels -- Makers and Changers
You know that magical moment when you realize that against the odds and defying expectation, an idea reaches critical mass? Well we experienced it at TEDx Kids@Brussels. All along it was a challenge to explain the concept we were determined to implement: a full TEDx program for adults running parallel with a series of workshops for kids. We knew the relationship between the two programs would...
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WatchNew from the TEDx Global Music Project: Upman Liu is an independent musician in China. He plays Blues and performs a special cover of Pink Floyd with a Chinese twist. More
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When Beirut TEDx'es...
“We’ll definitely be around 30 or 35 people,” said Patricia, Organizer of TEDxBeirut and TEDxSKE. “And anyways, even if we don’t have a full house this time, we will for sure next time! Don’t forget the Shakira concert, we won’t be able to compete with Shakira.”
“Don’t worry Patz,” I answered. “There’s a big TED community here — the Beirut TED community won’t...
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The Vision of TEDxKids@BC
The vision of TEDxKids@BC is to visualize a world in which the kids have been invited to explore their passions. A world in which they’ve been granted the right to influence decisions impacting their lives. A world in which they stand up with adults as equals and use their creativity and skills to make a brighter future for us all!
To implement this vision, TEDxKids@BC has decided to invite...
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TEDxAbuDhabiU Organizer James Piecowye interviews...
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TEDxLive in Seoul, South Korea
South Korea is an amazing country, with a population of around 48 million. There are around 50 TEDx events in South Korea, which means that there is a TEDx event for at least every million people! (Japan and China have 13 and 37 each respectively.) For TED 2011, TEDx Organizers in South Korea could host TEDxLive events — a simulcast event showing TED 2011, live from Long Beach, California. I...
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Update on TEDxPeachtree Speaker Jim Brazell
2010 TEDxPeachtree speaker Jim Brazell is known as a boundary spanner and a big-picture thinker who connects the worlds of innovation, workforce, education and economic development. Anyone who caught his talk at last year’s TEDxPeachtree, “What’s Next in the Human Story?” would agree that the talk was enlightening and thought-provoking. Since then, Jim has been busy. In April this year, he...
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Defining "Local" in the TEDx Community
On Facebook and on the TEDx Google Group — the question was asked: What makes a TEDx event local?
Some responded that the key to a successful ‘local’ TEDx event was a diversity of speakers — having both regional and international. Others thought theme was essential in conveying that their TEDx was a community-based initiative.
Here, reflections on ‘local’ from...
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The TEDxHalifax and TEDxNovaScotia Collaboration
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TEDxBaghdad: How it all started
TEDxBaghdad is a project that helps Iraq to become a center of knowledge and optimism once again, and allows Iraqi talents to develop and gain international recognition. The event is Organized by Yahay Alabdeli, an Iraqi refugee who lives in Amsterdam. Yahay’s dream is to bring inspiration to the Iraqi people. Below is Yahay’s story on his dream project — TEDxBaghdad. How it...
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Behind the scenes of TEDxWarsaw
Photo Credits: Janusz Kobyliński/TEDxWarsaw, Aleks Grynis
TEDster Vlad Fiscutean — Organizer of TEDx Timisoara in Romania met with Ralph Talmont — the Organizer of TEDx Warsaw in Poland to talk about his experience organizing his TEDx event:
Media entrepreneur, publishing consultant and photographer Ralph Talmont — the Organizer of TEDxWarsaw in Poland, is in love with jazz, books,...
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TEDxTokyo 2011: A Yo-Yo Story
As a member of the Social Media Team at TEDxTokyo 2011, I wasn’t able to catch all of our fantastic speakers present — my attention instead was mostly on ensuring that our 50,000+ online viewers were being taken care of!
However, there was one performance in particular that I was determined not to miss — that by Black, the Tokyo-based world champion Yo-Yo Performer.
What I...
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TEDxBandung: Expanded Minds
At the 2nd TEDxBandung — held on March 27, 2011 — we continued our aim of bringing most creative and visionary minds of Bandung in the same stage to share their dreams and passions.
In this event, we combined the international atmosphere of TEDx together with the local wisdom of Bandung, Indonesia in one of Bandung’s well-known iconic cultural center, Saung Angklung Udjo....
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TEDxBeirutSalon: The Secret Ingredient of...
May 26th marked our very first TEDxBeirutSalon at LAU, Beirut. With these Salons, we’re bringing the community together once a month until the main TEDxBeirut in September. And that day we brought together 150. Thanks to all who came — you made it a great success!
The talk that triggered the most intense discussion was Derek Sivers’ talk, How to start a movement. Somehow, the discussion...
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TEDxKyiv Celebrates Entrepreneurship
On June 18, the 5th TEDxKyiv will celebrate entrepreneurship in Ukraine.
We expect 12 speakers to share stories, ideas, theories and practices on how to boost the culture, inspire and sustain entrepreneurial spirit in our city, country, region and the world, in every one of us.
We see entrepreneurship in a very broad perspective: from personal active position of a citizen who sees the...
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TEDx South Korea Organizers Workshop
South Korea is one of the most active TEDx communities — 70+ events have waved throughout the country since its first event taking place in last 2009 June.
On May 22, the second TEDx Organizers Workshop in South Korea took place in Seoul. And in this particular workshop, approximately 40 TEDx Organizers all across the country gathered to share their thoughts and ideas. While the first...
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The TEDxEQChCh Attendee Pledge
TEDxEQChCh was unusual for a TEDx event, in that it had a highly specific theme and a hyperlocal focus: imagine a vision for the future of a city that has been devastated by three major earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks, a city where the ground is still unstable and the population still woken regularly by the Earth’s trembles.
Our challenge with the event was one of balance: of...
