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TEDxAmsterdam date announced: November 30 2010!

Friday, February 26th, 2010

TEDxAmsterdam, photo by Daphne Channa Horn

The TEDxAmsterdam team is delighted to announce the date for TEDxAmsterdam 2010. The second edition of TEDxAmsterdam will take place in Amsterdam on November 30 2010. (Theme and location will be announced at a later date).

TEDxAmsterdam 2009 involved people all over the Netherlands. The talks were streamed and enjoyed by 14.000 viewers online, and people gathered in 30 locations to watch and enjoy the simulcast together. TEDx talks were supplemented with life talks and discussions. This year, the simulcast events will be even more important.

Would you like to be part of  this unique experience? If you have a theatre of viewing room in your school, company or organization, and if you want to host a TEDxAmsterdam simulcast event, let us know!

Put November 30 in your agenda, and drop Jim Stolze a line at jim@tedxamsterdam.nl

We will be in touch soon!




The T-Shirt

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Each visitor of TEDxAmsterdam in 2009 received a special T-Shirt. Designed by Yassine and produced by Edun Live. We asked Yassine how he came up with the design.

TEDx Amsterdam

Yassine: “The idea for the TEDxAmsterdam t-shirt centers around the expression ‘Pick my brain’ As I see it, the speakers at a TED conference lend us their brains for fifteen minutes. They pass their ideas on to us. We then tell other people about what we saw and heard and pass a copy of that brain on to others. “

Here’s a picture of a proud owner of the TEDxAms Shirt :-)




TEDxAmsterdam Challenges: the winners

Thursday, December 31st, 2009


Emma Bruns on Melody Memories.

TEDxAmsterdam and its partners challenged the audience to come up with their own 3-minute talk.
The winners all appeared on the TEdxAmsterdam stage – their video’s are now available! See the list below:

1. Melody memories, by Emma Bruns, medical intern (winner Folia Challenge)
2. Goodbye Mars and Venus, by Asha ten Broeke, science journalist (winner NRC Challenge)
3. Icon Beach, Ir Gaston Peer, architect (Winner NRC Challenge)
4. Newspaper, Itunes for Changing the World, by David Vogel, User experience designer (Winner NRC Challenge)
5. Moon Advertising, by Bobby Voeten, Student Media Design (Winner TEDx Video Challenge)




VIDEO: David Vogel on a new business model for newpapers

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

David Vogel was one of the three winners of the NRC Challenge. The Dutch newspaper challenged readers to come up with an idea worthy of a 3-minute TEDxAmsterdam talk. David got to briefly present his idea on the TEDxAmsterdam main stage, but we felt his idea is interesting enough to show once more here.

The newspaper industry is in trouble, and no one knows how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. David Vogel suggests that small subject-related donation could be the solution.




Thanks to the 2009 team!

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

TEDxAmsterdam would like to express its gratitude to the following people. These volunteers have played a very important role in the success of our event in 2009!

the 2009 team
Photo taken at the Royal Tropical Institute on November 12th 2009

Event

Communication

Sponsoring

Experience

Advisors

Office

Registration

  • Marja Plomp-Borsboom
  • Yvonne van Beek
  • Salmaan Sana
  • Dariah Cohen-Cairo
  • Sarah Southgate

Crowd management

  • Jurrian Bensch
  • Wouter Gravenstein
  • Coen Rispens

And many, many more!




VIDEO: 3d view of TEDxAmsterdam

Monday, December 7th, 2009

What was TEDxAmsterdam like? You can read the reports, watch the talks online, but you can also ‘walk around” in the Royal Tropical Institute for a few minutes and feel part of the TEDxAmsterdam experience.

First of all, take a look at the Marble Hall during lunch time. This excellent three-D picture with sound was made by Henri Smeets of C360!

Use your mouse to move around in the picture and look in all directions!
Read the full article




Who’s who at TEDxAmsterdam – frog design

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Who’s who at TEDxAmsterdam from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.

Global innovation firm frog design created a wonderful Who’s Who application for TEDxAmsterdam. The service assisted delegates in putting names-to-faces and discovering the ‘Breakthrough Moments’ of other visitors. Read the full article




Thank you! (+ links to online reports)

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

A warm thank you to our speakers, our sponsors and to all the splendid people that made TEDxAmsterdam such wonderful, inspiring day! And big thank you too for the audience – those in the Royal Tropical Institute as well as those watching online or at over 30 simulcast locations across the Netherlands!

We will be posting videos, pictures and reports on this website soon. For now you can already enjoy the reports online by our partners:

TEDxAmsterdam Vimeo Channel (full talks)

Coverage in English

NOS (Dutch public broadcasting corporation)

RTLZ nieuws (Dutch news broadcaster)

TEDxAmsterdam Youtube Channel (interviews and short reports)

Zie.nl 11 video interviews

Marketingfacts

Idealize

NU TEDxAmsterdam Bijlage

Various

Bloggers


    The beautiful 3D picture is an image of the Marble Hall at the Royal  Tropical Institute, at lunch time. Thanks to Henri Smeets of C360!




Dutch cartoon Fokke & Sukke on TEDxAMS

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

foksuk@tedxams

(c) FokSuk.




TEDxAmsterdam Gift Bag

Friday, November 20th, 2009

TEDxAmsterdam is delighted to present all delegates at the Royal Tropical Institute with a wonderful bag of gifts. A warm thanks to all the partners that generously contributed to it. Please find below some information on the bag and the items contained in it.

And in the spirit of TEDx –these are gifts worth spreading. We asked all delegates to give away at least one item to someone who could not make it to this event!

 

THE BAG

Why is this not just a bag?

TEDxAmsterdam is proud to collaborate with !SYOU, a brand new international sneaker concept, pioneers of co-design and creators of the fantastic goodie bag TEDx visitors will be sporting on the streets of Amsterdam this week. Co-design is a fine idea. It brings together emerging creative talent from around the world and established fashion designers to create new sneaker concepts, part-produced using locally sourced materials and feeding a fair share of the retail price directly back into the local creative community to help stimulate economic development. The bag and !SYOU’s first edition sneaker originate from Burkina Faso and feature the work of local artist Wilfried de Paul. If this sounds like your bag, follow them on: www.isyou.com

giftbag
Photo by Henk-Jan van der Klis.

Content

Book Voucher
The American Book Center, the largest independent source of English language books in Europe, is located at Spui 12 in Amsterdam. During TEDxAmsterdam, ABC is present with a selection of books by TEDxAmsterdam and TEDx speakers. ABC also runs the ABC Treehouse, which presents artistic, literary, and political projects which nurture dialogue and cooperation within the Dutch and multicultural community. ABC invites you to visit their store on the Spui with the generous offer of one free book.

T-shirt

T-shirt design for TEDxAmsterdam by Yassine Salihine; t-shirts by EDUN LIVE. EDUN is a socially conscious clothing company launched by Ali Hewson and Bono. The company’s mission is to create beautiful clothing, while fostering sustainable employment in developing areas of the world. EDUN launched the EDUN LIVE brand of blank tee shirts to enable trade into Africa through high-volume sales direct to the wholesale market. The tees are 100% African produced, from the fields where the cotton is picked, to the factory where the final garment is sewn. Offered to you by TEDxAmsterdam.

APSBB lamp Pharox

Pharox LED Lamp

Lighting uses 20% of worldwide energy consumption. If we reduce even 20% of this consumption by using LEDs, we can significantly reduce the level of CO2 emissions and greatly impact climate change. The Pharox bulb is the first LED-based light to offer the same light quality as a traditional 40W light bulb – with 90% more energy efficiency! Offered to you by Lemnis / Tendris

“Open Air” coffee spoons.

Zylom by RealGames would like to offer the invitees of TEDxAmsterdam 2 special “Open Air” coffee spoons.

Open Air is an exquisitely simple and elegant flatware. Designed with thoughts of open air, balance and great hand-feel. The rounded form fits comfortably in your hand and looks great the open air cutlery is designed by the Eindhoven based designer Maarten Baptist.

RealGames stands for innovation that why we are proud to be involved as sponsor in this special event. Zylom, our consumer gaming brand, stands for fun and social interaction.

We hope that our gift stimulates some interaction between the TED visitors and gives you an opportunity to start spreading worthwhile ideas!

PPP-stamp in a box

This is the simplest sustainable score mechanism ever! Give your opinion in a personal score and the discussion will start, as soon as someone sees your (subjective) opinion.

That’s the idea behind the PPP-stamp that the SenterNovem program ‘Learning for Sustainable Development’ gives to all participants of the TEDx Amsterdam meeting.

Dare to give your opinion on the balance People, Planet and Profit. Give your score, today, on the TEDx-conference or your next project, the plan of your (local) government or other initiative. For more information: www.senternovem.nl/lvdo

It is the first worldwide completely subjective score instrument on sustainable development: dare to give yourself a real score!!

  • Offered to you by SenterNovem, program ‘Learning for Sustainable Development’

Liander Energy Meter

‘Smart and sustainable? The first step is to find out about your energy consumption using the “Energy Check”.

Business Card Case

Spreading ideas starts with making contact. Sanoma Uitgevers’ business card case will help you with that. As we like to do with our platforms as well.

Johnnie Walker

At TedxAmsterdam you have listened to extraordinary people and their inspirational stories. Johnnie Walker invites you to take a walk with some of the greatest striding men on earth. Listen to more inspiring stories about their personal progress. Plug in the USB stick and join men such as Richard Branson and John Hegarty as they offer a rare insight into where they’ve been, how they achieved and where they are heading next.

Books

  • Jacob Gelt Dekker, Pot met Goud, offered to you by Jacob Gelt Dekker
  • Adjiedj Bakas, World Megatrends; Towards the Renewal of Humanity, offered to you by Adjiedj Bakas

Magazines

  • Wired UK
  • Emerce

Various