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TEDxAmsterdam date announced: November 30 2010!
Posted by Monique van Dusseldorp on February 26, 2010 at 1:04 pm
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!
TED2010: Reports on day 4
Posted by TEDx Staff on February 14, 2010 at 9:09 pm
This week the TED Conference took place in Long Beach, California. The theme for this year was “What the world needs now”. Earlier we gave you reports on day 1, day 2 and day 3.
Session 11: Simplicity
- Benoit Mandelbrot: Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules repeated without end.
- George Whitesides: A stone is simple. But you can build cathedrals of stones.
- Philip K. Howard: The law must be simple enough that people can internalize it in their daily choices.
- Chip Conley: Bhutan’s created the ultimate export: a new global currency of well-being.
Session 12: Wisdom
- James Cameron: Curiosity — it’s the most powerful thing you own.
- John Kasaona: We realized that stopping poaching is completely different from catching poachers.
- Glenna Fraumeni, talking from TEDActive in Palm Springs.
- Adora Svitak: We kids still dream about perfection. Our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of reality.
- Sir Ken Robinson: Our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. And we should tread softly.
- Ze Frank with the -comic relief- wrapup.
Click here to view all reports from TED 2010.
TED2010: Reports on day 3
Posted by TEDx Staff on February 13, 2010 at 4:35 pm
This week TED 2010 takes place in Long Beach, California. After the reports on day 1, day 2 , it’s now time for a list of links and reports about the third day at TED 2010.
Session 8: Boldness
- John Underkoffler: “Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that.”
- Sergey Brin: Our focus has really been what’s best for the Chinese people.
- George Church: “We’re not making life from scratch; we’re using all the tricks an engineer can use to leverage natural processes.”
- Jim Stolze: 8 ways to create a successful TEDx
- Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg (KIPP): “Teaching is the world’s finest calling.”
- Bill Gates: “If I only had only one wish for the next 50 years, it’d be to invent the thing that halves the cost of CO2.”
Session 9:
- Temple Grandin: If you have these smart geeky kids with a touch of autism, you need to get them turned on to cool things.
- Chris Anderson (of Wired): We think the tablet is the future of magazines. Flexibility in design, plus interactivity.
- Mitchell Joachim: Imagine growing your own home — out of meat.
- Marian Bantjes (designer): On every job I ask: Does my work bring joy? inspire wonder? provoke curiosity?
- Denis Dutton: Some of these beautiful, symmetrical Acheulean hand axes show no wear on their edges. What were they for? Perhaps they were art.
- Raghava KK: I might look like a clean sweet boy. But I am capable of thinking anything!
Session 10: Play
- David Byrne, Thomas Dolby and Ethel rock out playing (Nothing But) Flowers.
- Dave Weaver: “How do you answer, ‘What’s a TED?’”
- Sarah Silverman: A new perspective on the number 3000.
- David Rockwell on the Imagination Playground: “No project has ever made me happier.”
- Yoni Benatar pilots mini drones from his iphone with augmented reality.
- Eve Ensler: “Girls: our greatest natural resource.”
- Julia Sweeney ruminates on how to have “the talk” with her 8 year old.
- Natalie Merchant serenades the audience with musical poetry.
Please click here for all reports on TED 2010.
TED2010: Reports on day 2
Posted by TEDx Staff on February 12, 2010 at 4:15 pm
This week the TED Conference took place in Long Beach, California. TED -as you know- is the “mother” of all TEDx-events around the world. The theme for this year was “What the world needs now”. Earlier this week we pointed to some reports of the TED Conference that was going on this week. Here are some articles / postings about day 2:
Session 4: Reason
- Michael Specter: “You’re entitled to your own opinion — but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”
- Sam Harris: “Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering?”
- Kirk Citron looks for news stories that will matter in 100 years.
- Graham Hill unveils “Weekday Veg,” a middle-ground between vegetarianism and meat-eating.
- Elizabeth Pisani: “As citizens of the world, we use our votes to stop politicians doing stupid things to spread HIV.”
- Nicholas Christakis: “We form networks because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs.”
Session 5: Provocation
- Valerie Plame Wilson (Former CIA operative) calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Michael Sandel: “We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument.”
- Christopher “m00t” Poole: “I asked 4chan what I should say at TED. And I got 12,000 responses in about 24 hrs. But I can’t read to you anything they said.”
- Kevin Bales: Ask ourselves: Are we willing to live in a world of slavery?
Session 6: Invention
- Jane McGonigal: “An entire generation of young people are virtuoso gamers. We need to figure out exactly what skills they’re honing.”
- David Byrne: “Like the birds, our joy is always there. We just change it to fit the context.”
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas demoed augmented reality based on Seadragon.
- To fight malaria, Nathan Myhrvold zaps mosquitos with a green laser. As he says: “We invent for fun, profit and humanity.”
Session 7: Breakthrough
- Andrew Bird says what the world needs now is more reckless curiosity.
- Stephen Wolfram: Could it be that somewhere out there in the computational universe that we could find our physical universe?
- Seth Berkley: “As variable as flu is, HIV makes it look like the Rock of Gibraltar.”
- Rachel Armstrong talks about creating carbon-zero buildings.
- Mark Roth: Doctors have a saying that you’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.
- Erick Tseng demos the Nexus One.
And .. thank you Google for providing us with a Nexus One 
Click here to view all reports from TED 2010.
TED2010: Reports on day 1
Posted by TEDx Staff on February 11, 2010 at 3:50 pm
This week the TED Conference took place in Long Beach, California. TED -as you know- is the “mother” of all TEDx-events around the world. The theme for this year was “What the world needs now”. A perfect way to present new insights, groundbraking technologies and leaders of the future.
Session 1: Mindshift
- Daniel Kahneman says we must distinguish between “the experiencing self” and “the remembering self.”
- Esther Duflo: “We cannot helicopter people out of poverty.”
- David Cameron says a post-bureaucratic world is emerging. Its three characteristics? Transparency, choice, accountability.
- Michael Shermer: “We don’t have to worry about global warming because the world’s going to end in 2012.”
- Jake Shimabukuro: “The ukulele is the instrument of peace.”
Session 2: Discovery
- Dr. William Li’s list of antiangiogenic foods
- Carter Emmart guides us to the horizon of space and time using the Virtual Universe.
- Dan Barber: “What’s sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?”
Session: TED prize and Reason
- Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Educate every child about food
- Update TED-prize: Seti (Drake)
- Update TED-prize: Mission Blue (Oceans)
- Update TED-prize: Aims (Neil Turok).
Click here to view all reports from TED 2010.
TEDxAmsterdam is looking for interns!
Posted by Monique van Dusseldorp on January 20, 2010 at 4:17 pm
TEDxAmsterdam team on stage
Are you a great writer? Are you finishing your degree and keen to get some real working experience? Are you fluent in English and Dutch? Are you able to work hard, independently and with lots of dedication, and are you a big fan of TED.com and TEDxAmsterdam? We need you!
TEDxAmsterdam is a one day event that will take place for the second time in November 2010. The event is organised by a small team of professionals supported by a wide network of volunteers and partners.
Students finishing their bachelor’s or associate degree in communications, advertising, marketing, graphics, interactive media or any other wild and wonderful studies are invited to send in their resume. We offer a three month (or longer) internship based in central Amsterdam (Duintjes VS Vijzelstraat), where you will be working closely with the TEdxAmsterdam team. We are specifically looking for someone with excellent writing skills (ideally an English native speaker), who has some experience in copy editing, blogging, and making use of social media.
What do we expect from you?
- Write copy for press releases, reports, minutes, brochures etc
- Blog on TEDxAmsterdam.nl
- Create content for feeds and snippets in various social media sites
- Be the eyes and ears of TEDxAmsterdam as if your own reputation depended on it
- Research, build and maintain our content distribution network by way of social media channels
- Daily participation in conversations that surround our content and brand, answer comments, be a mediator.
- Assistance with general project management for TEDxAmsterdam (writing minutes, planning meetings etc)
What do we offer?
- Dutch internship standard renumeration
- Chance to be part of a small and dedicated team of professionals
- Possibility to do a graduation research project at TEDxAmsterdam
- Access to TEDxAmsterdam (November 2010)
The deadline for application is February 1, 2010. Interns will be notified of their selection no later than February 15, 2010. Applicants should e-mail their resume to: Marian Spier Email: marian@tedxamsterdam.nl
The T-Shirt
Posted by Jim Stolze on January 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm
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.
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
That was it!
Posted by Monique van Dusseldorp on December 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm
TEDxAmsterdam: Last words host Joris Luyendijk from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.
TEDxAmsterdam was held on 20 November 2009, and as it happens, today, on the last day of 2009, we finally got round to publishing all the TEDxAmsterdam talks. For your convenience, they are also linked from the TEDxAmsterdam program, and if you really cannot get enough of reading about them, we updated the overview of press coverage as well.
That was it! But of course we hope there will be more. As Wired UK wrote:
“‘And so we happy TEDers spilled out into the chilly Amsterdam night. The event was very well-organised and there was a real excitement to proceedings, whether it was a talk or a tea break. There was a very local pride in the event and Joris Luyendijk, the MC for the day, acclaimed the positive feel of the event, a mood that he said had been missing from the Netherlands. Speaking to one of the organisers afterwards, he described it as the country’s way of saying to the world, “Here we are”. This is the particular magic of TED in its local format – connecting ideas, but also the places where they are born, with the rest of the world.”
See Joris Luyendijk express that sentiment in the video above – and meet Jim Stolze, Marian Spier, Monique van Dusseldorp and the whole TEDxAmsterdam crew in the video below. We thank everyone involved!
TedxAmsterdam: Crew on stage! from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.
Time’s up, the year is over. We wish you well – may 2010 bring you a cup o’ kindness, and much more.
VIDEO: Interview with Kevin Kelly
Posted by Monique van Dusseldorp on December 31, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Kevin Kelly – interview by Aldith Hunkar from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.
What does technology mean in our lives? That’s the question Kevin Kelly explored in his new talk at TEdxAmsterdam. Kelly presented a new definition of technology: ‘anything useful invented by a mind’ – whether it be a hammer or the rule of law. So technology is more than gadgets; it’s part of a great story that started long ago, an extension of life and it is moving through us.
To see Kevin Kelly’s full talk, as well as his slides and some of the media coverage, visit this page.
Aldith Hunkar, who together with Fellermedia, Hoens and Achmea provided such excellent coverage of TEDxAmsterdam, also had the chance to do a longer interview with Kevin Kelly. We are happy to publish it today.
TEDxAmsterdam Challenges: the winners
Posted by Monique van Dusseldorp on December 31, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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)
