Dispatches from TEDGlobal: Day One | TEDxWomen

Dispatches from TEDGlobal: Day One

Posted on June 28, 2012 by TEDxWomen

TEDGlobal kicked off today with three sessions and many inspiring speakers all speaking to this year’s theme of “Radical Openness.” Here are some of our favorite quotations with links so you can check these amazing women and their work out for yourself:

“Education is a fundamental human right. Life long learning expands minds & changes lives.” -Daphne Koller, founder of Coursera

“Innovation has always been fueled by tinkerers. So many times amateurs have been the inventors.” -Catarina Mota, maker and founder of Open Materials

“We make things glow. We make things grow. We make cells dance.” -Ellen Jorgensen, biologist, community science advocate, and founder of Gen Space

“Fear [is] an amazing feat of the imagination, something as profound and insightful as storytelling itself.” -Karen Thompson Walker, author of the The Age of Miracles

And take a look at this study on bees by Amy O’Toole, the youngest TED speaker ever and one of the youngest published scientists in history. It begins “Once upon a time…”

Read more at the TED blog.

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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

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TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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