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TED Raises Curtain on TEDGlobal 2012 Conference, "Radical Openness" 850 participants arrive in Edinburgh, Scotland for four- day program featuring 125 talks, performances, and cutting-edge science and technology PR Newswire EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 25, 2012 EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, opens its annual Europe-based TEDGlobal conference today in Edinburgh, Scotland. The conference, this year themed "Radical Openness," shares the same format as its twin event in Long Beach, CA: inspired leaders, thinkers, makers, and performers from around the globe take the stage for talks, music, and demonstrations across dozens of disciplines. "TEDGlobal is remarkable both for the caliber of international leaders, inventors, and visionaries who take the stage and comprise the audience," says TED's European Director Bruno Giussani, who curated this week's program. "With support from innovative partners, TEDGlobal brings to the UK world-class scientists, writers, foreign affairs and political experts, innovators, designers, and artists to explore Radical Openness from every angle. With a diversity of content and cultures, we guarantee an invigorating week – and a surprise or two." The TEDGlobal 2012 conference has attracted 850 attendees from 71 countries to the Edinburgh International Conference Center.
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TED Raises Curtain on TEDGlobal 2012
Conference, "Radical Openness"
850 participants arrive in Edinburgh, Scotland for four-
day program featuring 125 talks, performances, and
cutting-edge science and technology
PR Newswire
EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 25, 2012
EDINBURGH, Scotland
,
June 25, 2012
/PRNewswire/ -- TED, the nonprofit
devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, opens its annual
Europe
-based TEDGlobal
conference today in
Edinburgh, Scotland
. The conference, this year themed
"Radical Openness," shares the same format as its twin event in
Long Beach,
CA
: inspired leaders, thinkers, makers, and performers from around the globe
take the stage for talks, music, and demonstrations across dozens of
disciplines.
"TEDGlobal is remarkable both for the caliber of international leaders,
inventors, and visionaries who take the stage and comprise the audience," says
TED's European Director Bruno Giussani, who curated this week's program.
"With support from innovative partners, TEDGlobal brings to the UK world-class
scientists, writers, foreign affairs and political experts, innovators, designers,
and artists to explore Radical Openness from every angle. With a diversity of
content and cultures, we guarantee an invigorating week – and a surprise or
two."
The TEDGlobal 2012 conference has attracted 850 attendees from 71 countries
to the Edinburgh International Conference Center. Scientists, inventors, policy
leaders, entrepreneurs and artists will offer more than 70 main-stage talks and
performances – as well as 22 presentations from TED Fellows and another 30
or so shorter TED University talks.
Under the TEDLive membership, the conference will be streamed live to paid
members around the globe. TEDGlobal will also be webcast to more than 120
independently organized TEDx events worldwide.
Speakers will cover a wide spectrum of topics, including mental healthcare in
developing countries, levitating objects, the merits of whistleblowing, flip
teaching, and a new approach to wind energy. At the conference, a number of
innovative technologies will also be unveiled for the first time. TEDGlobal 2012
speakers and performers include:
James Stavridis,
NATO Supreme Commander
Sanjay Pradhan
, Vice President of the World Bank Institute
Massimo Banzi,
Creator of Arduino open-source hardware
Ellen Jorgensen
, Biologist and community science advocate
Robert Neuwirth
, Economist and author
Clay Shirky
, Internet expert
Andreas Schleicher
, Creator of the
PISA
education assessment
Jane McGonigal
, Game designer
Ivan Krastev
, Public intellectual
Vikram Patel,
Psychiatrist
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
, Neuroscientist
Susan Solomon,
Stem-cell advocate
Ramesh Raskar
, Femtophotographer
Macy Gray,
Singer-songwriter and producer
Daria Musk,
Musician and Google+ sensation
At the conference, TED's award-winning video team will begin editing talks to
share with the world – through its TEDTalks video series – which recently
surpassed 800,000,000 views. TEDTalks from the TEDGlobal 2012 conference
will begin to appear on TED.com during the conference and throughout the
coming year.
A number of world-class brands and companies have partnered with TEDGlobal
to share ideas and foster an atmosphere of innovation. This year's partners
include: Arup, Autodesk, Bain & Company, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Telekom,
Dewar's, frog, Getty Images, Intel, InterContinental Hotel Group, Nespresso,
Novartis, Open University Skolkovo-OpUS, Shell, Unilever, Visit Scotland,
Vodafone Turkey and Steelcase.
The detailed TEDGlobal program and more information can be found online
here:
http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2012/
Details about the TEDLive membership can be found here:
http://www.ted.com/pages/tedlive
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a
four-day conference in
California
25 years ago, TED has grown to support those
world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference
invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their
talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included
Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan
Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK
Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each
spring in
Long Beach, California
, along with the TEDActive simulcast in
Palm
Springs
. The annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in
Edinburgh,
Scotland
.
TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily,
the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive
transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers
worldwide, the educational initiative TED-Ed, and TEDBooks, short e-books by
speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED's stage.
TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a
wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into
action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-
organized events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping
world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED
community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects
and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook
at http://www.facebook.com/TED.
Contact: Erin Allweiss, TED@groupsjr.com +1-917-512-2118
