TEDxDublin

NEXT TEDXDUBLIN: Friday March 12. Tickets go on sale on March 1st at midday. Line up includes Margaret Wertheim (creator of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef), Professor Luke O'Neill,  Mark Cummins creator of Plink and Simon Berrow. 

Organised by Gary McGinty, Rowan Manahan and the Science Gallery Team, the second TEDxDublin was held on November 12. The line up included Kate Coleman - founder of Right to Sight, Mark Leslie, introducing the audience to his ISism and Tom Hadfield - who works on le Whif project - chocolate without calories!

Watch some of the talks here:

Kate Coleman

Mark Leslie

Tom Hadfield

The first TEDxDublin, organised by Aaron Quigley, UCD, was held on June 12 - here are the videos from the first TEDxDublin event: 

Speakers at the first TEDxDublin were: 

Blaise Aguera y Arcas, creator of Photosynth

Scott Rickard - who presented on "source signal separation" or the cocktail-party effect. 

and Mark Billinghurst - Mark will present on "Accessible AR: Bringing Augmented Reality to the Masses". Mark is the director of the Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand.

What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxDublin, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxDublin event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and onnection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.



This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.
This TEDx event is independently organized.

About TED
TED is an annual event where some of the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. "TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design - three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. And in fact, the event is broader still, showcasing ideas that matter in any discipline. Attendees have called it "the ultimate brain spa" and "a four-day journey into the future." The diverse audience - CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists - is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, PhilippeStarck and Bono.

TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson's Sapling Foundation acquired TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. In recent years, TED has expanded to include an international conference, TEDGlobal; media initiatives, including TED Talks and TED.com; and the TED Prize. TED2010, "What the world Needs Now," will be held Feb 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, with a simulcast event in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2009, "The Substance of Things Not Seen," will be held July 21-24, 2009, in Oxford, UK and TEDIndia will be held in
November 2009.

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