TEDxYerevan 2011
The second TEDx event in Armenia will take place on Saturday, September 24, 2011 in TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. Encouraged by the success of the inaugural TEDxYerevan event, “Beyond Borders” – held in the Fall of 2010 –TED has licensed the second TEDxYerevan for 2011. Entitled TEDxYerevan “Becoming Young”, the theme for this year’s conference will focus on understanding youth, maturity, transitions, individual, institutional and national. A special session entitled “Twenty” for most creative thinkers will sum up the conference.
Ideas for TEDx Talks as well as nominations or suggestions for potential speakers are being accepted. “We encourage you to be bold, both in the topics of your abstracts as well as your suggestions for individuals who you believe would make a great TEDx Talk,” said Kristine Sargsyan, TEDxYerevan team member.
“As we witnessed last year, the excitement that TEDxYerevan generated was great among the influential and innovative generation of thinkers and doers in Armenia. It is great to have once again received the nod from TED to organize another inspiring conference – one that is sure to impact our world for the better,” said Sargsyan, who is also the TEDx licensee.
TEDxYerevan 2010 featured seventeen speakers, including Serj Tankian via videotape, and received the support of nearly a dozen sponsors, all of whom offered their support to TEDxYerevan, entirely on faith in the idea. These sponsors – Synopsys Armenia, the Ani Hotel, Agrian, Tufenkian Carpets, Autograph Studio, Deem Communications, 365 Wines, Winar, the Oregano Restaurant – as well as over a dozen individuals, made possible the creation of a new sort of collegial environment.
Partnering once more with the Civilitas Foundation, TEDxYerevan 2011 will again seek to gather young, energetic and interesting English-speakers from throughout Armenia, the region and the entire world, to bring their innovative approaches and inspiring talks to the 300 participants who will be invited to participate in TEDxYerevan 2011.
“The Civilitas Foundation is most pleased to partner with the TEDxYerevan team once more and bring its substantial resources to the success of this year’s gathering entitled “Becoming Young”, stated Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the Civilitas Foundation, adding “We share with TED a commitment to continue to create an environment which fosters creative and bold thinking.”
In the spirit of "Ideas worth spreading," TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. This event is called TEDxYerevan 2011, where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxYerevan 2011, TED Talks, video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including this one in Yerevan, are self-organized.
Questions and proposals can be sent to contact@tedxyerevan.com.
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 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. 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 TEDFellows 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 twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED
TED2011, "The Rediscovery of Wonder," will be held February 21-25, 2011, in Long Beach, California, with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs, California.
The second TEDx event in Armenia will take place on Saturday, September 24, 2011 in TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. Encouraged by the success of the inaugural TEDxYerevan event, “Beyond Borders” – held in the Fall of 2010 –TED has licensed the second TEDxYerevan for 2011. Entitled TEDxYerevan “Becoming Young”, the theme for this year’s conference will focus on understanding youth, maturity, transitions, individual, institutional and national. A special session entitled “Twenty” for most creative thinkers will sum up the conference.
Ideas for TEDx Talks as well as nominations or suggestions for potential speakers are being accepted. “We encourage you to be bold, both in the topics of your abstracts as well as your suggestions for individuals who you believe would make a great TEDx Talk,” said Kristine Sargsyan, TEDxYerevan team member.
“As we witnessed last year, the excitement that TEDxYerevan generated was great among the influential and innovative generation of thinkers and doers in Armenia. It is great to have once again received the nod from TED to organize another inspiring conference – one that is sure to impact our world for the better,” said Sargsyan, who is also the TEDx licensee.
TEDxYerevan 2010 featured seventeen speakers, including Serj Tankian via videotape, and received the support of nearly a dozen sponsors, all of whom offered their support to TEDxYerevan, entirely on faith in the idea. These sponsors – Synopsys Armenia, the Ani Hotel, Agrian, Tufenkian Carpets, Autograph Studio, Deem Communications, 365 Wines, Winar, the Oregano Restaurant – as well as over a dozen individuals, made possible the creation of a new sort of collegial environment.
Partnering once more with the Civilitas Foundation, TEDxYerevan 2011 will again seek to gather young, energetic and interesting English-speakers from throughout Armenia, the region and the entire world, to bring their innovative approaches and inspiring talks to the 300 participants who will be invited to participate in TEDxYerevan 2011.
“The Civilitas Foundation is most pleased to partner with the TEDxYerevan team once more and bring its substantial resources to the success of this year’s gathering entitled “Becoming Young”, stated Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the Civilitas Foundation, adding “We share with TED a commitment to continue to create an environment which fosters creative and bold thinking.”
In the spirit of "Ideas worth spreading," TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. This event is called TEDxYerevan 2011, where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxYerevan 2011, TED Talks, video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including this one in Yerevan, are self-organized.
Questions and proposals can be sent to contact@tedxyerevan.com.
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 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. 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 TEDFellows 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 twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED
TED2011, "The Rediscovery of Wonder," will be held February 21-25, 2011, in Long Beach, California, with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs, California.
