We are excited to share TEDxYerevan 2012 speaker Madlene Minassian’s talk with you. Please let us know your thoughts in comments.
Madlene Minassian is a zealous advocate of a whole foods plant-based diet. Minassian partnered with numerous non-profits to bring over 30 million USD of medical relief to Armenia and along with her husband, singer Arthur Ispirian, she promotes a healthy lifestyle throughout the country.
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We need emotion to give value to different options that we have.
Siemon Scamell-Katz
TEDxYerevan 2010 Speaker
Watch Siemon Scamell-Katz’s talk Persuasion: Influencing the Rational Decision Maker here.…
Kikos Again? While the Patriarchs Were Taking a Much-Deserved Nap: Nelli Sargsyan at TEDxYerevan
The talk includes Nelli’s poetry in Armenian, which is translated with subtitles on YouTube. Click on the “CC” button to enable the captions.…
Reposted from TED blog here.
TEDxSummit, 16 April – 20 April, 2012. Doha, Qatar. Photo: Kris Krüg
At TEDxSummit we caught up with Kristine Sargsyan, TED translator and organizer for TEDxYerevan. Kristine has been working in the NGO and business sector as an Organizational Development Consultant and Project Coordinator for 13 years.
When and why did you start translating for TED?
I started translating TEDTalks in 2009 because of my son, who is ten. I showed the translated talks in his class, and the kids loved it. They started asking him, When is your mom coming back?
Translating the talks is a kind of meditation for me; it helps me dive deeply into the stories. When I’m stressed, I transfer my energy into something good. It helps me lose my sense of ego. The same goes for TEDx.
What do you hope to achieve with your TEDx events?
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Hagop Emrazian, who spoke about promoting learning within 10 minutes at TEDxYerevan in 2010, answers questions from TEDxYerevan team.
How did speaking at TEDxYerevan 2010 change your life?
Definitely the experience changed how I looked at sharing knowledge and information. The experience itself because in my previous job I used to facilitate workshops, training and one-on-one coaching and I did few, maybe two or three talks in front of the big crowd but when your audience is in Armenia you kind of don’t know how the message will be perceived across and you have to understand the vibes in the room and the culture itself, and even though you would assume it’s easy to do within few hours, it is not so. In terms of opportunities, on the same day I got an invitation to speak in front of a group of students in one of the universities, which I …
Thank you everybody in that 300+ audience for attending TEDxYerevan 2012 at TUMO Center for Creative Technologies on September 29, 2012. What a day it was! Despite working hard to run everything smoothly and few technical issues there and then, we had such a fun day full of inspiration, networking, and positive energy! We hope you had a fantastic day, and we would love to hear more from you, what worked well and what didn’t, who was your favorite speaker or performer, and much more. So, send us an email to contact@tedxyerevan.com, and please fill out the feedback evaluation forms we have emailed you earlier.
PanArmenian.Net did a beautiful photo session of TEDxYerevan 2012 speakers, which you can find here.
For those who could not attend the event, videos coming soon, stay tuned!
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