TED
Ideas worth spreading
TED is a small and private non profit foundation which is best known for its TED Talks presented in TED Conference.
It is devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
TED was started in 1984 as a small group of meeting bringing together people from three worlds:
Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The first conference was organized in 1990. Since then, its scope has become ever broader along with the famous annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California. The event normally sells out a year in advance and the content has expanded to cover almost all aspects of science and culture from science, business, arts to the global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each will be given an 18-minute slot to present their speeches.
Those who have given TED talks include Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck, Bono, the founders of Google, the evangelist Billy Graham and various Nobel Prize winners. $100,000 TED Prizes will be awarded for the winner to realise his/her wish.
TED has its companion conference which is known as TEDGlobal. Last year, TEDGlobal 2009 was held in Oxford, UK with the theme: "The Substance of Things Not Seen".
Popularity of the TED Talks has been widely shared over the Internet [TED.com]. More than 500 TED talks are provided for free viewing online and had been viewed over 100 million times by more than 15 million people around the world [As of April 2009] .
TEDx
x = independently organized TED event
In the spirit of Ideas Worth Spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx that enables schools,
businesses, libraries or just groups of friends to organize, design and host a similar TED Conference/Event. Since then, TEDx events have been held in over 60 countries [as in 2010].
Similar to TED, TEDx is a non profit event and it follows the format of the TEDTalks, which is the typical 18-minute talk by a single presenter, with no panels and no break-out sessions. Usually, there will be no podium too.
Participants are expected to have a TED-like experiences with quality speeches from selected or invited speakers. Besides that, TEDx program is a bias-free event where there should be lack of any commercial, political or religious agenda. Speaker are not allow to sell on the stage or talk about his/her company.
TEDxKL
x = independently organized TED event
While the official TED provides general guidance for the TEDx program, TEDxKL or TEDxKualaLumpur is a self-organized and is a fully Malaysian effort to organize TED-like experience in Kuala Lumpur.
The first TEDxKL was organized back in June, 2009. Featured in the first TEDxKL event, the late Yasmin Ahmad spoke of “charisma, removing self importance, and being a nobody, so that you can be a part of something bigger” from her life experiences as a screenplay writer and filmmaker of astounding short clips, TV commercials and movies by learning to unearth hidden talents in many artists today.
The second TEDxKL (TEDxKL 2010)will be held at Microsoft’s Office, Level 29 of Petronas Twin Towers on this coming Saturday, 27th March, from 10am to 3pm with the theme: "What Malaysia Needs".
This time it will be featuring speakers such as :
1) Afzal Abdul Rahim, CEO of TIME.com who co-founded Malaysia Internet Exchange.
2) Aloha Lavina, a photographer and a teacher, all the way from Bangkok, who combines English literature with her creative eye to make fresh, expressive images that are embedded in their specific context.
3) Premesh Chandran of Malaysiakini, Malaysia first and only TED Fellow.
4) Pete Teo, the producer of the very successful 15Malaysia Projects and 'Malaysian Artistes For Unity' Project which he composed the video song, 'Here In My Home'.
5) Yvonne Foong, a Malaysian fighting and living with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 illness who has personally raised USD 58,600 for her treatments.
6) Surech Kuppusamy, a passionate mountain climber, who had climbed major alpine and Himalayan peaks with the lates being Mount Cho Oyu (8201m) in Tibet and Mount Gasherbrum (8034m) in Pakistan.
7) Peter Nicoll, founder and active member of Reach Organization, a Community Action Group based in Kula Lumpur with the aim of helping and address the symptoms of both urban and rural poverty.
8) Ezrena Marwan, a graphic designer who initiated the Malaya Design Archive project in 2008.
9) Raj Rdivan Singh, a social entrepreneur and teach who work passionately towards the progress of the socio-economic status of youths that will positively affect the development of the community and nation on a macro-level.
10) Steve McCoy, founder and principal of Counterpoint, to support services on sustainability for the corporate, government and non-profit sectors.
11) Urmilah Dass, a renown clinical psychologist from Malaysia that will talk about the dangerous factor of your mind.
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