An independently organised event licensed by TED
TEDxGranta 2012: Alive & Kicking is a celebration of restless innovation in the arts and sciences. Of survivors and creators. And of people who kick back against established ways of thinking.
Featuring live speakers, recorded TEDTalks and great conversations, and taking place in celebrated Cambridge arts venue The Junction, TEDxGranta 2012: Alive & Kicking presents a stimulating day of ideas worth spreading. We are delighted to announce the sponsors who are helping us make the event happen.
ARM spokesperson, Ayesha Fitzwilliam Hall, said “We are pleased to be supporting the TEDxGranta event. Great things start with great conversations and given the impressing line-up of speakers and variety of topics we know that great conversation is exactly what this event will stimulate”.
Line-up (with more speakers to be announced soon)
- David Constantine MBE is the co-founder of Motivation, a charity which designs and builds affordable wheelchairs for people in developing countries.
- Food critic Tim Hayward who stepped in to save beloved Cambridge institution Fitzbillies bakery.
- Eben Upton, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, who are helping to develop a $25 microcomputer to inspire children to take up computer science.
- Linguist Tim Morley, looking at how learning Esperanto can teach children learn foreign languages.
Tickets
For tickets please visit the EventBrite page: http://tedxgrantakicking.eventbrite.com/
Tickets cost £60 plus booking fee.
About TEDx, x = independently organised event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organised events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organised TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organised. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
About TED
TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; the new TED Conversations, enabling broad conversations among TED fans; 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-organised 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.
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