I spoke at TEDx Berkeley on Saturday (Feb 19, 2011). Tedx events are independently organized but officially sanctioned "baby TED" events that take place around the world. An amazing group of speakers which included Chip Conley, founder & CEO of Joie de Vivre, Erin Ganju, co-founder & CEO of Room to Read, and Robert Fuller, former President of Oberlin College enthralled the 1200 person audience at Zellerbach Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus. All day long an amazing set of thought provoking and out of the box ideas flowed from the speakers challenging the audience. And more importantly all of them collectively have the potential to propel the human race forward. It was interesting to see how many of the speakers focused on the theme of elevating human consciousness and the need to apply technology for the greater good of humanity.
MeiMei Fox who is the author of the blog intent has done an excellent job summarizing the ideas from the day in her post today.
Videos from the event will be on the TEDx Berkeley site shortly. Watch them! They will fire up your imagination. Congratulations and thanks to the great group of volunteer organizers led by curator Kevin Gong who put the event together.
2 comments:
Yes! The real life TEDx experience was so compelling that made me stand up multiple times when I applauded. Great ideas, causes and people's minds. Well done!! By the way, I can't find her post on Intent.
Great ideas... I am sure your insights were well received by the audience.
About the link -- there is an extra dot '.' in your link to the intent post. Without it, the link works!
Cheers,
S
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