TEDxBerlin

TEDxSummit – “These are the real United Nations“

BriJaNi — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:21:39 +0000

TEDx program has started in 2009. Three years later more than 600 organizers came from all over the world to meet in Doha/Qatar for the first time – and set new standards. Which one, TEDxBerlin host Stephan Balzer talks about in an interview:

Stephan Balzer (l.) on stage at TEDxSummit in Doha/Qatar

Stephan, you just came back from the TEDxSummit in Doha/Qatar – what did you bring back home with you?

It was a very impressive week. I have never before seen so many people from so many different countries united by one spirit and by one shared worldview. When I went on stage to give a talk I said: „These are the United Nations. The real United Nations.“

What is the background of TEDxSummit?

TEDx program has started in 2009. Since then, TEDx has grown enormously and now there are almost 1000 TEDx organizers all over the world. So it was time for a meeting, to bring them all together. One goal of the TEDxSummit was to get to know each other. The second goal was to discuss the projects that take place in all these countries every day and to learn from each other.

How and by whom was the meeting of more than 600 TEDx organizers in Doha brought about?

H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad was our host in Doha. TEDx organizers from the Netherlands, the US and Tunisia worked on the logistics for this event for many week, hand in hand with the Doha Film Institute (DFI).

After one week in the Qatar desert – how has the relationship between the TEDx organizers changed?

First of all people who only had e-mail contact before met each other personally. The real new wealth of experience we got was by listening to all these impressive TEDx stories and by establishing new friendships. Furthermore, we developed some fresh projects in some of the workshops, which have to be converted into reality, now.

Definately the most beautiful and most powerful x ever seen! Enjoy:

TEDxBerlin 2011 – Thimon von Berlepsch “What Is Magic?”

BriJaNi — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:00:54 +0000

Magician and hypnotist Thimon von Berlepsch disclosed some of his most secret tricks @TEDxBerlin 2011. And he showed one thing, that just seems unbelievable.

TEDxBerlin 2011 – Lehna Malmkvist “Designing with Nature”

BriJaNi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:43:44 +0000

Lehna Malmkvist believes in a world in which men live integrated in their ecosystem. In Victoria BC Canada she already established a little oasis of her vision.

TEDxBerlin 11/21/11 – Studnitzky performance

BriJaNi — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:58:47 +0000

Wunderful jazz sounds – Studnitzky playing the contrabass and the trumpet @ TedxBerlin 2011

TEDxBerlin 2011 – John Perry Barlow

BriJaNi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:48:25 +0000

John Perry Barlow joined TedxBerlin via skype live from the US. Inspired by the speaches before he affirmed that there is no energy source more powerful and sustainable than hope. And he explains how climate protection starts with an attitude … Read more »

TEDxBerlin 2011 – Daniela Schiffer “Changers”

BriJaNi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:46:12 +0000

Daniela Schiffer helps people make their own energy. The co-founder of the German startup changers.com explains why protecting climate is as hard as stop smoking – and how men nevertheless do have fun with it.

TEDxBerlin 2011 – Johnny West “Give It Back! Oil and the Smart Citizen Dividend”

BriJaNi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:43:08 +0000

Why can’t Nigeria be like Norway? With 20 years experience in and around the oil industry journalist and consultant Johnny West claims a simple policy tool, that can switch the situation of countries in which natural resources are produced and … Read more »

TEDxBerlin 2011 – Benedikt Foit & Habib Lesevic “Energy Street Fight”

BriJaNi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:41:14 +0000

Benedikt Foit and Habib Lesevic take climate protection as a game. Their Project Energy Streetfight is a playfully approach to the problem of global warming. Biggest enemy: homo consumensis.

TEDxBerlin 2011 – Nik Nowak “Sound as Weapon”

BriJaNi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:39:13 +0000

Nik Nowak has got a passion for the physical experience of bass. The artist studiend in Berlin, New York and Shanghai. His work shows the energy of sound – and its function as a weapon.

TEDxBerlin 2011 – J Henry Fair “Schwarze Energie: Changing The Momentum”

BriJaNi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:37:09 +0000

His pictures went around the world: J Henry Fair ist photgrapher, ecological activist and he is best known for his Industrial Scars series, in which he researches the worlds most aweful enviromental desasters. At TEDxBerlin he showed the blood of … Read more »