You might have a 5-year plan, but what about a 200-year plan? Artist Raghava KK has set his eyes on an ultra-long-term horizon; at TEDxSummit, he shows how it helps guide today’s choices and tomorrow’s goals — and encourages you to make your own 200-year plan too. “When I think of the future, I never […]
My first encounter with a TED talk was through a colleague who said she knew about a clip “I just had to watch’. That was ‘The 8 secrets of success’ by Richard St. John. A whole theory explained in just 3 minutes. I thought it was hilarious and inspiring at the same time. It is […]
We need your help! We would very much like to have a real TEDxDelft sign on stage and we need somebody to design and make it. So if you’re into using 3D printers, woodcarving, styrofoam etc etc and have some spare time this summer…….help us out. We have drawings, colors and relative measurements available. The […]
It is my pleasure to become part of the TEDxDelft team and I hereby would like to introduce myself in a nutshell. My name is Chris van Houdt, 31 years old, 3rd out of 4 brothers, living in the beautiful city of Rotterdam, often hit the road as race-cyclist, enjoy art and have a passion […]
We are very excited to start announcing performers in a few days, starting with our new TEDxDelft host. No Jasper van Kuijk summarizing TEDxDelft in a poem this year but who will be our performer in between performers?
We will be simulcasting TEDGlobal 2012 – Radical openness on 27 June under TEDxLive license. TEDGlobal 2012 will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland. You can be part of the TEDGlobal experience by attending our simulcast event on Wednesday 27 June.
Since 2009, TEDx events have been organized all over the world. The popularity has grown exponentially, on average 6 to 7 TEDx events per day nowadays.
Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit, Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment — and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests rapid evolution may be under way. Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about profound changes that genomics […]
Would you love to perform a TEDxDelft? This is your opportunity! With this Award you have the possibility to win a wild card to speak at TEDxDelft the 5th of October 2012 and share your idea. This is your unique chance to speak alongside the most inspiring speakers of the world.
We opened up registration for TEDxDelft 2012: Never grow up. We will release a limited number of seats to the very fast with a pleasant discount.
As we are building towards our next big event on 5 October 2012 we found out that the word “speakers” was not really fitting the way we see TEDxDelft. TEDxDelft is about creating a stage for people that have an idea that is worth spreading. The idea is possibly spoken word but may also be […]
Open Data has become an important trend on the web during recent years. More and more people start believing that data should be available for use free of restrictions. Initiatives like Data.gov and “Hack de Overheid” pressure government institutions to release data that was paid for by taxpayer-money. At the same time business on the […]
At TEDxSummit, project groups were formed to make proposals to TED. The one I joined made a proposal to introduce regional lens websites: TEDx websites in native languages and focusing on relevant and regional TEDx-events and -talks. In our case: “TEDx in Nederland en in het Nederlands” treating the Netherlands and Flanders as a region. […]
After more than a year of planning and dreaming, we’re finally launching our new TED-Ed website, whose goal is to offer teachers a thrilling new way to use video. The site is in Beta. But we think there’s enough there to show why we’re so excited about this. Because the goal is to allow any […]
Popular music comes and goes, and classical composers were once the pop stars of their time. Still, it is remarkable that we continue to perform their music. It does appear, however, that it has become a “left-wing hobby” for the elderly. The new generation has largely got no affinity whatsoever with classical music – apart […]
Today, April 16 at 18.30, watch TEDxSummit 2012 Opening Night, a two-hour TED session featuring speakers and performers from the region and beyond. Speakers include TEDTalks star and health-data guru Hans Rosling … boundary-breaking artist Raghava KK … TEDx teacher Diana Laufenberg … “solar cracking” expert Nesrin Ozalp … […]
Hildo Bijl is currently graduating from his Master’s in Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Throughout his studies, he has been very involved in education: as instructor/teacher, as faculty student council member and as founder of the Aerostudents.com student community. In his talk, he will discuss his quest to improve education.
The first TEDxDelft Salon took place at 22 February 2012. Our live speaker was Guenevere Prawiroatmodjo, she talked about redefining high-impact science by introducing a p-factor to the well know h-factor. The TED movie that she showed was Michael Nielsen TEDx talk at TEDxWaterloo for open science. You can see TEDxDelft Salon here
We are very proud to announce the second edition of TEDxDelft: 5 October 2012 we will open the doors of the Aula Congress Centre again to celebrate TEDx with you once more. This year TEDxDelft theme is ‘never grow up‘. Never stop asking questions, never stop wondering, always think of other ways to face challenges, […]
We’re very proud to announce our first TEDxDelftSalon speaker. On 22 February 2012 Guenevere Prawiroatmodjo will climb the Salon stage. She will be talking about redefining high-impact-science. Guenevere Prawiroatmodjo (4th of August 1986, Nijmegen) has studied Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology and is currently starting a high-tech company with Leo Kouwenhoven, professor at […]
The TEDxDelft team is very happy to announce our Salon type events: TEDxDelftSalon. The Salons will take place in the HIVE room at TU Delft Library, are monthly recurring events (starting 22 February) and are small in size: One TED.com talk One live speaker A discussion afterwards. All this during lunchtime (lunch will be provided) […]
Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curacao) is a Dutch computer scientist who is currently a software architect for Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio and the NET Framework. At Microsoft he heads the Cloud Programmability Team. Erik previously worked within Microsoft Research. Before that, he was a teacher at Utrecht University. He received his Ph.D. […]
TTYPP Max Kisman (animation) Peter Mertens and Donald Beekman (music) Their shared interests culminates in their TTYPP iPhone Jam project, creating instant animation and music.
Progression stunts is the largest group of specialists in the field of parkour, freerun, acrobatics, tricking, stunts and handbalancing in the Netherlands. They appear in advertisements, demo’s, stunt-doubling, television shows, movies and lots of other places. Progression stunts entered the “Holland’s got talent” show in 2011
Felienne Hermans (@Felienne) is Ph. D student at the Delft University of Technology in the Software Engineering Research Group. She works in the PerPlex project which focuses on bringing together business and IT, in particular on extracting and visualizing information from spreadsheets.
Can you tell us something about yourself? My name is Yvonne (@YvdLaak), I’m 30 years old and live in Utrecht together with the love of my life and my elderly cat. I’m getting married in spring of 2012. My addictions are social media – especially twitter, facebook and instagram – and (dark) chocolate. Things I […]
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxDelft, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxDelft event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to […]
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Win a free ticket to TEDxDelft! Make a short(!) video of your idea of ‘Creating History’, and post it on TU Delft facebook wall before 21 October. TU Delft will award a TEDxDelft ticket to the two best videos. Please make sure that we can also upload your video to the TEDxDelft YouTube channel.
Can you tell us something about yourself? My name is Melanie Studer and I am 22 years old. I come from a country where 3 minutes delayed trains are announced and where the people are the world most chocoholics. As you might have guessed, I am Swiss. Or perhaps the banana type of Swiss (yellow […]
Antoinette Wijffels is director of large entertainment productions and owner of Improve. Improve has a strong passion for designing events full of admiration, inspiration and experience. Improve uses state-of-the art lighting and visual equipment. Antoinette Wijffels and her team have a lot of passion and creativity. She is responsible for all stage production and direction […]
We’ve got our poster! Please help us spread the news about TEDxDelft by sending this poster to everyone in your address book, Facebooking it, sharing it on Twitter (#TEDxDelft), Google+ it, put it on your blog etc etc. Please remember to use the large version of the poster (jpg) or this pdf version in your buzz.
Can you tell us something about yourself? My name is Annemarie Oorthuizen (@sprankels) and I live in the centre of Delft with my partner Erik Laan (@eriklaan) and our daughter (2011). I have an academic background in educational sciences and currently I am involved in non-profit volunteer work for Delft MaMa and De Wereldwinkel Delft. […]
Jasper van Kuijk is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of TU Delft as well as a professional comedian (‘cabaretier’). He studied Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, and then worked as a design management consultant, PhD candidate and comedian. In 2010 he won the jury- as well as the audience award […]
Can you tell us something about yourself? My name is Reint Jan Holterman. I’m 38 years old and living in Amersfoort together with my wife and daughter. I’ve worked all my life in IT, in various technical roles as well as sales and management roles. A few years ago I decided to start my own […]
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
Can you tell us something about yourself? In 1988 I (@JeroenvanErp) graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Technical University of Delft. In 1992, I was one of the founders of Fabrique in Delft, which positioned itself as a multidisciplinary design bureau. In 1994 I established the interactive media department, focusing primarily on […]
Can you tell us something about yourself? I am Simone de Jong (@Sim1andOnly), 35 years old, living in The Hague with my husband and two kids. After I graduated in Arts & Sciences at the University of Maastricht, I became a science communications consultant at that university. A couple of years later, I moved to […]
Can you tell us something about yourself? My name is Ginny Ruiter, 41 years old, single, no kids. Born in South America and raised in The Hague and its surrounding cities. I have been working as a secretary/personal assistant for several companies. In 2006 I started working for Delft University of Technology as the assistant […]