TED Marathon in Melbourne

Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Ameel

There’s a TED Marathon being held in Melbourne on 13 December. Check out its Upcoming event profile for details but, basically, it’ll be a “public screening of videos from the annual TED conferences held in Long Beach, California, with an opportunity for discussion between videos.” The organizers also plan to launch a website where you can suggest specific talks for the screening. I’ll let you know when they launch that.

I find TED talks hugely inspiring, thought provoking, moving, and informative and watch almost all the videos the TED people upload every week. I also hope to attend an actual conference some day…but who knows when (or if) that’ll happen. For the time being, though, a local screening of TED videos is a pretty awesome idea and I hope everyone who reads this blog decides to attend.

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4 Responses to “TED Marathon in Melbourne”

  1. lara stein // Nov 25, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    Who is organizing this event?

    Thanks

  2. Ameel // Nov 25, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    According to the Upcoming event listing, the organizer is Sjors Provoost (http://sprovoost.nl/).

  3. Sjors // Dec 18, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Hi Ameel,

    You already know this through Facebook, but I’ve rescheduled the event to January 17th, in order to make it bigger and better:

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=52260593072

    Cheers,

    Sjors

  4. Ameel // Dec 18, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Sjors: Thanks for the update. I’ve already listed myself as ‘attending’ on Upcoming and have joined the Facebook group as well :) See you there!

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