TEDxAmsterdam » 2010

Milan van den Bovenkamp

What is your TEDx job? collecting all the positive energy and make TEDxAmsterdam into a big adventure! Your Favorite TEDtalk? Every day a new favorite. Today: Chris Bangle about loving your work and your team. Awesome perspective! What would you sp

By TEDx Staff on April 30, 2010

Some call it a ‘brainstorm’ … we call it a ‘mind gym’

The TEDxAmsterdam Experience Team met on Monday night for a mind gym to present our first results and ideas on the TEDxAmsterdam Challenges, the communication plan, the TEDxAmsterdam gift bag, the role of video photography and … pasta. We met

By Monique van Dusseld… on April 28, 2010

(resend) TEDxAmsterdam Newsletter

– We can’t really tell for sure whether the Icelandic Volcano is to blame, but somehow our newsletter got screwed up. Here’s the news that we wanted to tell you. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience – Dear TEDx

By TEDx Staff on April 25, 2010

Dutch David aims at Apple Goliath, aka when great ideas spread

TEDxAmsterdam is all about ‘ideas worth spreading,’ and here’s one idea we heard about recently that we couldn’t resist spreading. Although, it’s not like this one needs any extra publicity. Read on. It’s the story

By Sasha Naod on April 22, 2010

Amsterdam tries a different kind of green

Here at TEDxAmsterdam, we love it when people and organizations rally for a better environment – especially when they do it in a way that inspires more people to become eco-aware. So we definitely welcome the plans by Amsterdam’s city cou

By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on April 20, 2010

Towards a future science and fiction

Hearing the words ‘science’ and ‘fiction’ in the same sentence, we can easily – and readily – recall images from a fantastical cinematic genre, in which visions of the future are portrayed in equal measure as utopia or doom, even a combin

By Sasha Naod on April 19, 2010

Stadsschouwburg: A glimpse of the nineteenth century

TEDxAmsterdam will take place at the beautiful Stadsschouwburg – the city theater – in Amsterdam. It’s located on the Leidscheplein. The neo-renaissance building has two wooden predecessors. Both have burnt down (in 1772 and 1774)

By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on April 17, 2010

TEDx comes of age

Today marks the one-year anniversary of TEDx, the program that supports independent TED-style events in local communities around the world. On all continents, in cities, villages and the occasional shanty town, people are organising events around t

By Monique van Dusseld… on April 16, 2010