Wonderful news! GOOD and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are looking for you to submit your ideal lineup of speakers and musical guests for a hypothetical version of the TEDx events that the Gates Foundation is hosting, called TEDxChange. The winner will receive an exclusive, password-protected link to the TED2011 live, four-day webcast. Those are normally reserved for people attending the event, which costs thousands of dollars. So, please submit away.
On September 20 2010 the first TEDxChange was organized by TED and the Gates Foundation. In Amsterdam, a remarkable group of individuals joined to watch the live TEDxChange Webcast from NewYork together, featuring speakers like Melinda Gates, Graça Machel and Hans Rosling. The 100 guests then listened to eight people who travelled to Amsterdam to present their work in Africa during an interactive dinner. What followed what a transformation of “ideas worth spreading” to… “ideas worth doing”!
The deadline is not until January 21, so you still have quite a bit of time to work on your submission. You can read all about the contest here, but the main requirements are as follows:
- A program lineup of four speakers and one interlude
- A one or two sentence description of each speaker or group
- Links to any relevant material about each speaker/group (e.g., video of speaking style, links to books written, links to organizations he/she is involved in)
- One idea for connecting the global audience (beyond the webcast)
- A short paragraph overview of how or why you assembled this particular lineup.
Once you think of everything, email your submissions with the subject line “TEDxChange Submission – but do post your suggestions below as well! We love reading them. In the video above, Jim Stolze, Chairman of TEDxAmsterdam, talks about the promise of TED events, transforming ideas worth spreading into ideas worth doing. So who would be the four most inspiring speakers you could think of?
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