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Amsterdam youth: step on stage and participate

Youth can apply now to step on stage and participate. First speakers TEDxYouth@Amsterdam announced.

By Oliver de Lee… on August 30, 2010 0 comments

Bjarke Ingels: a BIG architect with a mission

Last year’s speaker Bjarke Ingels – he spoke on both TED and TEDxAmsterdam – is an architect who doesn’t plant the earth with buildings from an aesthetic point of view only. He seeks to create architecture that is socially, econo

By Ellen Bokkinga on August 5, 2010 0 comments

TEDx connexions: Emma Bruns

Last year, Emma Bruns proved that if you have an interesting idea, it’s all you need to be on the TEDxAmsterdam stage. Only 22 at the time, Emma is a medical resident who charmed the audience not only with her stunning red dress, but also with

By Lieke Voermans on July 27, 2010 2 comments

TEDxAmsterdam Live – sharing TED

When we organised TEDxAmsterdam for the first time in November 2009, we had a waiting list of over 4000 people, all keen to attend… and of course we wanted to include everyone. So we organised a live internet stream for all those interested out

By Monique van D… on July 19, 2010 0 comments

Pim Betist reveals The New African Sound

While the lucky few who are able to attend TEDGlobal 2010 reside in Oxford, TED fans in The Netherlands are invited by a team of excited organizers from Amsterdam to meet each other for a live streaming of the event at comedy institution Boom Chicago

By irene on July 15, 2010 0 comments

Karsu Dönmez: The girl with the black piano

A beautiful singer with Dutch and Turkish roots, Karsu Dönmez was a wonderful surprise at last year’s TEDxAmsterdam, and her performance was breathtaking. So what’s happened since then? “TEDx was such a great experience for me. Usually lectur

By Ellen Bokkinga on June 21, 2010 0 comments

TEDx connexions: David Vogel

TEDxAmsterdam doesn’t only work hard to create an extraordinary speaker line-up; but the audience too is a veritable petri dish of dynamic and innovative sorts. The diverse audience of CEOs, scientists, creatives and philanthropists (and over 4,500

By Lieke Voermans on June 14, 2010 1 comments

Marcel Dicke and the critters that go ‘crunch’

If Prof. Marcel Dicke of the Laboratory of Entomology at Wageningen UR, has the final word, we would change our daily menu and add some insect delicacies to it. He suggests eating crispy grasshoppers instead of shrimps, and juicy dragonfly larvae in

By Ellen Bokkinga on June 7, 2010 0 comments

Come walk on the wild side with us

Dutch Artist Theo Jansen is one of the lucky Dutch speakers whose speech made it onto TED.com, with a talk about his  “strandbeesten”  (”beach animals”).  When we launched TEDxAmsterdam, he was one of the first people we

By Monique van D… on May 31, 2010 2 comments

Denmark’s Little Mermaid heads East

Bjarke Ingels on the roof of the Danish world expo pavillion (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) At TEDxAmsterdam 2009, one speaker that completely enthralled the room was Bjarke Ingels. The founder of the Danish architectural firm BIG presented s

By Monique van D… on May 25, 2010 0 comments

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