AT LAST!

The TEDxJoburgNorth programme, launching on the 15th July 2009, will  be the beginning of many more such TEDx events in the city. I’m helping to gather the forces for a city.size TED Johannesburg in November with TEDsters and fellow raving fans, under the passionate leadership of publisher Alicia Woolf [want to get the early heads.up on getting your seat or collaborating to make it legendary? mail me or leave a comment below.]

TEDx Events have the same general goals as TED Conferences. TEDx activities are dedicated to leveraging the power of ideas to change the world, and they cover a broad set of topics including science, arts and design, politics, culture, business, global issues, technology and development, and entertainment.

Joburg’s first TEDx organised by:

Extraordinary documentary filmmaker and liaison for HH the Dalai Lama for his visits in South Africa, Guy Lieberman.

Ephraim Moss, a first class geek – using the latest in technologies and computing to develop holistic business and communication systems.

Nachi Mendelow, who considers himself an ever evolving monkey trying to work out why we ever descended from the trees. Loves banana’s, which clearly generates the formidable energy to his supercerebral cortex.

I’ve been invited to give a talk that shakes stale ideas from comfortable crusted niches.. to present ideas worthy of TED grade – dear mercy! (If you haven’t been introduced to the TED treasure >> map here). The brief is simply to talk about the ideas that burn the brightest for us – for 18 minutes. Counterintuitive evidence around my research that “The Machines are making us more Human” will fill my nerve.fraying 18 TEDx minutes. (Not sure there’s any space left – but just in case, I’d love you to join in if you’re in Jo’burg on the 15th July, check here).

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For TED fans and prospective speakers, below the lesser-revealed TED Commandments that ensure that the talks aren’t just your average powerpoint parade; and why attendees to the annual conferences in California, will do homework in the hopes of being offered an invitation for which they will eagerly pay $6000, if accepted.

(the stone tablet is delivered to TED speakers as they prepare to give the talk of their lives)

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