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NEXT, the Upstate portal for high impact technology entrepreneurs, hosted the inaugural TEDxGreenville event on March 5, 2010 at Clemson University Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) from 8:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.
“Greenville's unique blend of technology and artistic culture along with a diverse population makes it a perfect location for TEDx,” said CEO of Gnoso Peter Waldschmidt, and 2010 Chair of TEDxGreenville. “TED is a unique experience that combines intellectual stimulation with artistic release to exercise the entire brain all at once." (Waldschmidt attended a TEDx event in 2008.)
“TEDxGreenville gives this community a platform to tap into, engage and embrace diversity—to find the intersections of our differences and turn those “ideas worth spreading” into pathbreaking innovations,” said Brenda Laakso, Vice President of NEXT.
“We launched an amazing program for the full-day event,” said Marc Bolick President of Dmarc8 International, Inc., who led the speaker selection process. “We started in the fall of last year and created a lineup that introduced Greenville to the TEDx experience in a way that blew attendees away, and we started the spread of great ideas in our community.”
Local sculptor and TEDxGreenville team member Philip Whitley said, “TEDxGreenville’s entertainment lineup—the E in TED—included humor, music, and gymnastics from regional and national artists, each with close ties to the Upstate. It was an extraordinary event.”
For more information about TEDxGreenville 2010, visit www.tedxgreenville.org.
About NEXT
NEXT is a regional collaborative that supports the startup, relocation, and growth of high-impact knowledge-based companies in the upstate of South Carolina. NEXT is a program of the Greenville Chamber and serves high-growth companies and their CEO’s through concierge service, infrastructure development, and public advocacy. For more information, please visit www.nextgreenville.com.
About TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At TEDxGreenville, where x = independently organized TED event, there were TEDTalks videos, live speakers, and entertainers to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events like TEDxGreenville are self-organized.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
TED2010, “What the World Needs Now,” was held Feb. 9–13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, with TEDActive, a simulcast conference of TED2010, in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2010, “And Now the Good News,” will be held July 13-16, 2010, in Oxford, UK. TED2011, "The Rediscovery of Wonder," will be held February 21-25, 2011, in Long Beach, California, with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs, California.
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