CNR’s here at TEDxShanghai, being held in the ever-fabulous M1NT*. What is TEDxShanghai, you ask?
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds and has grown into a showcase for the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). TED has also become an online phenomenon with many of the best TED talks shared at ted.com helping TED fulfill its mission: Spreading ideas.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At our TEDxShanghai event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
So, our hope with covering TEDxShanghai will be to expand that small group to include you, sharing with you some of the ideas and discussion that are happening here at M1NT this afternoon. We’ll be live-blogging our notes, observations, and thoughts from the series of great speakers today as there’s both a solid wifi connection** and great speaker system today (bravo M1NT). Of course, our notes may be disorganized but we’ll try to organize and clean them up as we get the chance (during coffee breaks or whatnot).
If you’re keen, you can watch TEDxShanghai live via Tudou (embedded below in glorious live-streaming widescreen! …if it works). We just finished watching a spirited presentation by Hans Roslin’s you can also see here.
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* Random celebrity gossip: Halle Berry and Clive Owen were both spotted at M1NT two nights ago as part of the Shanghai Film Festival after-party.
** UPDATE: Spoke too soon. The wifi went down during the event or, actually, was cut off to conserve bandwidth for live-streaming the event to Tudou. I did get access later on, but wasn’t able to “live-blog” as hoped for. Will have to organize notes and throw up some coverage posts later as with yesterday’s Barcamp Shanghai coverage.
