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About TED

TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. And in fact, the event is broader still, showcasing ideas that matter in any discipline. Attendees have called it “the ultimate brain spa” and “a four-day journey into the future.” The diverse audience — CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists — is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono.

TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson’s Sapling Foundation acquired TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. In recent years, TED has expanded to include an international conference, TEDGlobal; media initiatives, including TED Talks and TED.com; and the TED Prize. TED2010, “What the world Needs Now,” held Feb 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, with a simulcast event in Palm Springs, California.

About TEDx, x=independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*

(*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

TEDxEdges

About TEDxEdges

TEDxEdges is a unique one-day closed (invitation-only) unique inspiration event, held for the 3rd year running. TEDxEdges in on October, 1st 2011 in the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa.

TEDxEdges gathers some 100 exclusive creative and active thinkers in the in Lisboa– from entrepreneurs to artists – and is all about ideas: inspiring, discovering, generating and sharing ideas worth spreading in various areas, with the Tagus river as the background theme, debating the technological models to be adopted by Portugal, and confronting those policies with other international practices.

In order to participate in the event you must actively contribute to its activities – present an idea to discuss, host an activity or actively contribute to one, or just be willing to network a lot with other people. Participation is subject to registration.

If you're interested in participating as a participant you can grab your ticket at http://tedxedges.com/register

Mission

TEDxEdges is a TEDx event that wants to introduce some of the most fascinating thinkers and entrepreneurs in Portugal to the world - you can watch selected talks from previous TEDxEdges on youtube.

TEDxEdges was the first TEDx event in Portugal and this very first edition was about “New Technological Models for Portugal” and took place in 2009 in Lisbon.

TEDxEdges 2011 is the third instance of this yearly event, and is going to be focused around four themes: Spirituality, Social responsability, Sustainability, and Super-Human. The team involved in the TEDxEdges organization has a passion for life, believes in entrepreneursip, the power of ideas to change attitudes, and ultimately to change Portugal and the World!

Organization

André Marquet TEDxEdges Curator

Born in Lisboa, Portugal, André is a 30 year-old whose interests range from design to alternative energies but that is currently focused on product design. André has worked with the main telecom vendors, as product manager and systems engineer, including for Huawei, a leading Chinese telecom vendor, and for Nokia Siemens Networks, also a telecom maker. He earned a degree on telecom engineering from ISCTE in 2003, and has authored several papers on telecommunications, he has also been granted with national and international patents related to automatic video quality estimation. He is a co-founder and board member of the Beta-i association that works to help create a more creative and entrepreneurial society.
Pedro Rocha Vieira TEDxEdges Associate

Pedro Rocha Vieira, has a business degree at Catholic University in Lisbon, and after some years in the banking industry, he left to a 9 month South America road-trip, back in Portugal he worked at Chapitô circus school and then co-founded the "Social Innovation Programme" at TESE, that he co-directed for 3 years. Presently, and after a post-graduation in "Innovation, Strategy and Foresight" at ISEG, he is the head of the design response unit, at experimentadesign, he is also a freelance innovation consultant, and co-founder and President of the Beta-i association.
Artur Arsénio TEDxEdges Associate

Artur Arsenio received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston/US in 2004 on robotics and artifical intelligence, and both his MSc and Engineering Degree in Electrical and Computer Science from Instituto Superior Técnico. At MIT he introduced pervasive robotics as technologies to bring robots into people's lifes. His research work was featured in several national and international media. He is a co-organizer of TEDxEdges since the first edition.