It's a wrap! Thank you to everyone that attended our 7th TEDxBerlin conference. With an international group of over 15 fascinating speakers and three performances that crossed musical borders, the event was a true and inspirational success.…
We are so proud! About 1500 posters called out for the TEDxBerlin event on August 31st, 2012! "Future 3.0" aims to give an overview of the various developments on digitalized society beyond technology.
Redefining Our Comfort Zone - A Review of Crossing Borders
Crossing borders physically, emotionally, culturally, artistically – all these aspects were widely explored on the 23rd of November by an array of international, truly…
"“Crossing borders”, internationally, politically, or within ourselves, was a great inspiration. When we cross borders we let go; we let go of our preconceptions, our fears, our egos – we become one; one with ourselves, with each…
Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
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Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer. He knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his engineering skills with his doctors' medical knowledge to design a better repair…
John Boswell of the "Symphony of Science" came to TED2012 and made this remix of the speakers onstage (and on TED.com). To read more about every speaker in this video, visit the TED Blog at http://blog.ted.com.
What does it take to turn a vague, fanciful notion, with a million specific requirements, into a working reality? At TEDxUSC 2010, Adam Sadowsky shared a behind the scenes look at the inspiration, design, build, and operation of the…
Belgian economist Bernard Lietaer discusses how the financial crisis is caused by failing structures in the current financial system. He proposes complementary currencies that he believes will break the vicious cycle of global financial crashes.
Addressing global issues requires a new approach. In a restored palace in Marrakesh’s poorest quarter, a global and interdisciplinary network was brought to life where workshops and projects are held with politicians, entrepreneurs and…
How can we make digital content graspable? The PHD student Fabian Hemmer researched how mass, shape and even intuition can be applied to mobile phones in order for technology to move towards becoming more human.
For many, security and a steady income are not enough motivation anymore when it comes to searching for employment. Founded by Jonathan Imme, Palomar 5 is a six-month brainstorming camp bringing together 30 creative individuals from around…
To create a strong community you have to create strong girls. With that idea in mind, to allow for sport to initiate social change, Heather Cameron founded Boxgirls International. Starting out in Berlin and uniting various nationalities, she…
Corruption is the area that illustrates best when we are faced with inherent governance failure in a globalised economy. Peter Eigen discusses how systematic, grand corruption is the main reason for the poverty, the conflicts and desperation…
Reto Wettach discusses how technology, specifically the use of computers needs further innovation in order to seamlessly work together with humans. Can we create technological moto memory, sensory dynamics and even have technology be an…
Alexander Voigt began research and development of stand-alone photovoltaic in 1985 when there was no market for the field of renewable energy. Today he enables whole energy economies, which are based 100 percent on renewables and therefore CO2 free.
Benedikt Foit and Habib Lesevic take climate protection as a game. Their Project Energy Streetfight is a playfully approach to the problem of global warming. Biggest enemy: homo consumensis.
Why can’t Nigeria be like Norway? With 20 years experience in and around the oil industry journalist and consultant Johnny West claims a simple policy tool, that can switch the situation of countries in which natural resources are produced…
Do you do what you want to do? Or just what your employment contract says? Do you do, what your mum expects you to do? What your friends want you to do? What society makes you to do? Martin Cordesmeier’s company Millionways helps people…
Verena Delius is CEO of Young Internet, Europe’s leading social gaming company since 2010. But best thing to do, she says, is to watch your own company perish.
What limits and borders are we faced with as individuals, as a society? Who or what defines these boundaries? What are the results of these demarcations – demarcations as barriers that may even result in scientific and artistic limitations…
Television, as we know it, does not work anymore. Why? Because individualisation, globalistion and digitalisation has chanegd the tnertainment landscape. By combining the ease of television and the intelligence of the internet, you create…
Artificial intelligence as art. Hannes Koch, co-founder of the art collective rAndom International, discusses the relationship between man and machine and how simulated natural behaviour effects us. Welcome to Art 3.0.
Sustainable energy is one of the main objectives that we are trying to achieve on a global scale. Laurence Kemball-Cook may just have the answer and it's called PaveGen.
Growing your own cartilage, your own bones and ligaments - an idea that is not as impossible as it seems. Nina Tandon talks "transplants made to order", how this will revolutionise drug trials and the global donour issue.
"There are 6 billion mobile phones in the world and only 4.2 bllion toothbrushes." René Schuster, CEO of Telefónica Germany, discusses the future of communication and how our increasingly connected world is going to change drastically in…
Connor McEwen is 20-year old entrepreneur and co-founder of Credport. Credport is reimagining the way people use their data to build trust with their peers with the specific focus on marketplaces.
In his TEDxChange talk, Jeff Chapin discusses his work with IDEO, taking a closer look at his latrine and hand washing projects in Cambodia. Jeff advocates for design as a tool to enable deeper, better, and different conversations that can…
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. She is a consultant to key progressive media and advocacy organizations, and her clients have included The Ford…
August 31st looks to be promising! Get ready to enjoy an overload of inspiration and discover the spirit of TED with some of today's brightest minds mapping out our tomorrow in fields such as technology, education and design.
This year TEDxBerlin held its fourth conference: While the United Nations convened for the Rio+20 conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil, TEDxBerlin "Thinking Change“ took place at the Google headquarters in the German capital in…
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