TEDxTWS
The Westminster School, Dubai is now, once again, ready to go Global on a journey of exploring inspirational and innovative ideas on the TED platform to challenge the conventional thinking!
TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading”.
The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences through a global forum at the local level.
We had Livestreamed the TED Talks of this year on 18 February, 2016. We chose to go for the TEDx Live to showcase and ignite 'Ideas truly Worth Spreading'. Our Journey shall commenced once again, this time, with our very own, 12 talented young speakers. Our aim and purpose with this event is to bring the best of ideas to our community (TWS-students, teachers, parents and the larger community)and also to engage, stimulate and create a thoughtful new generations way ahead of their times. We believe in promoting diversity and building communities and this in turn creates awareness in social, cultural, economic and environmental in shaping a sustainable future for ourselves and those around us.
Innovation requires bold thinking, fresh ideas, to make a real contribution by relentlessly exploring the unknown will open up new possibilities. Hence, we want to invite all the people who are thoughtful and want to contribute for a better tomorrow, in any small/ big way they can.
TEDx
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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, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. 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.)
TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
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