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Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:08 |
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 On the 28th of May 2010, Poznan will host TEDx Poznań, a conference promoting innovative ideas in popular-science. The Poznan event is organised under licence from the American TED foundation, which regularly invites world authorities from diverse domains to speak at its forum. TEDx Poznań will be the first edition of this event to be held outside Warsaw.
The TED conference, established in Long Beach USA in 1984, was initially dedicated to technology, design and entertainment. Ever since then though, the thematic spectrum of the conference has grown much broader, hosting such eminent speakers as Bill Clinton, James Cameron, Bill Gates and Malcolm Gladwell. For the last few years, the American foundation has backed hundreds of local initiatives of the so-called TEDx, all around the world.
The Poznan edition of the well-known conference was the idea of people who shared one passion ? to better know and understand the mechanisms ruling the world. The Poznan edition of TEDx will inaugurate the Poznan Workshop project ? a series of popular-science events supported by the City of Poznan, including lectures and meetings with eminent representatives from the world of science, practical dancing workshops, as well as a course teaching French through theatre performance activities. Through the Poznan Workshop, the city intends to support those projects which accentuate the scientific character of the city and creative potential of Poznan inhabitants. A range of events under one aegis will stress Poznan's image as a city offering the highest level of education, making use of unusual projects. |
