Ideas worth spreading
About us
What do we believe in?
1. All knowledge is connected.
2. In every country, there are curious souls who are excited by the power of ideas, and want to learn, grow and find a future to believe in.
3. You get unexpected insight and inspiration when you listen to people and ideas outside your field and life experiences.
4. Connecting people who love and value ideas inspires creative conversations and action.
About us, about you
TEDxSingapore and TED regard ourselves are a global community welcoming people from every discipline and culture who have two things in common: Seeking a deeper understanding of the world and wanting to turn that understanding into a better future for us all.
Our passion and purpose is to reach out and inspire people to learn, share and engage in close conversations about ideas that have the potential and power to make a difference in our world and in our lives.
We connect 'curious souls' like yourself who love and value ideas though TED-style Ideas Events in Singapore.
We share ideas worth spreading from Singapore with the world through the global TED community, and serve as a focal point for the TED community, TED Prize winners, Fellows and TEDsters who live in and visit Singapore.
The TEDxSingapore curatorial team includes many talented thinkers and doers and TEDsters (people who have attended TED Conferences) and TED Fellows.
In 2007, a group of Singaporeans passionate about ideas and who were ardent fans of TED from its earliest days organised monthly meetings to hear and discuss ideas across diverse fields and topics. Meetings were open to anyone to attend and were typically small, numbering 20-30 people to encourage close conversations. In early 2009, TED awarded us a licence to found TEDxSingapore, as a means and opportunity to reach out to more people in Singapore, and build into this vision.
About us, about you
TEDxSingapore and TED regard ourselves are a global community welcoming people from every discipline and culture who have two things in common: Seeking a deeper understanding of the world and wanting to turn that understanding into a better future for us all.
Our passion and purpose is to reach out and inspire people to learn, share and engage in close conversations about ideas that have the potential and power to make a difference in our world and in our lives.
We connect 'curious souls' like yourself who love and value ideas though TED-style Ideas Events in Singapore.
We share ideas worth spreading from Singapore with the world through the global TED community, and serve as a focal point for the TED community, TED Prize winners, Fellows and TEDsters who live in and visit Singapore.
The TEDxSingapore curatorial team includes many talented thinkers and doers and TEDsters (people who have attended TED Conferences) and TED Fellows.
In 2007, a group of Singaporeans passionate about ideas and who were ardent fans of TED from its earliest days organised monthly meetings to hear and discuss ideas across diverse fields and topics. Meetings were open to anyone to attend and were typically small, numbering 20-30 people to encourage close conversations. In early 2009, TED awarded us a licence to found TEDxSingapore, as a means and opportunity to reach out to more people in Singapore, and build into this vision.
For passion, for people, for purpose
All TEDxSingapore idea events are non-commercial and we strive to make all our events accessible to all people in Singapore, as a principle, we do not charge for attendance and participation unless there are direct costs involved.
This is made possible only because of innumerate contributions of time, talent, technology, resources, venues, ideas by talented volunteers and fantastic support from individuals, organisations and companies in Singapore who value and are passionate about ideas. And none of this would exist without the vision, generousity and support from TED.
Read more about our story in our Blog at the TED.com website
TEDxSingapore idea events, projects and ventures are funded and supported by:
powered by our internet and web technology providers:
signage generously sponsored by:
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Please join us in thanking and supporting our numerous co-creators, venue-hosts, sponsors and partners:
National Library Board of Singapore
(they truly live up to their motto: Knowledge, Imagination, Possibility)
Singapore Institute of Management
Singapore Management University
Raffles Convention Centre-Fairmont Hotel
Speakeasy Wine Bar / The Hidden Host
MapleCommerce Search Marketing
Curators, co-creators, contributors, connectors, catalysts: Dave Lim, Ivan Wong, Ming Liang, Arjun Gupta, Gaurav Chandrashekar, Basil Liu, Kia Xie, Merle Fu, Eugene Tay, Lyn Toh, Melvin Tang, Ho Kok Koon, Amira Karim, Hidayah Hassan, Friedericke Loh, Andrea Chye, Lim Pheng Yew, Shoba Chandran, Liza Ng, Damian Sim, Eileen Feng, Grace Clapham,
Event photographers: Serene Keng, Weili Chua, Anindam Choudhury and Noelle Low, Video team: Paul Schattenberg, Michael Lim.
TED: Lara Stein, Salome Heusel, Becca Pace, Chris Andersen, June Cohen and TED staff,
TED Fellows: Tin-Ho Chow, Pragnya Alekal,
Sponsors and supporters: Neo Beng Tong, Kong Ai Choo, Dr. Ori
Sasson, Vincent Lai, Kia Xie, Jillian Ang, Dr. Milton Tan, Amran Khamis, Joanna Lim, Wan Wee Pin, Jillian Lim, Goh Peck Keong, Hajbee Abu
Bakar, Danny Phan, Yeoh Siew Hoon, Vera Lye, Ian Wright, Nicole Tan, Masami Sato, Paul Dunn, Joshua Teo, Colin Yeow, Deborah Peterson, Rosalind Heng,
Gordon Ang, Ridjal Noor, Joyce Odam, Judith Lee, Pooja Ramavat.
Passionate supporters and people: AC Ho, Crystal Hooi, Joel Lee, Pearl Seet, Mark Wee, Quek Shue-Shan, Jacqueline Le Sueur, Cheryl Chung, Fredrik Haren, Fabian Lua, Dennis Lee, Dr. Chang Tou Liang,...
What is TED?
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth
Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago,
TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple
initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading
thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made
available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al
Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan
Nilekani,Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK
Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in
Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is
held each year in Oxford, UK. TED's media initiatives include TED.com,
where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project,
which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the
ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED
has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals
with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their
wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to
host local, self-organized events around the world, and the TEDFellows
program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to
become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact
of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
TED2011, "The Rediscovery of Wonder," will
be held February 28-March 4, 2011, in Long Beach, California, with the
TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs, California.
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx events, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organised 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-organised.
