When activist Martin Luther King started his famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, he had already been preceded by 14 other speakers on that noisy and hot day in 1963. Although his speech was the length of a TED talk, the challenge of keeping the attention of thousands of listeners was ...
Looking at the daily news, it seems like we’re currently living in a society of fear. The fear of terrorism, the fear of employers firing their employees and replacing them with software and, the fear of the sharing economy and even the fear of our food, causing new year’s resolutions to be demolished. As TEDxAmsterdam ...
Dat is toch die film met die beer? Jullie bezorgen toch pakketjes? Soms kom ik nog bij organisaties, die denken dat mijn werk voor TED/TEDx te maken heeft met de berenfilm TED of koeriersbedrijf FedEx. Niets is minder waar. TEDx bezorgt geen pakketjes, maar inspirerende ideeën! Het wereldberoemde TED-concept is inmiddels ook duidelijk doorgedrongen bij […]
Je hebt ze vast wel eens gezien. Van die Nederlanders die op vakantie door winkeleigenaren in gebrekkig Nederlands worden nageroepen: ‘Kijken kijken, niet kopen’. Wél urenlang naar waren kijken, maar iets kopen? Ho maar! Iets waar ‘Hollanders’ in het buitenland om bekend staan. Ook op het web gebeurt dit veel. Door dit zogeheten ‘bagging’ blijft […]
Exactly ten years after TED started democratizing ideas by posting TED talks online, the organization invited their ‘Global brain’ for its Summit in Banff (Canada), to look ahead, spark conversations and enjoy an intense experience in the light of ‘ideas worth doing & spreading’. Besides a bunch of veteran TEDx organizers, translators, Fellows, executives and […]
Quite often people ask me about my favourite TED talks for all kinds of situations. Today: how to improve your meetings at work & make work more fun! David Grady: How to Save the World (Or At Least Yourself) From Bad Meetings Off course the talk of David Grady cannot be missed in this list. In his […]
Forget Silicon Valley, Amsterdam was yesterday the ‘tech Mecca’ of the world with the opening of ‘Startup Fest’. Apple’s CEO told the audience at the Beurs van Berlage that he “feels a vibrancy, an excitement, a sort of optimism here in Europe”. An optimism that has its clear effects on the Dutch economy according to […]
A report on the Singularity University Germany summit. A couple years ago, supercomputers were so extremely expensive, that only a few organizations were able to use them. Thomas Watson expected as president of IBM in 1943 that there would “only be a world market for 5 computers”. Today, the Rasberry Pi has the same memory […]