Reaching New Heights at TEDxWaterloo

At TEDxWaterloo in Ontario, Canada -- which took place on March 3rd, 2011 -- attendees found themselves face-to-face with a “Tower of Tweets." 

Five Christie MicroTiles --  world-famous digital projection screens -- were stacked atop one another to form a column in the venue’s lobby.  Taking this technology, Patrick Dinnen of Media Lab Toronto designed a custom Twitter wall that pulled and displayed all tweets with the #TEDxWaterloo hashtag tweeted during the event. He wanted to create an easy way to view virtual conversations in the real world:

Here's a short video of Dinnen's "Tower of Tweets" in action.

 

For more information on TEDxWaterloo, visit their website, Facebook page and follow them on Twitter.

Here is TEDxMoncloa !!

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TEDxMoncloa has become a reality. Next May 24th Madrid will live a new TEDx experience spreading worth ideas about management, technology, new learning models, leadership and innovation.

We want to share and spread ideas with people who lead successful settled business models and people who know emerging relationships between companies, people and society and how they're changing the world.

Our purpose is that business leaders in Spain enjoy a TEDx experience and as result to know more of TED as global platform devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

So far, confirmed speakers are next:

·         Antonella Broglia
A lawyer who never exercised as such. 30 years in marketing and advertising. CEO at Ogilvy & Mather in Rome for 3 years. CEO at Saatchi & Saatchi Madrid for 7 years. Now, consultant at infonomia, a think tank based in Barcelona which studies what's in the edge of the enterprise and the world.

·         Genis Roca
Former managing director at Infonomía. Strategic consultant focused on impact of Web 2.0 in people and organizations. Director at RocaSalvatella.

·         Dolors Reig
Researcher and consultant about social media, communities, innovation and trends. One of the most recognized bloggers in Spanish language, El Caparazón. Social Psychologist.

·         Julen Iturbe
Independent networked consultant. Lecturer and teacher at Mondragon University. Researcher about open business models. Expert on social web.

·         Carmen Bustos
Strategic Thinker, enthusiast about co-creation, innovation, design of services and social impact. Founder in Soulsight.

·         Nieves Segovia
President at Educational Institution SEK and Global Education Forum. Researcher and innovative thinker about transformation of teaching models and educational paradigm to match present and future needs of companies and society.

We are designing the website, next you can find the details of the event:

TEDxMoncloa event page: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2484

TEDxMoncloa on Twitter: @TEDxMoncloa

TEDxMoncloa on Linkedin: TEDxMoncloa Group

We’ll keep posting ideas worth spreading.

Alberto Blanco

TEDxMoncloa Organizer

www.ted.com/tedx/events/2484

www.alberto-blanco.com

The Big (Speaker) Reveal at TEDxAustin

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TEDxAustin is a TEDx event in Austin, Texas.

Their most recent event was February 20th, 2010, with the theme "Right Now".

It's a tradition of TED to keep some speakers secret, and TEDxAustin followed this trend, creating a graphic of red squares on their website that when rolled over, revealed a poem that gives a clue to the identity of a TEDxAustin speaker.

The poem "From tiny town to 2.0; direction cities want to grow; two dozen trips around the sun; as many jobs (almost!) I've done" revealed speaker Dustin Haisler, Director of Government Innovation at Spigit Inc; Robyn O'Brien, the author of "The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It" was revealed with this ditty: "Real food, is that too much to ask; 
Big industry, I take to task;
 It's time that we reclaim our plates; 
from food forced into altered states."

A new poem was added daily in the days leading up to the event, and the the identity of all of the speakers were revealed on the day of the event -- a graphically dynamic and lyrical way to build excitement.

See the TEDxAustin Speaker Teaser site for yourself here.