Contact TEDxCambridge
General inquiries: contact@tedxcambridge.com
Speaker suggestions: speakers@tedxcambridge.com
Volunteer opportunities: volunteers@tedxcambridge.com
Ideas worth spreading: ideas@tedxcambridge.com
About TEDx Cambridge
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
Our event is called TEDxCambridge, where x=independently organized TED event. TEDxCambridge is a unique community that draws from the amazing wealth of innovation, passion and inspiration in Cambridge and the greater Boston area. We organize events featuring TED.com videos and original talks from some of the city’s most compelling thinkers and doers.
Our first event, “How do you eat?” was held May 16th at MIT. The next TEDxCambridge is planned for late fall.
The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
Our Team
Jennifer Bréa is lead organizer of TEDxCambridge. She is a Ph.D student at Harvard in political economy and was a TED Fellow in 2007 and 2009.
Emily Clough is helping the TEDx team with content and event strategy. A PhD student studying development and youth at Harvard and a self-professed big ideas junkie, she brings her background in event planning and community building to the TEDx team.
Liz Collins is an interactive and print graphic designer who has contributed her visual skills to design TEDxCambridge’s brochure, posters, and name badges.
Marc J. D’Amore is an architectural, industrial, and event designer. He contributes a background in creative logistics, non-profit project development, and lateral problem solving to TEDxCambridge.
Vinay Gidwaney is helping with strategy and logistics. He is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab in the Synthetic Neurobiology group. He is a serial entrepreneur and is in the process of starting a new company focused on emotional wellbeing on the Internet. He has been attending TED since 2008.
Kevin Liu is a graduate student in MIT’s Technology and Policy Program. He is helping with operations and volunteers.
Nevette Previd is a marketing consultant, providing innovative grassroots, social-cause, event management and marketing strategy solutions to filmmakers, movie companies and non-profit organizations.
Naveen Sinha is a Ph.D student in Applied Physics at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. He studies the physics of food.
Aaron “tango” Tang is an experience designer in objects, spaces, and technology. He has been attending TED since 2003 while also helping TED with content, speakers suggestions, and behind the scenes fun.
Omar Wasow is helping with sponsorships and logistics. He is studying race and politics as a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard. He spoke at TED in 2001.
Our efforts our supported by a large network of friends of TEDx and a team of over 20 volunteers.
About TED
TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. And in fact, the event is broader still, showcasing ideas that matter in any discipline. Attendees have called it “the ultimate brain spa” and “a four-day journey into the future.” The diverse audience — CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists — is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono.
TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson’s Sapling Foundation acquired TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. In recent years, TED has expanded to include an international conference, TEDGlobal; media initiatives, including TED Talks and TED.com; and the TED Prize. TED2010, “What the world Needs Now,” was in held Feb 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, with a simulcast event in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2009, “The Substance of Things Not Seen,” was held July 21-24, 2009, in Oxford, UK and TEDIndia was held in November 2009.
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