TED Raises Curtain on TEDGlobal 2012 Conference, "Radical Openness"

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TED Raises Curtain on TEDGlobal 2012

Conference, "Radical Openness"

850 participants arrive in Edinburgh, Scotland for four-

day program featuring 125 talks, performances, and

cutting-edge science and technology

PR Newswire

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 25, 2012

EDINBURGH, Scotland

,

June 25, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- TED, the nonprofit

devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, opens its annual

Europe

-based TEDGlobal

conference today in

Edinburgh, Scotland

. The conference, this year themed

"Radical Openness," shares the same format as its twin event in

Long Beach,

CA

: inspired leaders, thinkers, makers, and performers from around the globe

take the stage for talks, music, and demonstrations across dozens of

disciplines.

"TEDGlobal is remarkable both for the caliber of international leaders,

inventors, and visionaries who take the stage and comprise the audience," says

TED's European Director Bruno Giussani, who curated this week's program.

"With support from innovative partners, TEDGlobal brings to the UK world-class

scientists, writers, foreign affairs and political experts, innovators, designers,

and artists to explore Radical Openness from every angle. With a diversity of

content and cultures, we guarantee an invigorating week – and a surprise or

two."

The TEDGlobal 2012 conference has attracted 850 attendees from 71 countries

to the Edinburgh International Conference Center. Scientists, inventors, policy

leaders, entrepreneurs and artists will offer more than 70 main-stage talks and

performances – as well as 22 presentations from TED Fellows and another 30

or so shorter TED University talks.

Under the TEDLive membership, the conference will be streamed live to paid

members around the globe. TEDGlobal will also be webcast to more than 120

independently organized TEDx events worldwide.

Speakers will cover a wide spectrum of topics, including mental healthcare in

developing countries, levitating objects, the merits of whistleblowing, flip

teaching, and a new approach to wind energy. At the conference, a number of

innovative technologies will also be unveiled for the first time. TEDGlobal 2012

speakers and performers include:

James Stavridis,

NATO Supreme Commander

Sanjay Pradhan

, Vice President of the World Bank Institute

Massimo Banzi,

Creator of Arduino open-source hardware

Ellen Jorgensen

, Biologist and community science advocate

Robert Neuwirth

, Economist and author

Clay Shirky

, Internet expert

Andreas Schleicher

, Creator of the

PISA

education assessment

Jane McGonigal

, Game designer

Ivan Krastev

, Public intellectual

Vikram Patel,

Psychiatrist

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

, Neuroscientist

Susan Solomon,

Stem-cell advocate

Ramesh Raskar

, Femtophotographer

Macy Gray,

Singer-songwriter and producer

Daria Musk,

Musician and Google+ sensation

At the conference, TED's award-winning video team will begin editing talks to

share with the world – through its TEDTalks video series – which recently

surpassed 800,000,000 views. TEDTalks from the TEDGlobal 2012 conference

will begin to appear on TED.com during the conference and throughout the

coming year.

A number of world-class brands and companies have partnered with TEDGlobal

to share ideas and foster an atmosphere of innovation. This year's partners

include: Arup, Autodesk, Bain & Company, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Telekom,

Dewar's, frog, Getty Images, Intel, InterContinental Hotel Group, Nespresso,

Novartis, Open University Skolkovo-OpUS, Shell, Unilever, Visit Scotland,

Vodafone Turkey and Steelcase.

The detailed TEDGlobal program and more information can be found online

here:

http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2012/

Details about the TEDLive membership can be found here:

http://www.ted.com/pages/tedlive

About 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 former UK

Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each

spring in

Long Beach, California

, along with the TEDActive simulcast in

Palm

Springs

. The annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in

Edinburgh,

Scotland

.

TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily,

the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive

transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers

worldwide, the educational initiative TED-Ed, and TEDBooks, short e-books by

speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED's stage.

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 TED Fellows 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 http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook

at http://www.facebook.com/TED.

Contact: Erin Allweiss, [e-mail] [phone]