
TEDGlobal 2011
The Stuff of Life
July 11-15, 2011 Edinburgh (GMT +01:00)
The core energy and vitality of the TED Conference hums powerfully through TEDGlobal 2011, as a diverse group of speakers tackles the very question of what it means to be alive.
TEDGlobal 2011 | The Stuff of Life
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TEDU Session 1
- Csaba Manyai0:00:01Csaba Manyai, founder, Vis Mentis, and organizer, TEDxDanubia, shares the vision of the Urania Scientific Theater, 1899
- Melissa Waggener Zorkin0:04:24Melissa Waggener Zorkin, CEO, Waggener Edstrom, talks about storytelling.
- Raghava KK0:09:45Raghava KK wants to shake up the children's book.
- Chris Ruffle0:14:52Chris Ruffle tells the story of building a Scottish castle in China.
- Maarten Lens-FitzGerald0:22:05Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, co-founder of Layar, says augmented reality will unlock the physical world.
- Adam Ostrow0:27:04Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief, Mashable, discusses our digital presence after we die.
- Chris Meyer0:34:55Chris Meyer, founder of Monitor Talent, shares 3 big ideas for the future of capitalism.
- Alex Steffen0:43:19Alex Steffen, author and futurist, shares the newest developments in green.
- Alexander Petroff0:54:42Alexander Petroff, TED Senior Fellow, farms in the Congo.
- Bert Govig0:59:11Bert Govig, physician, asks, "Will the next generation be thinner?"
- Frances Wilson1:05:43Frances Wilson lays out three major problems facing hospitals in challenged areas of Africa.
- Audience Q & A1:13:54Host June Cohen asks the audience: What's a trend we should be looking at right now?
- Somi1:24:00Somi, TEDGlobal Fellow, sings mellow soul-jazz inflected by Africa.
- Thomas Dolby1:33:16Thomas Dolby demos his new game, "The Floating World."
- Valeria Polyakova1:40:30Valeria Polyakova tells stories of laughter from hospital corridors.
- Jennie Lees1:44:12Jennie Lees leads an exercise in improv.