TEDxWarsaw

TEDxWarsaw is an independently organized TED event, run annually since March 2010. License for TEDxWarsaw belongs to Ralph Talmont. It was the first and it currently is the largest TEDx event in Poland.

History

TEDx program was created in early 2009 by TED in the spirit of its mission, “ideas worth spreading”.

TEDxWarsaw was founded in August 2009 by Ralph Talmont together with Adam Liwiński and Maciej Michalski. Łukasz Alwast, Julian Kozankiewicz and Małgorzata Minta joined the Team soon after. As at 2013, more than 20 individuals and numerous partners are involved on a voluntary basis in organization of public TEDx events in Warsaw.

Apart from the annual, invitation only, day-long conference, a number of smaller events are also created by Team members, notably TEDxYouth@Warsaw and TEDxWarsawSalon. All of these are free to attend, while guests are usually required to go through an application process.

As at March 2013 some 100 speakers and artists have appeared at TEDxWarsaw, including well-known scientists, actors and performers as well as less-known thought leaders and achievers in fields ranging from business to photography and personal development to microbiology.

Main Events

Date	Venue	Theme	No. of guests
31 March 2016	Polin, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich	In a Heartbeat	850
18 March 2015	Teatr Polski, Warsaw	The Little Things	850
13 March 2014	Multkino, Złote Tarasy	Embrace the other	850
21 March 2013	Multikino, Złote Tarasy	Poke the Comfort Zone	850
22 March 2012	Multikino, Złote Tarasy	Inspire to be Inspired	800
24 March 2011	Copernicus Science Center	Looking In Looking Out	550
5 March 2010	The Old Library, University of Warsaw	Collaboration	350

The conference has grown continuously and expended its audience size to meet demand. The fourth edition of TEDxWarsaw was watched via a live stream by a total of 42,000 people worldwide with peak viewership of 14,000 at the opening.

The 2013 event received "live" ^[1] in Gazeta Wyborcza one of the main Polish newspapers and was a trending topic on Polish Twitter. As noted in one of the blog posts about the event, TEDxWarsaw's hand-picked audience is very diverse, ranging from high school students to elderly people and public servants to entrepreneurs.

Featured Speakers

2010

Edwin Bendyk - journalist and current affairs commentator

Richard Berkeley - actor, singer and coach

Sandra Bichl - coach and educator

Zbigniew Braniecki - computer scientist and social activist

Anna Dymna - actress and philanthropist

Anna Giza - sociologist

Ivan Hernandez - digital consultant

Hodg Hodgson - architect and sustainability activist

Lori Kent - artist and art professor

Stephen Kines - lawyer

Monika Konieczny - computer programmer

Noam Kostucki - education entrepreneur

Tom Ludvigson and Paul Wertico - musicians

Michał Malinowski - storyteller, curator, oral historian

Marek Minakowski - genealogist and historian

Jacek Olechowski - entrepreneur

Johnathan Ornstein - community organiser

Sebastian Straube - sustainability consultant

Paweł Szczęsny - biologist

Krzysztof Ścierański - musician

Aleks Tarkowski - sociologist, Creative Commons leader

Patrick Trompitz - educator and community builder

Piotr Wardawy - monk

Agata Wiatrowska - horse-assisted educator

2011

Marianna Bednarska - musician

Wojciech Eichelberger - psychotherapist

Paweł Golik - geneticist

Tomasz Grzywaczewski - adventurer

Marcin Jamkowski - writer, photographer, adventurer

Stanisław Karpiński - molecular biologist

Marcin Kobylecki - computer graphics producer

Oskar Korkman - consumer insights director

Mark Krawczyński - architect and pianist

Toshi Nakamura & Ewa Wojkowska ^[2] - social entrepreneurs

Grzegorz Niedźwiecki - paleontologist

Karol Okrasa - chef

Grzegorz Piątek - architecture critic

Grzegorz Piechota - journalist and editor

Krzysztof Rybiński - economist

Tomek Sikora - photographer

Wojtek Sówka - artist and musician

Martin Varsavsky - tech entrepreneur

Kushtrim Xhakli - education entrepreneur

2012

Brien Barnett - journalist

Tom Bieling - industrial designer

Christian Dumais - writer, humorist and lecturer

F.O.U.R.S. - jazz quartet

Karolina Glazer - vocalist and composer

Jamie Keddie - writer and educator

Pepe Kabana Kijachi - artist, writer, storyteller

Krzysztof Klincewicz - academic, professor of management

Aga Kozak - film critic, popular culture journalist

Jakub Koźniewski - designer

Ola Lazar - food blogger and author

Anna Lichota - banker, mountaineer, philanthropist

Barbara Majewska - voice artist and singing coach

Renata Mieńkowska-Norkienne - political scientist

Kuba Pogorzelski - percussionist and sociologist

Edi Pyrek - traveller, author and personal coach

Michael Schudrich - chief Rabbi of Poland

Karolina Sulej - fashion researcher

Rafał Trzaskowski - member of the European Parliament

Karol Wójcicki - astronomer

2013

Joanna Bagniewska - zoologist

Mark Borkowski - PR maven

Zofia Borkowska - choir leader

Małgorzata Chmielewska - nun and community organizer

Mikela Eskanazi - mobile strategist

F.O.U.R.S. - jazz quartet

Andrzej Godlewski - journalist and TV executive

Zuzanna Lewandowska - sociologist and social innovator

Benny Lewis - blogger, "language-hacker"

Louis-Philippe Loncke - adventurer

Johnathan MacDonald - strategist and digital consultant

Katarzyna Miller - psychotherapist

Audrey Scott & Daniel Noll - travel bloggers

Kacper Nosarzewski - foresight consultant

Adrianna Patłaszyńska - dancer

Hanna Paulomäki - oceanographer

Kristin Pedemonti - storyteller

Piotr Skowroński - nuclear physicist

Agata Szostek - user experience design consultant

Kuba Urbański - biologist

Wojciech Urbański - sound designer

Adam Wajrak - journalist

Cezary Wójcik - professor of leadership

See also

• List of TEDx conferences

References