What is life? And how can it be lived better? These are questions that we ask ourselves as human being, and they are also questions that are going to be dealt with at TEDGlobal 2011, which starts tomorrow, and runs for 4 days in the glorious city of Edinburgh.
TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading". It started in 1984 as a conference, bringing together three sectors - Technology, Enterainment and Design. Through these sectors, TED explores the power that ideas and innovations have to change our attitudes, our lives, and ultimately our world as a whole.
TEDGlobal is an annual conference, held each year in Edinburgh in the UK. This years conference is titled The Stuff of Life and will see over 50 guest speakers and performers from around the world, who will explore this years theme in their own specific way.
There are some tremendous names amongst the participants this year, all from different backgrounds and professions. Those include; filmmaker Julie Bacha, architect Shohei Shigematsu, artist Joe Castillo, cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen, artist Jae Rhim Lee, actress Thandie Newton, the Vertigo dance company, philosopher Alain de Botton and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. A full list of speakers, events and subjects can be viewed on the
TEDGlobal website.
Edinburgh will no doubt be a wonderful location for what is scheduled to be an important and enjoyable event. With 18-minute talks, music, comedy, technology demos, video interludes and many other events, the TEDGlobal experience will be well worth the trip.