20 March 2010
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 call TEDxPeachtree, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxPeachtree event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep [...]
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16 May 2013
After having lived on the other side of the world for over 20 years, in 2009, I decided to come to the States to taste the feeling of leaving my comfort zone. Leaving the comfort zone was quite uncomfortable honestly. After her third attempt, I finally understood the simple sentence “How are you doing?” on [...]
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09 May 2013
When thinking about which of the many amazing speakers during the past four years of TEDxPeachtree best personified the “Ideas Worth Spreading” mantra of the conference, I really had to think about why TED Talks are important to me. In my favorite talks, I found common themes – a resiliency in the human body, a [...]
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07 May 2013
Last week, I had an opportunity to catch up over coffee with 2010 TEDxPeachtree Speaker, Doug Glanville, who was in Atlanta to call a Braves game on behalf of ESPN, where Glanville works as an on-air analyst for its baseball coverage. Doug does far more than simply on-air analyst work for ESPN. He is also [...]
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