Podcasts by Hacking the Red Circle
Hacking the Red Circle is designed to illustrate what it takes to organize, produce, promote and create a world-class event. Veteran organizers share lessons so that first-timers can benefit from their expertise.
Experience a behind the scenes view of the creation of a TEDx.
Not an organizer (yet)? We hope to inspire you to get involved in a local TEDx event in your community. Enjoy the show.
Further podcasts by Mark Sylvester, Host
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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TEDxUCLouvain - Martin Nera - Organizer from 2020-11-14T23:14:15
Finding ways to be creative and stay connected to your TEDx Community during these challenging times of sequestering and dealing with a global pandemic can test even the most creative Organizers.
TEDxHyderabad - Viiveck Verma - Anthony Vipin Das - Co-Organizers from 2019-07-10T21:16:32
Alerted to an amazing TEDx's theater design posted on Facebook, we sought out the organizers of TEDxHyderabad to walk us through the fantastic video and tell us the story.. Please meet Vipin and Vi...
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TEDxGaborone - Gomolemo Lolo Madikgetla Organizer from 2019-07-01T04:39:11
TEDxGaborone - Gomolemo Lolo Madikgetla Organizer by Mark Sylvester, Host
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Stefan Bucher TEDx Speaker - Reflections 8 years after his talk from 2019-05-24T18:20:29
In 2011 Stefan Bucher, an award-winning Designer, presented at TEDxAmericanRiviera (now known as TEDxSantaBarbara.) He recently spoke with Mark Sylvester about reflections of his road to the Red Ci...
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TEDx Founder Lara Stein from 2019-04-16T15:55:13
On the first day of TED2019, Randy Bretz joined the show as a guest host to help me interview the founder of TEDx, Lara Stein.
My favorite quote from her was "there's so much innovation on...
TEDxDonovanCorrectional - Mariette Fourmeaux du Sartel - Organizer from 2019-03-22T05:17:49
In five minutes of listening to Mariette Fourmeaux du Sartel talk about why she has spent the past couple of years going to prison every week to help create TEDxDonovanCorrectional, you will unders...
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TEDxCancun Monica Alba Organizer from 2019-01-25T05:14:28
Monica Alba is a force of nature and the perfect person to lead the team at TEDxCancun, located in one of the most beautiful places along the Gulf of Mexico. Cancun is only 40 years old, and unlike...
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Mark Sylvester, Co-Organizer, TEDxSantaBarbara, Host, Hacking The Red Circle Podcast from 2019-01-07T00:02:50
In this special episode, recorded in September 2018 right after TEDxSantaBarbara, Mark Sylvester (me), the host of Hacking the Red Circle, is interviewed by TEDxLincoln's Randy Bretz and TEDxLaçado...
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TEDxLeicester Siddhi Trivedi Organizer from 2018-12-30T23:19:48
TEDxLeicester, located in the United Kingdom, is organized by Siddhi Trivedi, who has a unique story; she was born in Tanzania, educated in the UK and the United States and has lived and worked acr...
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TEDxLaval Gildo Conte Organizer from 2018-11-29T04:28:54
Gildo Conte is the Organizer of TEDxLaval, located on an island next to Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. His passion and energy are infectious, and I bet it's great fun being a part of his small, five-...
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TEDxTarrytown - Kymberly Marcus, Organizer from 2018-11-20T02:54:05
Kimberly Marcus traveled the path to the Red Circle first as a speaker then made her way to Organizer of TEDxTarrytown in 2017. She made the trek to TEDFest in Brooklyn to remove the population cap...
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TEDxBeaconStreet John Werner Organizer from 2018-10-20T00:24:54
John Werner is the Organizer of TEDxBeaconStreet, one of the top TEDx events that other Organizers would love to visit. In this episode, you'll learn why John and his event have been so successful,...
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TEDxWilmington, Ajit Mathew George, Organizer from 2018-09-30T23:14:08
Ajit George is the organizer of TEDxWilmington, located in Delaware. He is a bundle of energy, as evidenced by the fact his tribe produces 12 events a year, with 172 speakers and 164 talks. It take...
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TEDxShekhawati Masarat Daud Organizer from 2018-08-21T00:00
How do you prepare an event for 7,000 people in rural India from 4,100 miles away in London, and don't hit the ground running until a week before the event? In this episode, we talk with Masarat Da...
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TEDxPittsburgh Chris Daley Organizer from 2018-08-19T19:59:26
Chris Daley is the Organizer of TEDxPittsburgh and is part of a regional TEDx ecosystem with ten events within a short distance. Pittsburgh is a large region, but a small city, so the challenge of ...
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TEDxECUAD - Scott Mallory - Organizer from 2018-07-29T00:00
Scott Mallory is the lead organizer for TEDxECUAD. This is a university event held in Vancouver at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. This year was their second event, and the interview w...
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TEDxAmsterdam Paul Rispens Organizer from 2018-07-15T00:00
I'd been looking forward to posting this conversation with TEDxAmsterdam's organizer Paul Rispens for some time now. I'd heard such great things about the event, and it's on the list of TEDx events...
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TEDxBuffalo Alexandra Opiel Organiser from 2018-07-06T00:00
Alexandra Opiel started at TEDxBuffalo as a volunteer, eventually replacing the original license holder and has run the event for the past three years. By days she's a project manager for a local B...
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TEDxAugusta – TEDxGeorgiaTech -Grace and Chloe Belangia – Mother Daughter Team from 2018-06-30T21:09:36
This was the first mother-daughter podcast we've done. Mom is Grace Belangia, organizer of TEDxAugusta and Chloe Belangia, her daughter, is the organizer of TEDxGeorgiaTech. It was great to meet th...
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TEDxPrague Samuel Titera from 2018-06-20T00:00
Samuel Titera came to TEDxPrague through the route of being one of the four original Czech translators for TED talks. When he learned that TEDx was being organized in Prague for the first time, he ...
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TEDxLilongwe Vincent Kumwenda Organizer from 2018-06-11T00:00
Vincent Kumwenda is the Organizer of TEDxLilongwe, located in the capital city of Malawi. Because they are next to the second largest lake in the world, they focus on ideas that address local issue...
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TEDxBrisbane Juanita Wheeler Organizer from 2018-06-06T00:00
When Juanita Wheeler attended TEDxSouthBankWomen in 2012, she was at a crossroads. She was a director of global marketing for a multinational corporation, but she had fallen out of love with her wo...
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TEDxBlumenau Humberto Cardoso Filho Organizer from 2018-05-24T00:00
Humberto Cardoso Filho is the organizer for TEDxBlumenau located near the capital of Brazil. He and his team have produced 11 main events and 7 salons, all under 100 people. He recently attended TE...
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TEDxTUM -Dora Dzvonyar Organizer from 2018-05-17T00:00
Dora Dzvonyar is the Organizer for TEDxTum (Technical University Munich) in Germany. She's been organizing since 2015 and has several events and produced Salons including a TEDxLive event. There ar...
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TEDxLuanda Januario Jano Organizer from 2018-05-01T00:00
Januario Jano is the Organizer for TEDxLuanda, which is a beautiful city on the western coast of Angola. He is a global soul, born in Angola, with homes in London and Lisbon. Angola is a former Por...
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TEDxKazimierz - Richard Lucas, Organizer from 2018-04-24T00:00
Richard Lucas is a British businessman and social entrepreneur. He has lived in Krakow for more than half of his life, having grown up in Oxford. He has been involved with TEDx as a speaker, sponso...
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TEDxCampinas - Mario Giotto - Organizer from 2018-03-27T00:00
TEDxCampinas held their first event in March 2018. We had this conversation precisely 16 weeks before the big day. Mario Gioto, the Organizer, is also a TEDx Translator. There are over one million ...
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TEDx Sydney Fenella Kernebone Head of Curation from 2018-03-18T00:00
Fenella Kernebone is the Head of Curation for TEDxSydney, responsible for leading the programming for what has become one of the most significant TEDx events in the world. She also curates the yout...
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TEDxLahore – Syed Irteza Ubaid – Organizer from 2018-03-10T00:00
Syed Irteza Ubaid is the Organizer of TEDxLahore, the TEDx Ambassador for Pakistan and a TEDx Translator. That's a lot of TED. He has been involved with at least 18 TEDx events and has one of those...
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TEDxVienna - Réka Artner - Co-Organizer from 2018-02-18T00:00
Réka Artner and her team of 70 have been producing TEDxVienna for several years now. She joined the team after attending TEDxVieannaLive in 2012. It's one of the TEDx events that other organizers w...
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TEDxRosario - Javier Yunes - Organizer from 2018-02-08T00:00
Javier Yunes, whom I met at TEDFest last year, is the organizer for TEDxRosario in Argentina. His town has over 1 million citizens, and thousands of them come to their event each year. He’s most ex...
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TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool - Kiki Tolles - Student Executive Producer from 2018-01-13T00:00
Kiki Tolles is the Student Executive Producer for TEDxLagunaBlancaYouth, an event held here in Santa Barbara, California, home of the Hacking the Red Circle podcast. Kiki is a member of a TEDx prod...
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TEDxYaba Emmanueal Adegboye Organizer from 2018-01-02T00:00
Emmanuel Adegboye is the organizer of TEDxYaba, which is a community located in Lagos, Nigeria. He has a long relationship with TEDx, going back to 2014 as co-organizer of TEDxIfe. He is also the T...
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TEDxChristchurch Kaila Colbin Co-Organizer from 2017-12-14T00:00
Kaila Colbin is the Curator of TEDxChristchurch (New Zealand) and TEDxScottBase. She's also the founder of Missing Link and the New Zealand Ambassador for Singularity University, a co-founder and C...
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TEDxSantaBarbara - Mark Sylvester and Kymberlee Weil from 2017-11-20T00:00
Mark Sylvester and Kymberlee Weil have been bringing TEDx to Santa Barbara since 2010. They started with TEDxAmericanRiviera on 10/10/10, produced it again in 2011 then again in 2012. After a coupl...
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TEDxTysons - Stacy Bradford - Co-Founder - Executive Producer from 2017-11-16T00:00
Stacy Bradford is one of three co-founders of TEDxTysons. Their event is just 20 minutes from Washington DC and is in the middle of a tech corridor she calls the Tech Petting Zoo.
Their m...
TEDxPorto Norberto Amaral from 2017-10-26T00:00
Norberto Amaral is the organizer of TEDxPorto, located in Portugal and formally known as Oporto. It's a long story. Norberto tells us about how they were not able to get into the venue until midnig...
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TEDxOshkosh - Bethany Lerch - Speaker from 2017-10-17T00:00
Bethany Lerch is a former Fulbright and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and was a speaker on the 2016 TEDxOshkosh stage. She spoke about avoiding the pitfalls of taking the wrong approach to internati...
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TEDxWanchai - Shelly Govila - Co-curator from 2017-10-02T00:00
Shelly Govila is one of those super-energetic, passionate TEDsters you’d just love to have on your team. Her team at TEDxWanChai loves her energy as well. She’s very involved in the region, having ...
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TEDxIntuit Kara DeFrias Organizer from 2017-09-26T00:00
Kara DeFrias is a force of nature. She's been involved with TEDx since 2010, having worked at TEDxSanDiego and produced TEDxIntuit. She has many years experience producing big events, including the...
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TEDXNaperville - Arthur Zards - Organizer from 2017-09-22T00:00
Arthur Zards is the organizer of TEDxNaperville and has been innovating with his team since 2009. He watched TED DVDs he'd borrow from friends who attended in Monterey. Since then, he's done two TE...
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TEDxKC Mike Lundgren Organizer from 2017-09-15T00:00
Mike Lundgren is a nine-year veteran of TEDxKC (Kansas City), having produced almost 40 events. His 2017 event sold out in four minutes. They enjoy one of the most spectacular venues for a TEDx, th...
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TEDxSydney Remo Giuffre Organizer from 2017-09-04T00:00
Remo Giuffre, the original licensee of TEDxSydney, has the envious position of curating one of the most widely respected TEDx events in the world. TEDx organizers who've been on the show in the pas...
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TEDxMidAtlantic Craig Fifer Green Room Manager from 2017-08-30T00:00
Craig Fifer has a great job. He runs the team that manages the Green Room at TEDxMidAtlantic. Now, you're thinking, how hard can that be? Well, he's three floors away from the stage, has to make su...
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TEDxCanberra - Gavin Blake - TEDx Graphic Designer from 2017-08-25T05:41:09
Gavin Blake is a visual scribe, a graphic illustrator, and a significant value-add to over 50 TEDx events around the world. His ability to synthesize a talk, in real time, and convert the ideas int...
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TEDxJNJ Penelope Misquitta Organizer from 2017-08-17T23:29:25
For the last 18 months, Penelope Misquitta has been the Organizer and Curator of the internal TEDx events at Johnson & Johnson. TEDxJNJ is a part of the Ambassador Leadership program inside HR in t...
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TEDxMidAtlantic - David Troy - Organizer from 2017-08-08T00:00
David Troy has been producing TEDxMidAtlantic with his co-organizer Nate Mook since 2009. That's eight years of experience which is evident in this episode. David said that working on TEDx adds a l...
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TEDxCesena Jacqueline Oliveira Speaker from 2017-08-01T00:00
Jacqueline Oliveira is a teacher, coach, and TEDx speaker. She spoke at TEDxCesena in 2016 and has some tips for organizers. She's an expert at cross-cultural communications, which helped her, as a...
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TEDxScottBase-Trent-Yeo-Operations from 2017-07-25T00:00
Trent Yeo, the organizer for TEDxQueenstown in New Zealand was invited by TEDxChristchurch organizer, Kaila Colbin, to join a team of five to work for nine months, then spend nine days on the ice. ...
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TEDxJacksonville - Doug Coleman - Organizer from 2017-07-17T00:00
Doug Coleman, the organizer of TEDxJacksonville, is humble and unassuming, which belies his event's impact on the city. He's retired now, but hardly hanging around at the beach. Instead, he's busy ...
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TEDxBemidji Samantha Nienow, Slide Designer from 2017-07-09T00:00
Samantha Nienow is the organizer of TEDxBemidji, in Minnesota, and a professional slide designer at her firm, Red Zest Design. She’s produced the decks for speakers at 14 events and this year produ...
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TEDxSaoPaulo - Elena Crescia - Organizer from 2017-07-03T00:00
Elena Crescia is a TEDx Organizer, a TED Talk Translator and a force of nature. She is from a city of 20 million people and is not awed by producing an event for 10,000. Seriously. Not at all. Last...
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TEDxCesena - Maurizio Berti - Organizer from 2017-06-26T00:00
Maurizio Berti from TEDxCesena produces an event that highlights the area and emphasizes the hospitality that the region is so well known for. His hidden talent is attracting speakers using food, i...
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TEDxPortofSpain-Keita-Demming-Organizer from 2017-06-18T00:00
Keita Demming, the co-organizer of TEDxPortofSpain in Trinidad believes TEDx is an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human. He also knows we have to be a little bit crazy to be organizers...
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TEDx Oshkosh - Craig Burnett Co-Organizer from 2017-06-14T00:00
Craig Burnett is one of the co-organizers at TEDxOshkosh, located in Wisconsin. In 2012 he saw Dan Pallotta's TED talk, and it changed everything for him. Craig likes to explore conflicting ideas. ...
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TEDxLSU - Annemarie Galeucia from 2017-06-05T00:00
Annemarie Galeucia runs operations for TEDxLSU. As an educator, she focuses on communications coaching and loves giving students the experience of running a TEDx. Her experience in high-stakes comm...
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TEDxBucharest - Andrei Dinu - Organizer from 2017-05-28T00:00
Andrei Dinu wrote his dissertation on Organizing a TED event in Romania in 2008 before TEDx was conceived. He focused on the benefits, what to do and how it would work out. He says, “TED found me, ...
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TEDxStPeterPort - Marc Winn - Organizer from 2017-05-22T00:00
Marc Winn is a Changemaker. When he started his TEDxStPeterPort (Guernsey) journey, he asked himself a simple question, "How do we make Guernsey the best place to live on Earth?"
Now, a fe...
TEDxFargo Ted Dintersmith - Speaker from 2017-05-15T00:00
Ted has become one of America’s leading advocates for education policies that foster creativity, innovation, motivation, and purpose. He knows what skills are valuable in a world of change, and how...
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TEDxKoramangala - Raashi Saxena from 2017-05-01T00:00
Raashi Saxena, the organizer for TEDxKoramangala, near Bangalore, is an area packed with startups and provides a great mix of scientist, creators, and inventors.
One of the reasons that s...
TEDxCanberra - Ingrid Tomanuits from 2017-04-20T00:00
Ingrid Tomanuits is the newly installed Executive Producer of TEDxCanberra (Australia). This event has a rich history going back to 2010. Ingrid's been involved since 2012, originally as an attende...
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TEDxAarhus - Belen Jimenez-Mena from 2017-04-19T00:00
Belen Jimenez-Mena is the co-head of curators for TEDxAarhus. Her passion for public speaking began in University when a mentor introduced her to TED talks. She loves listening to the personal stor...
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TEDxWandsworth Amman Abid from 2017-04-18T14:14:55
Amman Abid and his wife, Kay Chauhan, are the founders and organizers of TEDxWandsworth in the boroughs of London. They've learned first-hand how building deep community connections have contribut...
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TEDxSeattle - Phil Klein from 2017-04-18T00:00
Phil Klein is a longtime TEDster, having attended, produced and managed several events. He worked for the mothership (TED) for a year and helped at TED2014 on the attendee experience.
Phi...
TEDXOtaniemi - Hannu Jaakkola from 2017-04-17T02:38:18
Hannu Jaakkola, is the organizer of TEDxOtaniemi in Finland, near Helsinki. This town is known as the largest tech center and the startup-centric area in the country.
When you mention Han...
TEDxWarsaw - Ralph Talmont from 2017-04-16T19:34:46
Ralph Talmont is the organizer for TEDxWarsaw, an Australian with Polish roots who has built one of the flagship TEDx events in Europe.
In 2009, three groups applied independently for a TEDx li...
TEDxJNJ - Steve Garguilo from 2017-04-16T17:43:46
Steve Garguilo runs the Office of Creative Engagement at J&J (Johnson and Johnson), one of the first corporate TEDx events. Learn how this program went from 60 people in a bar after work to one of ...
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TEDxVail - Kat Haber from 2017-04-16T00:00
Kat Haber is a force of nature. No wonder she chooses to spend part time in Vail, Palm Springs and Homer, Alaska, enjoying nature at it's finest in each locale. She also produces a TEDx in Vail and...
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TEDxFonddulac - Sarah Spang from 2017-04-12T00:00
Sarah Spang is a first-time TEDx organizer. Her team is working hard for an event that will happen in August of 2017. Her Taste of TEDx story begins with a visit from TEDxFargo's organizer, Greg Te...
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TEDxKL - Daniel Cerventus from 2017-04-11T00:00
Daniel Cerventus is a long time TEDx organizer and the founding curator of TEDxKL. Daniel is also the TEDx ambassador for SouthEast Asia. He started in 2009 with 50 people and has produced events e...
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TEDxWellington - DK and Hannah Wignall from 2017-04-10T22:51:03
DK and Hannah Wignall jointly run TEDxWellington and do they have a story to tell. This event has been going for five years, and in 2016 they decided to see how much their community trusted them. T...
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TEDxFargo - Greg Tehven from 2017-04-03T00:00
Greg Tehven, the Curator of TEDxFargo, has an infectious enthusiasm for his town and community. He loves finding ways to make the Speaker experience world-class. He's mantra: Build the Community Yo...
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TEDxYouth@Columbia - Kevin Rabinovich from 2017-04-01T19:55:02
Kevin Rabinovich has been working with TEDx since 2011 when he was 13. His story of how he's united 50 high schools in the state of South Carolina is inspiring. He started watching talks in the 4th...
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TEDxPSU - Herbert Reininger from 2017-04-01T18:50:35
Herbert is a longtime TEDster and the original licensee of TEDxPSU at Pennsylvania State University. They are one of the first 100 TEDx's and annually produce an event for 800 with 2,000 viewing on...
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TEDxSalinas - Michelle Serna from 2017-04-01T18:42:59
This episode features Michelle Serna, the organizer of TEDxSalinas. Her passion for her hometown is evident in how she's approached TEDxSalinas. She gave her first TEDx talk at 16, her second at 17...
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TEDxMontreal - Katy Yam from 2017-03-30T21:40:12
Katy Yam is well known in the TEDx Universe. You'll see her and her team at any number of East Coast TEDx events, learning and soaking in the ideas from her peers. She is wildly passionate about 'h...
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TEDxTrondheim - Jennifer Wold from 2017-03-30T20:13:25
Jennifer Wold, a New Hampshire native, and expat living in the picturesque town of Trondheim, Norway has a unique point of view on running her TEDx. She's a classically trained French Chef, and it'...
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TEDxFultonStreet - Aaron Sylvan from 2017-03-26T00:33:48
Aaron Sylvan, the Organizer of TEDxFultonStreet, has a unique perspective on his event. He's been in the startup world for most of his career and loves building who build things, like companies and...
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TEDxSantaBarbara - Scott Mann from 2017-03-25T00:00
Retired Green Beret, Scott Mann gave a talk, Rooftop Leadership at TEDxSantaBarbara. Here's a behind-the-scenes discussion from someone inside the event, but outside the production. A unique point ...
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TEDxSunnyvale - Gordon Garb from 2017-03-24T00:00
Gordon Garb has worked with TED since 2001. He volunteered to help the IT desk at the conference in Monterey. Since then he's attended 80 TEDx events. His take on what a TEDx should be about has le...
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TEDxPasadena - Heather Brunold from 2017-03-24T00:00
"I'm good at pulling threads out of people's souls."
Heather Brunold has a great story to tell about how she was drafted to run TEDxPasadenaWomen last year. As a teacher, mom and consummat...
TEDxSanDiego - Mark Lovett from 2017-03-24T00:00
Mark Lovett has a lot of passion for producing TEDx events. He actively works on three, including one in prison. His story about that experience and what it took to build the first TEDx that was in...
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TEDxQuebec - Denis Francois Gravel from 2017-03-23T00:00
Denis, a presentation coach from Quebec, said, If I can't go to TED, TED will come to me. He'd been trying to get to the main event and finally produced a TEDx, to bring the TEDx experience to his ...
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TEDxCalPoly - Cameron Wiese from 2017-03-22T00:00
Cameron, a senior at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California, decided that 100 people for his first event wouldn't be enough. So, he went to the TEDSummit in Banff, which was a qualifyin...
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TEDxLincoln - Randy Bretz from 2017-03-15T00:00
Randy Bretz, the Organizer for TEDxLincoln, suggests that the secret to managing a TEDx is that he doesn't feel like you have to do everything, yourself. He's very comfortable asking for help. For ...
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