TEDxAmsterdamED
In 2009 TED created TEDx. TEDx gives people from all over the world the opportunity to organize their own local TED-like experience and bring people together for ideas worth sharing.
TEDxAmsterdamED was launched six years ago in 2012 with a single idea: what if we could create an event to open up education to the outside world and provide inspiration to the inside? TED had just started branching further into their TED-Ed platform and were happy to give us a license. Since that first year we have brought more than sixty ideas worth sharing to our stage and to TEDx online and many more ideas were ignited within our audience each year.
Other TEDx events in Amsterdam are TEDxAmsterdamYouth, TEDxAmsterdamWomen and TEDxAmsterdam.
Mission and vision
TEDxAmsterdamEducation is the ultimate platform for spreading new ideas and visions about education and learning. We act as a catalyst, incubator, trendsetter and source of inspiration for the future of education.
Besides the traditional field of education (primary and secondary schools, vocational and higher education), TEDxAmsterdamED focuses on all stakeholders (companies, governments, NGO’s, cultural institutions and the students) who offer new possibilities for connecting education and lifelong learning with our society.
Our long-term wish is to play a key role in giving visibility to all the small and impactful changes that are happening in the Netherlands (and abroad) already. Every day, everywhere. We aim to inspire the established education systems to function in such a way that students, young and old, are motivated to learn and bring out the best in themselves.
Our stage has become the perfect spot for sharing ideas, inspiring each other, and mobilizing all stakeholders in education.
The TED brand encourages all eccentric and brilliant people that really dare to see and act upon what is necessary to develop change. We bring together a diverse group of people who have a passion for the exploration of new possibilities for educating, learning and developing.
We link our valuable community to great ideas.
TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Starting as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has now grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, for free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonja-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs. TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.
TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; TED-Ed, which sparks and celebrates the ideas of students and teachers around the world; and the TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
