2015 Theme: “Never Stop”

2015 Theme:
“Never Stop”
18 April, 2015 (Saturday)
Hong Kong Cyberport
“Ideas Worth Spreading”
• Bring together
likeminded community
members to talk and
hear new exciting ideas
• Create an experience
that has a lasting impact
on people’s lives and
ways of thinking
• Change the world!
TEDxHongKong
●The First and largest TEDx events in Hong Kong
●TEDxHongKongEd is the first TEDxED in Asia
●1,000 community members per event
●4 events per year
○ TEDxHKLive (March 21, 2015 SOLD OUT)
○ TEDxHKED (April 18, 2015)
●Speakers from home and around the world
●100% volunteer driven (HELP!!!!)
2015 Calendar
Mar
Live Simulcast TED2015
Apr
TEDxHongKongED
Oct
Nov
Live Simulcast TEDGlobal2015
TEDxHongKong
Some Team Members
Dr. Gino Yu
Mr. Jong Lee
Ivy Shum
License holder
Co-curator
Coordinator
2015
“Never Stop”
● Learning is Living
● We never truly
stop learning
● Exploring and
sharing journeys
How Does
TEDxHongKong
Nature
of Event Work?
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The TEDxHongKong team approaches speakers
The team organizes and curates an experience that
fits the audience and conveys the topic in a
creative way
The audience is engaged in an experience that
endows new perspectives and creates opportunity
to share their own with the network
● Spreading ideas through short, powerful talks (10 - 15 min)
● Technology, Entertainment and Design convergence
● journalists, technologists, artists, psychologists, professional
athletes, musicians and not-for-profit sector
Target Audience
2013 - “School’s Out”
1,000 Attendees
12 Speakers & Performers
● Chris Brien
● Douglas Kidd
● Francis Ngai
● Julian Zhu
● Merjin Everaarts
● Peter Kenny
● Sophie Leung
1,000 Attendees
2014 - “InspirED”
16 Speakers & Performers
● Daniel Makoski
● Cesar Harada
● Karin Ann
● Kim Anderson
● Mark Sagar
● Ryan Lee
● Steve Brown
Event Highlights
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