About
What is TED?
What is TEDx?
What is TEDxPhnomPenh?
The TED Commandments
The TEDxPhnomPenh Team
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has 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, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-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 organize local, independent TED-like events 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.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
WHAT IS TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx – local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
At a TEDx event, TEDTalks videos and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
WHAT IS TEDxPhnom Penh?
TEDxPhnomPenh is a TEDx event that will combine live speakers with TED video screenings and discussions over the course of a day. At this stage, we are planning to hold the event in February 2011.
TEDxPhnomPenh is hosted by a team of representatives from the NGO and private sector, all of who have an interest in giving voice to dynamic individuals whose ideas are ‘worth spreading’.
TEDxPhnomPenh has had three successful events so far — in February and October 2011 at Northbridge International School, and in June, 2012 at Pannasastra University, Cambodia. Click here for information on upcoming TEDxPhnomPenh events.
The TED Commandments
These 10 tips are given to all TED Conference speakers as they prepare their TEDTalks. They help TEDx speakers craft talks that will have a profound impact on the audience.
1. Dream big. Strive to create the best talk you have ever given. Reveal something never seen before. Do something the audience will remember forever. Share an idea that could change the world.
2. Show us the real you. Share your passions, your dreams … and also your fears. Be vulnerable. Speak of failure as well as success.
3. Make the complex plain. Don’t try to dazzle intellectually. Don’t speak in abstractions. Explain! Give examples. Tell stories. Be specific.
4. Connect with people’s emotions. Make us laugh! Make us cry!
5. Don’t flaunt your ego. Don’t boast. It’s the surest way to switch everyone off.
6. No selling from the stage! Unless we have specifically asked you to, do not talk about your company or organization. And don’t even think about pitching your products or services or asking for funding from stage.
7. Feel free to comment on other speakers’ talks, to praise or to criticize. Controversy energizes! Enthusiastic endorsement is powerful!
8. Don’t read your talk. Notes are fine. But if the choice is between reading or rambling, then read!
9. End your talk on time. Doing otherwise is to steal time from the people that follow you. We won’t allow it.
10. Rehearse your talk in front of a trusted friend … for timing, for clarity, for impact.
The TEDxPhnomPenh Team
TEDxPhnomPenh is made possible by the dedicated support of its volunteer organizers, including:
Allie Hoffman
Amandeep Singh
Andy Bedard
Brian Yule
Chamroeun Bun
Eva Lloyd
Genevieve Kelly
Iria Lopez
Jennifer Cassidy
Kounila Keo
Parmita Dalal
Reaksmey Yean
Roswell Thomas
Sen Tharo
Shelby Elizabeth Doyle
Sopheak Hoeun
Tim Brack
Yi Wei
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