TEDxWarsaw

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TEDxWarsaw is an independently organized TED event, run annually since March 2010. It was the first and currently is the largest TEDx event in Poland.

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History

TEDxWarsaw was founded in August 2009 by Ralph Talmont together with Adam Liwiński and Maciej Michalski. Łukasz Alwast, Julian Kozankiewicz, Małgorzata Minta and Mateusz Nowak joined the Team soon after. As of March 2017, close to 40 individuals and numerous partners are involved on a voluntary basis in the organization of public TEDx events in Warsaw.

Apart from the annual, invitation-only, day-long conference, a number of smaller events are also created by Team members, notably TEDxYouth@Warsaw, TEDxWarsawSalon, and TEDxWarsawPresidentialPalace - the first TEDx event in the World to be held inside such an institution. All of these are free to attend, while guests are usually required to go through an application process.

As of March 2017, well over 200 speakers and artists have appeared at the various TEDxWarsaw events, including well-known scientists, actors, and performers, as well as less well-known thought leaders and achievers in fields ranging from business to photography and personal development to microbiology.

Events

DateVenueThemeNo. of guests
23 March 2017Multikino, Złote TarasyCrunchtime850
31 March 2016Polin, Muzeum Historii Żydów PolskichIn a Heartbeat550
18 March 2015Teatr Polski, WarsawThe Little Things850
13 March 2014Multkino, Złote TarasyEmbrace the other1400
21 March 2013Multikino, Złote TarasyPoke the Comfort Zone850
22 March 2012Multikino, Złote TarasyInspire to be Inspired800
24 March 2011Copernicus Science CenterLooking In Looking Out550
5 March 2010The Old Library, University of WarsawCollaboration350

The conference has grown continuously and expanded its audience size to meet demand. The fourth edition of TEDxWarsaw was watched via a live stream by a total of 42,000 people worldwide with peak viewership of 14,000 at the opening.

The 2013 event received "live" [1] in Gazeta Wyborcza one of the main Polish newspapers and was a trending topic on Polish Twitter. As noted in one of the blog posts about the event, TEDxWarsaw's hand-picked audience is very diverse, ranging from high school students to the elderly, and includes many different professions, from public servants to entrepreneurs and artists to scientists.

YearNameDomain
2013Joanna BagniewskaZoologist
Mark BorkowskiPR expert
Zofia BorkowskaChoir leader
Małgorzata ChmielewskaNun and community organizer
Mikela EskanaziMobile strategist
F.O.U.R.S.Jazz quartet
Andrzej GodlewskiJournalist and TV executive
Zuzanna LewandowskaSocial entrepreneur & innovator
Benny LewisBlogger, "language-hacker"
Louis-Philippe Loncke Adventurer
Johnathan MacDonaldStrategist and digital consultant
Katarzyna MillerPsychotherapist
Audrey Scott & Daniel NollTravel bloggers
Kacper NosarzewskiForesight consultant
Adrianna PatłaszyńskaDancer
Hanna PaulomäkiOceanographer
Kristin PedemontiStoryteller
Piotr SkowrońskiNuclear physicist
Agata SzostekUser experience design consultant
Kuba UrbańskiBiologist
Wojciech UrbańskiSound designer
Adam WajrakJournalist
Cezary WójcikProfessor of leadership
2012Brien BarnettJournalist
Tom BielingIndustrial designer
Christian DumaisWriter, humorist and lecturer
F.O.U.R.S.Jazz quartet
Karolina GlazerVocalist and composer
Jamie KeddieWriter and educator
Pepe Kabana KijachiArtist, writer, storyteller
Krzysztof KlincewiczAcademic, professor of management
Aga KozakFilm critic, popular culture journalist
Jakub KoźniewskiDesigner
Ola LazarFood blogger and author
Anna LichotaBanker, mountaineer, philanthropist
Barbara MajewskaVoice artist and singing coach
Renata Mieńkowska-NorkiennePolitical scientist
Kuba PogorzelskiPercussionist and sociologist
Edi PyrekTraveller, author and personal coach
Michael SchudrichChief Rabbi of Poland
Karolina SulejFashion researcher
Rafał TrzaskowskiMember of the European Parliament
Karol WójcickiAstronomer
2011Marianna BednarskaMusician
Wojciech EichelbergerPsychotherapist
Paweł GolikGeneticist
Tomasz GrzywaczewskiAdventurer
Marcin JamkowskiWriter, photographer, adventurer
Stanisław KarpińskiMolecular biologist
Marcin KobyleckiComputer graphics producer
Oskar KorkmanConsumer insights director
Mark KrawczyńskiArchitect and pianist
Toshi Nakamura & Ewa Wojkowska Social entrepreneurs
Grzegorz NiedźwieckiPaleontologist
Karol OkrasaChef
Grzegorz PiątekArchitecture critic
Grzegorz PiechotaJournalist and editor
Krzysztof RybińskiEconomist
Tomek SikoraPhotographer
Wojtek SówkaArtist and musician
Martin Varsavsky Tech entrepreneur
Kushtrim XhakliEducation entrepreneur
2010 pl:Edwin Bendyk Journalist and current affairs commentator
pl:Richard Berkeley Actor, singer and coach
Sandra BichlCoach and educator
Zbigniew BranieckiComputer scientist and social activist
Anna Dymna Actress and philanthropist
Anna GizaSociologist
Ivan HernandezDigital consultant
Hodg HodgsonArchitect and sustainability activist
Lori KentArtist and art professor
Stephen KinesLawyer
Monika KoniecznyComputer programmer
Noam KostuckiEducation entrepreneur
Krzysztof Ścierański, Tom Ludvigson and Paul Wertico Musicians
Michał MalinowskiStoryteller, curator, oral historian
Marek MinakowskiGenealogist and historian
Jacek OlechowskiEntrepreneur
Johnathan OrnsteinCommunity organiser
Sebastian StraubeSustainability consultant
Paweł SzczęsnyBiologist
Alek TarkowskiSociologist, Creative Commons leader
Patrick TrompitzEducator and community builder
Piotr WardawyMonk
Agata WiatrowskaHorse-assisted educator

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