South Dublin County Libraries brings you TEDxTallaght 2010
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South Dublin County Libraries brings you
TEDxTallaght 2010
Thursday 11th November at 7pm
Venue: RUA RED, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Libraries have always been places where ideas are shared and disseminated and as such South Dublin Libraries have been following TED discussions for some time. TEDx licenses are granted to local groups and South Dublin Libraries are delighted to get one of these licenses as part of the Innovation Dublin 2010 festival.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video 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.
The theme for TEDxTallaght is The Alchemy of Ideas – how passionate people and inspired thinkers take dreams and convert them into the gold of actions and change; how new ideas meld to form new and even more innovative horizons.
New ideas, new associations, new initiatives from very diverse contemporary alchemists will be presented at TEDxTallaght. Speakers from diverse backgrounds will tell their stories with passion and enthusiasm about how they are working to make the ordinary extraordinary. This alchemy of thinkers and curious people will inspire and challenge their listeners.
TEDxTallaght: The Speakers
The speakers for TEDxTallaght are hand picked for their inspired thinking and world
acclaimed accomplishments. In the TED tradition, each speaker is challenged to give "the talk of his/her life" in 18 minutes or less. These talks will be interspersed with short musical performances and video. Joining us on 11th November will be:
Darragh Doyle, an online communications and content editor, entertainment and events blogger and internet enthusiast with extensive experience in online community building and member services. By Darragh’s own confession he is one of those internet geeks. He works with Boards.ie as Communications Manager, looking after the education, engagement and involvement of a community of over 200,000 people.
Katherine Zappone is fired by a commitment to social justice and a belief that all human beings should have the opportunity for meaningful work and a life of well-being. For the past 25 years, she has worked with the people of Tallaght - and at national and international levels - to build capacity for the prosperity of Irish society. She now directs the Centre for Progressive Change.
Aoife McLysaght is a Senior Lecturer in Genetics, Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Chair of the Science Gallery Leonardo Group, and Principal Investigator of a Comparative Genomics lab. Her research team made the first ever discovery of novel, human-specific protein-coding genes. She is passionate about science communication and public engagement.
JudyMay Murphy is an internationally renowned speaker, author and coach. She has seven books published by top publishing companies in 28 countries. These include Your Life Only A Gazillion Times Better and the best selling Sleeping Your Way To Success. Judy May appears regularly on nationally broadcast television shows around the world (BBC, Sky, CBS, ABC, WB, Time Warner, Fox), and has been featured in many major publications from Cosmopolitan to The Times. She has enabled thousands of people to reach extraordinary heights in health, fitness, finances, career, adventure, relationships and emotional well being.
Merritt Bucholz was born in Chicago in 1966 and has been living and working in Dublin since 1995. He opened his architectural practice Bucholz McEvoy Architects with Karen McEvoy in and together they have won a myriad of design awards. The ability to think abstractly, in a non-linear way, to assemble things that are seemingly contradictory and give them new meaning — that’s the genius of the architect according to Merritt who is currently the inaugural Professor of Architecture at the University of Limerick.
He was previously visiting professor at Harvard University, and has lectured at Princeton University, Cornell University, the School of Architecture at University College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University.
Booking takes place from Thursday 28th October at 11am. Admission is free but places are limited. To book your place at TEDxTallaght 2010, please visit www.southdublinlibraries.ie to book online.
About TED
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 host local, self-organized 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 TEDxTallaght and South Dublin Libraries on Facebook or Twitter (SDCClibraries) or check out www.tedxtallaght.com www.southdublinlibraries.ie Facebook: www.bit.ly/TEDxTallaght
Press Interviews from Tuesday 26th October – contact Georgina Byrne, County Librarian, South Dublin Libraries at 4597834/086-0438377 or email georginabyrne@sdublincoco.ie
Follow TED on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TED.
For more information please contact Patricia Fitzgerald or Caroline Higgins at 00353-1-4597834 or pfitzgerald@sdublincoco.ie or chiggins@sdublincoco.ie