TEDxSkolkovoChange has been approved to host a livestream event of the TEDxChange 2013 conference on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. TEDxSkolkovoChange will stream Melinda Gates, Cathleen Kaveny, Halimatou Hima, Roger Thurow, Salim Shekh. In addition to the global discussion on positive disruption, TEDxSkolkovoChange will be featuring two live speakers who will speak about the challenges the world faces today.
Disruption is usually unwelcome. It represents conflict, chaos, and potential danger. We discourage disruptive behavior in our homes and our societies, often favoring passivity and compliance.
But disruption can be a positive – sometimes vital – catalyst for change. It can challenge old assumptions, ignite conversations, activate authorities and expose new possibilities. Disruption can shed a unique light on difficult issues, giving a fresh urgency and perspective to the challenges of our global community.
To solve the most intractable challenges in health and development, we need positive disruption. It is the path to true progress.
Melinda Gates
Host
Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with Bill Gates, she shapes and approves the foundation’s strategies, reviews results, and sets the overall direction of the organization. Melinda will host TEDxChange from the Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington.
Cathleen Kaveny
Religion, tradition, and modernity
Cathleen Kaveny is an American legal scholar and theologian. She is a John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Theology at Notre Dame Law School, and is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University.
Halimatou Hima
Investing in girls
Halimatou Hima is a Masters in Public Policy candidate at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Following an internship in the Women & Population Division at the United Nations Foundation, she worked in the Child Protection Division at the United Nations in her home country of Niger (UNICEF).
Roger Thurow
Shifts in agriculture
Roger Thurow joined the Chicago Council in January 2010 after three decades at the Wall Street Journal. For 20 years, he was a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa.
Salim Shekh and Sikha Patra
Vaccine advocates
We will show a trailer from the feature film Revolutionary Optimists, about how children are saving lives in the slums of Calcutta. We will then invite Salim and Sikha, two of the children featured prominently in the film, to join onstage for Q&A.
Dr. Peter Fedichev
Peter Fedichev, Ph.D. is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Quantum Pharmaceuticals.
Peter is a former assistant professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Innsbruck University, Austria). He is the author with over 40 scientific papers. Dr. Fedichev earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He worked at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics in Amsterdam and the Institute for Molecular Physics at Kurchatov Institute (Russian Research Center, Moscow, Russia).
Nickolay Kononov
Editor-in-chief at Hopes & Fears website – a storyteller for Russia's Internet generation looking to start their own businesses.
He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism (Lomonosov Moscow State University), worked as a reporter for Izvestia and Capital Evening. He wrote about business being a Senior Correspondent for the Expert Magazine and then worked for the Russian Forbes for seven years.
Author of ‘God Without a Car. 20 Mad Men That Made Business In Russia From Scratch’ (The book was in Short list of the "NOS" Literary Prize 2012) and ‘Code of Pavel Durov. The Real Story of VKontakte VK.com and Its creator’.
TEDxSkolkovoChange will be showing the webstream in Technopark Skolkovo.
April 03, 20136.30 pm – 10.00 pm
Registrationtedxskolkovo.com
VenueTechnopark Skolkovo
Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation was founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with an objective to accelerate transformation of Russia from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre composed of companies and start-ups, developing innovative technologies (currently numbering over 850), a Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together these entities will establish a vibrant eco-system of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. 28 world’s most successful corporations, including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson& Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, etc. have already recognized the opportunity Skolkovo presents having signed R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation.
www.sk.ru
Open University Skolkovo (OpUS)
Open University Skolkovo aims at creating and developing a community of talented young scholars and entrepreneurs whose expertise provides new human resources and tech startups for the innovation ecosystem of Russia. The participants pass through all the stages of creating a startup - from an idea to setting up a company. They can test their business ideas with the help of business simulation games and real-life contests, take part in events along with world leaders in business and technology, as well as be mentored by successful entrepreneurs.
OpUS is a source of prospective applicants (Masters and PhD) for the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), a source of interns for Skolkovo partner companies, a source of projects for Skolkovo. OpUS is not an educational institution and it does not award diplomas upon completion of it’s programs.
community.sk.ru/opus
Technopark Skolkovo
Technopark “Skolkovo” was started in 2010 as one of the major parts of the “Skolkovo” ecosystem. It is now developing and strengthening its positions as a separate commercial company by widening its range of services and inviting specialists into the team. Today Technopark “Skolkovo” supports innovative companies, who are the members of the “Skolkovo” project, for them to develop technological assets, corporative culture and become the major players on the global markets.
community.sk.ru/technopark
About TEDxChange
TEDxChange 2013 is a TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates. TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. TEDxChange type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxChange, and also feature local speakers. Our event is called TEDx(EventName)(Change), and is one of many TEDx events happening around the globe on April 3rd that will expand on the ideas brought up at TEDxChange 2012.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
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. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
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 former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, California, along with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs; the annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, the recently launched TED-Ed platform for students and educators, the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide, and TEDBooks, short e-books by speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED's stage. 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 TED Fellows 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 or on Facebook. www.ted.com
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