TEDx SP
November 23rd, 2009
Earlier this year we wrote about TED and the TED Prize, two amazing initiatives that work to make the world a better place and they do it by spreading ideas that can improve everyone’s lives.
On november 14th the first TEDx in Brazil, more precisely in São Paulo, happened. The event invited 30 professionals from different areas of expertise to expose their theories about the theme: What Brazil has to offer the world now ?
Following the idea of the original TED, the talks were filmed and are being posted online for everybody to see, the first one is already online, and it is a very emotionally charged talk presented by Guti Fraga, creator of the project Nós do Morro, a theather group with young people from the Vidigal slum. Another speaker was João Cavalcanti, one of the founders of Box 1824, which talked about the importance of having a unifying national concept. To help brazilians find that, the company, which speacializes in research, will donate to the country a study that tries to comprehend the national dream, the one that goes beyond the individual needs. Other speakers were actress Regina Casé which wisely proposed that Brazil cab become the “anti guetto vanguard”, Fernanda Viegas, which presented her data visualization tool called Many Eyes; Augusto de Franco, an expert in social networks, the 92 year old teacher Adozinda Kuhlmann, which said that ideias are a national treasure and Eduardo Moreira, founder of the Grupo Galpão, which reminded us of the power that art has to transform the world, along with many other speakers. Together with all of that, four musical attractions that were memorable: Rannieri Oliveira, Thalma de Freitas, Jarbas Agnelli and Vitor Araújo. Watch more videos and images after the jump.
Fotos, som e vídeo capturados durante o TEDXSP 2009 por Mauro Rubens
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