Published: 01 April 2010.

Invitation!

Participants who don't live in Croatia can fill out their applications and submit them by 4/7/2010.

If you want to stand on stage and present a creative idea or just tell inspiring life story you can fill out nomination here. In the same place you can nominate individuals who've touched, made you more aware and inspired you, so it's time that others talk about them too.

Published: 02 April 2010.

TEDxZg invitations arrive next week

Upon completion of applications for participants outside Croatia, three curators - Nenad Maljković, Saša Vučinić and Tamás Salusinszky - will decide in collaboration with the Programme Board and based on data from the applications, who will be offered a place in the hall.

Invitations will be received via e-mail, and those whose applications are not accepted will be informed about alternative opportunities for viewing TEDxZagreb.

Published: 05 April 2010.

Introducing TEDxZagreb speakers

Every day until Saturday, 04/17, we will present one or two speakers and performers who will, according to TED's rules, have 18 minutes to thrill, provoke or just encourage us to think. We present data from their biographies and topics of lectures.

The order in which speakers are published is not linked with their performance on TEDxZagreb.

Among the first we have published our space travelers because they bravely go where no other civilian has gone before them. Next in line are the proud physicists, designers with factor X, builders of the Sun and other minds wide open for TEDxZG.

Published: 13 April 2010.

TEDxZagreb live webcast

For all those who won't be in the Gorgona theatre on April 17th we've arranged TEDxZagreb live webcast.

The webcast page is on the web, contains video and Facebook live stream. We'll srtream everything that happens on the stage: the inspired speeches, exceptional presentations and anything but ordinary musical performances.

Watch, comment, and open your minds to ideas worth spreading!

Published: 14 April 2010.

In the spirit of Balthazar

Date has long been known. Speakers and presenters are watching the stopwatch for days to measure how long it takes them to present their ideas. The scenery in the theater will soon be set and is inspired by Professor Baltazar. It only remains the schedule that could also help viewers by webcast to do their daily chores during breaks. And than return to TEDxZagreb, of course!

8:00 - Predrag Pale: Mind Wide Open... day's introduction

9:00 - TEDxZagreb: Hidden Potential
- Davor Pavuna: Ah, Love
- Tina Lee Odinsky-Zec: Space Matters
- TEDTalk: Alex Tabarrok on How Ideas Trump Crises
- Jeff Widman: You don't Know John

10:30 - Networking Break

12:00 - TEDxZagreb: Future is Open
- Marko Rakar: E-president
- Veljko Kukulj: Why Teachers Shouldn't Give Grades to Students?
- TEDTalk: Hans Rosling: Asia's Rise - How and When
- Nenad Bach: All I Want Is Freedom

13:30 - Lunch Break

15:00 - TEDxZagreb: Eco-logical
- Milenko Milinković: Sustainable Buildings
- Igor Jurić: Green Thoughts
- TEDTalk: Alex Steffen Sees a Sustainable Future
- Staša Puškarić: GEA@275 Carbon Removal

16:30 - Networking Break

17:30 - TEDxZagreb: Out of the Box
- Boris Ljubičić: Love Square & Circle
- Mladen Vukmir: By Wartburg to Oxford

18:30 - Dinner Break

20:00 - TEDxZagreb: Can we go Higher?
- Miroslav Ambruš-Kiš i Nebojša Stanojević: Space 2.0
- TEDTalk: Bill Stone Explores the Earth and Space
- Hrvoje Marko Vitturi: How Steps Backward Could be a Start of Going Forward?
- Matej Meštrović: Orient Expresto

21:30 - Closing Networking

Published: 18 April 2010.

Balt, Baltazar, Balt, Baltazar...

And while in the many parts of the world eruption of the volcano stopped work and travel, on saturday other type of the eruption stopped time at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Forteen speakers, six performers, musicians and 233 participants of the first Croatian TEDx event found themselves in a time capsule.

But in there all the time were also twitters and facebookers who watched the event via the web cast. Had there been by their wish lunch would surely have lasted less, aswell as all other breaks, but this was the time for introductions, exchanging ideas, advices. Talk begun after the lights switched off in the theatre and lasted right up to Baltazar call.

"It may seem inappropriate that instead of watching someone's eyes you first check what it says on the pass, but here it is desirable," said Nenad Maljković one of the curators and organizers, the night before the gathering of participants at the hotel Porin. But what to write as the topic at the place where all topics are permitted and where the mind is wide open for areas that may not be the center of interest in everyday life?

Biologists have listened with pleasure marketing specialist Tina Lee Odinsky-Zec, scientists liked the story about the love of their fellow Davor Pavuna, and all were equally thrilled with crested irony and almost child's giggle of designer Boris Ljubičić.

For us it was a day in the laboratory of Professor Baltazar. Everything seemed possible and reasonable by itself. Out of space achievements, electric car, secret codes printed on silk, transparent politics, world peace and reducing emissions of carbon dioxide through marine snow and air exhauster.

"We're on the TEDx map now" - said Željko Krnjak, creative director TEDxZagreb.

It is a good start, we would add.

While expecting videos to show up on our web and Facebook page, check out these photos to see how it was...