  TEDx Yerevan announces speakers  September 14, 2010 - 16:09 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - After a thorough selection process, the organizing team has come up with the final list of the speakers for TEDx Yerevan to be held on September 25. According to the event official website, co-founder of Reddit.com popular site and founder of Breadpig social enterprise Alexis Ohanian, famous designer Michael Aram, globetrotter and pilgrim Hrair Hawk Khatcherian, CEO of Synopsys Armenia Rich Goldman, founder of TNS Magasin Siemon Scamell-Katz and others will make presentations in Yerevan. As a whole, 20-25 presentations will be made during the conference. TED (Technology Entertainment Design) 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. TEDx is supported in Armenia by Civilitas Foundation and Professionals for Civil Society NGO. Related links:   Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020."   Partner news Most popular in the section |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |
