TEDx

You have probably heard of TED but you are perhaps less familiar with TEDx. TEDx events are locally/independently organized events that follow many of the same format rules as TED. Talks are supposed to be 18 minutes in length (or thereabouts), the event will have an underlying theme and the whole thing will be designed, planned and run by volunteers.

In the spring of 2012 a group of Uppsala University students, many of them studying sustainable development at CEMUS, decided that it was about time that Uppsala University held its first TEDx event. They chose the theme of resilience, applied for and received the licence and began the laborious task of organizing. I came late to the party only joining as a committee member in late July 2013 – only a couple of months before the big day. Here is all of us after the event and you can check out the entire photo stream on Flickr.