TEDx Liverpool conference tickets go on sale
Tickets go on sale today for an inspirational technology and design conference that organisers hope will bring together a community of the curious in Merseyside.
TEDx Liverpool is a spin-out from the TED conference, an annual event where world-leading thinkers are invited to talk about their passions in 18 minutes or less.
TED’s mission is “ideas worth spreading” – and, as part of that mission, it encourages people to set up their own smaller TEDx events.
Now Herb Kim, who organised an earlier TedX conference in Liverpool in 2009, has teamed up with Dave Brown, of software firm Apposing, to hold another TEDx Liverpool.
The theme of the event, which will be held at FACT, in Wood Street, on Tuesday, November 1, is “A mobile future”.
The keynote speaker will be Mills – full name Matt Miller – the co-founder and “Chief Wonka” of London digital agency and mobile specialist Ustwo.
UsTwo employs some 80 people in London and Sweden, and has worked with companies including Sony, H&M, and the BBC.
Mills says he is “very much the Ustwo mascot and lives and breathes mobile as the Willy Wonka of the app industry” – and calls Ustwo “a cash- positive, non-venture funded, idea generating mothership”.
Ian Wharton, creative director at software publishing and development company Zolmo, has also been confirmed at a speaker.
He recently worked with Jamie Oliver to create an app showcasing the celebrity chef’s recipes.
TED started life in 1984 to bring together people from the worlds of Technology, Entertainment and Design. The central TED event is held in Palm Springs every spring.
It has attracted speakers from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, and from Stephen Hawking to Peter Gabriel.
Many of the best talks have been put on the TED website and have won a global audience. Among the most popular TED talks is one by Liverpudlian academic and author Sir Ken Robinson, who told the conference in 2006 that schools should rethink the way they taught so they did not stifle the natural creativity of their pupils.
The Liverpool event is being supported by FACT, Liverpool John Moores University and creative agencies support agency Merseyside ACME.
Herb Kim, who lives in Liverpool and is chief executive of Sunderland- based Codeworks, said: “This will hopefully be a gathering call for the community in and around Liverpool that is into the creative, digital and technology worlds.
“It’s about finding curious people and bringing together a community of like-minded individuals.
“I’ve been doing TED events in Newcastle and Gateshead and Manchester and Sheffield and Leeds.
“If you live in a city such as San Francisco or London, finding a dense community of creatives is relatively easy. But, if you live in a place that isn’t like that kind of global capital, then those people will exist but finding them and getting them together is the difficult thing.
“For me and Dave, and the people from ACME and LJMU, we’re simply curious to find out who’s out therein Liverpool that’s curious about ideas and innovation.”
Mr Brown said TEDxLiverpool event aimed to attract “inspirational people speaking from other exciting leading mobile and digital agencies”.
He added: “A number of the speakers are going to be from outside the city, so people here will get to know about what other forward thinkers are doing elsewhere in the industry.
“It’s all about ideas and creativity – the whole TED concept of innovation and knowledge.
“TED talks are inspirational to me and others worldwide. They’re great for thinking and learning, and there are a lot of quirky ideas – you get to hear from different people you might not otherwise come across in business or everyday life.”
TO BUY tickets, visit www.tedxliverpool.co.uk
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