Now TED Loves Women

July 15, 2010: Announcing TEDWomen!

From stage at TEDGlobal 2010, Pat Mitchell announces the next TED conference: TEDWomen, this December in Washington DC.

Over the last several years, our ideas about women have changed. Investing in women and girls was once seen as a radical notion; today, its value is clear. A new lens reveals women as powerful change agents: In developing nations, women and girls hold the vital link to economic growth, public health, political stability. In the West, generations of educated women are forging new directions in the sciences, arts, business and beyond.
To track this emerging story, the first-ever TEDWomen will explore in depth: Who are the women who leading change? What ideas are they championing? How are they shaping the future? TEDWomen will also reveal how women and men, in concert with one another, orchestrate different but complementary approaches to ideas worth spreading.
The cross-disciplinary, cross-generational program will focus on how women think and work, communicate and collaborate, learn and lead—what this means and why it matters to all of us. Speakers from around the globe—from anthropologists to artists, scientists to soldiers, bankers to builders, farmers to futurists—will share their ideas in the world-renowned TED format, creating a program that surprises and inspires.
Some of the speakers you'll hear from will include:

• The women who redesigned their country’s financial system in the wake of near-catastrophe
• The physician who discovered the life-saving importance of treating men and women differently
• The tech pioneer whose human-centered approach is redefining how we interact with computers
• A world leader bringing peace to her conflict-ridden nation
• The teen-age filmmaker whose stories changed how a community saw itself
• A maverick CEO whose ideas on women and leadership will surprise you
• The anthropologist who traces altruism to the mother-child bond
• The sports champion who defies convention with her ability and her appearance
• The explorer collecting stories and preserving languages of endangered cultures
  

As always with TED, the event will bring together an audience of men and women as fascinating and accomplished as the speakers themselves. TEDWomen will be hosted by the president and CEO of The Paley Center, Pat Mitchell—a lifelong journalist and pioneering producer (she was previously the first female president of PBS).
A truly global event, TEDWomen will center in Washington, D.C. and connect live to self-organized events across the globe as part of the TEDx program. These gatherings will connect thousands of people from every continent, creating a global dialogue over the course of the two-day event, which will continue online as the talks get released to the world.
Groups or individuals around the world are encouraged to hold their own independently organized TEDx event in conjunction with TEDWomen. Guidelines are available on the TEDx website.
TEDWomen will be held at the International Trade Center, located on historic Pennsylvania Avenue, and will close with a celebratory evening program at the newly built United States Institute of Peace. It will be the first event held in this architecturally stunning building designed by TED speaker Moshe Safdie.

More info here: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDWomen/program/

http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/announcing_tedw.php

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