TEDxTokyo Instagram account has reach over 500 followers – Thank you! Heading into 2017, we updated our Facebook page and website, and our newly opened Instagram account has

TEDxTokyo2016 Talks are all online! Greetings from TEDxTokyo! The event on October 22 opened up with spectacular performances, and altogether we had 18 people who shared thei

Check out our photos from the 2016 TEDxTokyo event held at BMW Group Tokyo Bay. You can find all the photos on our Official TEDxTokyo Flickr account. Find more about TED, TEDx and

Sami Elu lives to share the rhythm, and the setting doesn’t matter. The longtime musician began playing gigs soon after he landed in Japan in 2006 both at established venues and on

Abigail Terrien is a serial social entrepreneur with the good of the planet in mind. She’s started several ventures since moving from Paris to Tokyo in 2003, and markets eco-friend

The Partners, Participants and Volunteers in TEDxTokyo expressed "X" for tomorrow.

Rinpa Eshidan is a unique artist's collective driven by the process of creation and group collaboration. Their artworks include live art performances, motion painting, designs, wal

Kazuto Ataka, the man who excels at big data and market insights, business development and strategies as well as data science. He majored in molecular biology at the University of

Humans have five senses, one of them being taste. And Hiromi Nakamura is changing the norms for how taste is experienced using a new technology of the 21st century, electric flavor

To achieve your goals, Hiroshi Ishii says, you must continuously stand out like the proverbial nail regardless of how many times you are hammered down, race alone down the path you

On the eve of our 2016 TEDxTokyo event, you can see our speakers, performers, and the team get together to run through the program before the show tomorrow. The speakers and per

Musicians tend to perform using instruments built by masters of their own craft. Sami Elu is one of rare few who also invent and build what they play.

The theme of the first ever TEDxTohokuUniversity is "Open Doors". By drawing on the Open Door policy of our university we want the ideas born here, in Tohoku University, to spread

Our theme this year is 'The Power of Perspective'. It aims to bring speakers together to discuss the ways that perspective can influence not only how we view the world, but also ho

今年度の「TEDxShinshuUniversity」のテーマは「奏」~From Shinshu to the World~です。「奏」という漢字には、「音を奏でる」「功を奏す」というように、音楽をかなでる、成し遂げる、という意味があります。

TEDxAPU is an yearly event organised by Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University students which it features APU faculty, alumni, and other invited guests from different organisations an

TEDxChibaU は、アメリカ発祥の世界的なイベント TED の「Ideas Worth Spreading(価値のあるアイディアを世の中に広める)」理念を引き継ぎ、これを千葉と千葉大学特有の魅力でアピールすることを目的としています。

滴は水面に落ちると波紋を引き起こし、 その波は水面を着実に広がっていきます。 滴が複数あれば、波紋が新しい形の波を生み出します。 私たちは今回、スピーカーが提供してくれるアイデアを滴に見立てました。

(日本語) 今年のテーマは「Prism」 プリズムを通った光が屈折して様々な色が広がる様に、慶應義塾という学校をプリズムに見立て、そこを通過した同窓生及び在校生が様々な場所で活躍しているということをイメージしたものです。

We are pleased to announce the next TEDxKyoto 2016 event – “Ichigo Ichie”. TEDxKyoto will be held this year on Sunday October 16th at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Morita Me

Takafumi Horie – Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie says the most crucial thing when you are facing your dreams or objectives is to avoid making excuses, like “but I haven’t got mon

Little girls grow up hearing both implicit and explicit messages suggesting that the most important attribute they can strive for is beauty. A media culture that focuses on denigra

Kazuto Ataka – Futurist Kazuto Ataka, the man who excels at big data and market insights, business development and strategies as well as data science. He majored in molecular

Elaine Hsiao is a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biology at Caltech. She received her undergraduate degree in microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics from UCLA and he

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Julien argues how we see the World through cultural glasses. By changing the glasses you can change the way you interpret the World. Julien is the founder of Mondå, a project that

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-transis… Modern computers are revolutionizing our lives, performing tasks unimaginable only decades ago. This was made possibl

“Institutional Investor” has ranked Kathy Matsui the top equity strategist in Japan several times, yet her role as co-head of Asia macro research at Goldman Sachs fulfi

Working to bring a “revolution” to people and companies in this era where change is so fiercely required. Sasaki has been an integral part in the realisation of future-oriented org

Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006. Unable to move as a result of the cancer that h

  Hiromi Nakamura – Human Computer Interaction Researcher & Super Creator Humans have five senses, one of them being taste. And Hiromi Nakamura is changing the norms

At the age of 60, Masako Wakamiya (also known as Ma-chan) decided that she would teach herself how to use a computer so that she could stay connected after retirement. In 1999, she

Halla M. Yagoub, A 16 years old, born to a typical Sudanese family she lived a pretty normal life, until the age of six, then her whole life changed when she met Harry Potter. From

Sorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the ac

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-curable-c… An estimated 20 million cases of blindness worldwide are caused by cataracts, a curable condition affecting the lens

Hans Reitz shares a vision with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus: a planet utterly without poverty. In 2008, the two established the Grameen Creative Lab to spr

What if you lost your job? Well you would get a new one…of course…. Martina was in this particular situation. But unlike most of us, she did not let herself drive by fe

Jack Andraka was named the Gordon E. Moore Award winner at Intel ISEF 2012 (basically the Olympics for high school science research) for his novel, non-invasive paper sensor to det

Everyone has an opinion about sex work, but what does sex worker Toni Mac think? Toni takes us through four different legal models addressing the sex industry and explains why she

Kyoto-born Dr. Naoto Ueno’s avowed mission is to nurture a new generation of oncology investigators and reduce the suffering of breast cancer patients through research_driven clini

Emily May talks about her successful efforts to fight street harassment using social media. She is the cofounder of Hollaback!, the anti-street-harassment movement, and a recent wi

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-… Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing… often all at the same time! If

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-pain… Some people take aspirin or ibuprofen to treat everyday aches and pains, but how exactly do the different classes of

There are some things about Japan that only become obvious to the Japanese once they leave the country. When Souryou Matsumura was wandering around Europe, he became keenly aware o