TEDxPORTHARCOURT
A people with a purpose...
TEDxPortHarcourt is part of the global community of TED (“Technology, Entertainment, Design”). It is entirely volunteer-run & volunteer-supported. It is a community of like-minded individuals passionate about reshaping their immediate environment. Port Harcourt is the perfect breeding place for powerful ideas. That is why Port Harcourt and TEDx is a great and wise combination. Over the past 9 years, TEDxPortHarcourt has become an integral and inseparable part of the city. To celebrate our 10th anniversary , we are pleased to announce our theme for TEDxPortHarcourt 2022 : “Ones and Zeros” – a conversation on multiple truths.
The Team
About TED
Ideas worth spreading...
TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
TEDCountDown
What ideas, solutions, and conversations are emerging from local social impact ecosystems? What role do social entrepreneurs play in addressing local problems? TED COUNTDOWN The TED Countdown event is an initiative by TED’s Chris Anderson & Future Stewart’s Lindsay Levin. It is centred around climate and the inevitability of its impact on human life & living and an attempt to achieve net zero on the emissions that warm up the planet - Countdown to Zero Emissions. In an attempt to champion the cause of changing climate change, TED has had captains of industry and individuals of repute in the climate action space such as Prince William, Prince of Wales, Pope Francis, Yemi Alade, Christina Figueres, Rose Mutiso, David Lammy, Sigrid, Johan Rockström, & Greta Thunberg share through talks and performances, scientific and social impacts of climate change. We are pleased to state that of the 5000, TED licensed cities, we, TEDxPortHarcourt are one of the 20 selected to host this year’s Countdown Anchor event.