Have you ever wondered what a real TED event, with innovative and world class speakers, is like?

TEDxGhent gives you an opportunity to follow TED 2013 (directly from Long Beach, California) live on screen, and get a taste of TED 2013, ‘The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered’.

Join us in the spirit of ‘Ideas worth spreading’ on 27th Feb at ‘Het Pand’.

During the break, there will be a live talk by UGent professor Koen Schoors.

17.30 – 19.15  Streaming TED2013: Disrupt

Alastair Parvin, Designer

Danny Hillis, Computer Theorist

Black, Yo-Yo Champion

Lesley Perkes, Public Art Instigator

Liu Bolin, Artist

Amanda Palmer, Musician & Blogger

Larry Lessig, Legal Activist

19.30 Live Talk:  Prof. Dr.  Koen Schoors (Ghent University)

Koen Schoors talks about his book ‘De Perfecte Storm’ (Koen Schoors, Gert Peersman, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2012)

‘De perfecte storm’ (‘The perfect storm’), explores the recent tempestuous events that shook our economic system to the core. Banks going bankrupt, the eurocrisis and the costs of an ageing society: these crises put together can lead to a ‘Perfect Storm’. How did it come to all this? Who is to blame? Is our welfare state threatened ? Koen Schoors tries to answer these questions and contemplates possible new economical structures for Belgium and Europe.

20.00 – 21.45  Streaming TED2013 : Dream

Rich+Tone Talauega, Creative Directors & Choreographers

Elon Musk, Serial Entrepreneur

Mary Lou Jepsen, Screen Engineer

Taylor Wilson, Nuclear Scientist

Ji-Hae Park, Violinist

Stewart Brand, Environmentalist & Futurist

Where:

Room Rector Blancquaert, Het Pand

Onderbergen 1  9000 Gent, Belgium

When:

27th Feb 2013, from 17.30 – 21.45

More information about TEDxGhentLive? Send us an e-mail at tedxghentlive@tedxghent.be

For more information about the TED 2013 line-up  http://conferences.ted.com/TED2013/program/guide.php