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Ask HN: Interest in launching your own mini-TED conference?

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Hey - I'm Yongho, part of the TEDx team of TED Conferences. If you are familiar with TEDtalks and the TED conference, TEDx is a program for hosting your own local TED-like events. (more at http://www.ted.com/tedx) HN is a community of entrepreneurs and innovators, but I'm curious - how familiar are you with the TEDx program? Have you heard about it? Have you attended a TEDx event? What have you heard about them?

What questions do you have about TEDx (whether or not you are a host)? Feel free to ask questions. I feel HN is the right community to ask these questions to and I really value your feedback!

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I went to TEDxCam and it was a good experience. I think one problem with the TEDx conferences is finding out about them, I only found out about it by word-of-mouth. It would be nice if I could go to some website and subscribe for notifications of say TEDx events occurring in the UK.

We list all TEDx events at http://www.ted.com/pages/view?id=348 But I see what you mean about auto-notification. If you could sign up with an account for TED.com, input your current location, and automatically receive updates from nearby TEDx events, would you use it?

Definitely

Id be very interested, I wonder if there is already someone in the Boston/Cambridge area doing something like this.

TEDxCambridge launches in 3 days. :) http://www.tedxcambridge.com/blog/

I have heard of it, and I'm interested in it. I'd love to see an event in Atlanta.

Hmm, I see now that someone's got one happening in Atlanta this coming Tuesday.

Thanks for the quick turnaround. ;)

I will add, though, that I just submitted my information to be invited as there is a wait-list. The topic of the event is education, and I am exploring a career in educational psychology. Any help in gaining admission would be appreciated as it would be especially valuable to me at this point in my career.

I'd like to help out, but admission is up to the local organizers.

How did you hear about it?

I have a friend who spoke at an event in Croatia. Also, I think I discovered it even prior to that through some video or another that someone in my network shared.

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