The talks will be available on YouTube as soon as they are post-produced and we will be letting you know through the usual channels. If you have shot photos during the event, please tag them tedxwarsaw and point us in their general direction so we can find them. And please let us know if you write (or see) blog posts, too. Send all this stuff to info@tedxwarsaw.com

We are already starting to plan next year’s event. All your suggestions are most welcome – actually expected :) We are always looking to up the already high standards. To that end we are already talking to some amazing speakers and are starting to talk to next year’s sponsors. While we may live on “awesome” an event like this runs on this thing called “money” :) So, naturally, if you are able to help us make connection with companies and organisations which may like to support us next year, we are happy to start dialogue immediately.

Many thanks to our coaches Sandra Bichl and Eileen Gricuk for their time and energy expended on preparing the participants and speakers, respectively. We are glad you are part of the extended family.

And finally, huge thanks again to our friends at EM LAB, Walk and Stream Online. Without your technical and production expertise we would not be able to put together an event of this calibre.

Keep an eye on this blog as we have other ideas in the pipeline. And if you want to get involved, somehow, do get in touch and tell us exactly how you would like to contribute.

We will see you again soon.

Patryk Góralowski, head of Microsoft’s consumer marketing, (assisted by Łukasz Foks) will walk us through the graphic design sources of the Metro design language and its development as the basis for the user interface of the current crop of mobile devices.

Euro MP Rafał Trzaskowski is one of Poland’s leading experts on European Affairs. He lectures on the EU decision-making process and theories of European integration at the University of Warsaw and is a writer and frequent commentator on European policy and international relations.

Karolina Sulej’s academic research has dealt with the role of fashion in places not obviously associated with the subject and her doctoral thesis focused specifically on concentration camps. She will share a story of expression through fashion in the heart of Auschwitz.

Brien Barnett, an American journalist based in Warsaw, spent three consecutive winters in Antarctica, documenting the life and work of the eclectic individuals who make up the scientific community there.

Roman Fleszar and his wife and artistic collaborator Ewa, have created paintings and works of sculpture all around the world, and seem to specialise in unusual commissions – including a set of frescoes for a mediaeval Scottish castle, in China.

This year’s speakers and performers will include Karolina Glazer, rising star of Polish jazz, fresh back from a successful tour of Germany. We are sure she will surprise and delight you with her performance.

The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich will recount some of the personal stories of people he has encountered over his ten years of serving Jewish communities in this country.

Sociologist and percussionist Kuba Pogorzelski will take us on a musical whistle-stop tour of West Africa. Peruvian master storyteller Pepe Cabana Kojachi will present stories from his homeland using a traditional Japanese medium.

Ola Lazar will journey with us through her long and wonderful experience with writing about food, and German industrial designer Tom Bieling will demonstrate communication technology for people with physical disabilities.

This is your last chance to register – we are closing the registration list tomorrow, March 8.

Oh, and one more thing. More than anything else, TEDx is about participation. Do start conversations on Twitter using the hashtag #tedxwarsaw or drop by our Facebook page (thanks for the three thousand Likes as of this morning, everyone!) And participants will be directed to an online tool which will enable you to make contact on the day, compliments of our partners at Confected.

Returning to her homeland from London is Anna Lichota – business executive and adventurer who will tell us exactly what it means to climb the World’s Seven Summits and how it fits into her personal development practice.

Presenting her research on fashion in the Nazi concentration camps will be journalist and stylist Karolina Sulej. And Scottish educator Jamie Keddie will use traditional storytelling techniques with a videotelling twist to present the digital campfire stories of two troubled young women.

We have a truly extraordinary line-up of speakers for you this year and can’t wait to bring you further announcements over the coming weeks. If you haven’t registered yet, do it right now.

Yes, we are already overbooked, as usual. Thank you all for your continuing support and enthusiasm. We are really looking forward to this year’s conference and will be curating the audience to create the most memorable TEDxWarsaw yet. If you would like a chance to attend this year’s conference register now and let us know why you would like to take part. We will close registration on March 8, but RSVPs are already being sent!

We have a truly varied roster of speakers prepared for you and, as is our tradition, will be announcing them in groups over the next few weeks. You will recognise at least some of their names, while you may also expect that some of the most, indeed, inspiring talks will come from people you may not have heard of.

From social relations within Poland’s current political landscape to the most unusual music you’re likely to hear this year, we are sure that the HUGE programme will keep your interest up for the entire day. And then of course there will be an after-party with plenty of opportunities to chat, discuss and debate.

We will also begin to announce our sponsors and partners very soon. We particularly appreciate the ongoing support from our stellar production company EM LAB, who has been with us since the beginning, plus the team at StreamOnline, Poland’s leading provider of live streaming services and also a long term supporter.

We’ll see you at Mutikino Zlote Tarasy on March 22. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so now. We will begin the selection and RSVP process shortly.

We look forward to seeing you on March 22.

In the meantime, do click the link in the header and let us know if you know someone who should be a speaker next year.

And in case you haven’t visited yet, join the conversation on our Facebook page or on Twitter.

Congratulations to Stanisław Skórski on getting TEDxStareMiasto off the ground in beautiful Wroclaw. The event is provisionally set for December and we will bring you more news as they come to hand.

Meanwhile, in Krakow, Ewa and the team have been working overtime to bring the second edition of TEDxKrakow into the World. Their event is coming up on October 20 and there will be a live stream! Check out tedxkrakow.com for details.

Run through the superlatives below and you will quickly see that everyone came back, more than anything else, inspired into action. We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw in March – the next TEDxWarsaw is now getting organised.

From Ralph:
Apart from the very strange feeling of being INSIDE a TED Talk – which no doubt comes from having watched too many of these things, but no matter – this was by far the best organised, most mind-bogglingly diverse, riveting public event I have ever had the pleasure to attend. Seventy+ speakers on subjects ranging from dying with dignity to computer security and pretty much everything in between… (Talks are starting to get on line.) Eight hundred intelligent people with open minds and generous attitude, all of them happy to talk to a visitor from Hawkes Bay (that’s a New Zealand in-joke)… What can beat beers with Clay Shirky and sandwiches with Alain de Botton? The most positively charged crowd I have ever sat in… Flying machines, electric cars, Yemeni journalists… Chris Anderson’s indomitable spirit… Open-minded, energetic TEDx-ers from Sudan, Slovakia and Singapore (and pretty much everywhere else…) And coffee, wow, the coffee – prepared with the most loving care ever. Not a bad way to spend a week.

From Ewa:
I thought it was one of the slickest conferences I’ve been to and was hugely impressed with the amount of thought that had gone into the surrounding experiences – from the Steelcase furniture (I never realised what a difference it would make) to the coffee bars, bookshop, badges, scrapbooking, interactive Autodesk exhibits etc etc. Personally the lack of time to absorb and process information didn’t work for me, but I loved meeting the other TEDx’ers and getting a better grip of what the idea behind it is (which was the whole point of going, for me). I also had the best bircher museli I’ve every had in my life on the first day of TED-U and that alone was worth travelling to Edinburgh for.

From Krystian:
I made a lot of new friends at TEDGlobal, mostly from people working on the Open Translation Project. I liked how international and multicultural the event was, and I liked the attitude of openness towards new ideas and innovation. A lot of the talks were awesome, and I gained a lot of weight from all the food. It’s hard for me to summarize the experience. What I liked the most was certainly all those amazing people I got to meet.

TEDxYouth@Warsaw it is.

Since this conference is organised for slightly different audience than our main event, there’s no usual registration. However, if you’d like to join us on Sept. 9th, don’t hesitate to contact us!