If tomorrow’s bike in movie from the creators of the Disposable Film Fest wasn’t enough reason to get excited about this humpday, registration for TEDxSoMa later this month might be. The second day of insightful talks at the Parisoma co-working space on May 21 is particularly of interest with its focus on female entrepreneurs advancing the world through technology. As the “daughter” of the TED conference, TEDxSoMa is a community-organized gathering to inspire and “marshal like-minded innovationists.” Ten-minute talks will be delivered by the likes of Nicole Lazzro, founder of the first player experience design company XEODesign, and Pankaj Kedia, who delivers Intel silicon in the form of mobile Internet devices.
The benefits of TEDx events have been described in detail this week on the Ignite organizers message board, and the videos I’ve seen of the community events have been fantastically informative. My favorite to date is the “raising kids to be entrepreneurs” talk out of Edmonton, but that could change pending the next local talks.
Should be easy enough using this online TED talk generator.
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