Next Generation

What Would a Ted Speaker Say to Ten Year Olds?

Brussels (BE), May 2011 - You can find out next month at a new kind of TEDx event called TEDxKIDS@Brussels on 01 June. The organisers have invited a team of extraordinary experts (many of them former TED speakers) for a day in Waterloo, Belgium.




At TEDxBrussels 2010 the question was, "Who's going to save the world?". It received some great answers, but we only found the real answer later: If anyone can save the world, it's today's kids. We just need to help them do it.

The experts invited for the TEDxKIDS@Brussels include

  • Hackasaurus, the hardcore of the Mozilla Foundation: Atul Varma, Mozilla's executive director Mark Surman, and Jessica Klein
  • Gever Tulley, The Tinkering School
  • Ed Baafi, MIT MediaLab, who "makes almost anything"
  • Cory Doctorow, Uncompromising Creative Commons blogger
  • Mysto & Pizzi, East Coast Black Eyed Peas remixers
  • Jamie Oliver, cook of cooks
  • Tan Le, maker of Emotiv's brain computer interface
  • Maarten Fitzgerald, augmented-reality researcher and founder of Layar
  • Joris Peels of i-materialise, a global manufacturer of 3D printers.

In addition to giving TED-format talks, they will get to guide 48 children, (all born in 2000 and fluent English speakers) in a series of hands-on workshops.

David Anderegg (Nerds) and Alyson Schafer (Honey, I Wrecked the Kids) will report live on the workshops to the adult audience. This unique event will be presented by America's technology diva Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing.

Participants are invited to come to Waterloo, Belgium on 01 June and attend this one-of-a-kind event. Second, anyone who joins the event on 01 June and Tweets #tedxkids will be entered for a live draw taking place at the end of the day with a chance to win a ticket to TEDActive in Palm Springs with free flight and hotel.