TEDx University of Nicosia

Ideas Worth Spreading

TED is about storytelling. Over the past 30 years, more than 500,000,000 people have viewed a TED Talk from more than 10,000 events worldwide featuring more than 17,000 speakers.

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

About TEDx

x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

TED / Universities

Universities exist as pillars of knowledge and share similar values to those shared by TED. Many of the ideas conveyed at TED talks have been imagined, innovated and thought-of in a lab, research centre or classroom of a University. Universities around the world continue to create some of the most fascinating ideas worth spreading. TEDxUniversityofNicosia is the first University TEDx in Cyprus. The University of Nicosia is the largest University in Cyprus and is actively involved in supporting events that contribute to making Cyprus a more knowledge-driven society.

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Host

Dimitris Kokkoris

Speakers

Christina Orphanidou

Matt Coyne

Elsa Sotiriadis (Solaris)

Jens-Uwe Meyer

Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson

John Zacharias Theophanous

Nicolas Miltiadous

Tey El-Rjula

Nis Nørgaard

Muhammed Muheisen

Lefteris Moumtzis

Freedom Candlemaker

Julio Kompoloi

Eleni Era

Tanyalee Davis

UNBELIEVABLE!

We live in an era of amazement. From advanced technological disruption to the stories shared of the sheer will of ordinary people achieving extraordinary feats. Life today is simply unbelievable.

At TEDxUniversityofNicosia we feel there are two categories of unbelievable: the inspiring and the discouraging. While news media more often concentrate on the discouraging, this year’s TEDxUniversityofNicosia wishes to share both, but mainly, those inspiring, unbelievable stories that enrich societies.

On November 30th TEDxUniversityofNicosia will bring to its stage ten speakers and four performers who will share their stories around the concept of unbelievable. By doing so TEDxUniversityofNicosia hopes to play its part in spreading a feeling of… ‘wow’.

The unbelievable theme meets three of the most essential TEDTalk objectives: