Attracted by huge advertisement in the city and huge curiousity (just saw Emirates commercial "Tomorrow rewards the curious" on the way), even though I didn't know what TED was, I bought a ticket to the opening session that opened to public in Katara Amphitheater tonight (was attracted to the awesame place also: the amphitheater).
I am glad I came, really.
TED is a non profit international organization that bring together ideas, not only related to Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but broader, and world wide. The idea is that people can get inspired by other people ideas by sharing. Their slogans are like "Ideas worth sharing" or "Ideas for Action", very inspiring.
The theater was full with people coming all the way for the 3 days symposium. The tickets were sold to Qatari public, and it was sold out.
I reached the theater late that I had difficulty to find a seat. Finally I found a seat next to TEDx organizer from Tunisia, and a group of Latinos, I guess from Argentina since one guy from the group was drinking Mate tea.
There were 10 speakers (there is a rule saying to get a new idea by 18 minutes, so that every speakers were limited to speak 18 minutes or less).
1. Raghava KK, an Indian artist
He was an energetic young artist, like a painter or graphic designer.
He introduced his idea to make a plan for 200 years. Not really clear for me.
2. William Noel, a rare book scholar from Baltimore, USA
His topic was a boring topic about how scholar find a way to read an ancient book.
However his idea about to spread the data was interesting.
He said that to keep a book in a good condition, you have to keep it well in a bookshelf, but to keep the data not to disappeared, you have to spread it.
So his institution always publicides their invention of manuscripts online.
3. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian American comedian
I had no idea that an American comedian could be that funny, cause I couldn't laugh well when I watched western comedy, but this guy was really funny, that I laughed till tears dropped.
He made jokes on the Middle East like the tradition of kissing when people met.
Or about Qatar hosting World Cup 2022, he said he was sure that Qatar would win the game since it would be the only team could survive the June heat :) and he said every fan would be supplied with a fan in the stadium :)
4. Nesrin Ozalp, a researcher from Texas A&M University in Qatar
She explained about her research on solar cracking, using solar energy to crack methane into solid carbon and hydrogen gas. She explained it simple and easy to understand.
The research was funded by Qatar Foundation, she promoted.
5. Wolfgang Kessling, a physicist from Solartrans
This was interesting since the introduced the idea of air conditioning without air conditioner.
His company helped Qatar to win the World Cup 2022 bid, by introducing the technology in the bidding package. The same technology was also used in Masdar, the future city in Abu Dhabi.
I didn't understand the theory very well, but by introducing shade to sun and wind, he created a comfortable zone to humanbeing.
6. Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiya, a Qatari head of Food Security
He introduced the great technology of desalination, that change Qatar greatly from the country which was lack of water, to a country with the highest water consumption in the world.
7. Zain Awad, a Jordanian singer and pianist
A beautiful lady, not really special I think, like a singer in a club or restaurant.
8. Diana Laufenberg, a teacher from USA
She talked about success and failure, but I don't remember it well.
9. Yahay Aladeli, TEDx Baghdad
He was an Iraqi refugee holding Swedish passport now.
He held a successful TEDx in dangerous city of Baghdad, to inspire his people to build the country.
10. Hans Rosling, a global health expert.
He was said to be one the most popular speakers for TED.
Inded his talk was interesting.
His topic was about Babies and Religion.
He explained the statistic from 1960, showing countries with religion and the rate of babies per woman in each country.
In conclusion, he said there was no correlation between religion and number of babies.
But the factors that affect the number of babies were like:
- the likeliness for the children to be labour for the family
- level of education of women
etc.
He predicted that even the world population was largely increased to 7 billion in 2011, the world population would be stagnant at 10 billion, so he advised to plan everything for 10 billion people :)
It was fun and inspiring night!
余談ですが、I just know that even though the amphitheater architecture was awesome, the location was a mistake. Just realized tonight, every 10 minutes, airplanes passed above the sky with the elevation that we couldn't ignore the noise. No wonder not many events held in this beautiful theater... what a waste...
I am glad I came, really.
TED is a non profit international organization that bring together ideas, not only related to Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but broader, and world wide. The idea is that people can get inspired by other people ideas by sharing. Their slogans are like "Ideas worth sharing" or "Ideas for Action", very inspiring.
The theater was full with people coming all the way for the 3 days symposium. The tickets were sold to Qatari public, and it was sold out.
I reached the theater late that I had difficulty to find a seat. Finally I found a seat next to TEDx organizer from Tunisia, and a group of Latinos, I guess from Argentina since one guy from the group was drinking Mate tea.
There were 10 speakers (there is a rule saying to get a new idea by 18 minutes, so that every speakers were limited to speak 18 minutes or less).
1. Raghava KK, an Indian artist
He was an energetic young artist, like a painter or graphic designer.
He introduced his idea to make a plan for 200 years. Not really clear for me.
2. William Noel, a rare book scholar from Baltimore, USA
His topic was a boring topic about how scholar find a way to read an ancient book.
However his idea about to spread the data was interesting.
He said that to keep a book in a good condition, you have to keep it well in a bookshelf, but to keep the data not to disappeared, you have to spread it.
So his institution always publicides their invention of manuscripts online.
3. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian American comedian
I had no idea that an American comedian could be that funny, cause I couldn't laugh well when I watched western comedy, but this guy was really funny, that I laughed till tears dropped.
He made jokes on the Middle East like the tradition of kissing when people met.
Or about Qatar hosting World Cup 2022, he said he was sure that Qatar would win the game since it would be the only team could survive the June heat :) and he said every fan would be supplied with a fan in the stadium :)
4. Nesrin Ozalp, a researcher from Texas A&M University in Qatar
She explained about her research on solar cracking, using solar energy to crack methane into solid carbon and hydrogen gas. She explained it simple and easy to understand.
The research was funded by Qatar Foundation, she promoted.
5. Wolfgang Kessling, a physicist from Solartrans
This was interesting since the introduced the idea of air conditioning without air conditioner.
His company helped Qatar to win the World Cup 2022 bid, by introducing the technology in the bidding package. The same technology was also used in Masdar, the future city in Abu Dhabi.
I didn't understand the theory very well, but by introducing shade to sun and wind, he created a comfortable zone to humanbeing.
6. Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiya, a Qatari head of Food Security
He introduced the great technology of desalination, that change Qatar greatly from the country which was lack of water, to a country with the highest water consumption in the world.
7. Zain Awad, a Jordanian singer and pianist
A beautiful lady, not really special I think, like a singer in a club or restaurant.
8. Diana Laufenberg, a teacher from USA
She talked about success and failure, but I don't remember it well.
9. Yahay Aladeli, TEDx Baghdad
He was an Iraqi refugee holding Swedish passport now.
He held a successful TEDx in dangerous city of Baghdad, to inspire his people to build the country.
10. Hans Rosling, a global health expert.
He was said to be one the most popular speakers for TED.
Inded his talk was interesting.
His topic was about Babies and Religion.
He explained the statistic from 1960, showing countries with religion and the rate of babies per woman in each country.
In conclusion, he said there was no correlation between religion and number of babies.
But the factors that affect the number of babies were like:
- the likeliness for the children to be labour for the family
- level of education of women
etc.
He predicted that even the world population was largely increased to 7 billion in 2011, the world population would be stagnant at 10 billion, so he advised to plan everything for 10 billion people :)
It was fun and inspiring night!
余談ですが、I just know that even though the amphitheater architecture was awesome, the location was a mistake. Just realized tonight, every 10 minutes, airplanes passed above the sky with the elevation that we couldn't ignore the noise. No wonder not many events held in this beautiful theater... what a waste...
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