Shaping the Future

Shaping the Future

Saturday, September 30, 2023
10:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT
Olin Auditorium
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

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Based in the heart of the Hudson Valley, Bard College is hosting its first ever independently organized TEDx conference that is committed to the core philosophy of TED: to share "ideas worth spreading."

TEDxBard College is a day-long conference featuring insightful talks from students, faculty of Bard College, and members of our broader community. Per our theme—Shaping the Future—this will be a forward-facing event, focusing on how the advancements of the modern age have shaped and will continue to influence human progress across various disciplines, including technology, science, art, politics, and culture.

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About TEDx

  • TED Talks Daily
    TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED Conferences, intimate TED Salons, and thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world. Videos of these talks are made available for free on TED.com and other platforms. Audio versions of TED Talks are published to TED Talks Daily, available on all podcast platforms.
  • What is TEDx?
    x = independently organized event. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBard College, where Bard College independently organized a TED event. At our TEDxBard College event, TED Talks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
  • More About TED
    TED’s open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translators Program, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed.

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