Above: Photos from Trevor Haldenby

It has been close to a month now since TEDxWaterloo took place on February 25 at the Gig Music Hall in Kitchener and we are still continuing to receive great feedback on the event from people who attended in person or caught the livestream. Thank you for the feedback and your continued support!

Since then, the TEDxWaterloo team has been hard at work wrapping up the event, as well as compiling all of the social media buzz surrounding the event.

We are also proud to announce that the TEDxWaterloo Talks are now online, you can watch them here.

Above: TEDxWaterloo 2010 Program featuring speaker bios and TEDxWaterloo Talk descriptions.

Below are photos and videos from the event, as well as a handful of participant reactions that we have come across online, including a tweet from @TEDchris (Chris Anderson, curator of TED).

Please feel free to add further links to blog posts, photos, videos, etc., that we may have missed, in the comments section below.

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TWITTER

- All tweets with the hashtag #TEDxWaterloo

- Chris Anderson Tweet – February 26. 2010

- TEDxWaterloo Twitter Wall – Media Lab Toronto – February 27, 2010

- Visualizing Twitter Activity AKA TweetPlane – March 10, 2010

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NEWS & BLOGS

- TED recap – RQ Magazine – February 25, 2010

- Curiosity sparks quantum discoveries – TheRecord.com – February 25, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo – The Photography of Trevor Haldenby – February 26, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo – Lessons Learned by a Software Tester – February 26, 2010

- A Look at TEDxWaterloo from Rockstar Seats – CuteGecko – February 26, 2010

- Notes from TEDxWaterloo – IndigoFire – February 26, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo Part I – Arthemie’s Blog – February 26, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo Part II – Arthemie’s Blog – February 27, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo Part III – Arthemie’s Blog – February 27, 2010

- TEDx 2: Ideas Worth Creating – Searching for a Unifying Theme – February 27, 2010

- ConnecTED – Daejin Media – March 1, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo – Academic Adventures in Academic Publishing – March 5, 2010

- TEDxWaterloo Photos – RQ Magazine – March 5, 2010

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PHOTOS & VIDEOS

Above: Photos from TEDxWaterloo by Ramy Nassar, Bright Lights Photography

Above: TEDxWaterloo Audience Reactions

Above: TEDxWaterloo 2010 by Rhonda Lee

Above: TEDxWaterloo Afterparty at ArtBar by Rhonda Lee

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Thank you to everyone who donated to TEDxWaterloo. We are still accepting donations to help cover the costs of running the event. If you would still like to donate to help offset the costs, you may use the secure PayPal donate button below.

A number of TEDxWaterloo satellite live webcast viewing parties have been organized by TEDxWaterloo enthusiasts! More information can be found below.

TEDxWaterloo Live Webcast @ St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo – Room 3014

TEDxWaterloo Live Webcast @ University of Waterloo hosted by Arts Student Union

TEDxWaterloo Live Webcast @ University of Guelph (Guestlist Registration Page)

If you are interested in organizing a TEDxWaterloo satellite webcast viewing party, please email info@tedxwaterloo.com

TEDxWaterloo is pleased to announce our final two confirmed speakers for February 25, 2010. Our full list of speakers can be found here.

Speakers include:

Caroline Disler

A master of translation with working knowledge of ancient languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Edomite, Ancient Hebrew, Egyptian, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek.

Michael Sacco

Chocolatier and social entrepreneur promoting the diversity of production of organic cacao through a structure defined as “horizontal trade”

Apply to attend TEDxWaterloo today! Application deadline has been extended to February 9, 2010.

TEDxWaterloo is pleased to announce two more confirmed speakers for February 25, 2010. Current list of speakers can be found here.

Speakers include:

Raymond Laflamme

Founding Director of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing whose insight changed Stephen Hawking’s mind and theories about our universe

Marty Avery

A connector and catalyst whose strategic approach offers remarkable insight into the human side of business

Stay tuned for more…

Apply to attend TEDxWaterloo today! Application deadline is February 1, 2010.

TEDxWaterloo will be taking place on February 25, 2010 at the Gig Music Hall, one of the Region of Waterloo’s hidden gems.

The Gig Music Hall is located at 137 Ontario Street North, Kitchener, Ontario (map)

Speakers include:

Paul Saltzman

Beatles photographer and two-time Emmy Award winning film & television producer-director

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

New York Times best-selling children’s author, radio host and creative filmmaker

Darren Wershler

Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic

Stay tuned for more…

Apply to attend TEDxWaterloo today!

Speakers include:

Terry O’Reilly

Advertising visionary and host of the award-winning radio series “The Age of Persuasion“

Madhur Anand

Internationally-recognized scientist, poet, and professor of Global Ecological Change at the University of Guelph

Philip Beesley

Professor at Waterloo Architecture creating vastly complex ‘living’ environments that can breathe and feel

Stay tuned for more…

Apply to attend TEDxWaterloo today!

We are excited to announce we have started to accept attendee applications!

In the spirit of TED itself, admission will be by invitation and application, so that we can learn more about you in order to set up a spectacular day.   This approach allows us to deeply and more meaningfully plan the event and understand what motivates our audience members.

We’d love to get to know you — please apply here.