December 06, 2010
Off to TED Women!
This is going to be a GREAT week. ( click here from FB) I am off to Washington to attend the first ever TED Women Conference. The line up is nothing short of spectacular and it includes a number of amazing women I know well. To name a few…
Halla Tomasdottir – co-founder of Audur Capital in Iceland.
Courtney Martin – Blogger, Writer and Internet Entrepreneur
Jacqueline Novogratz – Founder of the Acumen Fund
Lisa Witter – Chief Strategy Officer of Fenton Communication and writer
Other speakers include Madeline Albright, Eve Ensler, Donna Karan, Nancy Pelosi, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – President of Liberia, Ted Turner and it is hosted by one of my fav people on the planet – Pat Mitchell, President of the Paley Center for Media. The whole two days is available by WEBCAST – click here for more information.
If you have not heard of TED before this is what it is..
“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.”