Local version of world-renowned TED Talks taking place May 16

The popular TED conference series is coming to Des Moines in the form of TEDxDesMoines. TEDx is TED’s series of licensed, locally-organized independent events taking place all over the world. TEDxDesMoines is scheduled for Sunday, May 16 in the State of Iowa Historical Building (600 E. Locust). The Des Moines event will be a combination…

Dave Troy kicks off the TEDxMidAtlantic event in Baltimore. Photo by The Plan8 Podcast via Flickr.

The popular TED conference series is coming to Des Moines in the form of TEDxDesMoines. TEDx is TED’s series of licensed, locally-organized independent events taking place all over the world. TEDxDesMoines is scheduled for Sunday, May 16 in the State of Iowa Historical Building (600 E. Locust).

The Des Moines event will be a combination of videos of past talks put on by internationally acclaimed speakers at the original TED conference series in California as well as live talks from some of Iowa’s most interesting and innovative people. According to organizer Alexander Grgurich, the format is to “show a TED talk on a certain topic, then have a local speaker or two really connect to that topic and showcase what is happening in our community to raise the bar.”

Alexander applied to TED on behalf of Des Moines and was recently awarded the license. Like TED, the event has a limited number of attendees by design. “As a condition of our license, TED has limited our event to 100 attendees,” Alexander explained, “but we want people to start organizing viewing parties for our live web-stream of the event. Big thanks to Eliason Media for sponsoring the web-stream to make this all possible.”

Tickets to TEDxDesMoines are available at no cost and will be awarded from a pool of all those interested. If you would like to participate, apply online at tedxdesmoines.com.

Here’s more on TED, from TED.com:

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 the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

Here’s a talk from TEDxKC by John Gerzema, a video which is now housed on TED.com:

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