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TEDxWilmington is a licensee of TED, a nonprofit organization and global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. TED believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. TED.com is building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world’s most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long.

Over the years, TEDxWilmington has grown from one annual event to many distinct events, including the Annual TEDxWilmington Conference, TEDxWilmingtonWomen, TEDxWilmingtonYouth, and TEDxWilmingtonED. We invite creators, catalysts, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers and doers to share at our conference events what they are most passionate about – positive ideas for the world and Delaware.

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Our History

The first TEDxWilmington license was granted in the fall of 2011 to organize the very first TEDxWilmington on August 9th, 2012 at the Delaware Art Museum. TEDxWilmington 2013 was held on August 8th with a full-day program at World Cafe Live at the Queen.
Between 2014 and 2015, we organized three additional TEDxWilmington Salons, the first of which was held on November 19th, 2014 at OperaDelaware and the second one on March 13th, 2015 at Winterthur Museum Gallery. The third TEDxWilmington Salon was a ground-breakingly event held at Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution on July 31st, 2015.
August 24, 2016 was the 5th Annual Conference, held at The Queen. TEDxWilmingtonWomen was also held at the Queen on October 27th of that year.
In 2017 there was a total of 12 events; 9 salons and 3 full day events. TEDxYouth@Wilmington took place on April 2, 2017 with the theme “Agents of Change”. The 6th Annual TEDxWilmington Conference was held on August 16th at The Queen. The 2nd Annual TEDxWilmingtonWomen Conference was on November 2nd.
In 2018 there were 4 TEDxWilmington events, including our first Annual TEDxWilmingtonED Conference on February 9th. The theme was Education Possible. On April 28th, TEDxWilmingtonLive was held at Wilmington Friends School. September 27th was our 7th Annual TEDxWilmington Conference, held at the Figure 8 Barn at Bellevue State Park. The 3rd Annual TEDxWilmingtonWomen Conference was held on November 30th at Theatre N.
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What is TED?

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Originally a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged in 1984, today TED covers almost all topics – from science to business to global issues – in more than 100 languages. Owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation, TED’s agenda is to make great ideas accessible and to spark conversation.

What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark a deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = and independently organized TED event.

TEDx has been organized in 170 countries around the world and has hosted more than 15,000 events since its inception in 2009. Over 100,000 talks have been recorded and uploaded to YouTube. The TEDx Talks YouTube Channel has more than 30 million subscribers and over 1 billion views.

That’s a lot of Ideas Worth Spreading!

VISIT TED.COM to LEARN MORE

What is TED?

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics – from science to business to global issues – in more than 100 languages. TED is owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation. TED’s agenda is to make great ideas accessible and spark conversation.

What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark a deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = and independently organized TED event.

TEDx has been organized in 170 countries around the world and hosted more than 15,000 events since its inception in 2009. Over 100,000 talks have been recorded and uploaded to YouTube. The TEDx Talks YouTube Channel has over 30 million subscribers and more than 1 billion views.

That’s a lot of Ideas Worth Spreading!

VISIT TED.COM to LEARN MORE

Our Incredible Team

TEDxWilmington is planned and produced entirely by a Tribe of volunteers.

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Dr. Dan Young

Organizer

Dr. Dan Young is the Founding Director of the Doctor of Business Administration Program at Goldey-Beacom College and is the curator of TEDxGoldeyBeacomCollege, TEDxDover and TEDxHarlem.
 
Dan received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Marketing from the University of Delaware’s Honors Program and his Ph.D. in Marketing from Temple University. He has done entrepreneurship and executive leadership programs with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford. He has been an instructor at Temple University, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware and Wilmington University.
 
Dan has served on the Boards of many local organizations and currently serves on the board of the Caesar Rodney Institute, running their educational initiative S.T.U.DY
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Meg Wall

CO-ORGANIZER

Megan graduated from the University of Delaware in 2019, majoring in Business and Music Management. Prior to joining TEDxWilmington’s team, Megan served on the teams of TEDxDover and TEDxGBC. She’s excited to use her event management skills to bring the best talks to Wilmington in the coming year!
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Nathalie Antonov

MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS

Nathalie Antonov is a Marketing and Events Professional with expertise in producing live music events, usually with her camera in-hand.

At The University of Delaware (Go Blue Hens!), she soaked her toes as a DJ and Promotions Director at student radio station WVUD, which opened the door for her to pursue a career as Promotions Director for Wilmington’s WSTW and WDEL.

Her favorite parts of the job? Producing small, intimate concerts and meet & greets for fans, booking and running the Wilmington Flower Market concerts, and photographing all of these experiences, particularly at Firefly Music Festival.

She continues bringing her creativity, organization, (her camera), and her passion for events to Delaware as part of the team at Gable Music Ventures – and now to the TedXWilmington team too! 

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Anne Johnson

CURATION

I currently work at the Allere Group in a newly created position of corporate synergy. I’ve spent my career curating my experience. From building, owning and operating multinational corporations, to educating and mentoring college students and professionals, to strategic precision implementation.
 
At Allere, I focus on bringing each element of the business: operations, marketing, finance, human resources and others all together to operate at peak synergy for maximum efficiency. More than strategy and cross training, corporate synergy is an overall mode of laser focus, using the individual and integral parts of the business to create a fully functioning, master level whole. Its efforts like this that will keep Allere in the pole position versus the competition.
 
I take my community and my touch within that seriously, I continue to teach, mentor and guide corporate boards toward excellence for all Delawareans and beyond.
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