About this event: Imagine a day filled with brilliant speakers, thought-provoking video and mind-blowing conversations. Speakers, speaking to a unique gathering in Kigali Community including millions of TEDx virtual followers across the world on a basis of unleashing new ideas, inspire and inform the world but also contribute to the noble cause of supporting home...

Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war photographer of recent decades. He has covered conflicts and major social issues in more than 30 countries.

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TED Fellow Anjan Sundaram has spent the last decade writing about 21st century dictatorships, forgotten conflicts and discrimination around the world – from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda and India.

About this event: TEDxRugando is a half-day event with an audience of about 100 at Westerwelle Startup Haus, Kigali. Our goal is to bring together Rwanda's best thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs, professionals, and reformers to give talks that are idea-focused, and on a wide range of subjects, to foster learning, inspiration and wonder – and provoke conversatio...

About this event: TEDxNyarugenge will host a live streaming of Sessions 4 and 5 of TED 2013 (in the evening in Kigali on February 27th), and then we will broadcast a session during breakfast and lunch on February 28th from the archived stream.

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By Lisa Katayama In a developed country where the dialogue around human rights is very charity-minded, it's rare to find young people with visions of engaging rural farmers in developing countries as equals. That's why Tokyo native Doga Makiura stands out. When Doga was 13, he left his home in Japan and enrolled himself in a boarding school in...

About this event: That time we watched great video from TED and discissed them. For the first time we chose presentation on TED of GREAT people: 1. Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda 2. Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system 3. Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! 4. Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Everest swim 5. Richard Branson's life at 30,000 ...

Kevin Njabo is coordinating the development of UCLA's newly established Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Most people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings.

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By Courtney E. Martin and John Cary Editor's note: designer John Cary and journalist Courtney E. Martin are the curatorial brains behind the show, “Public Interest Design: Places, Products, & Processes,” which opened at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco last October. The entire exhibit has been reinstalled at TED in Long Beach, an...

Zoom into the strange wonder and potential of stars in our universe.

With her lustrous voice and wide-ranging musical curiosity, Somi spins elegant vocal jazz from African legacies.

Wanda Irving envisions a health care system where no individual is excluded.

About this event: How do we show in our lives being bold, what do we do to become brave and what have we done that is ambitious when we look back?

About this event: Kintsugi: Breaking, Mending, Renewing is a theme that places emphasis on taking risks and exploring the unknown. Talks will defy the norm and draw together conventionally disparate themes, ideas, or techniques. We hope to encourage radical thinking and embrace the discoveries that come from taking a chance to break the conventional and emerge wi...

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About this event: TEDx Nyarugenge Women will come at a critical timing when the world is grappling with covid19, climate change and other social upheavals such as the gender inequality, society injustices and systematic racism. TEDx is the right platform to organise and host speakers who shade light on some of the complex topics and issues and break them down for...

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About this event: TEDxALURwanda is founded in the spirit of TED’s mission of Ideas Worth Spreading. The student-led organisation’s goal is to create unique experiences composed of interdisciplinary talks and engaging exchanges for all attendees. We aim to provide a compelling experience through sharing ideas that change attitudes by bringing together the African ...

About this event: The TEDX NYARUGENGE Countdown Summit will bring together 1,000 Activists and community change drivers and everyone interested in climate change and the environment in a hybrid event at Kigali Marriott- Rwanda on 30th October 2021 under the Theme “Tackling Climate Change”. TEDx speakers will share a blueprint for a beautiful net-zero future. This...

Fascinating and perspective-shifting, these talks demonstrate the ways the 5 senses are being used to build new windows into how we see the world and interact with our surroundings.

About this talk: How can drones revolutionize healthcare in rural Rwanda and potentially beyond? Partnering across disciplines, UPS has helped create the world’s first drone-based medical delivery system, transporting emergency medical supplies to remote villages in Rwanda. On track to hopefully save thousands of lives a year, this scalable syst...

The director of the award-winning documentary The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton is committed to using new technology to give people power to tell their own stories.

Yes, a marathon is about running 26.2 miles. But as May El-Khalil describes in today’s talk, a marathon can also be about so much more -- a chance for people to come together and celebrate the human spirit. El-Khalil is the founder of the Beirut Marathon and, in this talk, she describes how a personal tragedy led her to organize the first...