TEDxIDAHO STATE UNIVERSIT Y
Presenting New Ideas
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n Idaho State University international student has taken a
last October. “That day, I was able to understand the wide diversity of
lead role in organizing a local TEDx forum, during which
what our world is headed toward,” Yadav said. “It amazed me how a
local speakers will share their visions for improving the
small talk of 10 minutes can give you such an amazing idea of what the
community. TED Conferences LLC, which stands for
world is like and what we have.” TEDx rules will limit the audience to
Technology, Entertainment and Design, posts talks online for free
100 spectators in the first year, and organizers expect tickets to sell out.
distribution using the slogan “ideas worth spreading.” TEDx is an offshoot
The event will include a dinner in the rotunda of the Stephens Center,
program, with independently organized talks that receive a free license
where spectators can mingle with presenters.
under TED. ISU’s TEDx is scheduled for Oct. 26 in the Black Box Theater
By John O’Connell, Idaho State Journal
of the Stephens Performing Arts Center. The topic will be “2030, Where Are We Headed?”. The student organizers hope to make TEDx talks an annual campus event. Ritesh Yadav, an ISU undergraduate from Nepal studying business informatics in the College of Business, applied for a license to host the event and got it approved in December. He said TED is a global name, and many of his professors have used recorded TEDx presentations to explain concepts relevant to their curriculum. Ritesh’s co-organizer on the project is Katie Wright, an ISU undergraduate who was raised in Pocatello. “When I interact with professors, they are always excited about the new ideas of where the world is headed, about new creations and about new research,” Yadav said, explaining the forward-looking theme of the planned event. Yadav was inspired to organize an ISU event after attending TEDx at Boise State University
