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The tenth jubilee TEDx conference has recently been held in Kyiv.
For the first time this conference has been going on for two days,a lot of inspiring ideas have been delivered by 27 speakers (including Ándras Arato, famous as Hide The Pain Harold) from the stage. 1000 visitors, a big team of volunteers and organizers provided an outstanding atmosphere for networking and communication.
Reprezent Team did not stay aloof. We experienced the event both as guests by they having conversations in breaks between performances, trying ourselves out in VR-art, and as the organizers. Our task was to make presentations for all speakers and launch those presentations during the conference.
In this article we will share our impressions with you.
TED — is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading" . TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, but performances can cover absolutely different topics — from astronomy to poetry. Global TED conferences are held once or twice a year.
There are also local conferences, they are called TEDx. They are held much more often. More than 27 thousand TEDx conferences were held around the world.
There are many TEDx conferences in Ukraine, but TEDxKyiv is the largest of them. This year's TEDxKyiv conference lasted for two whole days instead of one. This is due to the receipt of a fancier license, which was awarded to only 50 major organizers of TEDx around the world.
It all started in 2014. When Reprezent was created, we didn'thave a mission or a vision yet. But there was one thing we knew for sure — we wanted to become TEDxKyiv partners to make presentations for their speakers.
We were in love with TED long before Reprezent, plenty of TED speeches made a positive impact on our lives. We couldn't letthe speakers of such conference take stage with poorly made presentations.
So a month after Reprezent was officially founded, Alex (CEOand co-founder of Reprezent) called Roman Zinchenko (headof TEDxKyiv`2014 speakers preparation) and declared our commitment to make great presentations for their speakers. Roman was a bit sceptical of course, but eventually he gave our team a chance. And we lived up to it.
Four years have passed since then, and our team has made presentations for all the speakers at 4 TEDxKyiv conferences,2 TEDxKPI conferences and one TEDxKyivWomen. On the one hand we blended into TEDxKyiv team by accident, but on the other hand we have always strived for this and we succeeded.
TEDxKyiv conference support — is part of Reprezent's culture,it's our pro bono work, which we truly enjoy.
Around 300–500 people visit TEDxKyiv conferences (there were 1000 this year). All of them sit in a dark hall waiting for a new groundbreaking idea. In the entire hall, only the red carpet in the middle of the stage is illuminated. The speaker comes out, starts the speechand turns on the first slide. One of the two things can happen next:
Naturally, the slides play a supportive role in the performance.The speakers and their ideas are the real stars of the show.
But let's imagine ourselves sitting in the hall, listening to the speaker, watching him closely. If your seat is somewhere in the tenth row or even further, you won't be able to see the speaker very well, what you will see, however, is a screen with the slides right behind the speaker. And the slides will influence our perception of the performance greatly.
Design always brings out emotions. Bad design can cause negative emotions. In best case scenario, bad design will lower our impression on the whole speech to neutral, in worst case it will be negative.
Good design, on the other hand, can help us work out a more positive impression.
We believe that good presentations are important! We are doingour best, for the audience to get the most hotshot experience during the conference.
The atmosphere of the conference itself is what struck me most. Everybody was so motivated, ready to change themselves and everything around them for the better, no matter whether it concerns architecture, business or the environment. The most vivid and memorable speakers for me were Cuba Snopek, András Arato and Gennady Mokhnenko.
For me, TEDxKyiv 2018 is new acquaintances, ideas and emotions. It's definitely worth spending your weekend, because time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. Especially, if you managed to have your picture taken with the legendary human-meme "Hide the pain Harold". Ándras Arato speech was what I remembered best. I'm looking forward to the next TEDxKyiv and I'm sure it will be even cooler.
I liked the very concept of combining the past and the future, as wellas how the conference speakers balanced between these poles during their speaches. The most memorable performances for me were ones of Cuba Snapek and Leonid Ostaltsev: as they were very inspiring and optimistic. It's nice that the organizers took care of the activities outside of the conference. When and where else would I get to paint a poster with a gouache?
TEDx conference has left me with extremely positive impressions. I experienced a whole range of emotions — from joy to sympathy, but mostly I laughed and admired. Several times I have even changed my point of view by looking at things through the eyes of the speakers.
We have worked on the presentations a lot, didn't sleep much, and to put it mildly, were very tired. But it was absolutely worth it, and that's all that matters.
I enjoy TEDx conferences for their networking. One moment a great speaker is taking the stage, and in the next moment you are casually discussing life values with this person during a coffee break. Of course, we work with many speakers before the conference, but during the conference everyone has the opportunity to communicate.
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