looking back at TEDxDelft: 7 november 2011. Delft is a medium sized city in between Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Delft has a very rich history of creators and creations, of Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek, of Senz umbrellas and Plakkies flipflops, of quantum mechanics and satelite experts. Delft has a top ranking University of Technology, a city centre that is a treasure of cultural heritage. Delft has Delft blue pottery, royalty, design, Delft knows how to win solar power races (or almost). Delft is all about Ideas Worth Spreading. Delft is all about Creating History. Concluding our first event: we had a great time preparing, a wonderful time on the day of the event and everyone had a fantastic time experiencing TEDx in Delft. I’ll leave you with the closing words from our host Jasper van Kuijk. He summarized TEDxDelft in a poem (one of the speakers (Bauke Steenhuisen) idea worth spreading was that poetry says more than most management reports). Do not prozify
 Have a goal Or none at all Electrify Build, tinker 
Create life, and nurse it 
Seek beauty in complexity 
Find elegance in calculations
 Caress a book
 Listen
 But never to design briefs Think upside down Become an astronaut Democratize, power the people 
Feel, don’t deny your emotions Compose
 Take fiction out of science fiction
 Make it rain 
Make music 
Hold on to your dreams
 Go beyond the current context Make things

1. 7 November 2011

2. 20 speakers 900 guests
2000 online viewers
30 volunteers
10 team members
Live bloggers
35 sponsors
#trendingtopic NL
Social Media Capture

13. TEDxDelft
Laboratory for the future
belief
Delft Design
dynamic Delft Marketing
talent
Analytical Innovator mentality
paradigm shifts
History
Creativity
Delft Industry endurance Complexity
Sustainability
responsability Innovation
Technology
pleasure Knowledge intensive
future smart
Delft University Royal
dedication Solution driven
pioneer

14. 20 speakers

15. 6, 12 and 18 minutes talks

16. Technology, Entertainment, Design

17. Leo Kouwenhoven
That’s a one centimeter step
for man, a giant leap for mankind

18. Job van de Kieft
How electric driving can set you free

19. Musetta Blaauw
I do not accept fate
as society defines it

20. Erik Meijer
Wisdom of the cloud
First inaugural speech at a TEDx
event

21. TTYPP – iPhone Jam
Max Kisman, Peter Mertens, Donald Beekman

22. Sabine Roeser
Emotions should play an
important role in debates on
risky technology

23. Lodewijk van den Berg
How a chrystal growth scientist
became an astronaut

24. A new breed of beach animals
Theo Jansen

25. Huba de Graaff
A preview of the
TomTom opera

26. Michiel van Haersma Buma Building dikes is not always the answer

27. Felienne Hermans

28. Kas Oosterhuis
Towards a new kind of beauty

29. Tim Zaman
Buy a balloon, put helium in it,
attach a camera and let it go

30. Maria van der Heijden
Creating jobs for 1 million women in India

31. Bauke Steenhuisen
A summary more wise
is poetry in disguise

32. Rolf Hut
I am a tinkerer

33. Irma Boom
A manifesto for the book

34. Marcel Kampman
What would the dream school of today look like?

35. Progression stunts
Freerunning in the auditorium

36. Lowie Vermeersch
Beautiful mobility

37. And one host

38. Jasper van Kuijk

40. The TEDxDelft Community
Online:
www.TEDxDelft.nl
www.twitter.com/TEDxDelft
www.facebook.com/TEDxDelft
Offline:
TEDxDelft venue:
Aula Congress Centre
Mekelweg 5

41. The TEDxDelft family
TEDxDelft: Yearly October/November
900+ attendees in Aula
TEDxDelftSalon: Monthly 50/60
attendees in Library TU Delft
TEDxYouth@Delft: Yearly April/March
400 attendees 12-18 year old in
Theater de Veste