Four P&G friends (Lennert Acke; Louis Decuypere, Manish Budhdeo, Pierre Elias) were honored to have there application accepted to join TEDx Geneva Switzerland on Dec 7th 2009. Find here our key take-aways. Learn and share in the context of reaching out to learn from the world.

1.INSPIRATION: “Ideas About Spreading Ideas: Inside TED”, B. Giussani As the head of TED Europe, Lausanne based Giussani shared 3 insights: i) leverage community to get 500

talks translated in 50 languages over 7 months, ii) TedPrize: Scale people’s dreams: offer a forum for the TED community to help scale Big Ideas, e.g. the Charter For Compassion (click?, Learn, share, Act) which looks at common points cross religions/beliefs vs. their

differences (One of us found a strong link with Obama value driven speech in Cairo), iii) TEDx: spread the TED experience around the world: launched in March 09 planning for 20 events, turned 200+.

2.SPORT FOR COMMUNITY: “Sports: Giving refugee youth their lost childhood”, C. Marshall We had a great chat with Claude before his talk, a great Man. Some insights from his remarkable work in

bringing sports programs into refugee camps: Making school attendance a mandatory Duty for kids to join sport team drove 80% increase of attendance: every educated kid is a step to improve the country. Sports brings rules in places where there are none, so it is a great way to pave way for future local culture. Imagine yourself with your family tonight in

Geneva, bombs explode, you need to leave your home and you see all your neighbors doing the same: you join the march, cross the Jura and 24 hours later the entire city has become refugee in France ... this is what happened to the equivalent of several Geneva cities this year around the world.

3.SPIRITUAL ENERGY: “My stroke of insight”, Jill Bolte Taylor (video)The amazing story of Jill Taylor, PhD. in neuro-anatomy, experienced her stroke causing her to amazing insights. Give her video chance, listen HARD and I commit you...WE.. will grow See the video yourself!

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.– Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008)“

ontextWhat is TED? TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. The annual conferences in Long Beach and Oxford bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). On TED.com, the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free.What is TEDx Geneva? Launched in 2009, TEDx Geneva aims to promote globally the wide intellectual and cultural wealth of the Geneva/Léman region, while sharing it back with a local audience.

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Hans Rosling’s new insights on poverty (video) A MUST WATCH from Ted (20min).Janine Benyus “Biomimicry in action” (video) MIND OPENING12 sustainable design ideas from (20min). Go to www.asknature.org before you inventFrederic Kaplan “Are Gesture-based Interfaces The Future of Human Computer Interaction” Evolve to computers to live WITH not computers to live INSIDE. interesting youtube channel, more to come (link)Guillaume Massard “Industrial Ecosystems ” interesting topic to break companies boundaries. Michael Doser “If apples fall down, do anti-apples fall up?” www.Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges

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