We at TEDxUTokyo are greatly depending on you, the audience! Every year, we go through countless applications to select our audience members to join our community because we want to work together with you to make this event a success.
Organizing Member
TEDxUTokyo could not exist without our organizing members. We are looking for people with the passion to join us as an organizing member. Please email us with any questions if you are interested! Do also contact us if you are a member of the TEDx Community of any other Japanese universities.
Partner
TEDxUtokyo is strongly supported by our partners, who provide us with funding and sponsorships that never go amiss! We are looking for continuing partnerships that will see us through our events like TEDxUTokyoSalon and TEDxUTokyoLive. If you are interested in joining us as a partner, please kindly fill in this form.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are collectively shaping our world. TEDtalk first started in 1984 in Long Beach, California, US, and now has two main conferences held each year: TED conference in Vancouver, Canada during spring and TEDGlobal in other countries, including Oxford, UK and Arusha,Tanzania during summer. On its online platform, there are more than 2000 talks given by global speakers from a plethora of fields of expertise. These talks are translated into 110 different languages and publicly free to watch.
About TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxUTokyo, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxUTokyo event, TEDtalk video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
About TEDxUTokyo
TEDxUTokyo is a collaboration with TED that gave birth to Japan’s first TEDxUniversity. The framework of TEDx is to help fulfill the role that a university is to play in society, which is to be an embodiment of knowledge, and since 2012, TEDxUTokyo has been hosting talks with the traction that TEDx provides. TEDxUTokyo is the largest TEDxUniversity that invites as many as 15 speakers to talk about Japan’s future through organized talk sessions with 500 audience members. Since 2014, we have begun to deepen our community through hosting full TED content packed small-scale events like TEDxSalon, TED video live streaming sessions, and idea sharing event TEDxLive. In business, the arts, and the fusion of academic fields, from our community, we strongly believe that we will give birth to innovators who will form the spine of Japan’s future.