Highlights from TEDx 2009 Events

This video highlights the progress TEDx has made over the past couple of months and was shown at TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford, England to officially announce TEDx to the TED Global Community.

Chris Anderson: Five years ago,
TED was something

that was enjoyed by a thousand people
once a year.

Today, it's something enjoyed

by about 300,000 people every day.

[From over 60 countries]

This event here today actually seems

equally miraculous to me.

TED itself had really nothing to do
with organizing it.

It's one of -- more than a hundred

that will be held this year
around the world

as part of this TEDx program

of independently organized TED events.

And this is being done for passion.

(Music)

Thinkers, movers, shakers, rock stars,
welcome to TEDx!

You are all futurists, aren't you?

(French) It's an organization
from the United States,

a community,
whose mission is

to promote ideas
that can change the world.

All around the world can share
the same vision in real time.

Jane Poynter: Take a breath now

and, as you breathe, think

about what is in your breath.

(Music)

It's an incredible honor to be involved

in a brand new thing that TED is doing.

I think is life changing.

CA: TED is part of a much bigger revolution

in global education

that's made possible by the web.

(Music)

(Applause) (Cheers)