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Kelo Kubu: The idea of sharing ideas

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is actually not a very popular

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or common thing,

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at least where I come from.

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Halim Madi: Beirut

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is a strange cocktail.

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We don't have oil
like the other Arab countries.

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All we have are the people.

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And our only asset

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are the ideas we have.

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Hanseok Ryu:
Most of Asian countries, like Korea,

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[didn't] use to have this kind of chances

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to speak on a stage like TED.

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Tahee Pantig: The great thing
about the TEDx platform

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is that it's like a beacon of hope,

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so that other people
in the community can see,

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"Wow, there are some really
incredible things that I can take part of

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and help change where we live."

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Krisztina "Z" Holly: We're talking
about how it might be possible

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to bring that TED experience to campus

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and see if we can do 
an independently organized event.

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Lara Stein: The mission of TEDx

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is to spread great ideas across the globe,

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and tap into local voices
within local communities,

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and give them a platform.

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Jim Stolze: TEDx is a way for people
in their own local community,

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to give their community a TED experience.

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HR: Holding a TEDx event

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is not only about introducing
whole new ideas

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which were introduced from TED.com,

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but I think it's really
all about community.

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LS: TEDx is the ability for you
and your community,

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to tap into some local thinkers and voices

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and have a real dialogue

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about how to make
a difference in the world.

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Suraj Sudhakar: The world of development,

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what's happening,
what are the latest findings,

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is often not shared with the very people

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for whom we really want
development to work.

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Once we decided we're going to do a TEDx,

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then we thought about
who are these different speakers.

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One was a person who would come

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and talk about microfinance.

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Another person we found
would talk about technology

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and the phenomenon of mobile phones.

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We found an artist from Kibera;

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with stuff he finds in and around Kibera,

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he creates art.

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We actually took this TEDx

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to different slums around Nairobi.

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We use this as a platform
to share ideas across communitites.

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Richard Hsu: I think
it's the basic nature.

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If you come across something good
in your private life,

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you just say, "Oh God,
I wish my friends see it.

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I wish my parents were there.
I wish my brother was here."

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This is just something incredibly basic.

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TP: I think for an idea to spread
there needs to be a personal connection.

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HR: Yeah, stories!

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I think stories are such a powerful tool

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because a story changes people,
how they think.

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Stephen Balzer: I think it's a part
of the secret of TED,

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the personal touch, its storyline.

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Rodrigo Cunha: With TEDxAmazônia
we had this girl,

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she was a researcher in the Amazon.

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And she was washing clothes

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and then a crocodile
emerged from the river

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and took her, and took her leg.

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And we asked her to go there

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and give us a talk about her experience.

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And at the end of the talk she said,

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"You don't have to be afraid of the storm.

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You have to learn
how to dance in the rain."

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When we did go to the break,

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there was this huge tropical storm
coming in,

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and people were dancing on the floor.

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Alison Whitmire: It was
in the ugliest part of the recession.

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The people I work with are CEOs
of small to medium sized businesses.

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And they were suffering.

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I thought, "That's what I'm going to do.

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I'm going to have a TEDx

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that reconnects these CEOs

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with the passion that helped them
start their business."

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KK: The willingness to say,

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"Here is how I got here.

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This is something
that I will share with you.

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You take it and see
what you can do with it."

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SB: They really take action.

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They have energy to change something.

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Presenting these ideas to people

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is really what brings up change

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in peoples' minds
and the countries as well.

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It's not top-down but it's grassroots.

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JS: So what we've done in 2010

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was to look for four ideas worth doing,

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to see how we could get
those ideas further.

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They're working on those ideas
for the whole year,

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and at TEDxAmsterdam 2011,

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we're going to present
what happened in the last year.

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TP: They all know
that they can change the world.

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Not only do they want to,
but they just know that they can.

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They have this unwavering confidence

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in the fact that what they're doing
is special

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and is contributing something
to the world and to their communities.