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It's great to be here today.

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This is actually the second TEDxBoston
I've been privileged to attend.

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It's actually
the third annual TEDxBoston.

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It was one of the very first
TEDx events –

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two years ago - 
which happen anywhere in the world.

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It's sort of incredible that the TED team
and I are constantly in awe

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of what has taken place
over the last two years

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and of these incredible teams of volunteers
like this incredible TEDxBoston team

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that is putting on events
like this one here today.

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So, I wanted to show you
a few of the statistics.

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These are
some of the numbers.

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While it launched
just under two and half years ago,

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we've had almost 2,000 events
around the world.

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We have another 1,000 plus
TEDx events planned

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in over 104 countries
and in 46 languages.

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So, while the statistics are amazing,
we do analyze and share them.

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What me and my team have become
more and more obsessed by

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are these human stories, the memes,
the themes, the connections

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and the projects that are emerging
from these amazing TEDx events

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that are happening sometimes
5, 10 times a day

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around the world and live streaming.

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It's sort of a truly spectacular thing
to think of,

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that you are
part of this amazing global,

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and I like to call it,
a tribe of interconnectivity.

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Around ideas,
people are motivated

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just by passion and ideas,
but nothing else.

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So, I'd encourage you –

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actually we have a blog,
where we're trying to capture

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some of these stories,

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to go to the TEDx blog
and read some of the stories happening

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from a shanty town in Kibera
to a floating hotel

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in the middle of Amazon forest.

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If you have any of your own stories
that've emerged from TEDxBoston,

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please consider
contributing your story

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to this global picture
of story tellings around ideas.

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And so, I wanna just play
a quick video

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that sort of gives you
a slightly deeper picture

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of what has transpired
over the last few years.

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(Music)

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(Applause)

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(Music)

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(Women sing)

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[42 Languages]

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[96 Countries]

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[1403 Past Events]

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[812 Upcoming Events]

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TEDxAmazônia was set in a place
where life's a bountiful,

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hoping that ideas would blossom
in the heart and mind of each attendee

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and then be seeded
around the globe.

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Over 700 people
from 70 countries

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gathered in the Floating Auditorium
surrounded by alligators,

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during the worst Amazon drought
in the past 100 years.

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Every day I meet people

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whose lives, jobs, and companies
were transformed by these events.

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I can't really believe
that it only took 18 months

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for all those 55 TEDx events
to take place in such a small country

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like South Korea.

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It was almost like a wildfire.

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It's been giving hope to people,
making them cry, and making them laugh

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and making them
inspired and excited.

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I can't really wait to see
what's going to be happening this year too.

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I started TEDxChange

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because there are phenomenal people
doing great work across the globe,

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and so often, we don't get
the change to hear from them.

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TEDxChange gives us a platform
so that we hear all of those voices.

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It's amazing to watch
this global conversation

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happening at the local level

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where real solutions are actually
taking place.

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TEDxYouthDay, 60 events,
[unclear] around the world

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over a period of 24 hours.

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These events –
all have one common goal

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to ignite new ideas in the minds
of the world's future leaders.

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I really enjoyed the fact
that TEDxAmsterdam is not just an event.

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It's really safe
to call it a movement.

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There are almost 5,000 people

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who care what's on the program,
who want to be involved

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and who would try and see
how they can help

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the ideas of our speakers even further.

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(Music)

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Lara Stein: As you go through today,
you're all an incredible group of people

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that is interconnected to these
other groups around the world

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that believe the power of ideas
can change the world.

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I just want to
take this opportunity again

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to thank to TEDxBoston team

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for this amazing job
that they've done.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)