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TEDx: Big Apple

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

On Saturday, February 4th  Saatchi & Saatchi will host a live, full day TEDx event, themed Disruptive Ideas.

DISRUPTIVE IDEAS
Spark innovation with 300+ influential change agents, 13 distinguished speakers and thought leaders, and thousands of online viewers.

We invite you to join us and take a look into disruptive Ideas that will change the world in the neat 3-5 year in housing, biotech, local spaces, biomimicry, fashion, business and much more. These ideas are expected to change and even transform the lives of the world’s poorest, the disadvantaged, and the everyday lives of people.

TICKETS
Seats are limited and quickly running out, so apply for yours today!

When: Saturday February 4th 2012, 2pm- 9pm.
Where: 375 Hudson (Hudson & Houston) S Space on ground floor.
How: If you’re a Saatchi New York  employee and would like to attend, go to the TEDx Big Apple website and use the referral code: DISRUPTSAATCHI

If you have questions, please email Osher Assouline for further information.

Don’t forget that Saatchi New York is also the proud host of TEDx NewYork weekly salons. They’re held every Friday 5pm at the S Space on the ground floor, and are free and open to the public.

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SPEAKERS

Joanna Aizenberg:
Harvard professor, and bio-material pioneer, widely recognized for her work in biomimcry – mimicking nature’s processes in real life applications.

Tom Igoe:
Regular contributor to Make magazine, doing his bit to change the world through open fabrication and a revolutionary microprocessor called Arduino.

Aygodan Ozcan:
Visionary working on developing next generation smart global health systems by creating photonics based telemedicine technologies.

Kavita Parmar:
Maverick designer, disrupting the supply-side prosperity chain in ways all fashion brands can get behind. Recently invited to join the 2012 class of incubator, NYC Venture Fellows.

Chris Downey:
Inspiring architect dedicated to creating more enriching environments for the visually impaired. He should know – Chris lost his sight in 2008.

Robert Langer:
One of the 15 innovators world wide who will reinvent our future and one of the 25 most important individuals in biotechnology worldwide (Forbes Magazine).

John Geraci:
Recognized by NY Times and WIRED for his work in creating open source tools to improve city life.

Vijay Govindrajan:
One of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation,#3 on The Thinkers 50. Vijay is developing and building the world’s first $300 house for developing nations.

Nicola Twilley:
An influential voice in the future of cities and physical space. Editor of Edible geography, changing how we think about food and cities.

Jeffrey Brenner:
A primary care physician who is disrupting the existing approach to healthcare costs by focusing on “hotspot”patient demographics.

Bryan Roberts:
The highest-ranking healthcare investor on Forbes’ Midas List since 2008.

Patrick Govang:
A green-tech innovator who is developing a disruptive model to enable local resource sustainability. His company e2e Materials is leading the way in biocomposite building supplies.

ETHEL:
TED’s 2012 house band and now also TEDxBigApple’s house band. ETHEL is a postclassical string quartet, playing adventurous music of the past four decades.

Category: Events, New York

INFLUENCER: CHANGE

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

On October 6th from 1PM to 3pm, Saatchi & Saatchi, along with the New York Times and the British Council, will host ”Change” as part of the Influencer Conference.  The conference is held simultaneously in Berlin, London and New York between October 5th-7th, and “Change” is a first-of-its-kind interactive salon, focused on creative Influencers who leverage their expertise to better the world. The day will also allow attendees to collaborate with influencers from other domains, to accelerate this process of change. This lineup will truly “change” the way you view influence and world impact.

The Line-up:

RAGHAVA KK

One of India’s most successful emerging artists, Raghava was named by CNN one of the “Top 10 People the World is yet to Know of.” He is a popular TED speaker and his recent kids iPad book “POP-IT” challenges norms of parenting, sexuality and race. Raghava will discuss creative collaborations as means to amplify impact and accelerate rate of change. His collaborative initiatives range widely between musician Paul Simon, through celebrity chef Dab Barber to flamenco singer Pepe Linares and many more.

JONATHAN HARRIS

Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, Jonathan Harris’ projects reimagine how humans relate to technology and each other. His work ranges from building the world’s largest time capsule (with Yahoo) to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean (with a warm hat). He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which continuously measures the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog analysis. Other projects tackled online dating,modern mythology, anonymity, news, and language. Jonathan’s work has won 3 Webby awards and been recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, Print Magazine, MoMa and the world Economic Forum named him Young Business Leader. Jonathan has given talks at Google, Princeton and Stanford Universities and the TED Conference.

JERRI CHOU

Jerri Chou is Social Innovation Strategist, Founder and Managing Partner of Lovely Day, as well as the co-founder of The Feast Social Innovation Conference. She is an advisor to The NYU Reynolds Program and Ashoka as well as a writer for the Huffington Post, USA Networks and Social Earth. Jerri will discuss her extensive experience helping companies and institutions co-create exponential value for both business and society using digital innovations.

PAULL YOUNG

Director of Digital at charity: water, a non-profit devoted to bringing clean and safe drinking water to the nearly one billion people without.  charity: water revolutionized old school charity with a 100% model that sends every cent raised to water projects and tracking their work with GPS. charity: water was the first non-profit to reach a million followers on Twitter and has raised over $40 million.

LAKSHMI PRATURY

Lakshmi Pratury brought TED to India in 2009 and curates/hosts The INK Conference, in association with TED. She brings with her a varied and rich experience that spans for-profit enterprises, venture capital and nonprofit organizations. She was also featured in Forbes Asia’s 2010 ’100 Most Powerful Women’.

ADAM WERBACH

Adam Werbach is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Saatchi & Saatchi, as well as Chairman Saatchi & Saatchi S. His book Strategy for Sustainability, was an Inc. magazine Bestseller and named one of Fast Company top business books of 2009. At 23, Adam was named the youngest president in history of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the US and. He is regarded as one of the world’s premier experts in sustainability, and will discuss the role of marketing and business strategy in creating a more sustainable world.

THE ABREU FELLOWS – MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

At TED2009, Maestro Jose Antonio Abreu revealed his TED Prize wish: to create a special training program for gifted young musicians and recreate the highly successful El Sistema programs around the world. Currently called the Abreu Fellows program (hosted at the New England Conservatory of Music), the fellowship is in its third year, with 10 musicians from different geographical and musical backgrounds learning and planning how to best develop music education programs for social change in their communities.

THE DETAILS

Location: The S Space, 375 Hudson Street (Ground Floor) at the corner of  Houston
RSVP today: http://infuencersaatchi.eventbrite.com/ 
Questions? osher.assouline@saatchiny.com
To read more: http://influencercon.com/nyc/change/

Hosting The Influencer Conference is part of Saatchi & Saatchi’s commitment to promote creative dialogue and spread ideas to better the world. As part of this commitment, Saatchi & Saatchi is the new proud host of TEDxNY weekly salons Every Friday at 5pm TEDxNY comes together to share and discuss ideas worth sharing. The salons are free of charge and open to the public.

Category: Events, New York

TEDx NY Salons

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Osher Assouline (@marketmeplz) is Director of Analytics and Creative Learning on The Toyota Dealers Association, as well as  Saatchi NY’s Production Manager for TEDx NY. have any questions about attending a Friday salon, feel to reach out to Osher directly via email.

I am thrilled to tell you that as of September 9 2011, TEDx NY weekly salons will take place at the S space every Friday at 5pm!! The salon is a place for the NYC community at large to gather, watch some of the most intriguing ideas worth spreading TEDx NY has to offer, then discussing. Each Friday,  the group will watch a 20 minutes video and then turn our chairs to circle for a 40 minutes conversation, led by one of TEDx NY facilitators.

TEDx NY Weekly salons are free of charge and are open to the public. Saatchi & Saatchi highly encourages all employees to join this inspiring initiative and invite others to do the same. Special thanks to Neal Foard, Milano Reyna, Mary Baglivo and Kevin Roberts for helping to make this happen.

ON TED
TED is a non profit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Sharing”. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Believing In the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. TED mission is to offer free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers. Launched in 2007, TED.com now offers over 900 talks, translated to 82 languages, and more are added every week.

ON TEDx
Created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading,” the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.

Category: Events, New York, Our People

Influencer

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Osher Assouline (@MarketMePlz) is director of Analytics and creative learning for the Toyota Dealership Association here at Saatchi NY.

Save the date!  Saatchi & Saatchi is proud to announce that we will host a special event here on October 6th, in cooperation with Influencer Conference and Miami Ad School. Influencer is a three day global conference, with events held in London, Berlin & NYC. It’s designed to bring together thought leaders in media, marketing, technology, entrepreneurship, and the arts, with sponsors ranging from the NY Times & Heineken.

Last year’s inaugural conference hosted such notable speakers as Toby Daniels (founder of Social Media Week), Molly Crabapple (artist & Founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School), Dario Meli (Co-Founder Invoke & Hootsuite), Afdhel Aziz (Brand Director for Heineken) and Adam Farrell (Marketing Director at Beggars Group).

Join us October 6 for creative conversation about technology and/or a techie conversation about creativity. More details to come/ Stay tuned.

Category: Digital & Interactive, Events, New York