TEDxWarsaw is an independently organized TED event, run annually since March 2010. License for TEDxWarsaw belongs to Ralph Talmont. It was the first and it currently is the largest TEDx event in Poland.
TEDxWarsaw was founded in August 2009 by Ralph Talmont together with Adam Liwiński and Maciej Michalski. Łukasz Alwast, Julian Kozankiewicz and Małgorzata Minta joined the Team soon after. As of 2013, more than 20 individuals and numerous partners are involved on a voluntary basis in organization of public TEDx events in Warsaw.
Apart from the annual, invitation only, day-long conference, a number of smaller events are also created by Team members, notably TEDxYouth@Warsaw and TEDxWarsawSalon. All of these are free to attend, while guests are usually required to go through an application process.
As at March 2013 some 100 speakers and artists have appeared at TEDxWarsaw, including well-known scientists, actors and performers as well as less-known thought leaders and achievers in fields ranging from business to photography and personal development to microbiology.
The conference has grown continuously and expended its audience size to meet demand. The fourth edition of TEDxWarsaw was watched via a live stream by a total of 42,000 people worldwide with peak viewership of 14,000 at the opening.
The 2013 event received "live" in Gazeta Wyborcza one of the main Polish newspapers and was a trending topic on Polish Twitter. As noted in one of the blog posts about the event, TEDxWarsaw's hand-picked audience is very diverse, ranging from high school students to elderly people and public servants to entrepreneurs.
2010
Edwin Bendyk - journalist and current affairs commentatorRichard Berkeley - actor, singer and coachSandra Bichl - coach and educatorZbigniew Braniecki - computer scientist and social activistAnna Dymna - actress and philanthropistAnna Giza - sociologistIvan Hernandez - digital consultantHodg Hodgson - architect and sustainability activistLori Kent - artist and art professorStephen Kines - lawyerMonika Konieczny - computer programmerNoam Kostucki - education entrepreneurTom Ludvigson and Paul Wertico - musiciansMichał Malinowski - storyteller, curator, oral historianMarek Minakowski - genealogist and historianJacek Olechowski - entrepreneurJohnathan Ornstein - community organiserSebastian Straube - sustainability consultantPaweł Szczęsny - biologistKrzysztof Ścierański - musicianAleks Tarkowski - sociologist, Creative Commons leaderPatrick Trompitz - educator and community builderPiotr Wardawy - monkAgata Wiatrowska - horse-assisted educator2011
Marianna Bednarska - musicianWojciech Eichelberger - psychotherapistPaweł Golik - geneticistTomasz Grzywaczewski - adventurerMarcin Jamkowski - writer, photographer, adventurerStanisław Karpiński - molecular biologistMarcin Kobylecki - computer graphics producerOskar Korkman - consumer insights directorMark Krawczyński - architect and pianistToshi Nakamura & Ewa Wojkowska - social entrepreneursGrzegorz Niedźwiecki - paleontologistKarol Okrasa - chefGrzegorz Piątek - architecture criticGrzegorz Piechota - journalist and editorKrzysztof Rybiński - economistTomek Sikora - photographerWojtek Sówka - artist and musicianMartin Varsavsky - tech entrepreneurKushtrim Xhakli - education entrepreneur2012
Brien Barnett - journalistTom Bieling - industrial designerChristian Dumais - writer, humorist and lecturerF.O.U.R.S. - jazz quartetKarolina Glazer - vocalist and composerJamie Keddie - writer and educatorPepe Kabana Kijachi - artist, writer, storytellerKrzysztof Klincewicz - academic, professor of managementAga Kozak - film critic, popular culture journalistJakub Koźniewski - designerOla Lazar - food blogger and authorAnna Lichota - banker, mountaineer, philanthropistBarbara Majewska - voice artist and singing coachRenata Mieńkowska-Norkienne - political scientistKuba Pogorzelski - percussionist and sociologistEdi Pyrek - traveller, author and personal coachMichael Schudrich - chief Rabbi of PolandKarolina Sulej - fashion researcherRafał Trzaskowski - member of the European ParliamentKarol Wójcicki - astronomer2013
Joanna Bagniewska - zoologistMark Borkowski - PR mavenZofia Borkowska - choir leaderMałgorzata Chmielewska - nun and community organizerMikela Eskanazi - mobile strategistF.O.U.R.S. - jazz quartetAndrzej Godlewski - journalist and TV executiveZuzanna Lewandowska - sociologist and social innovatorBenny Lewis - blogger, "language-hacker"Louis-Philippe Loncke - adventurerJohnathan MacDonald - strategist and digital consultantKatarzyna Miller - psychotherapistAudrey Scott & Daniel Noll - travel bloggersKacper Nosarzewski - foresight consultantAdrianna Patłaszyńska - dancerHanna Paulomäki - oceanographerKristin Pedemonti - storytellerPiotr Skowroński - nuclear physicistAgata Szostek - user experience design consultantKuba Urbański - biologistWojciech Urbański - sound designerAdam Wajrak - journalistCezary Wójcik - professor of leadership