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 commentator
Richard Berkeley - actor, singer and coach
Sandra Bichl - coach and educator
Zbigniew Braniecki - computer scientist and social activist
Anna Dymna - actress and philanthropist
Anna Giza - sociologist
Ivan Hernandez - digital consultant
Hodg Hodgson - architect and sustainability activist
Lori Kent - artist and art professor
Stephen Kines - lawyer
Monika Konieczny - computer programmer
Noam Kostucki - education entrepreneur
Tom Ludvigson and Paul Wertico - musicians
Michał Malinowski - storyteller, curator, oral historian
Marek Minakowski - genealogist and historian
Jacek Olechowski - entrepreneur
Johnathan Ornstein - community organiser
Sebastian Straube - sustainability consultant
Paweł Szczęsny - biologist
Krzysztof Ścierański - musician
Aleks Tarkowski - sociologist, Creative Commons leader
Patrick Trompitz - educator and community builder
Piotr Wardawy - monk
Agata Wiatrowska - horse-assisted educator
2011
Marianna Bednarska - musician
Wojciech Eichelberger - psychotherapist
Paweł Golik - geneticist
Tomasz Grzywaczewski - adventurer
Marcin Jamkowski - writer, photographer, adventurer
Stanisław Karpiński - molecular biologist
Marcin Kobylecki - computer graphics producer
Oskar Korkman - consumer insights director
Mark Krawczyński - architect and pianist
Toshi Nakamura & Ewa Wojkowska - social entrepreneurs
Grzegorz Niedźwiecki - paleontologist
Karol Okrasa - chef
Grzegorz Piątek - architecture critic
Grzegorz Piechota - journalist and editor
Krzysztof Rybiński - economist
Tomek Sikora - photographer
Wojtek Sówka - artist and musician
Martin Varsavsky - tech entrepreneur
Kushtrim Xhakli - education entrepreneur
2012
Brien Barnett - journalist
Tom Bieling - industrial designer
Christian Dumais - writer, humorist and lecturer
F.O.U.R.S. - jazz quartet
Karolina Glazer - vocalist and composer
Jamie Keddie - writer and educator
Pepe Kabana Kijachi - artist, writer, storyteller
Krzysztof Klincewicz - academic, professor of management
Aga Kozak - film critic, popular culture journalist
Jakub Koźniewski - designer
Ola Lazar - food blogger and author
Anna Lichota - banker, mountaineer, philanthropist
Barbara Majewska - voice artist and singing coach
Renata Mieńkowska-Norkienne - political scientist
Kuba Pogorzelski - percussionist and sociologist
Edi Pyrek - traveller, author and personal coach
Michael Schudrich - chief Rabbi of Poland
Karolina Sulej - fashion researcher
Rafał Trzaskowski - member of the European Parliament
Karol Wójcicki - astronomer
2013
Joanna Bagniewska - zoologist
Mark Borkowski - PR maven
Zofia Borkowska - choir leader
Małgorzata Chmielewska - nun and community organizer
Mikela Eskanazi - mobile strategist
F.O.U.R.S. - jazz quartet
Andrzej Godlewski - journalist and TV executive
Zuzanna Lewandowska - sociologist and social innovator
Benny Lewis - blogger, "language-hacker"
Louis-Philippe Loncke - adventurer
Johnathan MacDonald - strategist and digital consultant
Katarzyna Miller - psychotherapist
Audrey Scott & Daniel Noll - travel bloggers
Kacper Nosarzewski - foresight consultant
Adrianna Patłaszyńska - dancer
Hanna Paulomäki - oceanographer
Kristin Pedemonti - storyteller
Piotr Skowroński - nuclear physicist
Agata Szostek - user experience design consultant
Kuba Urbański - biologist
Wojciech Urbański - sound designer
Adam Wajrak - journalist
Cezary Wójcik - professor of leadership
