PORDENONE – It is one of the most anticipated events of the year and for the 2024 edition it will be presented at a new time and in a new location.
The 2024 edition of TEDx Pordenone will be held on Saturday 11 May at the Concordia Auditorium in via Interna from 8.30 pm and will have the theme of “The Future”, in an overall vision under the aegis of artificial intelligence.
The Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Pordenone, Alberto Parigi, states: «I offer my sincere compliments to TEDx, an initiative of absolute value which I would like to become one of the pieces in building Pordenone’s candidacy as Capital of Culture. Meritorious is the commitment of the 30 volunteers who organize an event that is an example for the city. It is not static and frontal conferences that build ideas, but the testimonies of real life and the values transmitted through direct experience; this is the effectiveness of the formula with which this cultural and educational event in the youth panorama is conceived. An injection of confidence that is good for everyone, a breath of fresh air against the crisis of vision that young people have – but we all together with them – of the future, perceived as catastrophic or, much more often, non-existent”.
Ten speakers will take to the Concordia stage, imagined as time travelers and projected – backpackers – into the future. Along their journey, they will extract their best tools from their backpack: vision, inspiration, dedication; what guided them in building their path.
The speakers who will alternate are:
Maria Cristina Margherita Savoldi Bellavitis, descendant of an important noble family, is a gemologist and writer. Her life challenges began at age 12 when she lost her father in a car accident;
Alberto Niero he is one of the best beatboxers in the world. He combines music, technique and entertainment without using instruments;
Manuel D’Osualdo, his dream is to fly. Following a sports injury he was forced to give up the possibility of flying forever and redirected his career towards 3D modeling first and then design;
Fabio Fontana he is an expert in biophysics applied to medicine, electromagnetic pollution and light therapy. His training and technical knowledge accumulated in various companies have allowed him to focus his research on nanotechnological devices;
Linda Salvador she is an expert in Design, Branding and Marketing, with the aim of transforming customer ideas into effective, updated and tangible communication;
Giorgio Ghisalberti he is the founder of OTO, a marketing and communications agency cited by Forbes for its high growth rate in recent years;
Livia Fabianiarchitect and street artist, founded the VenUS Association in 2022 to promote female empowerment through urban art;
Silvia Massa she is a biologist, among her studies there are plant sequences as immunomodulators in DNA vaccines. She is the author of 3 patents and 36 peer-reviewed publications;
Valerio Lemmalawyer, is a careful observer of financial and technological innovation, author of 4 monographs and over 150 scientific publications, with particular reference to fintech;
Andrea Belfiore brings the art of homemade pasta to the world. He won the reality show Beijing Express together with Joe Bastianich;
Laura Chiesurinperformer at TEDx Pordenone 2024. Through yoga, he finds movement and energy in the breath, through which he guides his practitioners to come into contact with their emotions in order to know and manage them better.
In a concentrated time of maximum 12 minutes each, they will launch their message to the audience – a formula resulting from months of work, improvement and coaching with the TEDx staff and volunteers – on challenge, vision, change, direction, technology, innovation, awareness , emotion, some of the themes and suggestions of this edition. The show will end with a surprise performance.
The evening will be hosted by the now veteran Andrea Maggi, professor of Il Collegio on Rai 2, accompanied by Jessica Parutto, organizer of the event.
500 people are expected, who will be involved in a different evening than usual, active and participatory, with nothing left to chance. 100 students from the Grigoletti and Kennedy high schools in Pordenone have already been confirmed.
The ticket for the evening is €25. There is no live streaming, just as video or photo recording is not permitted, to return to the naturalness of meeting and living in the moment, fully capturing the energy of a welcoming room, capable of confronting.
Only subsequently will the footage of the evening be available on the TEDx Pordenone website.
TEDx is a series of local events, held around the world under license granted by TED and which aim to bring together communities, organizations and individuals who can live an experience similar to that proposed by TED. Jessica Parutto obtained the license from TED in 2020 to organize the event, which is held in 150 Italian cities. TED is a non-profit organization whose goal is to spread valuable ideas and stands for Technology Entertainment Design. The first TED conference in 1984 was an event about technology, entertainment and design. Today, however, TED conferences cover a huge variety of topics from science to business to global issues in 117 languages. The main event was born and raised in Silicon Valley and has been held for a few years in Vancouver, Canada.
