Multiplying the power of humanity
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s first-ever TEDx event took place on 27 November 2011. It was an overwhelming success!
Over 550 gathered at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva to hear to our speakers and performers talk about multiplying the power of humanity and meeting tomorrow’s humanitarian challenges.
In the spirit of TED, it was all about ideas – from using cartoons to highlight forgotten crises to why we need to talk to armed groups. It was webcast in four languages around the globe.
The individual are available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Tom Mills of Getty Images captured the event with a stunning 360º image.
Over 550 gathered at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva to hear to our speakers and performers talk about multiplying the power of humanity and meeting tomorrow’s humanitarian challenges.
In the spirit of TED, it was all about ideas – from using cartoons to highlight forgotten crises to why we need to talk to armed groups. It was webcast in four languages around the globe.
The individual are available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Tom Mills of Getty Images captured the event with a stunning 360º image.
Geneva | 27 November, 2011
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Speakers
Meet our amazing speakers and performers. Click on their profiles to watch their TEDxRC² talks. We were very honored to have the European Director of TED and the curator of TEDGlobal, Bruno Giussani, as our wonderful host.
Meet our amazing speakers and performers. Click on their profiles to watch their TEDxRC² talks. We were very honored to have the European Director of TED and the curator of TEDGlobal, Bruno Giussani, as our wonderful host.
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Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is the current Norwegian Foreign Minister. He has previously served as a special advisor, director general, state secretary and chief of staff in the Norwegian Prime Minister's office.
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Paul Conneally
Paul Conneally is a former journalist turned aid worker, who has spent more than ten years "in the field," with both the ICRC and IFRC, working with communities affected by war and disaster.
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Heather Blanchard
Heather Blanchard is a social entrepreneur, who works on the front lines of the online crisis crowd by connecting people, tools and resources.
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Patrick Chappatte
Patrick is a renowned editorial cartoonist and previous TEDGlobal and TEDxParis talker.
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Edna Adan Ismail
Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse, midwife, UN diplomat, French Legion of Honour recipient and former foreign minister of Somaliland.
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Bruno Giussani
Bruno is the curator of TEDGlobal, one of TED's two annual conferences. He is also hosting our TEDxRC²
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Seckou Keita
Seckou, a native of south Senegal, began his musical training at a very early age. He has been touring for the past 12 years and has been fundraising for the ICRC since November 2010.
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Fiona Terry
Fiona Terry has spent 20 years involved in humanitarian operations in different parts of the world including northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia and Sudan.
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Alberto Cairo
Alberto is the head of the ICRC's orthopaedic programme in Afghanistan. He's spent the past two decades helping an estimated 100,000 landmine victims learn to walk again.