d’bi young What is TEDxTO? TEDxTO is what happens when you pack the Theatre Passe Muraille from wall to wall with a hand-selected group of Toronto’s most eager social media types, ply them with free quinoa salad and chocolate truffles, and then give them a packed day full of presentations from noted local artists, performers, [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo of Toronto Reference Library Atrium by Andrew Louis. IDEAS: TEDxTO, the highly [...]

Michael Dougherty speaks at TEDxSF, in San Francisco. Photo by Adrianne Koteen. TEDxTO, the independently organized TED conference focussed on “What’s Next,” which we previewed in July, has spent the better part of today periodically announcing their thirteen speakers and those speakers’ topics for their September 10 event via—like you couldn’t guess—Twitter. And while it’s [...]

Well, kind of. TED, the Long Beach–based ideas conference organized around brilliant speeches from great thinkers—a conference which has become only more famous by regularly releasing those speeches in full online—recently unveiled plans to have independently organized TED events around the world under the banner of TEDx. (The photos throughout this article are by Rodrigo [...]