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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, and professionals to watch, then discuss. Essentially, it's one part performance appreciation, and one part networking bacchanal. We've seen plenty of rooms worked in our day, but none of them so thoroughly, or so well. Even noted Twittermeister Mayor Miller made an appearance, and spent one of the event's two designated "conversation breaks" encircled by his followers.

IDEAS: TEDxTO, the highly anticipated—by us at least—independent Toronto version of TED, happens in a sold-out session at Theatre Passe Muraille today. Luckily, Torontoist is co-hosting a live webcast of the event with the Toronto Public Library. Join us on the main floor of the Reference Library all afternoon to witness a meeting of minds among architects, authors, journalists, performers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who pose and discuss the question of “What’s Next?” Toronto Reference Library, main floor stage (789 Yonge Street), 1–7 p.m., FREE.

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 far too early and the topics far too broad to make anything better than make an educated guess as to how good it'll be, it's, well, looking rather good.

Well, kind of.