Dear friends of TEDxGotham,

Join us for the simulcast of TEDWomen on December 7th at Booz & Co. 

We thank Booz & Co. for hosting us! To find about the simulcast on December 8th please click here.

Overview

Over the past several years, a flood of fascinating data from the worlds of education, microfinance and more has shown an essential link between investing in women and girls and economic growth, public health, political stability. A new lens reveals women as powerful change agents in developing nations; meanwhile, in the West, generations of educated women are forging new directions in the sciences, arts, business and beyond.

To track this emerging story, the first-ever TEDWomen will invite both women and men to explore in depth: Who are the women leading change? What ideas are they championing? How are women reshaping the future?

The cross-disciplinary, cross-generational program will focus on how women think and work, communicate and collaborate, learn and lead -- what this means and why it matters to all of us. Speakers from around the globe -- both men and women, from anthropologists to artists, scientists to soldiers, farmers to futurists -- will share their ideas in the classic TED format, creating a program that surprises and inspires.

Some of the speakers you'll hear from will include:

• The physician who discovered the life-saving importance of treating men and women differently
• The women who redesigned their country’s financial system in the wake of near-catastrophe
• The husband-wife team whose collaborative style has sustained an innovative business model
• The tech pioneer whose human-centered approach is redefining how we interact with computers
• The rural woman whose successful startup evokes and supports her community's heritage
• A world leader bringing peace to her conflict-ridden nation
• The teen-age filmmaker whose stories changed how a community saw itself
• The global health expert whose grandmother taught him how inventions transform lives
• The anthropologist who traces altruism to the mother-child bond
• The explorer collecting stories and preserving languages of endangered cultures

For the program guide, please visit http://conferences.ted.com/TEDWomen/program/guide.php

We are looking forward to the rich discussions in the  breaks and continuing the TEDWomen's conversation in New York.

 With warm regards,

TedxGotham Organizing Committee

Edward Rashba, Elizabeth Barry, Alison Price Becker, Todd Gailun,  Ayesha Khanna, Marc Kirschner, Melek Pulatkonak,  and  Diana Yousef-Martinek

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