TEDxDzorwulu Press Release

On Saturday, December 10, 2010, from 8:00AM – 5PM GMT, the inaugural TEDxDzorwulu conference will be held at the African Regent Hotel in Accra Ghana on the theme: Think, Create and Innovate.

TEDxDzorwulu will focus on innovation that has taken us beyond traditional thinking and is producing budding Entrepreneurs from across Ghana whose inventions and ideas are becoming income generating ventures and also providing solutions for today's modern societal problems.

TEDxDzorwulu speaker line up will feature five forward thinking Ghanaians from different disciplines. Wanlov the Kubolor, Fred Deegbe, Sheila Bartels-Sam, Kinna Likimani and a surprise speaker, who will be announced on the day.

The event hopes to bring together innovators, explorers, bloggers, technologists, academics and entrepreneurs who embraces and encourages collaboration, conversation and interaction. Our aim is also to create a network of doers & achievers who are ready to break through their own borders that have limited them from been able to Think, Create and Innovate.

TEDxDzorwulu will be a carefully curated event of a 100 of your smartest and most curious young innovators/entrepreneurs, CEO's, Managers and Idealist. This is an opportunity to explore new ideas, get inspired by visionary thinkers, and gain exposure to new concepts, an afternoon of intellectual adventure.

ABOUT TEDx

In the spirit of "ideas worth spreading," TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxDzorwulu where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxDzorwulu, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

ABOUT TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes.

Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com.

TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and George Ayittey.

To watch the livestream tune into www.livestream.com/tedx, to follow the conversation on twitter follow the hashtag #TEDxDz or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tedxdzorwulu, for any more questions you can contact us on tedxdzorwulu@gmail.com