TEDx Helsinki was organised this year as a local mirror for the wonderful, famous TED talks. The event was quite good overall, even if the level of the talks was a little uneven. The only problem they had was with misleading marketing in one important aspect: while their website and the registration process was in English, 80% of the event was in Finnish with no translations, which meant those attendants who didn’t master the language of Aleksis Kivi (and there were quite a few), were given a cold shoulder from the get go.
This was one of those situations where I was really glad to have learned the local lingo. If you are interested to know more about the event, you can check twitter or Anssi Kela’s post (in Finnish).
Update 18.05.2010: Videos from the presentations here, here and here (in English).
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