2011 Conference

Date: 2011.10.22
Place: YOKOHAMA RED BRICK WAREHOUSE #1

Report

Appreciating the 260 audiences came to Yokohama Red-Brick Warehouse, 200 audiences in Satellite assembly hall in 12 places in Japan, and about 20,000 people who participated our event through USTREAM, we were able to hold TEDxSeeds 2011 in October 22, 2011. Again, thank you for your support and energy for all of you who took part in the event.

The theme for TEDxSeeds 2011 was “一風兆創 - If you feel, there is a wind, Wind is a Seed for billion of the Creation” and we have 4 sessions, “ichi(one)”, “kaze(wind)”, “chou(billion)”, and “sou(to create)”. In the conference, we were able to invite 12 speakers and those speakers shared interesting talents from Philosophy to Super Galaxy as well as two completely eye-opening performances. At SEEDS ART NIGHT, we moved to Yokohama Marine Tower and speakers actually interacted with the audiences. All of us were still in excitement and we were glad that we could share the inspiring stories. We hope it became a great experience for both speakers and the audiences. It became the greatest experience for us, the organizers as well for sure.

Also, we arranged the event to make the audiences enjoy, of course, but also to make them “experience” or “assess” the event from “various aspects”. For instance, we prepared “SEEDS MUSEUM” where the audiences can actually touch and feel speakers’ ideas and “Speakers’ Corner” where all attendees have a chance to share their own ideas at the lunchtime. We wish those “twists” provided the speakers and the audiences even greater experience. We, also organizers could improve our ideas and way of thinking from the organizing stage.

TEDxSeeds always will remember your supports and we will promise all of you to keep improving and growing so please keep sharing your inspirations. The inspirations will be the “SEEDS” for us and it will be a chance for us to introduce amazing ideas from Japan.

Please keep us watching as we grow. Again, thank you so much for understanding and sharing ideas. We appreciate all of you for your supports. Best regards to all of you.


A fine day in October of 2011

Curator Keiko Satoh

Executive Producer and Director Hiromasa Ito

TEDxSeeds conference team all members

Conference Photos

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TEDxSeeds 2012 photos taken by Tokuaki Saito, Tatsuya Watanabe, Hitoshi Tsuchida, Yoshiaki Robert Saito and Sayaka Mochizuki

Talks & Programs

1st Session : Ichi No Za

Between the measurable and immeasurable
Opening
Between the measurable and immeasurable
Masato FUJINO
Discoveries from a piece of dust: what HAYABUSA brought back to earth
Tomoki NAKAMURA
An endless world map: Viewing the world through
Hajime NARUKAWA

2nd session : Kaze No Za

Invitation to a new, media-oriented view of Japan
Ryuko FURUKAWA
How to open up the possibilities in your life
Kouichiro TSUJINO
Chocovivo: The Story of Real Chocolate
Patricia Tsai
A Day of RoboMatrix
Kenichi EBINA

3rd Session : Chou No Za

The story behind Protei – Open source sailing drones
Cesar HARADA
Mobiligence: intelligent functions born from mobility
Hajime ASAMA
The saviors safely returned home from FUKUSHIMA Mission
Yasuo SATO
CLASS PHOTO
Class-photo
supported by BRANCH

4th Session : Sou No Za

Koichi KOBAYASHI
People communicate with their imagination
Hiroshi ISHIGURO
What are
Oriza HIRATA
Humanity in a robot society [SEEDS Dialogue]
Oriza HIRATA,Hiroshi ISHIGURO,Koichi KOBAYASHI

TEDxSeeds 2012 Filming and Broadcasting by KiBAN International, TIME-SHIFT Inc.

Speakers

Ryuko FURUKAWA

Media Researcher

Born in 1957. She worked at Asahi Television from 1979. She was a director and a...

Yasuo SATO

Firefighter / ex - Hyper Rescue Chief of Tokyo Fire Department

Born in Tokyo in 1952 (Also with Father and son serving as firefighters). Joine...

Patricia TSAI

Chocolate Evangelist

Patricia Tsai left behind the corporate world to start a small grass-roots compa...

Koichi KOBAYASHI

Professional Igo Player

Born in 1952 in Hokkaido. In 1965, he came to Tokyo and joined Kitani Minoru Kud...

Kenichi EBINA

Performing Artist / Choreographer

Born in 1974. He moved to the U.S. in 1994. While he was enrolling at Bridgeport...

Hiroshi ISHIGURO

Robotics Scientist

Born in Shiga in 1963. Ishiguro was devoted to painting in high school and unive...

Hajime ASAMA

Service Robotics Researcher

Hajime Asama received his B. S., M. S., and Dr. Eng in Engineering from the Univ...

TEMPEI

Composer Pianist

Japanese composer and pianist, Tempei has never taken the common route as a pian...

Koichiro TSUJINO

Entrepreneur

Born in 1957 in Fukuoka Prefecture. Graduated from Keio University’s Graduate Sc...

Oriza HIRATA

Playwright, Stage director

Born in 1962. He was suspended from high school when he was 16 and he accomlishe...

Cesar HARADA

Coordinator of Protei / Artist / TED Sennior Fellow

Cesar Harada (France + Japan) is the Coordinator of "Protei", an articulated sa...

Hajime NARUKAWA

Developer of AuthaGraph / Architect

Born in 1971, graduated from Shibaura Kougyou University. He received Masters De...

Tomoki NAKAMURA

Planetary Scientist

He was born in 1966 in Fukuoka, Japan. At the age of 10, he became intrigued by...

Masato FUJINO

Engineer

Born in 1981. He moved around in Japan many times and he enrolled Tokyo Universi...

Sponsors

Organizers

Curator

Keiko Satoh

Executive Producer & Director

Hiromasa Ito

Contents Director

Hikaru Hoshino

Operation Director

Yoshihiro Amamori

Operation Director

Ai Iishi

Community Building Director

Junji Takaoka

Speaker Group

Kei Takahashi

Speaker Group

Mihoko Tokuoka

Speaker Group

Minori Ota

Design Group

Misaki Watanabe

Design Group

Ai Tomiki

Design Group

Narie Kanazawa

Design Group

Kaoru Sato

Design Group

Michiko Nagashima

Design Group

Yuta Hayashi

Design Group

Kazuhisa Tobe

Entertainment Group

Toshiyuki Hanawa

Entertainment Group

Emi Ito

Entertainment Group

Tatsuma Nagano

Entertainment Group

Hirotsugu Sato

Entertainment Group

Yo Ikeda

Entertainment Group

Hirokazu Hirata

Entertainment Group

Tomoko Yanagishita

Technology Group

Takuya Kato

Technology Group

Reona Yanagishita

Technology Group

Kaori Fukui

Venue Group

Otohiko Kozutsumi

Venue Group

Hiroyuki Fukushima

Venue Group

Takahiro Kato

Venue Group

Ayumi Katsukura

Community Building Group

Yuka Yamada

Community Building Group

Tatsuya Iwamoto

Community Building Group

Hanako Kawarada

Community Building Group

Ai Hoshino

Community Building Group

Keiko Komiyama

Community Building Group

Miwa Amauchi

Community Building Group

Yuto Yamashita

Community Building Group

Kaori Matsui

Community Building Group

Miyamoto Masanao

Website Manager

Kenji Inoue

Web Designer

Hiroaki Yamane

Web Developer

Yasuyuki Yamamoto

Web Developer

Atsushi Hyogo

Support Team

Toshiyuki Komiya