This past year, Leadel embarked on a joint-venture production project coined Leadel 7 at the Sammy Ofer School of Communication at IDC Herzliya. 

Ever wish you could get in contact with the rich and famous?  To really connect and reach out to mentors and 'unobtainables'??

While we may not be able to help you with everyone, for starters, we can give you a link to run with thanks to Leadel Link - your connexion to Leadel's featured subjects. 

From mind-blowing speakers, to fabulous contacts, to artistic talent galore, to warm and fuzzies, to brain teasers, to buggy-creepy crawler phenomenons, to high-tech science insights, to human biology, to blacklight only readable business cards, and beyond -- TEDxTelAviv was an ultimate success story.  Panned as a 'pilot' for furture TEDx events in Israel - I have a feeling that this is only the beginning of a flooding of TE

TED^X Tel Aviv – April 26, 2010 @ Nalaga’at Center, Jaffa Port

Leadel.net is proud to be a part of this year’s TED conference in Tel Aviv, and we’ll be there to cover this gathering of influential people from influential fields. It is so natural that TED would show up in Israel, given that their turf is mostly about high-tech. The theme for this year is “thriving on turmoil,” and there is plenty of it in the world today. According to their release, this upcoming event “reflects the inherent contradictions that characterize Israel: ancient-modern, religious-secular, rich-poor, east-west, devout-irreverent, tradition-innovation.”

This eclectic brew has given rise to a high-tech culture that is the envy of the world.

Indeed, TEDxTelAviv “will demonstrate how this diversity has catalyzed cutting edge technology, world-class research, great works of art and ingenious social entrepreneurship.” The list of speakers is yet to be released, and will be disclosed one week before the conference begins.

TED, an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design, is a world-class venue for entrepreneurs in many cutting-edge fields, from which “some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about.” The first TED was held over 20 years ago and has since gone international, holding annual plenary sessions from India, Europe and now the old-new metropolis of Tel Aviv.

TED is based in Long Beach, Calif. They will be holding another event, TED Talpiyot, in Jerusalem, at a date to be announced later.

It took me a few weeks to digest our team day (and I planned the thing).  Nonetheless, I think the rest of the team will deal with it later in life through therapy…maybe it was a bit too intensive.  Although something in the flow was interesting, and such intensive things, which are out of your daily routine, get you thinking - so I thought I'd share them with you.

It went a little like this:

An old buddy of mine who happens to now be a psychologist introduced me to the wonders of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions only a few years ago. We’d known each other since junior high school and he had always been into this type of stuff; computers, technology, and neuroscience. Though it had been several years since we had last spoken in person, he still had that same wide-eyed look when he spoke of something he thought was revolutionary.