TEDtoChina Salon is a quarterly event that brings together people from different fields like art, design, business, education, and technology to stimulate dialogue around ideas from TED talks. The salons are always oversubscribed with thousands on the mailing list and over 50,000 social media followers. The upcoming salon will focus on human-computer interaction and feature a keynote from Pranav Mistry, the inventor of SixthSense, along with 2-3 local speakers. The event will include speeches, product demonstrations, and networking to bring global innovators together with local creators.

1. TEDtoChina Salon HCI ROCKS!

2. Introduction TEDtoChinaSalon was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." It is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. Salon is a small quarterly recurring event that keeps a TEDtoChinacommunity engaged between larger TEDx events.

3. Speakers in different fields It started out (in Apr. 2010) as a regional meet-up bringing together people from different domains, art, design, business, education, technology, etc. More TED speakers will join our salon in the future.

4. Passion! Every single salon was over-subscribed! !Thousands of TED fans on our mail-list & over 50,000 followers in our social media .

5. This time: more interactive than ever! Celebrating our future— Human-Computer Interaction!

6. HCIRocks!/overview Bring global innovator together with local creators; facilitate networking and inspire real actions! Theme Speech + Prototype demo + networking format Speech focused on sharing experience and personal reflection as successful designer/ engineers. Speech/ Q&A Demo as showcase of latest products or findings; will engage audience as much as possible. demo speaker Global speaker: PranavMistry (inventor of SixthSense on TED.com) 2-3 local speakers: TBD Sept. 18th (tentative) date 3-4 hours in the afternoon length 50-100 participants; equipped with basic knowledge of HCI. audience Mainstream media would be invited media

8. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT.

9. Selected projects from Mistry's work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D.

11. TED 2009 TEDIndia 2009

13. Top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review (2009)

15. Salon#4: HCI Rocks!/Team We are a group of passionate, committed TEDsters. We are well connected with local thought-leaders and various organizations. We have organized or supported a series of activities, including TEDxShanghai, TEDxFiveStarSquare, TEDtoChina Salon, MaD Shanghai Meetup… We believe in the power of positive idea and positive action!

16. TEDtoChina First focused on talk translation; later host TEDx events Introducing TED to China ~30 main content generators across China, US Online collaborative community One co-founder, Tony Yet, is appointed as TED Ambassador in China Recognized by TED global Over 30,000 followers on weibo and blog subscribers Warmly received by public Cooperated with YouChange Foundation, MaD (HK), 3DS, SIP… Involved in community building TEDxShanghai, TEDxFSS, TEDxXiamenTEDxGuangzhou, TEDxNanjing, etc Engaged in local TEDx events Reported by mainstream newspaper

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