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TEDxRotterdam adds extra dimension to the city

Dear TEDxGuests

At times we won­der, ‘where have all the smart en beau­ti­ful peo­ple gone?’ On 4th of june we knew were you were. Here with us in the New Luxor The­ater get­ting our rocks off with 30 fan­tas­tic TEDxTalks!

Many of you we have already spo­ken in per­son and thanked you for being there. You went through an elab­o­rate reg­is­tra­tion process and often on a short term notice you can­celled all your appoint­ments for the day.

You got your­self onto trains and trams and bicy­cles much ear­lier than nor­mal to arrive on time and you faced an enor­mous queue in front of the Luxor. On the first day of sum­mer you spend 10 hours with us in a dark the­ater to lis­ten to peo­ple of whom you mostly had never heard before.

You believed in TEDxRot­ter­dam just as much a we did!

You trusted us, and you deserved us. The TEDx Crew gave you the very best we could and we loved shar­ing this great event with you.

With­out you TEDxRot­ter­dam wouldn’t have been the same.

Thank you all. We love you! And see you next year!

For more pic­tures take a look at our Flickr pho­to­stream.


TEDxRot­ter­dam host Max Westerman




Audi­ence @ New Luxor Theater




The Mayor of Rot­ter­dam Ahmed Aboutaleb





Scapino Bal­let




During the breaks

Dur­ing the breaks (pic­ture by Theo Lagendijk)




Ntjam Rosie




Daan Roosegaarde


Max West­er­man & TEDxRot­ter­dam Founders Isis Spui­jbroek and Myron Freeling