Lead with integrity — Larissa Pak, TEDxAlmaty

15/05/2019 33 min
Lead with integrity — Larissa Pak, TEDxAlmaty

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Episode Synopsis

Jay and Larissa, organizer of TEDxAlmaty, sit down to discuss fundamental elements of curation.

Larissa takes us on a journey from the start of TEDxAlmaty, all the way through to where the event stands today - and the values her team has used as a compass since day one. Listen in Larissa and Jay dive into how the team curates, and how each part of the process culminates in a spectacular experience for the audience.

Here are some highlights:

1:33 - Background on TEDxAlmaty and the uniqueness of the local community
4:47 - An insight about the impact of audience size on curation
10:37 - The approach TEDx Almaty uses to select speakers
13:55 - A perspective on how to measure integrity
19:44 - A strategy for giving the speaker a sense of ownership over their talk
21:04 - The challenge of reinventing a long-standing event
27:03 - Questions that the curation team asks to prompt speakers to dig deeper into their talk

Music credit:

commonGround by airtone (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/58703

the Morning by Vidian (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Vidian/58453 Ft: Ciggiburns, Aussens@iter, vo1k1

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