Brand Oman sponsors TEDxMuscat event

TEDxMuscat is pleased to announce Brand Oman Management Unit (BOMU) as its major partner for the event, which will take place on May 3rd at the Millennium Hotels and Resorts in Musannah.

Globally acknowledged as one of the world’s most influential new media brands, TED and its offshoot TEDx program is an event organisation dedicated to the sharing of inspirational ideas and knowledge. TEDxMuscat will feature TEDTalks videos, opinion leaders from in and outside the Sultanate of Oman and live simulcasts with several colleges, aimed at providing an overall rewarding and unique TED-like experience.

Commenting on Brand Oman’s support of TEDxMuscat, His Highness Sayyid Faisal bin Turki Al Said, COO, BOMU, said: “The line-up of speakers for TEDxMuscat is exceptional, they come from different walks of life. There are successful entrepreneurs, innovators, future-shaping scientists and researchers, artists and rising stars – they all have a place on this year’s TEDxMuscat stage. But perhaps it’s the TEDxMuscat audience that’s the real attraction of the event. The organizers have an eclectic and well-balanced mix of business people, entrepreneurs, polic-makers, artists, scientists and students attending. It has all the necessary ingredients to be a successful initiative. Indeed, as a TED Partner, Brand Oman is very excited about this event.”

Dr. Raymond H. Hamden will be one of the panelists along with Firas Abouzeid, Hany Mwafy and Jim Stolze who will stimulate sessions designed to enrich delegates’ knowledge on the role of the youth in Oman, effective communications and many more topics.

ٍSatyabrata Acharya from TEDxMuscat said: “We are extremely pleased as more than hundred people applied to take part in TEDxMuscat in just a few days. This event could only be made possible by the generosity of our sponsors, who recognise TEDxMuscat as a unique opportunity to support the exchange of ideas that inspire and shape our future. Their donations coupled with our amazing lineup of speakers, breathtaking venue and attendees who are ready to change the world, ensure this will be an event that can bring the discussion of ideas under a single roof that then will be shared with our neighbors globally.”

The event’s other sponsors include Information Technology Authority, Omantel, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the Millennium Resort in Mussanah, Khimji Ramdas, and Omran.

Notes and media contacts
About TEDxTEDx is a program of local, self-organised events which bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, like TEDxMuscat, are self-organized.

About TEDTED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives.

The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.

TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to organize local, independent TED-like events around the world; and the TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.

TED Global 2011, “The Stuff of Life,” will be held July 11th -15th, 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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