Ogilvy Group UK vice-chairman and IPA president Rory Sutherland will be speaking at this year’s TEDGlobal 2009 conference.
The Technology, Entertainment and Design event returns to Oxford this year after a four year absence to take up a permanent annual residency. As a high profile global event, former speakers include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Al Gore and Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
The function runs from Tuesday 21st to Friday 24th July with Rory (below) speaking at the end of Wednesday’s morning session. Other notable speakers for this year include Alain de Botton, Stephen Fry and Rory Bremner.
This year’s overall theme is “The Substance of Things Not Seen” – a suitably mysterious topic for Rory to get stuck into. Though perhaps keeping within his 18 minute time slot will provide the biggest challenge!
TED upload all the speeches onto their website so pop back here in a few days for the link to watch Rory’s offering. In the interim, why not check out the event’s special site by clicking on the picture below, or head to TED’s twitter page.
