TEDxKazimierz - Richard Lucas, Organizer

Hacking the Red Circle

Richard Lucas is a British businessman and social entrepreneur. He has lived in Krakow for more than half of his life, having grown up in Oxford. He has been involved with TEDx as a speaker, sponsor, and organizer, with TEDxKazimierz since 2015 and other TEDx events since 2010. Kazimierz is the Jewish district of Krakow and provides a fascinating cultural context to the TEDx event. Richard says that he curates Talks that focus on community building, offering ideas that are coming out of Kazimierz, for Kazimierz. Richard wrote extensively about community building, and I immediately shared it with our team, you may want to do the same. Richard's life is steeped in TED. He has attended Summit, Global, various workshops and visited the TEDx in Capetown. One daughter is the licensee for a TEDx in Soctland, the other is helping at TEDxWarsawYouth, and his son is a magician who performs at TEDx events as well. Richard is deeply involved in the entrepreneurial community and promotes a modern renaissance of technology and innovation in Europe. Having met him in person at TEDFest2018, I can attest to him having an abundance of energy, required for all the things he's involved in. Richard believes that as a licensee you're gifted, free of choice, to work with one of the top brands in the world and that TEDx is a way of making the world a better place. I was taken with his philosophy of the user experience. "They arrive at a different world than they were expecting." This episode is rich with quotes, and you'll want to have a notebook handy to capture ideas for how you can make your event more engaging, and as Richard says, "Get it right from the start!"