On December 12, 2009, TEDxSeeds launched its first conference in Tessenkai Noh Theater in Aoyama, Tokyo. The thunderstorm from the night before had ceased, and the conference day saw the great sunny sky called “Japan Glorius Weather.”

The seats were filled with over 130 intellectually-curious audiences from all over Japan. On stage, speakers showed innovative talks and live performances that tell depth and width of Japanese culture.Although entire programs were managed by the newly organized TEDxSeeds team, thanks to the support of speakers, audiences, and everyone involved, our virgin fight was safely landed to the destination.

We wish, touching moments and excitements shared over the 3 sessions of "Re-definition", "Passion & Compassion" and "Beyond Creation", and SEEDS ART NIGHT after conference would widely spread to more and more people from our participants. We also hope that this TEDxSeeds conference would be the place of “communication arena” for everyone.

"Being an arena and a bed of new seeds for the future, with ideas from Japan and the world, regardless aged ones or news". Keeping this founding ambition in our minds, we will go forward. Your voluntary ideas and zeals are always welcomed.

We are very sorry for not be able to accommodate all the persons who wished to attend to our conference due to the capacity limits at the thatere. We hope to welcome you for a next TEDxSeeds Conference in Autumn 2010. Thank you very much for your deep interests and understandings.

We sincerely express our gratitude to all the supports and cooperations to us on creating TEDxSeeds 2009.We do look forward to seeing you in 2010 again. Thank you!

A fine day in December of 2009

Curator Keiko Satoh
Executive Producer and Director Hiromasa Itoh
TEDxSeeds conference team all members