TEDWomen is a one day event that focuses on ideas which are important to women today and will continue to be in the future.

TEDWomen will take place on December 5th in San Francisco and will include a live stream in West Michigan.

TEDWomen 2013 will feature over 150 TEDx live streams around the world, including TEDxGrandRapidsWomen.

TEDxGrandRapidsWomen will take place at Grand Valley State University's Mary Idema Pew Library in Allendale.

TED.com explains the history of the event:

TEDWomen 2013 will continue TED's multi-year conversation about women's work and lives, present and future. A powerful conversation was started at TEDWomen in 2010 and continued through the next two years as TEDxWomen in New York, LA and Washington, D.C. The spark: How are women and girls reshaping the future? From the developing world, where a small loan to a young woman can transform a village, to the West, where generations of educated women are transforming entire industries, women are change agents, inventors, idea champions.

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