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- 'Curiosities' at TED. I spent Tuesday evening at a dinner hosted by Bay Area recruiter Jana Rich and Kelly Bush Novak, founder of Hollywood PR firm, ID. The duo gathered a small group of women who are attending the TED conference in Vancouver—which is currently underway. Rich started hosting this intimate dinner about 20 years ago, when she first began coming to TED and says that back then, she just wanted to find more women to hang out with.
This is my first TED, so I can’t make any comparisons. But it’s hard to imagine this event without a strong female presence. These first couple of days, women seemed well represented on stage. And they had some impactful and memorable words to share. Here are a few highlights:
