(audience applauds)
- Good morning, hello again.
And welcome again.
That was the week that was.
That was the week that featured
more of us than ever before.
More events in parallel than ever before.
A walk to freedom, a call to link arms.
That was the week that was
gray and rainy out there.
And that was the week that
it was incredibly warm
and sunny in here.
It was a week that celebrated, analyzed,
and agreed, and dissented.
It was a week of joy and love.
That was the 2018 Skoll World Forum.
It will live with me forever
as a very special week.
We missed Jeff, and we sent him love
and wished him speedy recovery.
We said farewell to Sally,
but we didn't say goodbye.
We welcomed six new awardees
with their energy and
creativity and commitment.
We supported each other with hugs
and ideas and introductions.
We did hard and serious work.
And we did hard and serious partying.
(audience chuckles)
Well at least you did, I didn't.
(audience laughs)
Proximity touched everything.
It touched the
extraordinary new dimensions
in Testimony Project,
bringing Pinchas Gutter's life
to the room.
It touched the co-creation of stories,
stories with and not stories about.
It touched all our attempts
to close gaps and bridge distance.
Tashka Yawanawá's commitment to Proximity
took a week of journey time
from the Amazon to New York.
Tashka, I'm so pleased you did.
And I learnt from you all again this week.
Not just from the obvious things:
your warmth, your energy, your creativity,
but from your commitment to
each other and to this movement.
I kept hearing people say,
I come here to recharge.
I look forward to this
week to make me hopeful.
This week restores my optimism.
It's lonely what I do,
and this week makes me feel less lonely.
This week makes all my neurons fire.
Is that a wig?
(scattered laughter)
I heard...
(laughter)
I heard a man say to Bryan Stevenson
when they met from a wheelchair
at the back of this theater,
you make me feel less disabled.
And you'll all have your
special Skoll moments.
Small nuggets of energy
that'll change how you are,
and how you do what you
do for another year.
Here are some of the
favorite nuggets of mine,
and if you said of these
things, you know who you are.
It's also about joy.
We are entrepreneurs.
The rest are anti-social entrepreneurs.
(audience laughs)
(audience applauds)
It starts when you say we.
There is a market for compassion.
Did tech move too fast and break too much?
The world is at a reckoning.
Don't be a bystander.
Let our job be one of listening.
Local people are thinking,
I don't care what you know,
until I know that you care.
There is an alternative to
there is no alternative.
I could go on, but that's why
we have archived streaming
at the forum.
(audience laughs)
To stop me going on.
So, you heard first about
TED's audacious project
on Wednesday.
It's my very great pleasure now
to introduce a short film about it.
Enjoy.
(audience applauds)
