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- La Ciudad de las Ideas (stylized as CDI) is an annual conference held in Puebla, Mexico, produced by Mexican writer and television producer Andrés Roemer. Its objective is to debate ideas in science, technology, art, design, politics, education, culture, business, entertainment, and other areas of knowledge. The event has been referred to as the "brain olympics" by cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett. CDI speakers have included Nobel Prize winners Jerome Isaac Friedman, Mario J. Molina, Jody Williams, Daniel Kahneman, and Paul Krugman; researchers Robert Sapolsky, Steven Pinker, Eduard Punset, Clotaire Rapaille, Tim Berners-Lee, David Buss, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Craig Venter, and Randi Zuckerberg; and Oscar nominees Adame Pesapane (PES) and Oliver Stone. Since 2008, up to 3,600 attendees have gathered in November in the historic center of Puebla. The head and curator of CDI is Andrés Roemer, partner of the NGO Poder Civico A.C., together with Ricardo Salinas Pliego, President and CEO of Grupo Salinas. The thematic approach of the curator of the speakers is as follows: "Scholars/Policy and Makers" (leading academics and public policy makers), "Mex-I-Can" (talented Mexicans), "W-Under18" (children and young people), Debates, Art, Emotional, Technology, Artistic Interventions, and Entertainment. The festival has been promoted in Azteca Trece and Proyecto 40 and on the event's website, social media, and through a science bookstore located at the festival site. Since 9 June 2008, over 231 festival speakers have had their presentations published online. Fifty percent of the audience are between 16 and 25 years old. (en)
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- La Ciudad de las Ideas (stylized as CDI) is an annual conference held in Puebla, Mexico, produced by Mexican writer and television producer Andrés Roemer. Its objective is to debate ideas in science, technology, art, design, politics, education, culture, business, entertainment, and other areas of knowledge. The event has been referred to as the "brain olympics" by cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett. Since 2008, up to 3,600 attendees have gathered in November in the historic center of Puebla. (en)
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