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Newton Aduaka: The story of Ezra
Filmmaker Newton Aduaka shows clips from his powerful, lyrical feature film "Ezra," about a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
David Gallo: Life in the deep oceans
With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant.
Nathaniel Kahn: Scenes from "My Architect"
Nathaniel Kahn shares clips from his documentary "My Architect," about his quest to understand his father, the legendary architect Louis Kahn. It's a film with meaning to anyone who seeks to understand the relationship between art and love.
Charles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble
Conductor Charles Hazlewood talks about the role of trust in musical leadership -- then shows how it works, as he conducts the Scottish Ensemble onstage. He also shares clips from two musical projects: the opera "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" and the ParaOrchestra.
Bassam Tariq: The beauty and diversity of Muslim life
Bassam Tariq is a blogger, a filmmaker, and a halal butcher -- but one thread unites his work: His joy in the diversity, the humanness of our individual experiences. In this charming talk, he shares clips from his film "These Birds Walk" and images from his tour of 30 mosques in 30 days -- and reminds us to consider the beautiful complexity with...
Alexis Gambis: Why we need more (real) science in fiction
Filmmaker, biologist and TED Fellow Alexis Gambis makes films grounded in fact, straddling the genres of experimental, documentary and fiction. Showing clips of his work, Gambis demonstrates how storytelling helps explain important scientific advancements and social issues -- and how it can be a lens on our own humanity. "We need more real scien...
Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines
No one knows exactly how many landmines still litter the world, but it's safe to say: millions, waiting to kill and maim unsuspecting civilians. Clearing them is slow, expensive and dangerous. The founder of Apopo, Bart Weetjens, talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in ac...
Madame Gandhi: Why we must stop dancing to the sound of our own oppression
Popular music is often riddled with misogynistic lyrics that objectify and demean women ... so why are we listening and dancing to it? Performing a sample of her original song "Top Knot Turn Up" and sharing clips from her female-directed music video of "See Me Thru," activist and musician Madame Gandhi explains why she's making sex-positive musi...
Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge
Showing spectacular clips from productions such as Frida, The Tempest and The Lion King, director Julie Taymor describes a life spent immersed in theater and the movies. Filmed right as controversy over her Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was at its peak, she candidly describes the tensions inherent within her creative proce...
Gary Niekerk: Chips, conflict and the Congo
The complexities of global geopolitics and the fluid nature of the world's supply chains pose challenges for corporations who want to do the right thing. Gary Niekerk shares the story of how Intel approached the challenge of unraveling its supply chains from mines in the Congo that were funding human rights abuses.
John Underkoffler | TED Speaker
Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it -- as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak -- and it's about to change the way we interact with data.
Interface designer
Google Glass: prototyped using binder clips and clay
You may have heard of Google Glass -- a new venture by Google, where a user wears a head-mounted display (think, futuristic sunglasses) that overlays digital information and images onto the physical world.
Tom Chi was on the team that developed Google Glass, and spoke about the experience at TEDYouth. In this newly released TED-Ed lesson, ...
Posted February 1, 2013
Karl Skjonnemand: The self-assembling computer chips of the future
The transistors that power the phone in your pocket are unimaginably small: you can fit more than 3,000 of them across the width of a human hair. But to keep up with innovations in fields like facial recognition and augmented reality, we need to pack even more computing power into our computer chips -- and we're running out of space. In this for...
TEDxYouth@ACS - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDxYouth@ACS is the CAS project of Dina Shriem and Dennis Hilgendorf (Class of 2014). CAS stands for Creativity, Action and Service; it is a core component of the two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. The idea for a TED-like day of talks came up during the second semester of Grade 11, when clips from TEDTalks videos were screene...
Event details: Abu Dhabi, Abū Z̧aby, United Arab Emirates · March 22, 2014
TEDxUWMilwaukeeSalon - an independently organized event
About this event: “60 For 60: Take the Stage” allows understanding of diverse topics and engagement from all sides of the intellectual spectrum. In addition to 3 live talks, we also invite you to watch short clips of potential TEDx speakers as they answer the question, “What would my TEDx talk be about?” You’ll have the opportunity to vote for your favorite clip ...
Event details: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States · April 11, 2016
TEDxWestChester - an independently organized event
About this event: We explore all sorts of rhythms of life. Biological, geophysical, seasonal, musical, and all parts of life with rhythms. Five speakers and two clips from TED were included in the program that made this first TEDx event for West Chester entertaining and enriching. We focused first on rhythms of the past, moved into the present, and finally in...
Event details: West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States · March 20, 2014
TEDxYouth@KongjuNUHS - an independently organized event
About this event: Most people, especially students, always want to know who they are, and who they will be.
This event was the attempt to find the answers for these.
In this event, students watched video clips which let them know which aspects they should consider when choosing their future jobs.
Also, student speakers shared their inspiring ideas found in their ...
Event details: Gongju, Chungcheongnamdo, South Korea · November 19, 2016
Nithya Ramanathan | TED Speaker
TED Fellow Nithya Ramanathan develops tools to keep vaccines safe.
Technologist
Remembering James Horner
At TED2005, James Horner shared the secret of what made him such a powerhouse film composer — he made it a point to watch each film as a viewer rather than as a creator.
“Very often directors will say, ‘That’s not what I had in mind. I shot it with this in mind.’ But when a bystander who’s not been involved in the creation of the movie loo...
Posted June 23, 2015
Video: Useful opinions on what matters about climate change
We all know about the climate crisis. We all want to stay informed -- but the information can be overwhelming. The video trailer above cuts together clips from TED Talks from across the years. It helps us to remember what's at stake -- and celebrate those people who are tackling the problem from all different angles.
Watch all 18 talk...
Posted May 2, 2014
How Symphony of Science auto-tuned TED2012: Q&A with John Boswell
John Boswell, who makes those wonderful Symphony of Science mashups, came to Long Beach with a mission: to auto-tune TED2012. Watch what he created: "It's Time for TED."
The TED Blog asked John how he did it -- how he compressed three days (and a few extra years) of TED onstage into this catchy number starring Peter Diamandis, Paul Gildin...
Posted March 14, 2012
Pattie Maes develops a plant-robot hybrid and other news from the TED community
As the year comes to a close, the TED community is busy as ever. Below, a few highlights.
Plant-robot hybrids are here. At the MIT Media Lab, researchers Pattie Maes and Harpreet Sareen have developed a new kind of “cybernetic lifeform”: a cyborg plant called Elowan that marries organic and digital technologies. Elowan’s robotic half track...
Posted December 21, 2018
All 50 TED Talks shown for a split-second on 60 Minutes
In 2015, 60 Minutes aired a story called "When TED talks, people listen," to show what happens when TED Talks are shared across the world. The segment focuses on a few key speakers, including Bryan Stevenson, Maysoon Zayid, Amy Cuddy and Monica Lewinsky, and you can watch a playlist of highlighted TED Talks here. But many of you said: You wa...
Posted April 20, 2015
Jeff Hancock | TED Speaker
Jeff Hancock studies how we interact by email, text message and social media blips, seeking to understand how technology mediates communication.
Psychologist
TEDxYouth@XiaogangPark: TEDxYouth@XiaogangPark 20201003 - an independently organized event
About this event: In 2020, the unexpected COVID-19 epidemic swept the globe, claiming thousands of hundreds of lives, bankrupting millions of companies, and bringing billions of dollars of losses.
However, even ordinary people stepped up to fight against the crisis. Frontline workers armed themselves to teeth, confronting the virus face to face yet never fearing...
Event details: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · October 17, 2020
David Bolinsky | TED Speaker
David Bolinsky and his team illustrate scientific and medical concepts with high-drama animation. You've never seen the life of a cell quite like this.
Medical animator
Social media
One of the primary goals of a TEDx event is to spark conversation, and one of the most effective ways to maximize the impact of your event’s ideas is social media. Platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok will allow you to amplify your TEDx event and connect with engaged audiences using creative methods.
Invest in your team’s social prese...
Sarah Jones | TED Speaker
Tony Award-winning performer, writer, director and producer Sarah Jones is best known for the chameleon-like ease with which she slips in and out of characters.
Polymorphic filmmaker
Ali Hajimiri | TED Speaker
An expert on electronic and photonic integrated circuits, Ali Hajimiri is investigating how to collect solar power in space -- and transmit the energy wirelessly to Earth.
Space solar-power experimenter