Conferences

Every year, TED hosts conferences to bring together a group of expert thinkers and doers across a wide range of fields to help share new ideas. We’re joined by prominent academics, educators, researchers, philanthropists, environmentalists, scientists, technologists, artists, activists and more. If you’d like to come to a conference, you’ll need to apply to attend. We read every application, and actively seek out new members.

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Upcoming conferences

TED2024
TED2024
April 15-19, 2024
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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TEDNext
TEDNext
October 2024
Atlanta, GA

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Recent past conferences

TEDWomen 2023
TEDWomen 2023
October 11-13, 2023
Atlanta, Georgia

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TED Countdown Summit 2023
TED Countdown Summit 2023
July 11-14, 2023
Detroit, Michigan

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This is an invite-only event

TED2023
TED2023: Possibility
April 17-21, 2023
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Initiatives funded by a TED Conference membership

The mighty TEDx community: TEDx events cause ripples of change around the world. Last year, there were more than 3,600 TEDx events in places like Tehran, Beijing and Reykjavik. Costs of this program include ongoing training and seminars for hosts, and outreach to new communities, among other ambitious goals to support this passionate global community. Learn more about TEDx


TED-Ed: Our award-winning series of free animated educational videos -- and much more, including a free teacher training program and the rapidly expanding TED-Ed Clubs movement, spreading critical-thinking skills in classrooms around the world for free. Learn more about TED-Ed


The Audacious Project: A new model to support big ideas for global change, each year The Audacious Project invites change agents to dream big, selects their most ambitious ideas and presents them at the annual TED Conference, asking donors and supporters to come together to launch them. With its inaugural class, TED raised more than $400 million to make them a reality. Learn more about The Audacious Project


TED Fellows: Our incredible community of young world-changers has leveraged TED connections and resources to pursue astonishing careers in tech, the arts, social justice and much more. Over the years, TEDsters’ passionate support has allowed us to build this program into a recognized leader in developing talented young leaders. Learn more about TED Fellows


TED Translators: TED videos -- TED Talks, TEDx talks, TED-Ed lessons and more -- are subtitled in more than 100 languages, thanks to generous volunteer translators supported by a small team. Going forward, we will reach out to more language communities, constantly improve our software tools and training, and make talks accessible to ever more people. Learn more about TED Translators


Free TED Talks online: Producing, editing and online distribution of our daily TED Talk costs money -- and in the coming year, we have ambitious plans to share even more talks per day, in multiple languages, and to build more tools to help you connect with the next TED Talk that might change your life. Learn more about TED Talks


Speaking at TED Conferences

Each TED and TEDGlobal conference features more than 50 of the world's most innovative and influential speakers. If you know someone who belongs on the TED stage, or if you belong there yourself, we want to hear from you!
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Past TEDs

TED began as a small conference in Monterey, California. That single conference is now multiple annual or bi-annual events — TED, TEDSummit and TEDWomen — as well as occasional deep-dive conferences and events such as TEDGlobal, TEDYouth and TEDIndia.
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