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Teen entrepreneur Avani Singh: "You can make a difference"

New Delhi's streets are epic -- trucks, cars, cows and, especially, bicycle rickshaws, three-wheeled carriers that can zip through traffic, pedaled by a very, very hard-working driver. Growing up in New Delhi, Avani Singh passed them every day on her way to school. And her route also passed the city's slums. In this city of 17 million, the New D...
Posted December 6, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/entrepreneur-avani-singh-ummeed

Be the entrepreneur of your own life: Reid Hoffman at TED2012

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Known as the "startup whisperer", Reid Hoffman has invested in storied Internet companies including Flickr, Facebook and Zynga, companies that have helped deliver us from the "information" age to the "network" age. Interested in the social side of the Internet revolution, he is also the co-founder of LinkedIn,...
Posted February 29, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/02/29/be-the-entrepreneur-of-your-own-life-reid-hoffman-at-ted2012

This 13-year-old entrepreneur is out to change the world: A Q&A with Maya Penn

by Becky Chung Maya Penn is a tiny, vibrant force of nature. She’s an entrepreneur, philanthropist, fashion designer, animator, blogger, writer and illustrator. She runs a budding eco-friendly fashion business and a nonprofit for environmental awareness, and her mind churns constantly with new creative projects. And we should probably mention -...
Posted January 27, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/maya-penn-entrepreneur

Chase your dreams now: 4 questions with Matilda Ho

Cartier believes in the power of bold ideas to empower local initiatives to have global impact. To celebrate Cartier's dedication to launching the ideas of female entrepreneurs into concrete change, TED has curated a special session of talks around the theme "Bold Alchemy" for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, featuring a selection of f...
Posted March 15, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/03/15/chase-your-dreams-now-4-questions-with-matilda-ho

Meet the 2019 TED Fellows and Senior Fellows

The TED Fellows program turns 10 in 2019 -- and to mark this important milestone, we're excited to kick off the year of celebration by announcing the impressive new group of TED2019 Fellows and Senior Fellows! This year's TED Fellows class represents 12 countries across four continents; they're leaders in their fields -- ranging from astrody...
Posted January 23, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/01/23/meet-the-2019-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows

Meet the Spring 2017 class of TED Residents

On March 6, TED welcomed its latest class to the TED Residency program. As an in-house incubator for breakthrough ideas, Residents spend four months in the TED office with other exceptional people from all over the map. Each has a project that promises to make a significant contribution to the world, across several different fields. The new R...
Posted March 14, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/03/14/meet-the-spring-2017-class-of-ted-residents

Onward: Speakers in Session 12 at TED2014

As we celebrate the last three decades of ideas at TED, we’re looking ahead and asking ourselves: what’s next? Each of the speakers in this session looks boldly toward the future, from a media visionary to an entrepreneur reimagining education to two powerful talks on overcoming a difficult past. Here are the speakers who appeared in this ses...
Posted March 21, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/21/onward-speakers-in-session-12-at-ted2014

The world takes us exactly where we should be: 4 questions with Meagan Fallone

Cartier believes in the power of bold ideas to empower local initiatives to have global impact. To celebrate Cartier's dedication to launching the ideas of female entrepreneurs into concrete change, TED has curated a special session of talks around the theme "Bold Alchemy" for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, featuring a selection of f...
Posted April 17, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/04/17/the-world-takes-us-exactly-where-we-should-be-4-questions-with-meagan-fallone

You are here for a reason: 4 questions with Halla Tómasdóttir

Cartier believes in the power of bold ideas to empower local initiatives to have global impact. To celebrate Cartier's dedication to launching the ideas of female entrepreneurs into concrete change, TED has curated a special session of talks around the theme "Bold Alchemy" for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, featuring a selection of f...
Posted February 13, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/02/13/you-are-here-for-a-reason-4-questions-with-halla-tomasdottir

Fellows Friday with Premesh Chandran

Founder of Malaysia’s most popular independent online news source, Premesh Chandran continues to connect and empower citizens despite the personal risks. Join the conversation by answering Fellows’ weekly questions via TED Conversations. This week, Prem  asks: We're coming up with easy tools to build exciting online maps -- wha...
Posted October 21, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/10/21/fellows-friday-with-premesh-chandran

Announcing the 2011 TEDGlobal Fellows!

Via the TED Fellows blog: The TED Fellows Team is ecstatic to announce the remarkable individuals that comprise the 2011 TEDGlobal Fellowship class! This group of extraordinary people will join us at TEDGlobal 2011 in Edinburgh, UK. Among them you'll find: an stellar astronomer; a Jordanian comic creator and social media entrepreneur; an artist...
Posted June 7, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/06/07/announcing-the-2011-tedglobal-fellows

The inventors, trailblazers and performers of TEDWomen 2013, “Invented Here”

Invented here. There. And, well, everywhere. This year’s TEDWomen is dedicated to out-of-the-box thinking from women around the globe. TEDWomen 2013 will take place on December 4th through 6th in San Francisco -- but the whole world will be watching. There are 220 TEDxWomen events being held in 58 countries, each tuning into the webcast of the a...
Posted November 26, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/11/26/the-inventors-trailblazers-and-performers-of-tedwomen-2013-invented-here

Sex: Let's talk

The talk. The excruciatingly awkward conversation when parents explain to their kids, um, how sex works. But ... why is there just one talk? Sex ed teacher Al Vernacchio (TED Talk: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one ... ) and entrepreneur Cindy Gallop (TED Talk: Make love, not porn) believe that good sex should be an open, honest and ongoi...
Posted March 3, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/sex-lets-talk

Meet the 2016 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows

We are thrilled to announce the new class of Fellows for TED2016. These 21 world-changers work at the very forefront of their fields and represent 12 countries around the world – including, for the first time in the program, Kyrgyzstan. This group includes a Hawaiian geneticist focused on establishing ethnic diversity in genome studies; an I...
Posted December 8, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/12/08/meet-the-2016-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows

Shanghai in pictures: an inside look at a city where everything is possible

David Li has lived in Shanghai since 2003, when the Taiwan-born consultant and entrepreneur moved to the city to take advantage of a place in which he felt like "everything was possible." A decade later, he's still relishing all that the city has to offer, from vast cultural spaces to XinCheJian, the small community hackerspace he runs in the ci...
Posted September 24, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/shanghai-as-hackerspace-the-ever-changing-chinese-city-in-pictures

The INK Conference: Day 1

On Thursday, December 10, India's INK Conference held its inaugural day of talks. Attendees gathered outside the theater doors at Lavasa Conference Center, anticipating three sessions of TED-like ideas. INK did not disappoint, delivering a day's worth of breathtaking perspective and innovation, both local and global. Session 1: Science...
Posted December 10, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/12/10/the-ink-conference-day-1

TED Fellows in the Field: How Juliana Rotich is connecting Africans with rugged technology

Meet Kenyan technologist, entrepreneur and TED Fellow Juliana Rotich in the latest installment of the Fellows in the Field video series. Visit the iHub, an incubator for Nairobi's young technology entrepreneurs, and learn about BRCK, a rugged mobile WiFi device with huge potential to bring connectivity to areas of the world with limited infra...
Posted October 31, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/10/31/ted-fellows-in-the-field-how-juliana-rotich-is-connecting-africans-with-rugged-technology

TEDGlobal 2017: Announcing the speaker lineup for our Arusha conference

TEDGlobal 2017 kicks off August 27–30, 2017, in Arusha, Tanzania. Ten years after the last TEDGlobal in Arusha, we'll again gather a community from across the continent and around the world to explore ideas that may propel Africa's next leap — in business, politics and justice, creativity and entrepreneurship, science and tech. Today, we're t...
Posted July 20, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/07/20/tedglobal-2017-announcing-the-speaker-lineup-for-our-arusha-conference

Caine Monroy of Caine’s Arcade takes the TEDx stage

It’s just a beautiful story: a 9-year-old creates a homemade arcade out of cardboard and invites the world to come play with him. Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was thoroughly transfixed when he stumbled upon young entrepreneur Caine Monroy’s arcade, located in his father’s auto parts store, and made a short documentary about it. Mullick’s initial ...
Posted January 30, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/30/caine-monroy-of-caines-arcade-takes-the-tedx-stage

TED2012 speaker lineup revealed!

Today, we're thrilled to announce the TED2012 speaker program. This year’s conference program includes explorers, storytellers, photographers, scientists, pioneers and educators, visionaries and thinkers from all parts of the globe. Themed “Full Spectrum,” TED2012 will take place from February 27 through March 2 in Long Beach, CA, and Palm S...
Posted January 11, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/01/11/ted2012-speaker-lineup-revealed

2015 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners include two TED Fellows: Patrick Awuah and LaToya Ruby Frazier

The MacArthur Foundation revealed its list of 2015 Fellows this morning. Twenty-four people received the “genius grant,” a $625,000 no-strings-attached stipend -- and two of them are TED Fellows: Patrick Awuah and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Patrick Awuah founded Ashesi University, a college in his home country of Ghana dedicated to educating Af...
Posted September 29, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/09/29/2015-macarthur-genius-grant-winners-include-two-ted-fellows-patrick-awuah-and-latoya-ruby-frasier

The proud, the few: the 2013 TED Fellows

TED2013’s tagline is: “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” And this year’s class of TED Fellows will be representing all three. The TED Fellows program brings together young innovators from around the globe, all with insightful, bold ideas that have the potential to influence our world. In addition to attending TED2013, the Fellows will ...
Posted November 8, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/08/the-proud-the-few-the-2013-ted-fellows

Thinking about starting a business? Ask these 4 questions first

Some people who launch companies end up being wildly successful, but there’s an unpleasant truth: Many fail. Before you risk it all, here’s a quick guide to gauge whether you should go for it, from serial entrepreneur Scott Galloway. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice f...
Posted May 14, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/want-to-start-a-business-ask-these-4-questions-first

Meet the 2017 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows

Welcome the class of TED2017 Fellows! Representing 12 countries, one tribal nation and an incredible range of disciplines, this year's Fellows are all leaders in their fields who constantly find new ways to collaborate and bring about positive change. Among those selected are an Ecuadorian neurobiologist working to uncover the neural circuit...
Posted January 10, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/01/10/meet-the-2017-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows

"Overture": Roundup of TEDWomen, Session 1

  Asphalt Orchestra storms the stage.   Hanna Rosin: For every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.   TEDWomen co-producer Pat Mitchell talks to entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner.   Halla Tomasdottir talks about bringing feminine values into finance.   Carto...
Posted December 7, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/12/07/overture-roundup-of-tedwomen-session-1

Hacked: The speakers in session 8 of TED2014

What does a hacked future look like? What will our bodies -- and minds -- be capable as bioengineering becomes more and more ubiquitous? In Session 8 of TED2014, speakers take on the hacked world of tomorrow. Here are the speakers who appeared in this session. Click below to read a full recap of each speaker’s talk: Edward Snowden's Q&am...
Posted March 20, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/20/hacked-the-speakers-in-session-8-of-ted2014

WEF announces 2011 Young Global Leaders

The World Economic Forum has announced the selections of their 2011 Young Global Leaders. Young Global Leaders "represent the future of leadership, coming from all regions of the world and representing business, government, civil society, arts and culture, academia and media, as well as social enterpreneurs." Among them, you'll find several TED ...
Posted March 10, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/03/10/wef-announces-2011-young-global-leaders

Language heroes: Meet the TED Translators we invited to TEDGlobal 2017

At TED, speakers aren't the only celebrities; some of the biggest heroes sit in the audience. Case in point: Our volunteer TED Translators, who donate their free time to translate TED Talks into their local languages, making the talks accessible to millions of people every day. Ahead of TEDGlobal 2017 in Tanzania, we invited these translator...
Posted August 27, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/27/language-heroes-meet-the-ted-translators-we-invited-to-tedglobal-2017

Meet the TED2012 Fellows!

Today, TED is thrilled to announce the 25 new members of 2012's TED Fellows class and 12 new Senior Fellows. A Lebanese open-source hardware inventor, a French computational architect and the founder of Skillshare.com are among 25 members of 2012's class of new TED Fellows. Twelve new Senior Fellows from seven countries, selected for two mor...
Posted October 25, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/10/25/meet-the-ted2012-fellows

Meet the 2020 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows

The TED Fellows program is excited to announce the new group of TED2020 Fellows and Senior Fellows! This year's class represents 13 countries across four continents, and they're making strides in an impressive range of fields — from astrobiology and ethnomusicology to maternal healthcare and beyond. This group is taking a hard look at the wo...
Posted January 23, 2020
https://blog.ted.com/2020/01/23/meet-the-2020-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows
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