We know that innovative ideas, cutting-edge research and fresh approaches to challenging problems can be discovered inside visionary organizations around the world. The TED Institute helps surface and share these insights. What is the TED Institute? Every year, TED works with a group of select companies and foundations to identify internal ideat...

Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 7pm The Town Hall, New York, NY Program details TEDGlobal>NYC was held in Manhattan on the early evening of Wednesday, September 20, 2017, with a mission to catalyze new thinking about world issues. The event took place the same week as the gathering of the United Nations General Assembly, and welcomed visitors...

Science catalyzes progress. It allows us to explore our biggest questions, generate new ideas, and seek out solutions. In 2019, TED partnered with The National Academy of Sciences, The Kavli Foundation, and the Simons Foundation to bring to life an exciting day of original TED Talks from within our shared knowledge networks. Held at the National...

Experience TED on the big screen, or even from the comfort of your own home. Learn more about our live simulcasts, archival offerings, television specials and more. TED India TED TALKS INDIA: NAYI SOCH is a groundbreaking TV series showcasing new thinking from some of the brightest brains in India and beyond. Spoken entirely in Hindi and hosted ...

TED.com is our knowledge-driven platform for watching, sharing, discussing and translating TED Talks. It is also how you can learn more about TED’s many programs, dedicated to researching and spreading new ideas as well as educating people on a wide variety of subjects. Take some time to explore the site and see how TED researches, discovers and...

Provocative, thoughtful and inspiring... The Globe and Mail About the book This book is aimed at everyone — from the CEO to the janitor — who wants a better place to work. It looks at the accumulation of small, everyday thoughts and habits that generate and sustain culture: ways of speaking, listening, arguing, thinking, seeing. These aren’t mu...

We face complex challenges every day — in our personal lives, our communities, our businesses and our world. To ignite progress and unearth solutions, we need feats of human collaboration. On February 5, 2020, 13 Wells Fargo team members took to the TED stage at the Knight Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina to share their ideas worth spreading...

After your TEDx event is over, who will organize your event next year? This is something you’ll want to think about early on in the planning process. Planning for future events When you’re thinking about future TEDx events for your community, here are three important questions to ask yourself: Here are some ways to effectively plan for future T...

IBM has worked with companies, cities, and communities around the world to explore the ways that data analytics can improve our lives. Power grids, cars, health care, and even political campaigns benefit from the analysis of huge amounts of data. TED worked with IBM to frame these big ideas by teaching, rather than telling. IBM and TED explored...

Your TEDx audience is part of your TEDx community, and their engagement is just as important as your speakers, performers, and TEDx team. Organizers should select their audience carefully, choosing participants from a wide variety of backgrounds who can contribute meaningfully to the conversation. The ideal audience It’s important to think about...

About this video: When you provide ambitious students with access and opportunity, ideas and learning grow to new heights. The students at P-TECH in Brooklyn, NY are a perfect example of this. P-TECH is a public-private partnership model that blends classroom learning with workplace experiences at IBM, giving youth an opportunity to earn both a ...

Once your event is over, you’ll want to make sure your “ideas worth spreading” actually spread! You can help your TEDx community share these ideas with the world by promoting your talks on YouTube. Optimize your views Once the videos of your speakers’ talks are edited, you should upload your talks using our TED Media Uploader. When you do, here...

So you want to organize another TEDx event? You’ll need to complete your post event requirements, think about your next event, and then re-apply. Completing your post event requirements Before you apply to renew an event, it is required that you complete your post event requirements —this includes uploading videos, photos and updating your even...

Choosing speakers and performers shouldn’t be the job of just one person. Having more people at the table will make for a more diverse and interesting group of speakers. Your selection committee Your event will have the best outcome if you develop a selection committee or curation team – a group of people you admire and trust and with whom you ...

After watching the collection of talks on Ecofying Cities, read a thoughtful recap of the major points in this TED Study, and learn where experts believe things are headed. The TEDTalks in Ecofying Cities touch on many of the questions which are front-and-center for urban planners, policy makers, environmentalists and others. How can we promote ...

Once your event is over, you’ll want to make sure your “ideas worth spreading” actually spread! You can help your TEDx community share these ideas with the world through promoting your talks uploaded to YouTube. Optimize your views Once the videos of your speakers’ talks are edited, you should upload your talks to the TEDx YouTube channel. When...

Inviting speakers to give a talk at your event takes more work (and finesse) than you might think. You should know how to craft a great invitation, and the information your prospective speakers need to know. What makes a good invitation? Your speaker or performer’s invitation should be a formal letter or email, outlining the reasons why you’re...

Written by the educators who created Rethinking Cancer, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. In its World Cancer Report 2014, the World Health Organization made a staggering prediction: it expects the number of ne...

TEDx events are community-driven and are named after the local area in which the community it will serve is situated. Find out how to pick a name that fits your community event. Event naming conventions All TEDx event names follow the same convention: a name beginning with TEDx, followed by a location-based descriptor such as the official name o...

As TED has grown, we've picked up a few misconceptions along the way — some more vexing than others. If you've heard a rumor and want to know the facts, or have your own questions about who the heck we are and how we operate, we have a few answers below. Is TED elitist? In one sense, yes — we curate our speaker list and our TED Talks lineup very...

Written by the educators who created Leading Wisely, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Understanding management means understanding people. What motivates us to engage deeply and perform powerfully at work? How...

We know that innovative ideas and fresh approaches to challenging problems can be discovered inside visionary businesses around the world. The TED Institute partners with a select number of these organizations to help surface and share these ideas. Talks from past TED Institute events have opened up new channels of communication and inspired inn...

Written by the educator who created What Makes Us Human?, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in his field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. As a biological anthropologist, I never liked drawing sharp distinctions between human and non-human. Such boundaries ma...

Written by the educators who created The Edge of Knowledge, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Particle physicists are nothing if not ambitious. And the aim of particle physics is to understand what everything's ...

TED Salons welcome an intimate audience for an afternoon or evening of highly-curated TED Talks revolving around a globally relevant theme. A condensed version of a TED flagship conference, they are distinct in their brevity, opportunities for conversation, and heightened interaction between the speaker and audience. Learn more about TED Salons....

Written by the educators who created Mapping and Manipulating the Brain, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Here is this mass of jelly, three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can ...

Written by the educators who created Covering World News, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. At the newsstand, on our smartphones and while watching the evening news, we learn about faraway people and places from...

Written by the educators who created Climate Change, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now. James Hansen, June 24, 1988 The drought that cr...

From the curator of Understanding Happiness, a brief look at the key facts, the tough questions and the big ideas in his field. Begin this TED Studies subject with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. An introduction to happiness A few years ago I stumbled upon a question I found both shocking and exhilarating: Supp...

Get to know the amazing scientists, designers, technologists, explorers, artists, performers (and more!) who will be speaking at TEDYouth 2015. Adam Stelzner Ever wonder if there's life on Mars? Thanks to Adam Steltzner and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, we may find the answer. He and his team designed the sky crane that landed th...