About this event: Come together with smart and curious friends and join us at the Crocker Art Museum as we discuss the role of Art, Design, and Technology in cities; exploring what it is, what it can, and what it should be. Our Salons are more intimate, shorter format events designed to bring our community together between main events, during which TEDTalk videos...

Priyanka Jain heads up product for pymetrics, an NYC-based startup that uses neuroscience and AI to make hiring more diverse and effective.

Veteran environment writer John Carey looks at the reasons we don't seem to make meaningful progress on climate change — and issues a rousing call to arms for us all to step up and play our part. When I started covering climate change more than thirty years ago, the underlying science was already clear. Heat from the sun warms the Earth. Gase...

Esther Chae’s one-woman show, So the Arrow Flies, is about North Korean espionage, post-9/11 themes of conflicting ideologies, government sanctioned torture, and how changing political tides affect one’s family. After learning how the piece resonated with international audiences, Esther is eager to take her work to a whole new level. Like the ...

About this event: Many American youth are growing up with little connection to nature, with concomitant declines in their health and well-being. Leaders from a variety of disciplines – the life and social sciences, visual and written arts, media and green commerce are bridging that nature-deficit gap in a wide-range of activities directed at engaging youth, thei...

New York Times contributing op-ed writer, recovering attorney, playwright and exhausted dad Wajahat Ali celebrates the diverse narratives of the United States and advocates for a more inclusive cultural landscape.

The image you see above is Amanda Palmer just before stepping onto the TED2013 stage to give her talk, "The art of asking." She asked one of the crew members to snap this photo of her with daisy in hand. As our lineup of TED2014 speakers finish writing their talks and start the long process of rehearsing, it felt like the right moment to ask ...

Dawn Wacek advocates for equitable library service for all community members.

José Antonio Abreu founded El Sistema in 1975 to help Venezuelan kids learn to play musical instruments and be part of an orchestra. The TED Prize winner's bold idea has seeded hundreds of youth orchestras -- and many happy lives.

TED.com video exists to celebrate great speakers, thinkers, doers -- people with ideas that are passionately held and clearly put. For our speakers, putting their videos online has, in many cases, amplified their work beyond imagination, provoking new connections and directions to their careers and even their lives. As we approached the f...

Tracy Edwards MBE battled against the odds (and the sea) to become the first woman to win the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy.

In 2004, Sal Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began making math tutorials for his cousins. Twelve years later, Khan Academy has more than 42 million registered users from 190 countries, with tutorials on subjects from basic math through economics, art history, computer science, health, medicine and more.

Tim Guinee is a passionate advocate for creating a more sustainable world.

Eric Garcetti is a fourth-generation Angeleno and the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles.

About this event: Come together and take a break from the ordinary with hundreds of smart and curious friends September 17 and join us as we shine a light on those in our city who have the ideas, the passion, and the will to affect change in their own way. This event is dedicated to “The Changemakers” among us, those who reject the status quo and work to build a ...

In his compelling stage works, Hetain Patel uses powerful imagery and storytelling to examine questions of identity.

At TEDGlobal 2012, Amy Cuddy gave a talk about the remarkable power of our posture to affect our mental state: Strike a powerful pose (in private) before a job interview, and your performance will improve.  With the US election coming up, we asked Cuddy, an expert on nonverbal communication, for her insights into political posturing -- an...

The Beirut Marathon is the largest running event in the Middle East. May El-Khalil founded it as an instrument of peace.

Antonio Donato Nobre researches the “ingenious systems” of the Amazon. His work illustrates the beautiful complexity of this region, as well as its fragility against a backdrop of climate change.

Could an AI pass the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo? Noriko Arai oversees a project that wants to find out.

Aaron Maniam is a policy planner, poet and youth activist enthusiast interested in the intersection between government and technology.

Day five of TED2016 contained one session filled with big ideas, but also an opportunity to look back at the conference as a whole. Below, the major themes that ran through the course of the week. We’re ready for our moonshot moment. The most-evoked image of the conference? Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon. Speakers including Dan P...

Nonny de la Peña uses new, immersive media to tell stories that create empathy in readers and viewers.

António Guterres is at the forefront of fighting the climate emergency and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Helen Marriage cofounded a company that specializes in creating disruptive, whole-city arts events that surprise and delight everyone who comes across them.

Bono, the lead singer of U2, uses his celebrity to fight for social justice worldwide: to end hunger, poverty and disease, especially in Africa. His nonprofit ONE raises awareness via media, policy and calls to action.

Jonathan Tepperman writes on the world's most pervasive and seemingly intractable challenges.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has devoted himself to healing relations between Muslim-Americans and their neighbors, and bringing that message of peace to the wider Muslim world.

Nicaila Matthews Okome is the creator and host of "Side Hustle Pro," the first and only podcast to spotlight bold, black women entrepreneurs who have scaled from side hustle to profitable business.

About this event: If you had the chance to attend one of our previous Salon events, you know that you’re in for a treat. On April 18, we beckon you to to escape your regular routine and go on a mini TEDx journey with 200 smart and curious friends. TEDxSacramento Salons are intimate TEDx events, packed with compelling content, live music, good food and beverage...