About this event: Part of a debates series along the year, this time we showed Caleb´s Harper TEDGlobal Geneva 2015 Talk "This computer will grow your food in the future" and together with the audience, we had an open discussion moderated by Jesús Posadas, agricultural businessperson, and Alberto Acedo, Biotechnology Innovator, identifying the new sources, alter...

In 2006, TED started putting talks online for free, a milestone in democratizing ideas worth spreading. Since then, the world has seen monumental shifts in history, including the rise and fall of revolutions, the roar of a deadly epidemic, the largest-ever leak of government secrets, an astronomical discovery predicted by Einstein and the el...

Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.

Here's a crazy idea: Persuade the world to try living in peace for just one day, every September 21. In this energetic, honest talk, Jeremy Gilley tells the story of how this crazy idea became real -- real enough to help millions of kids in war-torn regions.

About this event: CERN will be showing 3 sessions live of the TEDGlobal 2012 conference in the council chamber from 9:45 to 11:15, 12:00 to 13:45 and from 18:00 to 19:45. The event is free of charge and open to all CERN staff, users and associates on a first come first served basis. To see the list of speakers: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2012/pro...

On the day he was released from his cell, Vincent Cochetel sported a beard “that would be trendy today.” It was not a fashion decision. In 1998, Cochetel, the director of the Bureau for Europe for the UN High Commission on Refugees, was kidnapped in Chechnya and held hostage for 317 days, most of that time chained to a bed. Last week, in a c...

On the day he was released from his cell, Vincent Cochetel sported a beard “that would be trendy today.” It was not a fashion decision. In 1998, Cochetel, the director of the Bureau for Europe for the UN High Commission on Refugees, was kidnapped in Chechnya and held hostage for 317 days, most of that time chained to a bed. Last week, in a c...

About this event: ZAPRASZAMY DO UDZIAŁU W 10., JUBILEUSZOWEJ EDYCJI TEDXMARSZAŁKOWSKA. KAMERALNA IMPREZA (ZE WZGLĘDU NA PANDEMIĘ), JEDNA Z NIEWIELU NA ŚWIECIE POD GOŁYM NIEBEM. I TO W SAMYM SERCU WARSZAWY! Konferencje spod znaku TEDx od ponad 10 lat organizowane są na całym świecie na licencji prestiżowej, amerykańskiej konferencji TED (www.ted.com). Ich znakiem...

Should we retire labels like capitalism or socialism? Can we embrace the messy, uncategorizable economic reality? Two economists discuss Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis calls himself a libertarian Marxist Keynesian — or “completely confused,” as he jokes. So it was hard to predict how he would react to Zambian economist Dambis...

Epidemiologist Chikwe Ihekweazu was in the inaugural TED Fellows class of TEDGlobal 2007 in Tanzania. Living in the UK at the time, writing articles on public health issues in his native Nigeria, Chikwe was profoundly affected by his TED experience. Now running an influential Nigerian public health blog, an alumni program for his alma mater,...

For four years, artist Naomi Natale’s social art practice, the One Million Bones project, has used education, hands-on artmaking and public art installation to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and mass atrocities. On June 8, Naomi and the One Million Bones team will be joined by thousands of volunteers to lay down the one million human “b...

In her luminous TEDxRainier talk, Lesley Hazleton, a writer and “accidental theologist,” described herself as “a tourist” in the Koran, and shared her discovery of the musicality, ambiguity, and depth of a text known by name to billions, but read intimately by far fewer. We met Lesley by phone and asked her to share more of her impressions o...