About this event: University of Lahore established in 1999 is one of the Premier Private Universities of Pakistan. Being a very young University it has a distinguished itself by having presence in 5 cities of Pakistan, 11 Faculties, 110 Degree programs and over 22,000 students enrolled in the fields as diverse as Medicine to Engineering, from Arts to Microbiology...

Helping prisoners get a legal education benefits them and the world, says African Prisons Project founder Alexander McLean: They can help their fellow inmates with their legal expertise, and when they’re released, they can help society, too. Seven young men sit around a table covered in textbooks. They are having an animated conversation in a r...

On September 21, gunmen attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi, killing at least 67 people, with many others still missing. We are extraordinarily saddened to hear that among the victims of this violence were TEDxKraków speaker Ross Langdon and his partner Elif Yavuz. Ross, an architect by trade, gave a beautiful talk at TEDxKraków 2012 abou...

Deborah Rhodes' spectacular collaboration with a nuclear physicist led to a breakthrough in breast cancer detection. Kate Orff introduces us to the new hero of ecology: the oyster. Amber Case is a "cyborg anthropologist" -- she studies the symbiotic relationship between humans and machines. The Ahn Trio: With cello, piano and violin, si...

Congratulations is in order for TED Fellow Jon Gosier. His mobile app, Abayima, has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge, which funds innovative projects designed to get information to all corners of the globe. While smartphones may be the norm in the West, most mobile phone users in the world -- about 4 billion of ...

I am the crucible of the future. I am where humanity will either flourish or fade. ... I am the City 2.0. Dream me. Build me. Make me real. The plan For the first time ever, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. By the middle of this century, the urban population will almost double -- and the majority of this growth will happen...

For decades, the farmers of East Africa have battled the African whitefly, a tiny insect that infests the cassava crop. Cassava, also called manioc, arrowroot or tapioca, is an important food all over the world -- more than half a billion people (yes, billion with a b) rely on cassava for their daily meals. For East African farmers, a whitef...

What is a TEDx in a Box, you ask? It’s a suitcase stuffed with everything an economically marginalized community needs to host their very own TEDx event -- a projector, an iPod preloaded with subtitled TED Talks, a sound system, camcorders to capture fresh talks, and a how-to guide. TEDx in a Box was an idea that originated at TEDxKibera, a ...

About this event: Stars seemingly fall every so often through the duration of night––a sight so common, yet so rare. Like these stars, opportunities and new ideas may often seemingly fall into our hands through the duration of life. Our theme “Where Stars Land” depicts people with extraordinary tales of how the power of opportunity intersects with new ideas to ...

From Bihar to the World Bank Sanjay Pradhan grew up in Bihar, India's poorest state. He came home one day, at 6 years old, to find a cart of sweets at the front door. He and his brothers greedily dug in -- but when his father came home, he was livid. Those sweets, it turns out, were a bribe from a contractor. His father built roads in Bih...

Meet the new class of TEDGlobal 2017 Fellows! Representing 18 countries -- including, for the first time in our program, Somalia, Uruguay, Liberia and Zimbabwe -- this class clears a high bar of talent, creativity and eccentricity. Among those selected, you'll find a Somali computer scientist catalyzing the tech scene in Somalia and Somalila...

The Klong Toey Community Lantern -- a community space in the oldest and largest of Bangkok’s slums -- was built very quickly. Not quite as quickly as shown in this three-minute timelapse video, but construction for the project took just three weeks thanks to the help of the community. But while construction went fast, Norwegian architects ...

Want to know what's going to happen next in the worlds of science, art, tech and more? Get to know the 2012 class of TEDGlobal Fellows and Senior Fellows in our downloadable guide (PDF). Some 55 TEDGlobal Fellows and Senior Fellows will attend TEDGlobal next week. As director Tom Rielly writes: Our Fellows truly embody this conference’...

Toby Eccles, whose talk about Social Impact Bonds was published yesterday, has been busy since he gave his talk at TEDGlobal in June. Eccles, founder of the nonprofit Social Finance, now spends about half his time on Development Impact Bonds, a spinoff of his original idea. Where SIBs seek private funders to invest in social causes, with pay...

Jane Chen knew that, for her low-cost baby incubator to save lives, moms would need to love it. But she had no idea that one of the world’s most famous moms—Beyoncé—would become one of her biggest supporters. Last week, Beyoncé announced a $125,000 donation to Embrace Innovations, Chen’s organization that makes the low-cost infant warmer,...

About this event: The first-ever TEDxWallStreet was hosted at the New York Stock Exchange on March 30th, 2012. The half-day conference focused on ‘Redefining Success’ in a challenging world. The event was followed by a reception on the Trading Room Floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Speakers were: Alexa von Tobel, Founder and CEO of LearnVest David S. ...

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.

Joshua Roman is an internationally recognized cellist.

Last week, the editors of Time magazine published a list of 30 people under 30 who are changing the world, with the help of a panel of millennials. On the list: six teenagers and twenty-somethings with TED connections. We at TED have had youth on the brain recently. TED2013 was themed “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” and we’re sti...

"This is what happens when you take the addictive power of an LOLcat and apply it in a ceonsorship state," says An Xiao Mina, a writer, technologist and researcher who studies Chinese memes. On the TEDGlobal 2013 stage, she shares the moment that led her to this unusual specialty. Two years ago, China's government imposed a severe crackdo...

About this event: As it did in 2010 and 2011, TEDxWomen will once again turn the spotlight on the ideas of women and girls. TEDxVictoriaWomen will join in the livestream event from TEDxWomen 2012 in Washington D.C. on December 1st,, 2012. There are currently 82 events all around the world signed up to host a TEDxWomen livestream event in their community, incl...

As a physician and epidemiologist, Gary Slutkin didn't think he had much to contribute to the conversation about gun violence in America. But then he began to realize something -- that outbreaks of violence follow the same patterns as outbreaks of tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS, all of which he'd worked on reversing during a decade in Somali...

To help journalists and emergency responders, Jon Gosier is developing SwiftRiver, a platform that sorts massive amounts of web and SMS data for accuracy. With his Ugandan innovation hub Appfrica standing on its own two feet, Jon has moved back to the US. Co-Founder of metaLayer, a company that adds visual data to real world scenarios, Jon conti...

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...

Want to do something to help the world’s more than 25 million refugees? Any business -- no matter its size -- can give them a boost, says Melissa Fleming, chief spokesperson for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. On Saturday, June 9, I had the honor of co-hosting the first-ever TEDx event held at a refugee camp -- it took place at Kenya’s Kakuma Cam...

The philosopher Immanuel Kant asserted, “Man is the only being who needs education.” But if he’d said "not the only being," he’d have been correct. Kittens who watch their mothers become better hunters faster than kittens who must figure out what claws and teeth are for. A lot of learning travels socially from parents to offspring or from elders...

Social violence in Guatemala, Mexican and Central American migrant communities in the United States, the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, children with cerebral malaria in Uganda -- for the past decade, photographer Jon Lowenstein has been documenting the often violent and traumatic daily lives of individuals and communities living at the ...

Getting treatment for a mental illness when you live in the developing world is hardly as easy as making an appointment with a therapist or psychiatrist. Mental illness is often not treated with the same sense of urgency as physical illness, and resources to provide care are simply not available in many areas. In this moving talk at TEDGl...

With her lustrous voice and wide-ranging musical curiosity, Somi spins elegant vocal jazz from African legacies.

TED Fellow Lars Jan, the director of the multi-disciplinary art lab Early Morning Opera, is seeking everyday personal rituals from collaborators -- perhaps, you? -- for a work-in-progress called HOLOSCENES. This public-performance installation -- inspired by humanity's relationship with climate change and flooding -- will be made up of three...