About this event: At TEDxExeter 2014 our speakers and performers will connect us with other worlds. Our talks will expose corruption in big business, share effective approaches to tackling social inequality and give a voice to those whose human rights are under threat. We will explore the impact of fast changing technologies on all our lives. We’ll journey throug...

About this event: In today's World challenges are now coming at us constantly, and from every direction. To deal with them in the time-honoured way of "wait and see" is no longer a viable option. Solutions to housing problems, social inequality, cultural tensions and environmental pollution are only going to be found if we dare to face the problems, instead of w...

About this event: “On The Edge” is a sign of the times. On the one hand, humanity is experiencing exponential growth in ideas at the cutting edge of technology and science. On the other hand, society has seemingly been driven to the edge, with divisions rapidly spreading across the world. Our conference will blend advances on the edge of a breakthrough in fields...

About this event: The gender gap proves we do need feminism. Indicators in health, politics, economics, and education show the gap is widening. Women and men around the world are taking action, raising their voices in a wave of protest. Change is coming. It’s time for equal pay and equal say. It’s time for a world that reflects women, too. Inequality won’t disapp...

About this event: TEDxSwanseaWomen will include live presentations from four speakers including one of BBC’s 100 most inspirational women and full TEDWomen session live (almost) from San Fransisco's TED Women. This is an opportunity to be one of the first in the world to see the TED Women session! With the theme of ‘shining a light on women,’ we hope that TEDxSw...

About this event: PDX. Stumptown. Rose City. Portland has many nicknames, but perhaps the most enduring is Bridgetown — a nod to our iconic bridges and the culture of acceptance that fuels our creativity. Portland’s famed bridges represent our progress and expose our challenges. From a past tarnished with racial inequality to a present that seeks to transcend tha...

There's a bit of a back story behind today's TED Talk, in which Nick Hanauer issues a powerful warning to his fellow zillionaire 'plutocrats' that it's time to take the inequality issue seriously, and makes the case to dramatically raise the minimum wage. Some of you may remember that two years ago there was an online spat between Nick and T...

For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of racial justice and sexual violence.

About this event: Where are we headed? What lies ahead? What's next? We're all moving on up! TEDxYouth@STA proudly presents this year's theme of "Moving On Up", with a night full of amazing speeches from St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School's most talented speakers. Whether it's about exploring different math symbols, getting to the roots of gender inequ...

About this event: Union City, the Bay Area, California, and the United States – each face similar tough challenges today at different levels: economic disparity, homelessness and gentrification, increasing traffic, violence and crime, racism, and gender spectrum inequality. We want to bring Ideas Worth Spreading to Union City and the larger region to which we bel...

About this event: What is growth in real sense if it is not meant for all? When growth benefits only elite section of the society, it causes more harm than good. Inequality amounts to sand in the gears of growth, creating volatility, fueling crises, undermining productivity and retarding growth. TEDxLBSIM is an independently organized TEDx event which is being...

About this event: The first TEDxPeacePlaza took place on Saturday, November 9, 2013, at Pa'ina Lounge in San Francisco's Japantown. Our speaker talks addressed our theme “What’s Possible.” Seemingly intractable problems. Surprisingly ingenious solutions. In a world full of inequality, conflict, and hardships, there are remarkable examples of what actually can ...

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...

Gretchen Carlson is a tireless advocate for workplace equality and women's empowerment.

A Piketty guide for lifelong learners. When Thomas Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics. A fair portion of the book’s notoriety was due to its subject matter: wealth distribution, a...

Can capital be just? As a firm believer in capitalism and the free market, Paul Tudor Jones II believes that it can be. Jones is the founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation and the Tudor Group, which trade in the fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets. He thinks it is time to expand the “narrow definitions of capitalism” th...

Hacking is a term that prompts intense emotions, as we’ve seen in recent years with the likes of Kevin Mitnick, Evgeniy Bogachev and Sabu. But one thing’s clear: hackers can draw attention to important issues like nobody’s business. And by exposing weaknesses in our current online systems, they often help the web both evolve and improve. Such fo...

Paul Collier studies the poorest people on earth -- the 1 in 9 humans living in dysfunctional countries with broken economies, places whose income gaps are so wide it's hard for westerners to wrap their minds around it. In 2007, his book The Bottom Billion broke down the problems facing this group of people, stuck in failed and failing state...

About this event: When creating a TEDx event name TED orients to choose symbols of neighborhoods, name of region or neighborhood, where TEDx event operates, so our TEDx is TEDxLaçador. A tribute to the symbol of Porto Alegre. Also to artists through its creator, Caringi, to people in the spirit of Passion Cortes (Laçador inspiration), and the idea of the loop tha...

Political philosopher Michael Sandel -- the second "Michael from Harvard" this session -- returns to TED in the last session of TEDGlobal, "All Together Now," to address the marketization of our culture. These days there's very little money can't buy. If you ever wind up in jail in San Diego, CA, and you find your cell uncomfortable, don'...

Please enjoy your roundup of TED-related news: This one’s for the boys. Mark Ronson takes a break from making music to have some fun in Charli XCX’s video for “Boys.” You’ll find him (suavely) combing his hair, amid scenes of other male celebs, such as Wiz Khalifa, Riz Ahmed and Joe Jonas having a pillow fight or cuddling with puppies, in...

Could US economic growth be over? That's the provocative question that economist Robert J. Gordon begins with. And it's a big question. He points to travel: In 1900 travel was via the open buggy, at 1% the speed of sound. Sixty years later we travelled at 80% of the speed of sound in a Boeing 707. And since then, at a consumer level, we haven'...

Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization -- and they're where humanity's struggle for survival will take place. Robert Muggah and Benjamin Barber spell out the possibilities. Half the planet's population lives in cities. They are the world's engines, generating four-fifths of the global GDP. There are over 2,100 cities wi...

The most important economic fact of our time, says Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats, is that we are living in an age of surging income inequality, a global phenomenon that includes the US and UK, certainly, but also Communist China, India, and, she says, "we're even seeing it cozy social democracies like Sweden, Finland and Germany." ...

After his mainstage talk on the opening night of TED, psychologist Steven Pinker sat down with Chris Anderson to dive into his new book, Enlightenment Now. The two examined some criticisms of the book and the thesis behind it, dug into the data, and then threw the floor open for questions, in a session that offered the luxury of time to real...

About this event: Woodrow Wilson High School hosts 1,700 students, making it the largest comprehensive public high school in the District. Wilson students hail from over 85 countries and travel to school from almost every part of the District of Columbia. Wilson is undoubtedly one of the most vibrant and diverse schools in the nation, and its students have decide...

Well, Met “I am delighted that digital technology can open the doors to this trove of images from our encyclopedic collection," said Thomas Campbell of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as he unleashed more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images for free (non-commercial, scholarly) use. (See Campbell’s TED Talk.) A tale of two inequalities...

TED’s river of ideas is a constant flow -- and sometimes vital topics make their way onto our site far before they head into the mainstream. As part of the 10th birthday of TED Talks, we highlight seven Talks that foresaw big trends when they were only ripples in the pond. Wikipedia: Is it really a thing? At TEDGlobal 2005, Jimmy Wales ...

About this event: In our world of rapid change with an abundancy of uncertainty, people increasingly feel lost and seek guidance.They look for orientation to navigate through change, struggles and inequality. In this context we conceive an growing need for encouragers, people determined to take action, who envision a new direction and who, through their actions, ...

Chrystia Freeland writes about the power of money. As a journalist, she examines how money shapes society, impacts politics and essentially makes the world go ‘round. In today’s talk, given at TEDGlobal 2013, Freeland tackles the growing global plutocracy, looking at how 21st century democratic capitalism is making the rich richer while pulli...