An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders.

Fabian Hemmert is a design professor, driven by the belief that we shouldn't sacrifice our humanness for the sake of technology.

A Silicon Valley executive, entrepreneur and marketing specialist, Peter Hirshberg might just be the definitive voice on how new technology affects business and culture.

A phone call to a US prison or jail can cost up to a dollar per minute -- a rate that forces one in three families with incarcerated loved ones into debt. In this searing talk about mass incarceration, criminal justice advocate and TED Fellow Bianca Tylek exposes the predatory nature of the billion-dollar prison telecom industry and presents str...

As Executive Creative Director of global insights for frog design, Jan Chipchase travels around the world and inside our pockets in search of behavioral patterns that will inform the design of products we don't even know we want. Yet.

Iqbal Quadir is an advocate of business as a humanitarian tool. With GrameenPhone, he brought the first commercial telecom services to poor areas of Bangladesh. His latest project will help rural entrepreneurs build power plants.

Malte Spitz asked his cell phone carrier what it knew about him -- and mapped what he found out.

After a decade-long conducting career in his native Israel, Itay Talgam has reinvented himself as a "conductor of people" -- in government, academia, business and education. He is the author of The Ignorant Maestro.

The basics on how to nurture and manage groups of people with different backgrounds and perspectives -- on a micro and macro level. (Supported by American Family Insurance)

It never hurts to have a basic set of guiding principles. Let these insightful talks help shape, redefine and build out your own leadership goals. (Curated in partnership with SAP)

These extraordinary maestros bring you into the world of writing and conducting music.

What makes a great leader? These TED Talks offer surprising, nuanced approaches on how to inspire and empower others to do their very best.

Qiuqing Tai helps companies discover the best ways to responsibly unlock the power of information and technology.

Fang Ruan is co-lead of the BCG Henderson Institute in China and a regional leader of the People and Organization practice in Asia-Pacific based in BCG's Hong Kong office.

Marco Alverà is an Italian/American businessman and CEO of Snam, Europe’s largest natural gas utility.

TED Fellow David Moinina Sengeh explains why he's bullish about the "microgrid." Nearly 70% of the sub-Saharan African population doesn’t have electricity. That’s about 600 million people who are completely off-grid, often paying high prices in cash and health to use diesel generators, kerosene lamps and charcoal fires. Recently, we’ve seen ...

Click to watch this session's opening animation Too often, we view "openness" as an unmitigated Good Thing. Yet, as we've seen up close over the past decade or so, transparency comes with consequences. Reality is neither black nor white, and until we can learn to take a nuanced view of the problems with which we are beset, meaningful progre...

Cornelia Geppert creates innovative, visually original video games that explore the depths of human emotion.

When you watch a video on TED.com, we’re proud of the advertisement you see afterward -- it’s not your usual blaring video ad. We ask all of TED.com’s sponsors to make their post-roll video as thoughtful and idea-driven as the TED Talk it’s helping to support. In fact, we’ll sometimes work with the sponsor to create original video just for us...

By Baratunde Thurston So, you might know me. I ran the digital side of The Onion for a long time; I’m the author of How To Be Black. People call me to do things like host White House events on innovation, do the wrap-up at TED salons, join semi-secret cabals at MIT, and comment on the teevee. The underlying constant in my multi-hyphenate ...

You can -- at a visionary social enterprise called Plastic Bank, which is not only improving people’s lives but keeping junk from going into the ocean. Imagine a store where you could buy what you need using your plastic garbage. Not just food or household items like detergent but valuable goods such as minutes for your cell phone, WiFI, school...

Danny Hillis has a book. It's a directory of everyone in the world who had an internet address in 1982, including the names, addresses and telephone numbers. And it was a very thin phonebook. That was the community. It was a tight community where everyone knew and trusted each other. Hillis has been a fixture of the tech world (see hi...

About this event: "A man may die, nation may rise & fall, but an idea lives on" Idea was born since the beginning of humankind. One idea has changed lives of many. From stone age to digital age, from discovery of America to liberation of India, from Newton's apple to Steve Job's Apple, from pigeon post to emailing, everything changed just with the spark of...

So, you might know me. I ran the digital side of The Onion for a long time; I’m the author of How to Be Black. People call me to do things like host White House events on innovation, do the wrap-up at TED salons, join semi-secret cabals at MIT, and comment on the teevee. The underlying constant in my multi-hyphenate life is running my creative c...

Across the globe, anyone can watch TED Talks through TED.com, our YouTube channel, our mobile apps or our iTunes podcasts. (Have you checked out TED Studies on iTunes U?) Most recently, our new SmartTV app showcases TED in beautiful high definition through television set manufacturers like Samsung and telephone IPTV providers like TELUS, letting...

The TED Interview A future without pandemics? with Mark Smolinski October 20, 2022 [00:00:00] Steven Johnson: Welcome to the TED Interview. I'm your host, Steven Johnson. A few weeks ago, President Biden triggered a small controversy during an off-the-cuff interview on 60 Minutes by remarking that the COVID pandemic was over. But one thing that...

Juliana Rotich was not expecting our interview to end in tears. Neither was I. But on reflection, we were both completely ok with it. After all, that's what happens when terrorism becomes personal. For Rotich, that happened at the end of September, when al Shabaab terrorists attacked the Westgate Mall in the northwestern part of Nairobi, kil...

Juliana Rotich was not expecting our interview to end in tears. Neither was I. But on reflection, we were both completely okay with it. After all, that's what happens when terrorism becomes personal. For Rotich, that happened when al Shabaab terrorists attacked the Westgate Mall in the northwestern part of Nairobi in September 2013, killing a...

Tech and social entrepreneur Jon Gosier launched the Apps4Africa competition in 2009 to reward and jumpstart African innovators and entrepreneurs. As the competition enters its third year, Jon is finding ways to help provide long-term, holistic support for winners, helping to scale sustainable businesses across nations and the continent. Tell...

There's no need to silo our professional and personal relationships; multiple ties can actually help us succeed, says management researcher David Burkus. When we consider our overall networks, we tend to assign people to certain categories -- some are friends, others are business relationships, and still others are people we interact with becau...