https://www.ted.com/#/
TED
Conferences LLC Richard Saul Wurman in February 1984 as
a conference; it has been held annually since 1990. TED's
early emphasis was on technology and design, consistent with its Silicon
Valley origins. It has since broadened its perspective to
include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, and academic topics. It
is owned and curated by Chris Anderson, a British-American
businessman, through the Sapling Foundation.
The main TED
conference is held annually in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Prior to
2014, the conference was held in Long Beach, California, United States. TED
events are also held throughout North America and in Europe, Asia and Africa,
offering live streaming of the talks. They address
a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture,
often through storytelling. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes
to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can.
Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Sean M.
Carroll, Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, Cédric
Villani, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Temple
Grandin, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Billy Graham, Richard
Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bill Gates, Dolph
Lundgren, Bob Weir, Shashi
Tharoor, Bono, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Leana Wen, Pope Francis,
and many Nobel Prize winners. TED's current
curator is Chris Anderson, a British-American
businessman, computer journalist and magazine publisher.
Since June
2006, TED Talks have been offered for free viewing online, under an
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license, through TED.com. As
of January 2018, over 2,600 TED Talks are freely available on the website. In
June 2011, TED Talks' combined viewing figure stood at more than 500 million, and
by November 2012, TED Talks had been watched over one billion times worldwide. TED
Talks given by academics tend to be watched more online while art and design
videos tend to be watched less than average.
source: wikipedia
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