Head of TED Chris Anderson hosts Session 5 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Jason Redmond / TED) Bold ideas often meet resistance — but what if they were met with curiosity? Session 5 of TED2024 didn’t shy away from audacious ideas. Instead, it invited us all to embrace the discomfort of considering the impossible and unfamiliar, to find the courage to step into someone else’s shoes and assume goodness in those around us — because that’s what catalyzes imagination and possibility. From the search for extraterrestrial life t ..read more

Head of TED Chris Anderson and Audacious Project executive director Anna Verghese host Session 4 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Ryan Lash / TED) For Session 4 of TED2024, illuminators from diverse disciplines explored the bright future of their fields. From AI as a digital species to explosive art that climbs into the sky, speakers looked at how light (literally and figuratively) can shape our climate, social interactions, scientific discoveries and more. The event: Talks from Session 4 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, c ..read more

The opening of Session 3 at TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Jason Redmond / TED) Many of the world’s systems, big and small, could use an upgrade. In a dynamic Session 3 at TED2024, six speakers explore how to do just that — taking on everything from global development and capitalism to robots and vertical farming. The event: Talks from Session 3 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, hosted by TED’s Helen Walters When and where: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada Speakers ..read more

In this complex world, it’s easy to believe that the future is out of our hands. But there are some who understand that the future doesn’t just happen — it’s made. Among these are the TED Fellows: innovators, activists, artists, inventors and dreamers. The TED Fellows program, now celebrating its fifteenth year, provides communication training, professional tools, network-building opportunities and amplification on the global stage to early-stage innovators working across multiple disciplines in over 100 countries.   We are thrilled to announce the 2024 cohort of TED Fellows, whose ..read more

Head of TED Chris Anderson and host of The TED AI Show Bilawal Sidhu speak at Session 2 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED) AI is reshaping how we interact with the world around us and within us, expanding creative possibilities and bringing us closer together by dissolving barriers of all kinds. But anyone who’s paying attention can spot its obvious flaws and potential pitfalls. From trailblazing platforms making software accessible to micro-robotics revolutionizing health care (including a mind-blowing ..read more

Hosts Chris Anderson, Monique Ruff-Bell and Helen Walters unveil TED’s new tagline — “Ideas change everything” — at Session 1 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, on Monday, April 15, 2024 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED) It’s time for TED! And this year’s conference marks a big year: the 40th anniversary of TED, honoring the inaugural conference in 1984. With that in mind, TED2024 kicked off with a classically eclectic opening session, ranging from a powerful conversation on how Israel and Palestine can find peace to the future of AI to visual storytelling as you ..read more

To celebrate TED’s 40th anniversary, we’re ushering in a new chapter and a new tagline. For the first half of TED‘s existence, we were an annual conference, bringing together a few hundred people every year to think about Technology, Entertainment, Design and all that connected them. We discovered that this convergence sparked powerful new ideas capable of deeply inspiring the people who attended.    Just under 20 years ago, online video gave us the chance to start sharing that inspiration more broadly. And we encouraged anyone who saw a TED Talk to play their own role in shari ..read more

Lindsay Levin (right), Head of TED Countdown, speaks with Morten Bo Christiansen, SVP at A.P. Moller – Maersk and a member of the TED Future Forum, at the TED Countdown Summit 2023 on July 12, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Nick Hagen / TED) TED Countdown, a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, is delighted to welcome Joshua Amponsem, Olivia Lazard, Omnia el Omrani, Rayne Sullivan and Riddhima Yadav to its Vision Council. They join Jim Hagemann Snabe, Gonzalo Munoz, Habiba Ahut Daggash, Manish Bhardwaj and Nigel Topping as advisors to Countdown. L ..read more

TED has been alerted to a fraudulent marketing scam referred to as “TED India,” “TED Studios India,” “TEDIND,” “TED Studios” and/or “TED Bharat,” that have misrepresented that they are affiliated with the TED organization. These entities claim to produce TED events in India, most recently in Delhi in September 2023, and seek payment from individuals to speak at events or for TED coaching and TED franchise opportunities. These entities have no affiliation with TED, and are not authorized to speak or use TED branding in any way. Please do not engage with these organizations. The brands that we h ..read more

TED’s senior director of impact Logan McClure Davda (left) and TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks host TED Democracy: Imagining our common future on November 15, 2023, at the TED World Theater in New York, NY. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED) The question of our democratic future is more urgent, complex and exciting than ever. As the world stands at a crossroads, more than 140 world leaders and experts convened in New York City for the launch of the TED Democracy initiative, a project that aims to shift the narrative on democracy, accelerate solutions to support a robust civic culture and contribute to ..read more