The characteristically short talks (which often deal with issues of technology, entertainment, and design, or TED for short), together with the framing
TED conferences, have attracted much attention in the news, and increasingly, in academe.
In 2001 the foundation aquired the
TED conference which had grown from an intended one-off conference in 1984.
The Ringling College Library Association presents Sir Ken Robinson, the most-watched and discussed speaker in the history of the prestigious
TED Conference, most known for pushing the boundaries of intelligence and creativity.
Watch this video to see Harald Haas, the inventor of Li-Fi, at a
TED conference back in 2011.
Another innovator and physician, Daniel Kraft, delivered a talk at a
TED conference about the future of medicine and patient care called "Medicine's Future?
I learned that TED stands for Technical, Entertainment, and Design and that the
TED conference (affordable only to the wealthy) has been around for more than 30 years.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share an experience similar to the annual
TED conference. The
TED conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, subject to certain rules and regulations.
At a
Ted conference in Vancouver last spring, Lewinsky likened her online harassers, to "mobs of virtual stone throwers" participating in an exercise of "global humiliation."
Sir Robinson, speaking on whether schools kill creativity, at the
TED Conference in February 2006, talks about the unpredictability of work one will face every five years.
I was just at the
TED Conference in Rio, where Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, the happiest man in the world, spoke about empathy.
The annual
TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes with their talks which are then available free at TED.com.