As 2023 draws to a close, join us in reflecting on a year brimming with inspiring ideas and transformative insights from the TED stage. Our end-of-year playlists feature talks that capture the essence of the year’s challenges and triumphs — and offer glimpses of hope for 2024. From AI and the future of learning to a mysterious, millennia-old pattern and a radical way to repair your relationships, these TED Talks took off the quickest in 2023: Dive into one of the most buzzed-about topics of the year with these must-watch TED Talks on AI, showcasing groundbreaking advancements and thought-provoking perspectives […]
The right idea at the right time can bring people together to change the world — but only if minds are open and ready to keep learning. For the final session of TEDNext 2024, an extraordinary group of speakers and performers showed us how to get ready to reach new heights. The event: Talks from Session 6 of TEDNext 2024, hosted by TED’s Monique Ruff-Bell and Helen Walters When and where: Thursday, October 24, 2024, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia Speakers and performers: Dave Raggio, Leopoldo Lopez, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Wendy Whelan, Natasha Rothwell, Kasley Killam, Masego Watch TEDNext 2024 […]
We’ve been working on a secret project for the past year, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally share it with you. Games and puzzles have long been a part of TED’s identity in an unofficial way. We’ve presented thought leadership through TED Talks about games, built an award-winning TED-themed escape room in Marriott hotels around the world and created the TED-Ed riddle series of math and logic puzzles, which has been viewed more than 400 million times. Today we’re making it official by inviting you to participate in the TED Games beta. TED Games shares TED’s guiding ethos […]
The Audacious Project supports big ideas to foster change around the world’s most urgent challenges. Today, this innovative funding initiative, housed at TED, is announcing its new cohort of projects for 2024, which are as bold as ever — from an idea to repurpose generic drugs en masse to reach the 300 million people globally who lack viable treatments to a new initiative that will evaluate AI systems for dangerous capabilities before release. The Audacious Project encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger than they can imagine — then helps shape their ideas into viable multi-year plans and launch […]
Session 4 of TEDNext 2024 explored the full spectrum of love, from romantic love and lost love to self-love and the love we feel for dogs. After all, isn’t this what life’s all about? The event: Talks from Session 4 of TEDNext 2024, hosted by TED’s Ikey Ajavon When and where: Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia Speakers and performers: Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile, Navied Mahdavian, Baron Ryan, UMI, Joon Silverstein, Elias Weiss Friedman, Cloe Shasha Brooks and Rhaina Cohen Watch TEDNext 2024 on TED Live, check out more photos from the event and learn more about attending a […]
Imagine the world’s most captivating TED Talks at your fingertips, voiced in your own language. At TED, we believe that ideas are universal and that they should be accessible to everyone. Yet language barriers often hinder access to our talks, many of which are delivered in English. To tackle this issue head-on, we’re expanding our multilingual initiatives, building on the success of TED’s subtitling program by combining human and artificial intelligence. This approach aims to enhance inclusivity and enrich the experiences for TED’s diverse global audiences. Launching TED’s pilot program By integrating generative AI, including voice-cloning and lip-syncing capabilities, in […]
Play immerses us in the joy of being alive — and Session 5 of TEDNext 2024 explored how we can all enjoy it way more often. From creativity through movement and the role of play in childhood development to how interactive gaming sparks innovation and emotional growth, speakers explored how play shapes who we are, sharing different ways that play can break down barriers and spark creativity — and offering a life-affirming reminder that play isn’t just for kids; it’s something we all need for a happy, fulfilled life. The event: Talks from Session 5 of TEDNext 2024, hosted by […]
Session 3 of TEDNext 2024 is all about work, featuring innovators who challenge us to think about work in new and compelling ways. They provide practical tools to navigate an ever-evolving career landscape as well as insights into avoiding burnout, working through crisis and re-evaluating the role that work plays in our lives. The event: Talks from Session 3 of TEDNext 2024, hosted by TED’s Rachell Morris When and where: Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia Speakers: Kat Cole, Tarveen Forrester, Avani Prabhakar, Molly Graham, Dundee Gouin, Meredith Wilson Parfet, Simone Stolzoff Watch TEDNext 2024 on TED […]
Dedicated to unlocking the possibilities within everyday struggles, Session 2 of TEDNext 2024 covered everything from recycling glass bottles to battling perfectionism. Speakers presented in a format new to the TED stage, speaking for exactly five minutes with prepared slides auto-advancing behind them every 15 seconds. This format, developed and perfected by Ignite Talks over the last 16 years, forces speakers to remain concise and deliberate in their delivery, offering a delightful and captivating experience. The event: Talks from Session 2 of TEDNext 2024, hosted by Brady Forrest, cofounder of Ignite Talks When and where: Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at […]
For the inaugural session of the very first TEDNext conference, a poet, a comic, an astrophysicist, one of the world’s most popular authors and other trailblazing speakers explored a theme that keeps the world spinning: wonder, and how it can transform our thinking. What exactly is TEDNext? A vibrant, three-day exploration of what’s next, propelling the “future you” to drive change at every level, from personal to global. The first-ever TEDNext conference, held in Atlanta, kicks off an expansion of the annual slate of conferences from TED and is designed to spark imagination, embrace possibility and foster dreams about what […]
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 sharing with the tagline […]
We can discover new ideas to design the world we want — if we dare to push through boundaries. In a day of talks and performances, 15 speakers explored precisely how we can break through entrenched obstacles in order to invent and innovate a bold future. The event: TED@BCG: Dare to Discover, the fifteenth event TED and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have co-hosted to uplift forward-thinking speakers from around the globe. Hosted by TED’s head of media and curation Helen Walters. When and where: Thursday, September 12, 2024 at the TED World Theater in New York City Speakers: Alex Amouyel, […]
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’ve never before seen it. The event: Talks from Session 1 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, hosted by Chris Anderson, Monique Ruff-Bell and Helen Walters When and where: Monday, April 15, 2024, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, […]
TEDNext 2024 — the very first iteration of TED’s newest flagship event — features not one but two stages where attendees are immersed in new ideas and perspectives in a journey of discovery. The “Next Stage” breaks our traditional style of speakers on the red circle delivering their ideas to the audience in favor of a more interactive, debate-oriented approach, set in a beautiful (and comfortable!) theater-in-the-round. Below, enjoy a photo roundup from the Next Stage at TEDNext 2024 — and look out for videos from this special space coming soon to TED.com. TEDNext Photo Team: Felicia Chang, DeShaun Craddock, […]
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: Karthik Muralidharan, Daniela Rus, Rumman Chowdhury, Hiroki Koga, Zeynep Ton, Pete Stavros Special appearance: Lily James Olds, the director of the TED Fellows program, […]
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 work spans five continents and represents 11 countries — including, for the […]