TED is something all entrepreneurs should know about.
TED stands for Technology Entertainment and Design. It’s a global series of conferences held to disseminate “ideas worth spreading”, as TED calls it.
TED was founded in the 1980s in Silicon Valley, California and since 2006 all the talks are offered for free viewing online at TED.com by a world wide audience now well into double figures. Initially, TED’s subject theme was heavily biased in favour of technology and design, but it’s since broadened out to cover other topics in the fields of science, culture, society and entrepreneurship
The events are also now staged in Europe and Asia, as well as in the US and the talks are also available by live streaming.
Speakers get a maximum of 18 minutes to present their talk. Past presenters have included Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Jamie Oliver and many other well known names.
As TED puts it “We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world”.
Admission to the TED events is by ticket only and it’s expensive, but the talks are available free online at the TED website.
There’s now also a smaller more flexible program called TEDx. This enables schools, businesses and associations, or even just informal groups of people to present TED type talks. There are several hundred TEDx events scheduled throughout the world every year.
Visit TED at http://www.ted.com/
and TEDx at: http://www.ted.com/tedx
Print This Post
Related posts:
Written by kevin
Topics: Entrepreneurship