TED2 was held at the Monterey Conference Center in California in 1990. The event was financially unsuccessful hence, it took six years before the second conference was organized.
Presentations were given by famous mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and influential members of the digerati community, like Nicholas Negroponte and Stewart Brand. Frank Stanton, featured demos of the compact disc, co-developed by Philips and Sony and one of the first demonstrations of the Apple Macintosh computer. The first conference, organized that same year by Marks and Wurman with help from Dr. He approached architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman for assistance, who agreed on the condition that he be allowed to be a co-founder. TED was conceived in 1984 by Emmy-winning broadcast and graphic designer Harry Marks, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment, and design (that is, "TED").
While TED Talks are available for free online for personal learning, sharing TED content in commercial contexts (for example, in corporate learning and talent development) requires a license. In June 2011, TED Talks' combined viewing figure stood at more than 500 million, by November 2012, TED Talks had been watched over one billion times worldwide. As of December 2020 over 3,500 TED Talks are freely available on the website. Since June 2006, TED Talks have been offered for free viewing online, under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license, through TED.com. Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia, TED (conference), 2005 Ĭhris Anderson: A vision for TED, TED (conference), 2002 Carroll, Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, Cédric Villani, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Temple Grandin, Shahrukh Khan, 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, Jeff Bezos, and many Nobel Prize winners. Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Sean M. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling. TED events are also held throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, and Africa, offering live streaming of the talks. Prior to 2014, the conference was held in Long Beach, California, United States. The main TED conference is held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the Vancouver Convention Centre. It has been curated by Chris Anderson, a British-American businessman, through the non-profit TED Foundation since July 2019 (originally by the non-profit Sapling Foundation). It has since broadened its perspective to include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian and academic topics.
TED's early emphasis was on technology and design, consistent with its Silicon Valley origins.
TED was conceived by Richard Saul Wurman, who co-founded it with Harry Marks in February 1984 as a conference it has been held annually since 1990. TED Conferences LLC ( Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". February 22, 1990 31 years ago ( ) (annual event).February 23, 1984 37 years ago ( ) (first conference).