My idea for a new era: The town hall from TED2022

TED’s Chris Anderson, Whitney Pennington Rodgers and Helen Walters host Session 1 of TED2022: A New Era on April 10, 2022 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Stacie McChesney / TED) There’s a special tradition on the final day of the annual TED conference: the town hall, an opening of the main stage to TED attendees to reflect on the week’s ideas and...

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Watch new TED Talks from the Audacious Project

The Audacious Project is TED’s collaborative funding initiative to put ideas for social change into action. Today, we launched eight new talks from this year’s cohort, featuring some of the world’s boldest changemakers and their ideas to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges. Collectively this group has secured more than $900 million in funding...

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New era, new shorts: The delightful, energizing interstitials of TED2022

The TED Theater at TED2022: A New Era, April 10-14, 2021 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED) At every TED conference, in every session, there’s a lot going on. Wonder and intrigue abound. How do you ready an audience to have its mind blown again and again? Offer bite-sized moments to laugh, to ponder, to dream between ideas. Here are...

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Have an idea worth spreading? Apply to the TED Idea Search: Africa 2022

TED is hosting another idea search with a mission to hear big, bold ideas — this time specifically from Africa. Applications are open to anyone in or descended from the African continent. TED Idea Search: Africa is now open. Applicants are required to create a two-minute video as a part of their submission. The deadline for submissions is June 24,...

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A New Era: Notes from Session 2 of TED Fellows Talks at TED2022

The 2022 TED Fellows  at TED2022: A New Era on April 10, 2021 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED) Session 2 of TED Fellows talks brought us yet another incredible group of individuals doing wildly different things in wildly different places. Eleven speakers and one performer took us across the globe to share their bold plans for social...

Apr 2022

Notes from TED Fellows Talks Session 1 at TED2022

TED Fellows director Shoham Arad and TED Fellows deputy director Lily James Olds host Session 1 of TED Fellows Talks at TED2022: A New Era on April 10, 2022, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Ryan Lash / TED) The TED Fellows program is built around a deep belief in and commitment to socially engaged innovation and human ingenuity. The mission: to shift...

Apr 2022

Awe: Notes from Session 11 of TED2022

TED’s current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, head of TED Chris Anderson and TED’s head of curation Helen Walters speak at Session 11 of TED2022: A New Era on April 14, 2022 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED) What a week! Eleven mainstage sessions of TED Talks, two sessions of TED Fellows talks, an incredible array...

Apr 2022

Imagination: Notes from Session 10 of TED2022

A trio of dancers perform Nina McNeely’s “Once There Was III” at Session 10 of TED2022: A New Era on April 13, 2022 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED) The wondrous, expansive, absurd creativity of humanity was on full display at Session 10 of TED2022, which featured seven brilliant speakers, one deeply beautiful and imaginative...

Apr 2022

The TED Theater at TED2022, in photos

A visual feast from the TED Theater in Vancouver, BC, Canada during TED2022: A New Era, April 10-14, 2022. Read our live coverage of the conference and watch TED Talks from TED2022. TED2022 Photo Team: Ella DeGea, Mike Femia, Callie Giovanna, Bret Hartman, Ryan Lash, Erin Lubin, Stacie McChesney, Jason Redmond, Gilberto Tadday, Jasmina Tomic and Elizabeth...

Apr 2022

Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works at TED2022

Watch Elon Musk’s exclusive interview at TED2022: In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more.

Apr 2022