TED (conference)

TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) - originally an annual conference in Monterey, California - is primarily known through the TED Talks site on which the best presentations are provided free as videos online. For many of these videos are added since 2009 subtitles in various languages ​​, including German. Worldwide the videos of TED Talks have been more than a billion times accessed and viewed ( as of Dec. 2012).

On the still taking place origin Conference an exclusive group of professionals of different areas of exchanges their ideas. Since 2005, more TED conferences are held outside the United States. Those wishing to participate in the conferences, must apply for an invitation. Participation in the various events will cost 4000-25000 U.S. dollars. There are also offshoots such as the TEDx conferences.

TED Conference

In 1984, Richard Saul Wurman of TED was launched. Since the first event was financially a failure, it took six years until the next conference. Since 1990, TED held annually. After the conference in 2002 Wurman stopped since TED is led by Chris Anderson.

TEDGlobal

In July 2005, the first TEDGlobal in Oxford, England was held. The second TEDGlobal was held in Arusha, Tanzania in June 2007. 2009 and 2010 TEDGlobal was held again at Oxford in July, respectively.

In 2011 she was held until July 15 in Edinburgh, Scotland on 11. The second TEDGlobal in Edinburgh took place from 25 to 29 June 2012, under the motto " Radical Openness " instead. The TEDGlobal from June 10 to 14, 2013, in Edinburgh, in turn, had the motto "Think again".

In 2014, the TEDGlobal take place in Brazil, the home of the football World Cup in 2014.

TEDIndia

In November 2009, a TED Conference in Mysore, India was held for the first time, the TEDIndia.

TEDMED

TEDMED is an annual medical technology conference in the U.S.. Founded as the 2009 session of Marc and Richard Saul Wurman Hodosh. Focuses on medical technology, cancer research, and issues in the field of private and public health care. The recorded lectures can be found on the TEDMED website.

TED Prize

Since 2005, the TED Prize is awarded. The price was doped up to and including 2012, with U.S. $ 100,000, since 2013 the winners will be awarded $ 1,000,000. Previous winners are:

TED Talks

Since spring 2006 presentations of TED conferences are published on the TED website. The theme of these lectures is: " Ideas worth spreading " (engl.: " ideas that are worth to be spread "). The video recordings of the lectures that are not longer than 18 minutes are released under a Creative Commons license ( by-nc - nd).

Time- coded to 300 English subtitles lectures published in 40 languages ​​- In May 2009, for the first time - as part of the TED Open Translation Project.

TEDx

Since 2009, the independent TED organizers, own conferences allows under the name TEDx, such as to host the TEDxVienna in Vienna. In order to ensure a uniform appearance, free licenses will be awarded. One of the stipulations is one example, the design of the stage as well as a publication of the lectures via video. TEDx is aimed for example at schools, businesses, libraries, and communities or groups of all kinds

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