About TED:
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world’s leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; the new TED Conversations, enabling broad conversations among TED fans; and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.
TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
For information about TED’s upcoming conferences, visit http://www.ted.com/registration.
Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TED
A Propos de TED:
Depuis 25 ans, la conférence TED rassemble pendant 4 jours, chercheurs, entrepreneurs, artistes, penseurs, inventeurs. Les personnalités les plus brillantes et iconoclastes viennent y présenter des idées qui changent le monde lors d’une présentation de 18 minutes pas plus. Marathon intellectuel et émotionnel, oasis d’idées et d’innovation, la conférence TED bouscule, provoque et renverse nos conceptions du monde.Des personnalités reconnues mondialement, des entrepreneurs de talents, des petits génies encore inconnus viennent y donner la conférence de leur vie. Tous les sujets sont abordés, sans aucune limite : science, arts, politique, économie, architecture, etc.
Face à son succès, TED a voulu permettre aux membres de sa communauté de continuer à échanger, partager et diffuser selon son leitmotiv “the ideas worth spreading”. Les évènements TEDx sont des conférences au format TED organisées localement et indépendamment, tout en respectant des critères définis par TED.
En 2010, 984 évènements TEDx ont été organisés en 42 langues et dans 96 pays.