TED

http://www.ted.com

TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference previously held in Monterey, California, U.S., but as of 2009 will be held in Long Beach, California, USA. It defines its mission as \"ideas worth spreading\", and selected talks given at TED are available free on its website. Its lectures cover a broad set of topics: science, arts, design, politics, culture, business, global issues, technology, and entertainment. The speakers are from a wide variety of communities and disciplines and have included such people as former U.S. president Bill Clinton, Nobel laureates James D. Watson, Murray Gell-Mann, Al Gore, internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, notable architect and urbanism critic James Howard Kunstler, and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The TED Conference also has a companion conference, TED Global, held in varying locations.

The TED staff is headquartered in New York City and Vancouver, Canada.

250 TED talks are provided for viewing online and over 50 million viewings by over 15 million people had occurred as of June 2008.