About TED(x)
x=independently organized event
In the spirit of “ideas worth spreading”, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a series of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.
Our event is called TEDxKids @TheHill, the “x” representing an independently organized event. TED provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
Officially licensed by TED, the world’s first TEDxKids @TheHill is taking place this fall in Ottawa, Canada. In the spirit of the main TED conference, TEDxKids @TheHill is challenging prolific thinkers and doers to give the talk of their lives in 12 minutes or less.
About TED
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. It is a non-profit that started out in 1984 as a four-day conference in California that brought people from those three worlds together. Since then, TED’s scope has broadened, and today it is a leading-edge website and group of conferences that create a stage to amplify “ideas worth spreading”. TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. TED.com has a library of more than 600 TEDTalks and has become the reference point for remarkable presentations on world-changing ideas.
Conference attendees call TED “the ultimate brain spa”, “a candy shop of people,” and “a four-day journey into the future”. The diverse audience — CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists —is as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Ken Robinson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Philippe Starck, Bono, Al Gore, Nandan Nilekani, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
In 2001, Chris Anderson’s Sapling Foundation took over TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. TED is a nonprofit organization that has grown to support world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about in 18 minutes or less. Their talks are then made available, for no cost, at TED.com. TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK, and this past November, a TEDIndia conference was held in Mysore.
TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, 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 TEDFellows 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.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
TED2011, “The Rediscovery of Wonder,” will be held February 28 – March 4, 2011, in Long Beach, California, with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs, California.
