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TED (short for Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference in Monterey, California that describes itself as a global community of remarkable people and remarkable ideas. Its content is extremely broad, including science, art, business, global issues, architecture, music, and comedy. Speakers are a "who's who" of luminaries from a variety of communities. Speakers have included Jane Goodall, Freeman Dyson, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, Bono, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Richard Dawkins and Steve Pinker.

The 2006 roster included Al Gore, Tony Robbins, Bill Joy, Pastor Rick Warren, Peter Gabriel and Gregory Colbert.

2005 speakers included:

TED was founded by Richard Saul Wurman in 1984, and was held annually from 1990. Wurman left after the 2002 conference and it is now hosted by Chris Anderson and owned by his non-profit The Sapling Foundation, devoted to leveraging the power of ideas to change the world.

In 2005, the TED Prize was introduced. Three individuals are each given $100,000 and granted a "wish to change the world" which they unveil at TED. The inaugural winners were Bono, Edward Burtynsky and Robert Fischell. Bono's wish resulted in more than 1m people signing up the join The ONE Campaign to eradicate poverty. The first "TED Global" was held in Oxford in July, 2005 and it is planned to make this a bi-annual event held in a different country each time, with the 2007 event to be held in Arusha, Tanzania on the theme "Africa: The Next Chapter"

External links

[1] Official website
[2] Official blog
TEDTalks - Talks from TED Conference
[3] Interesting writeup of TED2006

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 * [http://www.ted.com] Official website
 * [http://tedblog.typepad.com] Official blog
+* [http://www.ted.com/tedtalks TEDTalks - Talks from TED Conference]
 * [http://www.dwr.com/images/newsletter/ted.html] Interesting writeup of TED2006