New York, NY -- (SBWire) -- 11/10/2014 --TED Conferences are known for conveying virtue and wisdom to its audiences worldwide. The main conference is held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia and its global conferences take place in various cities around the world, including those in Europe and South America.
The conference was organized by the Sapling Foundation, a US/Canada-based organization that believes through the power of ideas they can change lives and bring knowledge and inspiration to people around the world.
TED conferences have become extremely popular for delivering timely information along with enormous amounts of virtue and benefits which were made possible through preeminent guest speakers and resource persons. The speakers come from various fields and professions are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can.
Some of the past prominent speakers include former US president Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Bono, Mike Rowe, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners, among others.
The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California while the TED main conference is held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia. The TEDGlobal conferences, on the other hand, were launched by the organization in 2005.
The TED conferences, are comprised of more than 1,700 talks can be viewed free online through the organization’s website, TED.com.
According to the organization’s profile, its viewers have reached more the 500 million people by June 2011 and the talks had been watched one billion times worldwide by November 2012.
About TED
TED was conceived by architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman and was succeeded by British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson who is TED’s current curator.
Delivering Virtue at TED Conferences