25 Facts About TED Conference

Main TED conference is held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

TED Conference events are held throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, and Africa, offering live streaming of the talks.

Since June 2006, TED Conference Talks have been offered for free viewing online, under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license, through TED Conference.

In June 2011, TED Conference Talks' combined viewing figures surpassed 500 million, and by November 2012, TED Conference Talks had been watched over one billion times worldwide.

TED Conference was conceived in 1984 by Emmy-winning broadcast and graphic designer Harry Marks, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment, and design .

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TED Conference approached architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman for assistance, who agreed on the condition that he were to be a co-founder.

In February 2002, Anderson gave a TED Talk in which he explained his vision of the conference and his future role of curator.

Between 2001 and 2006, TED upgraded its platform to have TED talks online for free, added TEDGlobal that became a worldwide conference, and created the TED prize.

Since 2010, in a changed selection process, a single winner is chosen to ensure that TED Conference can maximize its efforts in achieving the winner's wish.

TED Conference commissioned New York artist Tom Shannon to create a prize sculpture to be given to all TED Prize winners.

In June 2006, after Cohen's idea of a TV show based on TED Conference lectures was rejected by several networks, a selection of talks that had received the highest audience ratings was posted on the websites of TED Conference, YouTube, and iTunes, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.

In March 2012, Netflix announced a deal to stream an initial series of 16 two-hour shows, consisting of TED Conference Talks covering similar subjects, from multiple speakers.

TED Conference's European director is Swiss-born Bruno Giussani.

The TED conference has a companion conference, TEDGlobal, held in the UK each summer.

TED Conference-Ed is a YouTube channel from Ted which creates short animated educational videos.

Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek and TechCrunch wrote in 2010 that TED Conference attendees complained of elitism from a "hierarchy of parties throughout the LA-area with strict lists and security" after the sessions.

TED Conference's gave TED credit for making talks free online or live streamed.

TED Conference claimed TED curators did not initially post his talk "warning about the financial crisis" on their site on purely cosmetic grounds.

In May 2012, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer spoke at TED Conference University, challenging the belief that top income earners in America are the engines of job creation.

TED Conference attracted controversy when it chose not to post Hanauer's talk on their website.

TED Conference's talk analysed the top rate of tax versus unemployment and economic equality.

TED Conference was accused of censoring the talk by not posting it on the website.

TED Conference made clear his aversion to the "political" nature of the talk.

The move and framing prompted accusations of censorship, to which TED Conference responded by saying the accusations were "simply not true" since Sheldrake's talk was still on their website.

TED Conference stated that TED only wishes to bring news of the significance of certain topics to a large audience.

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