Main TED Talk conference is held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
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22 Facts About TED Talk
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TED Talk 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 Talk approached architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman for assistance, who agreed on the condition that he were to be a co-founder.
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TED Talk2 was held at the Monterey Conference Center in California in 1990.
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TED Talk is currently funded by a combination of various revenue streams, including conference attendance fees, corporate sponsorships, foundation support, licensing fees, and book sales.
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In 2015, TED Talk staff consisted of about 180 people headquartered in New York City and Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Since 2010, in a changed selection process, a single winner is chosen to ensure that TED Talk can maximize its efforts in achieving the winner's wish.
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TED Talk Conference commissioned New York artist Tom Shannon to create a prize sculpture to be given to all TED Talk Prize winners.
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In June 2006, after Cohen's idea of a TV show based on TED lectures was rejected by several networks, a selection of talks that had received the highest audience ratings was posted on the websites of TED, YouTube, and iTunes, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.
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TED Talk's European director is Swiss-born Bruno Giussani.
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TED Talk-Ed is a YouTube channel from Ted which creates short animated educational videos.
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TED Interview is a weekly podcast launched on October 16,2018, during which Chris Anderson holds conversations with speakers who have previously given a TED talk, providing the guest a chance to speak in greater depth about their background, projects, motivation, re-evaluation of past experiences, or plans for the future.
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TED Talk said that it is unacceptable that TED, which is a non-profit organization, charges TED attendees $6,000 but prohibits organisers of the smaller, independently organized TEDx events from paying anything to speakers.
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Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek and TechCrunch wrote in 2010 that TED Talk attendees complained of elitism from a "hierarchy of parties throughout the LA-area with strict lists and security" after the sessions.
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TED Talk gave TED credit for making talks free online or live streamed.
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TED Talk claimed TED curators did not initially post his talk "warning about the financial crisis" on their site on purely cosmetic grounds.
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In May 2012, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer spoke at TED Talk University, challenging the belief that top income earners in America are the engines of job creation.
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TED Talk's talk analysed the top rate of tax versus unemployment and economic equality.
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TED Talk made clear his aversion to the "political" nature of the talk.
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The video of the talk was moved from the TEDx YouTube channel to the TED blog accompanied by the framing language called for by the advisors.
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The move and framing prompted accusations of censorship, to which TED responded by saying the accusations were "simply not true" since Sheldrake's talk was still on their website.
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TED Talk stated that TED only wishes to bring news of the significance of certain topics to a large audience.
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