List of TED speakers
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The following is a partial list of people who have spoken or otherwise presented at the TED Conference,[1] or have presented at TED Partner conferences.
A more complete list of talks can be found in online spreadsheets.[2][3]
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[edit] A
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Chris Abani | Entertainment | Learning the Stories of Africa (2007) Telling Stories of our Shared Humanity (2008) |
| J. J. Abrams | Technology Entertainment Design |
The Mystery Box (2007) |
| Chimamanda Adichie | The danger of a single story (2009) | |
| José Antonio Abreu | Kids Transformed by Music (2009) | |
| Newton Aduaka | Entertainment | The Story of Ezra, a Child Soldier (2007) |
| Anand Agarawala | Technology Design |
BumpTop Desktop is a Beautiful Mess (2007) |
| Blaise Aguera y Arcas | Technology Design |
Jaw-Dropping Photosynth Demo (2007) |
| Zeresenay Alemseged | Finding the Origins of Humanity (2007) | |
| Isabel Allende | Tales of Passion (2007) | |
Charles Anderson[disambiguation needed  ] |
Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans (2009) | |
| Chris Anderson (TED) | A Vision for TED (2002) | |
| Chris Anderson (Wired) | Technology | Technology's Long Tail (2004) |
| Paola Antonelli | Technology Design |
Treating Design as Art (2007) Design and the Elastic Mind (2007) |
| Dan Ariely | Are we in Control of our Own Decisions? (2009) Our Buggy Moral Code (2009) |
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| Karen Armstrong | TED Prize: Charter for Compassion (2008) Let's revive the Golden Rule (2009) |
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| Rachel Armstrong | Architecture that repairs itself? (2009) | |
| Kristen Ashburn | Heartrending Pictures of AIDS (2003) | |
| Julian Assange | Why The World Needs Wikileaks (2010) | |
| Patrick Awuah | Educating a New Generation of African Leaders (2007) | |
| George Ayittey | Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's Future (2007) |
[edit] B
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Ballard | Exploring the Ocean's Hidden Worlds (2008) | |
| Chris Bangle | Technology Design |
Great Cars are Art (2002) |
| Richard Baraniuk | Technology | Goodbye, Textbooks; Hello, Open-Source Learning (2006) |
| Dan Barber | Entertainment | A Surprising Parable of Foie Gras (2008) |
| Thomas Barnett | Technology | The Pentagon's New Map for War and Peace (2005) |
| Keith Barry | Entertainment | Brain Magic (2004) |
| Yves Behar | Design | Creating Objects That Tell Stories (2008) |
| Keith Bellows | Entertainment | Celebrating the Camel (2002) |
| Arthur T. Benjamin | Entertainment | Lightning Calculation and Other "Mathemagic" (2005) |
| Yochai Benkler | Open-Source Economics (2005) | |
| Paul Bennett | Technology Design |
Design is in the Details (2005) |
| Janine Benyus | Technology Design |
12 Sustainable Design Ideas From Nature (2005) Biomimicry in action (2009) |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Technology | The next Web of open, linked data (2009) |
| Jeff Bezos | Technology | After the Gold Rush, There's Innovation Ahead (2003) |
| Mark Bittman | What's Wrong With What We Eat (2007) | |
| Susan Blackmore | Technology | Memes and "Temes" (2008) |
| David Blaine | Entertainment | How I Held My Breath for 17 Minutes (2010) |
| Becky Blanton | The year I was homeless (2009) | |
| Kwabena Boahen | Making a Computer that Works Like the Brain (2007) | |
| David Bolinsky | Technology Entertainment Design |
Fantastic Voyage Inside a Cell (2007) |
| Bono | Entertainment | TED Prize: Join my Call to Action on Africa (2005) |
| Alain de Botton | A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (2009) | |
| Phil Borges | Documenting our Endangered Cultures (2006) | |
| Penelope Boston | Technology | Life on Mars? Let's Look in the Caves (2006) |
| Nick Bostrom | Technology | Humanity's Biggest Problems Aren't What You Think They Are (2005) |
| Bruno Bowden and Rufus Cappadocia | Entertainment | Origami, Blindfolded and to Music (2008) |
| Stewart Brand | Technology | Building a Home for the Clock of the Long Now (2004) Why Squatter Cities are a Good Thing (2006) Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies' (2009) |
| Richard Branson | Technology Entertainment |
Life at 30,000 Feet (2007) |
| Rory Bremner | Rory Bremner's one-man world summit (2009) | |
| Larry Brilliant | Technology | TED Prize: Help Stop the Next Pandemic (2006) The Case for Informed Optimism (2007) |
| Sergey Brin and Larry Page | Technology | Inside the Google Machine (2004) |
| Stefana Broadbent | Technology | How the Internet enables intimacy (2009) |
| Rodney Brooks | Technology Design |
How Robots Will Invade Our Lives (2003) |
| Tim Brown | Design | The Powerful Link Between Creativity and Play (2008) Tim Brown urges designers to think big (2009) |
| Patricia Burchat | Technology | The Search for Dark Energy and Dark Matter (2008) |
| James Balog | Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss (2009) | |
| Gordon Brown | Wiring a web for global good (2009) Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest (2009) (Q&A following initial talk) |
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| Dan Buettner | How to live to be 100+ (2009) | |
| James Burchfield | Technology Entertainment |
Sound Stylings by a Human Beatbox (2003) |
| Larry Burns | Technology Design |
Reinventing the Car (2005) |
| Edward Burtynsky | Technology | TED Prize: Share the Story of Earth's Manufactured Landscapes (2005) Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil (2009) |
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| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| James Cameron | Curiosity—it's the most powerful thing you own (2010) | |
| David Carson | Entertainment Design |
Design, Discovery and Humor (2003) |
| Majora Carter | Greening the Ghetto (2006) | |
| Cameron Carpenter | Cameron Carpenter's dizzying improv on the organ (2008) | |
| Jamais Cascio | Technology | Tools for Building a Better World (2006) |
| Robin Chase | Technology | Getting Cars Off the Road and Data into the Skies (2007) |
| Jan Chipchase | Technology Design |
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves (2007) |
| Caleb Chung | Technology Entertainment Design |
Come Play with Pleo the Dinosaur (2007) |
| Bill Clinton | Technology | TED Prize: Let's Build a Health Care System in Rwanda (2007) |
| Paul Collier | 4 Ways to Improve the Lives of the "Bottom Billion" (2008) | |
| Ann Cooper | Reinventing the School Lunch (2007) | |
| Steven Cowley | Fusion is energy's future (2009) | |
| Brian Cox | Technology | An Inside Tour of the World's Biggest Supercollider (2008) What went wrong in the Large Hadron Collider (2009) |
| Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow (2004) |
[edit] D
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Wade Davis | Endangered Cultures (2003) Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual (2008) |
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| Richard Dawkins | An atheist's call to arms (2002) The universe is queerer than we can suppose (2005) |
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| Paul Debevec | Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face (2009) | |
| Aubrey de Grey | Technology | Why we age and how we can avoid it (2005) |
| Christopher deCharms | Technology | Looking inside the brain in real time (2008) |
| Carmen Agra Deedy | Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories | |
| Daniel Dennett | Dan Dennett on dangerous memes (2002) Dan Dennett on our consciousness (2003) Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren (2006) Cute, sexy, sweet, funny (2009) |
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| Joe DeRisi | Technology | Hunting the next killer virus (2006) |
| David Deutsch | Technology | What is our place in the cosmos? (2005) A new way to explain explanation (2009) |
| Peter Diamandis | Our Next Giant Leap (2008) Stephen Hawking in Zero G (2008) |
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| Jared Diamond | Why Societies Collapse | |
| John Doerr | Salvation and Profit in Greentech (2007) | |
| Thomas Dolby and Rochelle Garnier | Entertainment | La Vie en Rose (2004) |
| Peter Donnelly | Technology | How juries are fooled by statistics (2005) |
| Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra | Entertainment | Gustavo Dudamel leads El Sistema's top youth orchestra (2009) |
| Ian Dunbar | Dog Friendly Dog Training (2007) | |
| Benjamin B. Dunlap | Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life (2007) | |
| Freeman Dyson | Technology | Let's look for life in the outer solar system (2003) |
| George Dyson | Technology | Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn (2002) The birth of the computer (2003) |
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| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Sophal Ear | Escaping the Khmer Rouge (2009) | |
| Sylvia Earle | TED Prize: Wish to Protect our Oceans (2009) | |
| Kenichi Ebina | Entertainment | Magic Moves (2007) |
| Janet Echelman | Threads Of Discovery (2011) | |
| Dave Eggers | Entertainment Design |
TED Prize: Once Upon a School (2008) |
| Ron Eglash | Technology | African fractals, in buildings and braids (2007) |
| Einstein the Parrot | Entertainment | Einstein the Parrot talks and squawks (2007) |
| Shereen El Feki | Pop culture in the Arab world (2009) | |
| Charles Elachi | Technology | The story of the Mars Rovers (2008) |
| Olafur Eliasson | Playing with space and light (2009) | |
| Juan Enriquez | Technology | Decoding the future with genomics (2003) Why can't we grow new energy? (2007) Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis (2009) |
| Eve Ensler | Happiness in Body and Soul (2004) Security (2005) |
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| Ethel | "Blue Room" (2006) | |
| Paul W. Ewald | Technology | Can we domesticate germs?(2007) |
| Corneille Ewango | Hero of the Congo Forest (2007) |
[edit] F
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Jim Fallon | Exploring the mind of a killer (2009) | |
| Noah Feldman | Technology | Politics and Religion are Technologies |
| Harvey V. Fineberg | Technology | Are we ready for neo-evolution? (2011) |
| Robert Fischell | Technology Design |
TED Prize: Finding New Cures for Migraine, Depression, Malpractice (2005) |
| Helen Fisher | Studying the Brain in Love (2008) Why we Love + Cheat (2006) |
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| James A. Forbes | Compassion at the dinner table (2009) | |
| Baron Foster | ||
| Cary Fowler | One seed at a time, protecting the future of food (2009) | |
| Jon Francis | ||
| Ze Frank | Entertainment | Nerdcore Comedy (2004) |
| Robert Full | Technology | How engineers learn from evolution (2002) Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches (2005) Learning from the gecko's tail (2009) |
[edit] G
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Eleni Gabre-Madhin | Eleni Gabre-Madhin on Ethiopian economics (2007) | |
| Peter Gabriel | Technology | Fighting injustice with a videocamera (2006) |
| David Gallo | Technology | The deep oceans: a ribbon of life (1998) Underwater astonishments (2007) |
| Arthur Ganson | Design | Making a Moving Sculpture |
| Bill Gates | On mosquitos, malaria and education (2009) On energy: Innovating to zero! (2010) How state budgets are breaking US schools (2011) |
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| James Geary | James Geary, metaphorically speaking (2009) | |
| Frank Gehry | Then What? (2002) Frank Gehry as a Young Rebel (1990) |
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| Murray Gell-Mann | Beauty and Truth in Physics (2007) Do All Languages Have a Common Ancestor? (2007) |
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| John Gerzema | The post-crisis consumer (2009) | |
| Neil Gershenfeld | Technology | The beckoning promise of personal fabrication (2006) |
| Ashraf Ghani | Rebuilding Broken States (2005) | |
| Andrea Ghez | The hunt for a supermassive black hole (2009) | |
| Daniel Gilbert | Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? (2004) | |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | Nurturing Creativity (2009) | |
| Eric Giler | Eric Giler demos wireless electricity (2009) | |
| Malcolm Gladwell | Technology | What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (2004) |
| Milton Glaser | Using Design to Make Ideas New (1998) | |
| Evelyn Glennie | Showing How to Listen (2003) | |
| Misha Glenny | Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks (2009) | |
| Seth Godin | Technology | Seth Godin on standing out (2003) The tribes we lead (2009) |
| Ian Goldin | Navigating our global future (2009) | |
| Daniel Goleman | Compassion (2007) | |
| Jane Goodall | Technology | What separates us from the apes? (2002) Helping humans and animals live together in Africa (2007) |
| Deborah Gordon | Digging Ants (2003) | |
| Al Gore | 15 Ways to Avert a Climate Crisis (2006) New Thinking on the Climate Crisis (2008) |
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| Billy Graham | Technology | Technology, faith and human shortcomings (1998) |
| Temple Grandin | The world needs all kinds of minds (2010) | |
| Evan Grant | Making sound visible through cymatics (2009) | |
| Lennart Green | Entertainment | Close-Up Card Magic |
| Brian Greene | String Theory (2005) | |
| Saul Griffith | Technology | Hardware solutions to everyday problems (2006) |
| Bill Gross | Technology | Great ideas for finding new energy (2003) |
| Adam Grosser | Technology | A new vision for refrigeration (2007) |
[edit] H
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Anne Habiby | ALL (2011) | |
| Jonathan Haidt | The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives (2008) | |
| Jefferson Han | Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen (2006) | |
| Herbie Hancock | Herbie Hancock's all-star set (2009) | |
| David Hanson | Robots that "show emotion" (2009) | |
| Jonathan Harris | The Web's secret stories (2007) | |
| Sam Harris | Science can answer moral questions (2010) | |
| Asher Hasan | Asher Hasan's message of peace from Pakistan (2009) | |
| Stephen Hawking | ||
| Jeff Hawkins | Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing (2003) | |
| Imogen Heap | Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out" (2009) | |
| Andy Hobsbawm | ||
| John Hodgman | Entertainment | A Brief Digression on Matters of Lost Time (2008) |
| David Hoffman | ||
| David Holt | ||
| Tom Honey | Tom Honey on God and the tsunami (2005) | |
| Rob Hopkins | Transition to a world without oil (2009) | |
| Carl Honoré | Carl Honore praises slowness (2005) | |
| Sirena Huang | Sirena Huang dazzles on violin (2006) | |
| Aaron Huey | Native American Prisoners of War (2010) | |
| Allison Hunt | Allison Hunt gets (a new) hip (2007) |
[edit] I
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Bjarke Ingels | 3 warp-speed architecture tales (2009) | |
| Garik Israelian | How spectroscopy could reveal alien life (2009) |
[edit] J
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Nina Jablonski | Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color (2009) | |
| Alison Jackson | ||
| Tim Jackson | Tim Jackson's economic reality check (2010) | |
| A. J. Jacobs | Year of Living Biblically (2007) | |
| Theo Jansen | Theo Jansen creates new creatures (2007) | |
| Emmanuel Jal | The music of a war child (2009) | |
| Steven Berlin Johnson | Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map (2006) | |
| Chris Jordan | ||
| Bill Joy | ||
| Steve Jurvetson |
[edit] K
Sarah Kay
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Brewster Kahle | ||
| Maira Kalman | Maira Kalman, the illustrated woman (2007) | |
| Dean Kamen | Dean Kamen on inventing and giving (2002) Dean Kamen previews a new prosthetic arm |
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| William Kamkwamba | William Kamkwamba on building a windmill (2007) How I harnessed the wind (2009) |
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| Alan Kay | ||
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| David Keith (scientist) | David Keith's unusual climate change idea (2007) | |
| David Kelley | David Kelley on human-centered design (2002) | |
| Kevin Kelly | Kevin Kelly on how technology evolves (2005) | |
| Miru Kim | ||
| Scott Kim | Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles (2008) | |
| Salman Khan | Let's use video to reinvent education (2011) | |
| Wadah Khanfar | A historic moment in the Arab World (2011) | |
| Parag Khanna | Parag Khanna maps the future of countries (2009) | |
| Aaron Koblin | Artfully visualizing our humanity (2011) | |
| Marc Koska | Marc Koska: The devastating toll of syringe reuse (2009) | |
| Daniel Kraft | Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow (2009) | |
| Sunitha Krishnan | Sunitha Krishnan's fight against sex slavery (2009) | |
| James Howard Kunstler | Design | The Tragedy of Suburbia (2004) |
| Pamelia Kurstin | ||
| Raymond Kurzweil | Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us (2005) The coming singularity: an Update |
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| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Frans Lanting | Frans Lanting's lyrical nature photos (2005) | |
| Magnus Larsson | Turning dunes into architecture (2009) (using Bacillus pasteurii) | |
| Brenda Laurel | ||
| Caroline Lavelle | Caroline Lavelle casts a spell on cello (2005) | |
| Stephen Lawler | Stephen Lawler tours Microsoft Virtual Earth (2007) | |
| Charles Leadbeater | Charles Leadbeater on innovation (2005) | |
| Louise Leakey | ||
| Jennifer 8. Lee | ||
| Johnny Lee | ||
| Joseph Lekuton | ||
| Mathieu Lehanneur | Mathieu Lehanneur demos science-inspired design]] | |
| Jaime Lerner | ||
| Lawrence Lessig | ||
| Golan Levin | Golan Levin on software (as) art (2007) Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you (2009) |
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| Steven Levitt | Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics (2004) | |
| Eric Lewis | ||
| Jennifer Lin | Jennifer Lin improvs piano magic (2004) | |
| Hod Lipson | Hod Lipson builds "self-aware" robots (2007) | |
| Antony Garrett Lisi | ||
| John Lloyd[disambiguation needed ] |
John Lloyd inventories the invisible (2009) | |
| Ryan Lobo | Photographing the hidden story (2009) | |
| David Logan[disambiguation needed ] |
David Logan on tribal leadership (2009) | |
| Bjørn Lomborg | Our priorities for saving the world (2007) | |
| Beau Lotto | Optical illusions show how we see (2009) | |
| Ross Lovegrove | Ross Lovegrove shares organic designs (2005) | |
| Amory Lovins | Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame (2005) | |
| Greg Lynn |
[edit] M
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| David Macaulay | ||
| Paul MacCready | Paul MacCready flies on solar wings (2003) | |
| Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey | Technology | Releasing the music in your head (2008) |
| Natalie MacMaster | Natalie MacMaster fiddles in reel time (2002) | |
| John Maeda | John Maeda on the simple life (2007) | |
| Pattie Maes | The sixth sense (2009) | |
| Vusi Mahlasela | Vusi Mahlasela sings "Thula Mama" (2007) Vusi Mahlasela's encore, "Woza" |
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| John Markoff | ||
| Henry Markram | Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer (2009) | |
| Christien Meindertsma | How pig parts make the world turn (2010) | |
| Sam Martin | Sam Martin on manspaces (2009) | |
| Shaffi Mather | A new way to fight corruption (2009) | |
| Thom Mayne | Thom Mayne on architecture as connection (2005) | |
| Bruce McCall | ||
| Scott McCloud | ||
| William McDonough | William McDonough on cradle to cradle design (2005) | |
| Jane McGonigal | Technology | Gaming can make a better world (2010) |
| Nellie McKay | ||
| Erin McKean | Erin McKean redefines the dictionary (2007) | |
| Natalie Merchant | Entertainment | Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life (2010) |
| Danny Mekic' | Danny Mekic' about life and making decisions (2011) | |
| Raul Midón | ||
| Anupam Mishra | The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting (2009) | |
| Pranav Mistry | The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology (2009) | |
| Elaine Morgan | Did we evolve from aquatic apes? (2009) | |
| Evgeny Morozov | Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships (2009) | |
| Geoff Mulgan | Post-crash, investing in a better world (2009) | |
| Kary Mullis | Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections (2009) | |
| Aimee Mullins | Technology Entertainment |
Running on high-tech legs (1998) How my legs give me super-powers (2009) The Opportunity of Adversity (2009) |
| Vik Muniz | Vik Muniz makes art with wire, sugar (2003) | |
| Andrew Mwenda | Andrew Mwenda takes a new look at Africa (2007) |
[edit] N
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| James Nachtwey | TED Prize: Share a Vital Story With the World (2007) Use My Photographs to Stop the Worldwide XDR-TB Epidemic (2008) |
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| Nalini Nadkarni | ||
| Euvin Naidoo | Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa (2007) | |
| Loretta Napoleoni | The intricate economics of terrorism (2009) | |
| Nicholas Negroponte | Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions (1984) Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child (2006) |
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| Robert Neuwirth | Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities" (2007) | |
| Don Norman | ||
| Woody Norris | ||
| Jehane Noujaim | Entertainment | TED Prize: Unite the World on Pangea Day, a Global Day of Film (2006) |
| Jacqueline Novogratz | Jacqueline Novogratz invests in ending poverty (2005) Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capitalism (2007) Jacqueline Novogratz on escaping poverty (2009) A third way to think about aid (2009) |
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| Sherwin Nuland | Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy (Filmed 2001) Ted 2003 |
[edit] O
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Alexis Ohanian | How to make a splash in social media (2009) | |
| Ory Okolloh | ||
| Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on doing business in Africa (2007) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on aid versus trade (2007) |
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| Jamie Oliver | Teach every child about food (2010) | |
| Dean Ornish | Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet (2006) | |
| Emily Oster | Emily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa (2007) | |
| Seyi Oyesola |
[edit] P
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Pachter | The art of the interview (2008) | |
| Devdutt Pattanaik | East vs. West—the myths that mystify (2009) | |
| Sheila Patek | Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals (2004) | |
| David Perry[disambiguation needed ] |
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| Stephen Petranek | Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon (2002) | |
| Gregory Petsko | ||
| Bertrand Piccard | Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure (2009) | |
| Rachel Pike | The science behind a climate headline (2009) | |
| Pilobolus | Pilobolus perform "Symbiosis" (2005) | |
| Joseph Pine | ||
| Dan Pink | Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009) | |
| Steven Pinker | Steven Pinker on language and thought (2005) Steven Pinker on the myth of violence (2007) |
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| David Pogue | David Pogue says "Simplicity sells" (2006) | |
| Michael Pollan | ||
| Christopher Poole | (2010) | |
| Carolyn Porco | Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn (2007) | |
| Virginia Postrel | ||
| Samantha Power | ||
| Lakshmi Pratury | Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing (2007) | |
| Richard Preston | ||
| Joshua Prince-Ramus | Joshua Prince-Ramus on Seattle's library (2006) | |
| Michael Pritchard | Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable (2009) | |
| Lewis Pugh | Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole (2009) | |
| Richard Pyle |
[edit] Q
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Iqbal Quadir | Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty (2005) |
[edit] R
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
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| Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf | Lose your ego, find your compassion (2009) | |
| Vilayanur Ramachandran | VS Ramachandran on your mind (2007) The neurons that shaped civilization (2009) |
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| Raspyni Brothers | ||
| Thulasiraj Ravilla | How low-cost eye care can be world-class (2009) | |
| Eddi Reader | Eddi Reader sings "Kiteflyer's Hill" (2003) Eddi Reader on "What You've Got" (2003) |
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| Irwin Redlener | ||
| Sir Martin Rees | Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century? (2005) | |
| Torsten Reil | ||
| Peter Reinhart | ||
| Howard Rheingold | ||
| Deborah Rhodes | Development of Molecular Breast Imaging (2010) | |
| Matthieu Ricard | Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness (2004) | |
| Tom Rielly | Tom Rielly delivers a comic send-up of TED2006 (2006) | |
| Rives | Entertainment Design |
If I Controlled the Internet (2006) A Mockingbird Remix of TED (2006) Is 4 a.m. the New Midnight? (2007) A 3-Minute Story of Mixed Emoticons (2008) |
| Tony Robbins | Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do (2006) | |
| Sir Ken Robinson | Do Schools Kill Creativity? (2006) | |
| David Rockwell | David Rockwell builds at Ground Zero (2002) | |
| Paul Romer | Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities (2009) | |
| David S. Rose | ||
| Philip Rosedale | ||
| Hans Rosling | The Best Stats You've Ever Seen (2006) New Insite on Poverty (2007) 500th TED Talk: Let my dataset change your mindset (2009) Asia's rise—how and when (2009) |
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| Paul Rothemund | Paul Rothemund casts a spell with DNA (2007) | |
| Mike Rowe | Mike Rowe Celebrates Dirty Jobs (2008) | |
| Hector Ruiz | ||
| Alan Russell | Alan Russell on regenerating our bodies (2006) | |
| Burt Rutan | Technology | The Future of Space (2006) |
[edit] S
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Franco Sacchi | Nigeria's Booming Nollywood (2007) | |
| Oliver Sacks | What hallucination reveals about our minds (2009) | |
| Moshe Safdie | Building Uniqueness (2006) | |
| Stefan Sagmeister | Stefan Sagmeister shares happy design (2004) Stefan Sagmeister on what he has learned The power of time off (2009) |
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| Swami Dayananda Saraswati | The profound journey of compassion (2009) | |
| Eric Sanderson | Eric Sanderson pictures New York—before the City (2009) | |
| Mallika Sarabhai | Dance to change the world (2009) | |
| Ben Saunders | Skiing to the North Pole (2005) | |
| Marcus du Sautoy | Symmetry, reality's riddle (2009) | |
| Adam Savage | Adam Savage's Obsessions (2008) | |
| Susan Savage-Rumbaugh | Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes (2004) | |
| Rebecca Saxe | How we read each other's minds (2009) | |
| Keith Schacht | Toys from the Future (with Zach Kaplan ) (2005) | |
| Paula Scher | Great design is serious (not solemn) (2005) | |
| Cynthia Schneider | The surprising spread of "Idol" TV (2009) | |
| Barry Schuler | Genomics 101 (2008) | |
| Barry Schwartz | The Paradox of Choice (2005) Our Loss of Wisdom (2009) |
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| Deborah Scranton | War Tapes (2007) | |
| Nick Sears | Introducing the Orb (2007) | |
| Al Seckel | Our Brains are Mis-Wired (2004) | |
| Martin Seligman | What Positive Psychology can Help you Become (2004) | |
| Paul Sereno | What can Fossils Teach Us? (2005) | |
| Aditi Shankardass | A Second Opinion on Learning Disorders (2009) | |
| Michael Shermer | Strange Beliefs (2006) | |
| Sxip Shirey | Breathing Music and Passion (2008) | |
| Clay Shirky | How Social Media can Make History (2005) Institutions vs. Collaboration (2005)\ |
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| Josh Silver | Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid filled eyeglasses (2009) | |
| Sarah Silverman | Sarah Silverman's talk was called "god-awful" by Chris Anderson and has not been put up on the TED website(2010) | |
| Taryn Simon | Taryn Simon photographs secret sites (2009) | |
| Cameron Sinclair | Design | TED Prize: Open-Source Architecture to House the World (2006) The refugees of boom-and-bust (2009) |
| Jeff Skoll | Making Films that Make Change (2007) | |
| Amy Smith | Design | Simple, Lifesaving Design (2006) |
| Willie Smits | Restoring a Rainforest (2009) | |
| Rick Smolan | The Story of a Girl (2007) | |
| Lee Smolin | Science and Democracy (2003) | |
| George Smoot | Design of the Universe (2008) | |
| Jill Sobule | Jill Sobule Sings to Al Gore (2006) | |
| Richard St. John | Eight Secrets to Success (2005) Success is a Continuous Journey |
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| Paul Stamets | 6 Ways Mushrooms can Save the World (2008) | |
| Philippe Starck | Design | Thinking Deep on Design (2007) |
| Carolyn Steel | How food shapes our cities (2009) | |
| Alex Steffen | Alex Steffen sees a Sustainable Future (2005) | |
| Stew | Black Men Ski (2006) | |
| Clifford Stoll | 18 Minutes with an Agile Mind | |
| Jim Stolze | Does the Internet make us happy? (2009) | |
| Bill Stone | Exploring the World's Deepest Caves (2007) | |
| Bill Strickland | Making Changes with a Slide Show (2002) | |
| Steven Strogatz | Sync (2004) | |
| James Surowiecki | The Turning Point for Social Media (2005) | |
| Rory Sutherland | Life lessons from an ad man (2009) | |
| Julia Sweeney | Letting go of God (2007) | |
| Anna Deavere Smith | Entertainment | American Character (2005) |
[edit] T
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Jackie Tabick | The balancing act of compassion (2009) | |
| Itay Talgam | Lead like the great conductors (2009) | |
| Amy Tan | Where does Creativity Hide? (2008) | |
| Jill Tarter | Technology | Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI search (2008) |
| Jill Bolte Taylor | Stroke of Insight (2008) | |
| Shashi Tharoor | Why nations should pursue "soft" power (2009) | |
| They Might Be Giants | ||
| Bob Thurman | Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas (2006) Expanding your circle of compassion (2009) |
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| Tierney Thys | Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish (2003) | |
| Rokia Traore | ||
| Julian Treasure | The 4 ways sound affects us (2009) Shh! Sound health in 8 steps (2010) 5 ways to listen better (2011) |
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| Laura Trice | ||
| Jakob Trollback | ||
| Mena Trott | Mena Trott on blogs (2006) | |
| Steve Truglia | A leap from the edge of space (2009) | |
| Natasha Tsakos | Natasha Tsakos multimedia theatrical adventure 2009 | |
| Gever Tulley | Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids (2007) | |
| Luca Turin | ||
| Neil Turok | Technology | TED Prize: An African Einstein (2008) |
[edit] U
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Ed Ulbrich |
[edit] V
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Dennis van Engelsdorp | A plea for bees (2008) | |
| Vishal Vaid | Vishal Vaid's hypnotic song (2006) | |
| Yossi Vardi | Yossi Vardi fights local warming (2007) | |
| Nick Veasey | Exposing the invisible (2009) | |
| Craig Venter | Craig Venter on DNA and the sea (2005) | |
| Eva Vertes | Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine (2005) | |
| Sasa Vucinic | Sasa Vucinic invests in free press (2005) | |
| Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev | Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev meditates on majestic chaos (2009)[4] |
[edit] W
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Wales | Technology | How a Ragtag Band Created Wikipedia (2005) |
| John Q. Walker | ||
| Jay Walker[disambiguation needed ] |
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| Benjamin Wallace | ||
| Peter Ward (paleontologist) | ||
| Rick Warren | Rick Warren on a life of purpose (2006) | |
| James D. Watson | Technology | The Double Helix and Today's DNA mysteries (2005) |
| Ursus Wehrli | ||
| Spencer Wells | ||
| Romulus Whitaker | The real danger lurking in the water (2009) | |
| Matthew White[disambiguation needed ] |
Matthew White gives the euphonium a new voice (2009) | |
| Fields Wicker-Miurin | Learning from leadership's "missing manual" (2009) | |
| Edith Widder | Glowing life in an underwater world (2010) The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence (2011) |
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| Evan Williams | ||
| Willard Wigan | Hold your breath for micro-sculpture (2009) | |
| Edward O. Wilson | Technology | TED Prize: Help Build the Encyclopedia of Life (2007) |
| Siegfried Woldhek | ||
| Curtis Wong | ||
| Robert Wright | Robert Wright on optimism (2005) The evolution of compassion (2009) |
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| Will Wright | Will Wright makes toys that make worlds (2007) | |
| Tom Wujec | Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning (2009) Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team (2009) |
[edit] Y
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Anders Ynnerman | Visualizing the medical data explosion (2010) | |
| Nora York | Nora York sings "What I Want" (2006) |
[edit] Z
| Speakers | TED Areas | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Zander | Entertainment - Classical Music | Benjamin Zander on music and passion (2008) |
| Eva Zeisel | ||
| Philip Zimbardo | The power of time (2009) | |
| Jonathan Zittrain | The Web as random acts of kindness (2009) |
[edit] References
- ^ "Speakers". Ted.com. http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ "TEDTalks spreadsheet". On.ted.com. http://on.ted.com/23. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ "TED talks, ranked by PostRank engagement data". Spreadsheets.google.com. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=tWri7T3f4Ex6-uVU8i9-FFQ. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ^ "Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's profile page on TED". Ca.ted.com. http://ca.ted.com/profiles/303609. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
