List of TED speakers
This is a partial list of people who have spoken or otherwise presented at official TED conferences such as TED, TED@, TEDActive, TEDCity, TED-Ed, TED-NY, TEDGlobal, TEDSummit, TEDIndia, TEDSalon, TEDWomen, TEDYouth, TED Fellows Retreat, and TED Talks Education. It also includes speakers at the independent TEDMED conferences. Talks from the independent TEDx conferences are not included since there are thousands of such events making them less notable. The TED.com website also hosts videos from conferences not affiliated with TED, but those talks and speakers are not included in this list.
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| Speaker | Talk |
| How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists | |
| Telling stories from Africa On humanity | |
| Mother and daughter doctor-heroes | |
| A science award that makes you laugh, then think | |
| The mystery box | |
| The El Sistema music revolution | |
| The danger of a single story | |
| The story of Ezra | |
| Why massive open online courses matter | |
| A new ecosystem for electric cars | |
| How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images Augmented-reality maps | |
| A new strategy in the war on cancer | |
| Political change with pen and paper | |
| Globalizing the local, localizing the global | |
| A Saudi woman who dared to drive | |
| On being a woman and a diplomat | |
| The search for humanity's roots | |
| An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz | |
| Tales of passion How to live passionately—no matter your age | |
| Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown | |
| The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better | |
| Following the Lights | |
| How I named, shamed and jailed | |
| Please don't take my Air Jordans | |
| TED's nonprofit transition How web video powers global innovation Questions no one knows the answers to | |
| Technology's long tail | |
| The business logic of sustainability | |
| A promising test for pancreatic cancer... from a teenager | |
| Which country does the most good for the world? | |
| Behind the great firewall of China | |
| Treat design as art Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA | |
| Is religion good or bad? | |
| My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process | |
| Our buggy moral code Beware conflicts of interest How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised | |
| My wish: The Charter for Compassion Let's revive the Golden Rule | |
| A wide-angle view of fragile Earth | |
| The face of AIDS in Africa | |
| Why the world needs WikiLeaks | |
| Growing new organs Printing a human kidney | |
| Africa's cheetahs versus hippos |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| Ingenious homes in unexpected places | |
| Pay attention to nonviolence | |
| Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down | |
| How to combat modern slavery | |
| The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean | |
| How business leaders can renew democracy | |
| Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | |
| Great cars are great art | |
| Intricate beauty by design | |
| How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination | |
| The birth of the open-source learning revolution | |
| Why mayors should rule the world | |
| How I fell in love with a fish | |
| Let's rethink America's military strategy | |
| Brain magic | |
| The museum of you | |
| How bacteria "talk" | |
| Building blocks that blink, beep and teach | |
| The polyphonic me | |
| A police chief with a difference | |
| The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle | |
| Designing objects that tell stories A supercharged motorcycle design | |
| Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans | |
| A cello with many voices | |
| The Game | |
| A performance of "Mathemagic" Teach statistics before calculus! The magic of Fibonacci numbers | |
| Conquering uncertainty with tenacity | |
| The new open-source economics | |
| We need a heroic narrative for death | |
| Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers Biomimicry in action | |
| Simplifying complexity talk with Sean Gourley | |
| HIV and flu — the vaccine strategy | |
| The next web The year open data went worldwide A Magna Carta for the web | |
| Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it | |
| The electricity metaphor for the web's future | |
| The rise of cricket, the rise of India | |
| An artist's unflinching look at racial violence | |
| The arts festival revolution | |
| A one-man orchestra of the imagination | |
| The early birdwatchers | |
| Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer | |
| Memes and "temes" | |
| How I held my breath for 17 minutes | |
| The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain | |
| The origins of pleasure Can prejudice ever be a good thing? | |
| A computer that works like the brain | |
| Visualizing the wonder of a living cell | |
| My wish: Three actions for Africa The good news on poverty | |
| Photos of endangered cultures | |
| How language shapes the way we think | |
| Teaching one child at a time | |
| There might just be life on Mars | |
| A philosophical quest for our biggest problems What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | |
| The most mysterious star in the universe | |
| Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans | |
| The Long Now What squatter cities can teach us 4 environmental 'heresies' Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready? | |
| Life at 30,000 feet | |
| The rise of personal robots | |
| A one-man world summit | |
| The bridge between suicide and life | |
| My wish: Help me stop pandemics | |
| The genesis of Google Why Google Glass? | |
| My battle to expose government corruption | |
| A conservative's plea: Let's work together | |
| The social animal Should you live for your résumé... or your eulogy? | |
| Robots will invade our lives Why we will rely on robots | |
| Listening to shame | |
| Wiring a web for global good Global ethic vs. national interest | |
| Doodlers, unite! | |
| The key to growth? Race with the machines | |
| How to "sketch" with electronics | |
| A prediction for the future of Iran | |
| How public spaces make cities work | |
| The joy of surfing in ice-cold water | |
| How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | |
| The future of cars | |
| Why people need poetry | |
| My wish: manufactured landscapes and green education Photographing the landscape of oil | |
| " Flowers" with string quartet |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| The power of introverts | |
| The next age of government | |
| Before Avatar... a curious boy | |
| Weaving narratives in museum galleries | |
| Our failing schools. Enough is enough! | |
| Cooking as alchemy | |
| Blindfold origami and cello | |
| Design and discovery | |
| Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse | |
| Greening the ghetto | |
| My life in typefaces | |
| Tools for a better world | |
| The interspecies internet? An idea in progress | |
| How do you explain consciousness? | |
| The voices of China's workers | |
| How to make hard choices | |
| The power of cartoons | |
| The idea behind Zipcar Excuse me, may I rent your car? | |
| 7 ways games reward the brain | |
| A warm embrace that saves lives | |
| Finding the story inside the painting | |
| The anthropology of mobile phones | |
| The hidden influence of social networks How social networks predict epidemics | |
| The history of our world in 18 minutes | |
| Synthetic Life Synthetic Personal Genomes | |
| A circle of caring | |
| My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda | |
| The "bottom billion" New rules for rebuilding a broken nation | |
| Everyday moments, caught in time Two poems about what dogs think | |
| We need better drugs — now | |
| Measuring what makes life worthwhile | |
| How an obese town lost a million pounds | |
| What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | |
| Fusion is energy's future | |
| CERN's supercollider What went wrong at the LHC Why we need the explorers | |
| Making matter come alive Print your own medicine | |
| The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you | |
| How architectural innovations migrate across borders | |
| Flow, the secret to happiness | |
| Your body language shapes who you are | |
| How I beat a patent troll | |
| Try something new for 30 days |