A few words about TEDx
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxRutgers, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxRutgers event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
About TEDxRutgers
On February 1, 2025 TEDxRutgers is bringing together world-leading thinkers, makers, and doers at Rutgers University to discuss doing the unprecedented. The audience will be composed of a diverse yet curated mix of students, professors, and thought leaders from Rutgers and beyond, for a stimulating day of presentations, discussions, entertainment and art that will spark new ideas and opportunities for all.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization
devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years
ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED
Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less.
Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included
Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe
Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia, along with
the TEDActive simulcast event in nearby Whistler. The annual TEDGlobal conference will be
held this October in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where
new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and
interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational
initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals
with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which
supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the
world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe
to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TED.
