Featured Speakers
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Ariel is the CEO and co-founder of InteraXon, which creates thought controlled computing products and applications. Ariel has also resear…
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Dr. Brian Goldman is an emergency room physician who has worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto for more than 20 years. He is…
Latest Blog Posts
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Announcing this year’s theme and venue for TEDxToronto 2012 has gotten us rather nostalgic, so let’s take a walk down memory lane. Here’s a reminder of what went down at last year’s conference: More than 750 thinkers and dreamers, innovators and trendsetters, gathered last September for TEDxToronto 2011. They took over the Telus Centre for [...]
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Our fourth annual conference will take on a mystical quality, as we explore the theme of ALCHEMY — the magical process of taking ordinary common elements, usually of little value, and combining them to make something extraordinary, of great value. It’s an out-of-this-world theme for what will be an out-of-this world conference. This year’s speakers [...]
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The beautiful thing about TED is the ability to access a wealth of knowledge when one isn’t able to attend a conference. Any of us can sit infront of a computer and watch talk after talk, being inspired by each speakers’ big idea. At TEDxToronto, we decided to take this one step further. Though TEDxToronto [...]
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 TEDxToronto, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxToronto 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.