MORE ABOUT TED

First, though...on the front page of the Sunday Star Advertiser was a rather startling reality regarding the decline of vaccine effectiveness after six months:

• Johnson&Johnson:  86%, down to 13%
• Pfizer:  87%...43%
• Moderna:  89%..58%

I receive my Moderna booster in two days.  Apparently, one can take any of the other two to boost your original sequence.  Based on the above, I'll stick with Moderna.  The Feds are rather tardy in making this official for everyone.

My original plan was to feature some facet of TED every Friday.  However, this morning I saw a few Quora queries that begged to be added today:

Becky Blanton

4y

Why is attending a TED conference so expensive? Is there anyway I can attend the TED conferences without spending huge sums of money?

I attended and spoke at TED Global in 2009. There was no way I could have afforded the $10,000 cost of attending, air flight, hotel etc. without having someone else pay for it - which Dan Pink did because I won a contest he hosted. That said, while I was there I met a man who sold his car and cashed in his college savings to attend. Going back home afterwards he told me he would be homeless and broke, but that he thought what he could learn at TED was worth selling everything to attend.

I met another man who sold his condo, and a woman who sold her business, all so they could attend. They were committed to TED because they believed in the premise of it - that it was a collection of ideas worth spreading. And it was. I met millionaires, celebrities, and billionaires. I guarantee you that with your attitude you wouldn’t or don’t have the networking or social skills or attitude that could begin to engage with people who can not only help spread ideas, but fund them.

TED is expensive for a reason. The founders have a vision of changing the world and will do so regardless of the cost - not because they’re throwing money around, but because they see the value of ideas and the people who are passionate about them.

Don’t even think about attending TED until you understand, and I mean really understand, what they are about, how to network, and how to commit to greatness. The people, intelligence, power, passion and intensity will eat you alive and spit you out if you’re not prepared. You’re asking the wrong question. Instead of whining that it’s too expensive you should be asking, “What can I do to make this happen?”

You’re not ready to attend TED until you’re ready to stand on the edge of the abyss and want to jump.

Also:

David S. Rose

Frequent keynote speaker on a wide range of topicsUpdated 4y

How can one get a chance to give a TED or TEDx talk?

Originally Answered: I would love to give a TED talk. What do I do?

The first thing to understand is that there are several different types of TED events, including the annual main TED conference in Vancouver, BC with its simulcast TEDActive in Whistler, BC, and TEDGlobal that is usually held in Europe. But there are a host of other events that are licensed by TED under the TEDx: Independently organized TED events banner, which happen all the time, all over the world. As part of the license from TED, the organizers of these events are required (a) to use the same 18 minute format as TED, (b) film all the talks, and (c) upload them to the TEDxTalks website, which now has over 17,000 talks online. Here, for example, is a talk that I gave at TEDxWallStreet

 earlier this year:

As Amy Robinson noted, speaking at a TEDx event is a good way to both hone your presentation skills, and get noticed by the TED curators for consideration as a potential speaker at the main TED conference. And while only a much smaller, curated set of videos are included on the full TEDTalks site, many of the ones there, in addition to being taken from TED main stage presentations, are actually selected from the wide variety of TEDxTalks.

So, my suggestion would be for you to first browse through the calendar of upcoming TEDx events, which lists more than 1500 potential opportunities. Find ones that are either close to you, or that deal with topics on which you would be an appropriate contributor, and then get in touch with the organizers of that event, offering yourself as a speaker.

You should also read the FAQ about Speaking at TED, and use the nomination form there to submit yourself for consideration for Long Beach (note, however, that they receive many, many world-class nominations, and only have room for a very, very few main stage speakers, so I wouldn't get your hopes too set on that approach.)

Good luck with sharing your wisdom!

PS: In addition to TED and its offspring, there are many thousands of other opportunities for sharing your ideas with large numbers of people, and I would encourage you to also look at events put on by the folks involved with groups such as Ignite, BarCamp and other types of Unconferences. These can be great stepping stones to developing a reputation as the type speaker people want to invite to TEDx!

Bektour Iskender

gave a talk at TED2016, a TED fellow4y

How much are speakers at TED paid?

Originally Answered: How much do people get paid to do a TED talk?

TED covered my travel and accommodation expenses when I was selected to give a talk at TED2016 through TED Fellows program. I am not sure if other speakers’ expenses were paid for, but Fellows’ arrival and stay is definitely covered (otherwise, I would not be able to afford flying to Vancouver from my home country, way too expensive).

But people are not paid for the talk itself. Speakers gain something much more valuable than money by giving a TED talk.

If your talk is good enough to be featured by TED at its website and main YouTube channel, you gain a certain fame and millions of views.

But even if your talk is just published at the TED Archive YouTube account, like mine was, it is still something:

Having the status of a TED speaker significantly increased the number of times I was invited to be a journalism trainer or a speaker at other events, sometimes being paid for that. So, in a way, giving a TED talk increases your income.

Having it in a resume is also pretty awesome. It significantly increases your chances to be noticed.

But the most valuable I gained was getting connected to the network of brilliant, amazing people. Some of them would become my friends, but with some of them I am planning to do something together.

I cannot disclose these plans yet, but two of my future projects will be done in cooperation with people I met at TED, and THIS is why I never even thought of asking TED to pay me for my talk.

I gained much more from TED than TED did from me.

So in summary, here is our Blue Revolution Hawaii site to interface with our TEDx session on Sustainable Ocean Resources Development for World Food Supply and Reducing Global Warming Emissions, scheduled for 11December2021.

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