Saturday, November 14, 2009

TED is spreading...

While I was reading the top 7 places to watch great minds in action blog post, I discovered a pattern. The idea of TED conference is spreading...

The host location has spread across America and the World.
From Long Beach, California, US to Camden, Maine, US to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
TED to PopTech to ideaCity.
TED was originally hosted at Monterey, California, US.

The presentation subject matters have spread beyond technology, entertainment and design to innovation to experience design.
TED has spread into many subject matters.

There seems to be a growing guild of conference organizers who bring together interesting speakers, curious listeners and knowledge sharing infrastructure. May we have more TED like conferences to watch.

This lead me to asking are there any other TED like conferences? I found 4.
DLD, Munich, Germany
Le Web, Paris, France
Lift, Geneva, Switzerland
Picnic, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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