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Ideas change everything — and we want to hear yours. #TEDTalks

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1 year ago

July 3, 2025

If you’ve ever wanted to give a TED Talk, now is your chance. We are on a mission to find the best ideas and speakers from across the globe. To do this, we’re partnering with 9 incredible TEDx organizers in Argentina, Australia, Greece, India, Jordan, Nigeria, Singapore, the UK and the US to hear their region’s best ideas. From there we’ll select 1 amazing speaker from each event to share their talk at #TED2026 in Vancouver. Here’s Head of TED, Chris Anderson, with more details. Have a groundbreaking idea that you think will change minds, lives, your community or even the world?

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@Tommy1977777

July 3, 2025 at 5:13 pm

My idea: The Future Needs Of An Infantry From An Infantryman.

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@preciousgolden1056

July 3, 2025 at 5:15 pm

Thanks for the opportunity!

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@AdamWeatherall

July 3, 2025 at 5:25 pm

Hello, My name is Adam Weatherall and I just might have the largest contextual drone fleet in the United States , but certainly in California. Over the past 18 months I have been involved in a dynamic project. Our project which is hosted in the San Bernardino mountains has exponentially grown at a much faster rate than we initially intended or expected. We have access to more than 30,000k drones . With more than 1k drones in active daily service, we have developed more than 1k pilots for the purposes of search and rescue related activities, with more than 300 professional drone pilots also being apart of the same group. Even in our beta phase of this project we have saved 6 lives ,and have 6 patents with another 9-12 within development. Our first open source patents which were developed during and as a direct response to the tragedy which begat the group will soon be released with the hopes of saving a much larger contextual amount of lives than we could ever hope to. We have also given away more than 300 drones to children of lower means and those whom show promise in stem related fields. We have also begun donating additional resources to the government bodies that surround as we far surpass their prowess in this field. Beyond drones we have distributed 1k walkie talkies, 100 laptops, 24 3-d printers and 12 cnc machines in effort to make what we call “the infinite fleet” I would like one of the foundational members of this group if possible to share this concept so it can be replicated as quickly as possible and therefore have more positive impact than we could have ever dreamed possible. Thanks for your time, have a good day.

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@patriciakuzmicz4456

July 3, 2025 at 5:29 pm

Yes

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@caragramgoogleweb3.023

July 3, 2025 at 5:29 pm

So how can I be part of this?

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@patriciakuzmicz4456

July 3, 2025 at 5:29 pm

Me! 😊

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@patriciakuzmicz4456

July 3, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Please Montréal Toronto or Ottawa

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@mitzidelgado9009

July 3, 2025 at 5:54 pm

@@AbbeySy pls

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@Bendiutama

July 3, 2025 at 6:40 pm

How about Indonesia ? Do we have the chance ?
Anyway, thank you for the info.

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@BBeu-i6t

July 3, 2025 at 7:19 pm

Oh absolutely I would love to give one. Several people have recommended I give one. I should do it on cost and value

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@AndreasA.S.

July 3, 2025 at 8:04 pm

you want me, and you dont. my topics would make you ….

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@JohnnyRayz

July 3, 2025 at 8:08 pm

Do movie ideas and characters apply?

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@mariaashraf3334

July 4, 2025 at 6:13 am

Great opportunity!
When in Pakistan?

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@Erlender

July 4, 2025 at 8:44 am

I can’t even talk to 2 people 😢

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@fakekairostism

July 4, 2025 at 8:47 am

I am excited to hear what comes from this!

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@MuhammadBinAzamGamingWala

July 4, 2025 at 9:41 am

Im In Spain do we get the chance?

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@stucheluchin4702

July 4, 2025 at 11:13 am

Escape and non-escape trajectories in infinite landscapes, the future of Quantum and the birth of Hyperspace technologies. – would be my topic

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@purnamawinarsa7079

July 4, 2025 at 12:39 pm

How to stop genocide?

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@lonewolf905

July 4, 2025 at 12:45 pm

Your looking for Michael Reeves

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@ObaRegal

July 4, 2025 at 12:52 pm

I’m in

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@Blaksheep314

July 4, 2025 at 1:08 pm

Challenge accepted.

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@weewex

July 4, 2025 at 2:59 pm

Fully electric rocket/space engine? Would that make me a candidate? Hh

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@bellaandrade5542

July 5, 2025 at 3:57 am

Congratulations! You’ve made the most interesting meme making fun of celebrating wisdom and good ideas. It’s the new era of ted talks, it’s a joke!

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@miloavram5842

July 5, 2025 at 7:29 am

fire monkeys 😅

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@Tableskater

July 5, 2025 at 8:43 am

I remember wanting to do a TED talk so bad in 2013 back when my subject matter was at its infancy! 🥰👍

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@GlobalMinimumSecondarySalary

July 5, 2025 at 8:58 am

I’ve been ready for five years !

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