What is the TED Institute?

Every year, TED works with a group of select companies and foundations to identify internal ideators, inventors, connectors and creators. Drawing on the same rigorous regimen that has prepared speakers for the TED main stage, TED Institute works closely with each partner, overseeing curation and fact-checking and providing intensive one-on-one talk development to sharpen and finetune ideas. The culmination is an event that is produced, filmed and hosted by TED, generating a growing library of valuable, vetted TED Talks that showcase original research, spur innovation and can transform organizations.

Who should apply?

Partners who participate in this program are selected based on the richness of their experience, the breadth of their enterprise, the significance of their research and the potential to create impact by leveraging TED’s storytelling, curation, and strategic-thinking capabilities. Ideal members of the TED Institute are also keen to invest and participate in the larger TED ecosystem. TED Institute partners join the broader TED community with engagements at TED conferences in order to share insights and research from within their organizations with many of the world's most influential minds.

To learn how to bring TED Institute to your organization, email partnerships@ted.com.

TED Institute partners

TED@PMI
TED Institute partner
TED@PMI
TED@WellsFargo
TED Institute partner
TED@WellsFargo
TED@NAS
TED Institute partner
TED@NAS
TED@DuPont
TED Institute partner
TED@DuPont
TED@BCG
TED Institute partner
TED@BCG
TED@IBM
TED Institute partner
TED@IBM
TED@UPS
TED Institute partner
TED@UPS
TED@Tommy
TED Institute partner
TED@Tommy
TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
TED Institute partner
TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
TED@Westpac
TED Institute partner
TED@Westpac
TED@Intel
TED Institute partner
TED@Intel
TED@StateStreet
TED Institute partner
TED@StateStreet
TED@Unilever
TED Institute partner
TED@Unilever

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