PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, opens its TEDWomen 2018 conference today at La Quinta Resort and Club in Palm Springs, Calif. Themed "Showing Up," the event will feature a live program of more than 40 speakers and performers over three days. TED will broadcast the TED Talks in real time to more than 200 simultaneous TEDxWomen events held in more than 68 countries in 177 cities around the world.
TEDWomen will feature sessions curated and hosted by TED curatorial staff and members of the TED community, including Pat Mitchell, Helen Walters, Kelly Stoetzel, Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Willis, Jess Search and Manoush Zomorodi. Speakers will include an international array of experts and thinkers representing a wide range of disciplines, from art and design to technology and business. The full program can be found here: https://tedwomen2018.ted.com/program.
"At a moment when women around the world are no longer accepting the status quo, TEDWomen will celebrate the diverse and dynamic people showing up to face challenges head on," said TEDWomen Editorial Director Pat Mitchell. "This event's intersectional community is more united than ever by a shared belief that curiosity, mutual respect and intentional listening can move powerful ideas forward."
The TEDWomen 2018 experience will extend well beyond the audience in Palm Springs thanks to the TEDx program, which allows communities worldwide to produce independently organized TED events. Talks delivered in Palm Springs will be streamed live to several thousand people watching around the globe at more than 200 independently organized TEDxWomen events in 177 cities in more than 68 countries.
A number of brands and organizations have partnered with TEDWomen 2018 to share ideas and foster an atmosphere of community and learning. This year's partners include: Archer School for Girls, Brightline Initiative, Boston Consulting Group, CORT Events, Dagne Dover, DuPont, Levi Strauss & Co., Morgan Stanley, Skoll Foundation, Steelcase, T-Mobile, UPS, U.S. Air Force and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
Live blog coverage of the conference will be published throughout each day at blog.ted.com. The event hashtag is #TEDWomen.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, usually in the form of short, powerful talks delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED's annual gathering in Vancouver, Canada, its TEDWomen and TEDGlobal conferences, and at thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world, then made available, free, on TED.com and other channels.
TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; and the educational initiative TED-Ed.
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