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TED was conceived by Richard Saul Wurman and co-founded with Emmy-winning broadcast and graphic designer Harry Marks and CBS president emeritus Frank Stanton. The first conference was held in February 1984 in Monterey, California.
TED conferences are invitation-only events with an admission price of $6,000.
In June 2006, Director of TED Media June Cohen arranged for a selection of top-rated talks to be posted on TED's website, YouTube, and iTunes under a Creative Commons licence. By June 2011, the talks had surpassed 500 million combined views.
The TED Prize, introduced in 2005, originally awarded $100,000 annually to three individuals with a wish to change the world. In 2013 the prize amount was increased to $1 million, and since 2010 a single winner has been chosen each year.
TEDx, founded by Lara Stein, allows anyone to organise an independent TED-style event by obtaining a free licence from TED and agreeing to follow its principles. By 2012, TEDx events were held at roughly five per day across 133 countries.
Since 2014, the main TED conference has been held annually at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 2025, it was announced the conference will move to San Diego, California, beginning in 2027.