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⇱ TED2027


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March 1-4, 2027

Your Invitation

Join us at TED2027 for:

A bold, global community 

Find your people at TED. Changemakers, innovators and culture shapers converge here for the same reason: to think bigger, together.

Real transformation

Some gatherings you attend. Others you become part of. TED is the latter β€” a force for change that grows every time the right people come together.

Breakthrough ideas

Be in the room as visionary speakers deliver the talks that spark conversation and influence public discourse for years to come.

Awe, wonder and hope

The ideas and the people you didn't know you needed. Brain full, heart lifted. Not just inspired β€” more alive than you've felt in years.
Our terrifying, exhilarating future

TED2027 theme 

The future is arriving faster than anyone predicted, and it's stranger, wilder and more consequential than we dared imagine.

At TED2027, we'll bring together the thinkers, dreamers and truth-tellers living at the edge of what's next: the technologists rewriting the rules of what it means to be human, the scientists unlocking biology's most closely guarded secrets, the builders and visionaries making sense of a world being remade in real time.

This is a moment that demands we look clearly at what's coming: the breakthroughs that could solve our greatest crises; the forces that keep us up at night.

If you've felt the ground shifting beneath your feet and wondered what comes next, this is where you need to be.

Meet the ideas Council

The TED2027 program is a microcosm of the human experience β€” ideas drawn from every sector and every corner of the world. The TED Ideas Council brings together prominent thinkers whose perspectives help to shape the conference before it even begins. Their role is both to provoke and inform: surfacing questions worth asking, challenging assumptions and pointing toward the conversations that matter most. The result is a conference with sharp edges and insights you won't find anywhere else.

 Meet some of the members. More to come. 

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David Brooks

Op-ed columnist, author

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Es Devlin

Artist, designer

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Ian Bremmer

Political scientist

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Lauren "Keke" Palmer

Multihyphenate entertainer

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Audrey Tang

Taiwan's cyber ambassador

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Kizzmekia Corbett

Immunologist, vaccine inventor

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Mark Rober

Science education champion

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Maya Higa

Content creator for wildlife conservation

Heard at TED

β€œI came with an open mind and nervous energy. I left with dreams fulfilled."

Leo Olebe

"TED is the most wonderful community of humans. It's my bubble of positivity and optimism. My yoga retreat for the brain."

Ness North-Panting

"I left with a powerful sense of possibility and responsibility. The world, in that moment, felt both bigger and closer than ever before."

Lucas Silva

β€œYou can get something out of it, even if you don't agree with any of the topics β€” and that is the beauty of it. Many perspectives are showcased and it helps you find your own voice."

Kas Vegas

Your TED experience

Ready for the unexpected? You're invited to a space that changes you. Something special happens when you put genuinely curious people in a room with ideas worth reckoning with. The talks are just the starting point. What happens between sessions β€” the experiences and unplanned conversations that tilt you sideways β€” matter just as much. Sometimes more.

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A four-day program

80+ talks, demos and performances. Live, before the world catches up.

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Deep connections

Imagine a room where the right conversation – with the right person – finds you at the right moment.

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Discovery Sessions

Small groups, big questions, daring adventures into San Diego's labs, oceans and beyond.

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Dinners and parties

Evenings that crackle. Joy that fills the room and doesn't leave when you do.

You belong here

The people who come to TED are defined less by titles than by what they build and how they think. They're the ones who still discover the world with insatiable curiosity – and do something about it. Here you'll meet the scientists, the dreamers, the artists, the builders, the connectors and the leaders who are actively shaping what comes next. This is their playground – and yours.

  • 1800+
    Attendees
  • 80+
    Speakers
  • 60+
    Countries
  • 50%
    CEOs + Senior Executives

A community built to transform 

The most interesting people you've never met β€” until now.

The scientists

They follow an idea into the dark and come back with the light on. 

Their discoveries don't just change what we know β€” they change what we thought was possible.

The dreamers

They live a few years ahead of the rest of us.

Where most people see fixed, they see possibility β€” and they're stubborn enough to act on it.

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The artists

They make you feel something you didn't have words for. 

Through art, music and storytelling, they hand us back parts of ourselves we didn't know we'd lost.

The innovators

They build the thing that makes everyone wonder why it didn't exist before.

Quietly obsessed, stubbornly persistent and almost always ahead of the room.

The leaders

They're the ones people turn to when the stakes are highest. 

Not because they have all the answers β€” because they’re not afraid to ask better questions.

The scholars

They chase ideas with rigor. 

The patience to go deeper, stay longer and question harder is what separates insight from noise.

The connectors

They walk into a room and immediately see who should meet whom.

The collaborations, the friendships, the projects that change everything β€” they start here.

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Location

San Diego, CA

What makes San Diego special is what happens at its intersections. Where the Pacific Rim meets Latin America. Where Nobel laureates and biotech pioneers work alongside legendary musicians, activists and storytellers.

San Diego opened its arms to TED β€” its civic leaders, its institutions, its people all said: we've been waiting for you. A city this creative, this curious, this committed to what comes next was the right choice for our new home. We'll be at the San Diego Convention Center β€” right on the water, in the middle of all of it.

Photography courtesy of the San Diego Tourism Authority

Your questions, answered

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