The influential TED Conference is coming to Vancouver starting in 2014, conference organizers and the City of Vancouver announced on Monday morning.
The conference holds two keynote events, one in Long Beach, Calif. and a second in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Long Beach edition will be re-locating to Vancouver and Whistler starting next year, the conference’s 30th anniversary.
“Having the TED organizers choose Vancouver as their new home is a big vote of confidence in the creative entrepreneurs, social innovators and community leaders who make Vancouver a leading-edge city,” Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson wrote in a statement.
TED announced that the conference will be held March 17-24, 2014 at the Vancouver Convention Centre and a satellite event, TEDactive, will be held in Whistler, B.C.
“Inside this center, we’ll be building a new kind of TED theater — one designed to maximize the impact of talks while also taking advantage of the panoramic views of the North Shore Mountains. Our stage designers are dreaming up what this new space will look like as we speak,” conference organizers wrote in their blog post.
The Vancouver Sun’s Jeff Lee wrote that the negotiations for the event were so secret that only Vancouver’s mayor and a few members of his staff were privy to it.
The newspaper reported the conference has signed on to come to Vancouver for two years.
The conference regularly invites scientists, thinkers, business people and technologists to deliver lectures on a topic of their choice. The talks are widely syndicated as videos and podcasts.
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