Update: Speaker Applications are Open!
Good news: today's the perfect once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apply to give a TEDx talk at UCSB! Whether you are a student at UCSB or a general speaker, TEDxUCSB is the perfect stage to share your vision with the world! Applications are open!
If you instead want to help organize our conference, then board applications are also open. We can't wait to have you join our team!
Who are we?
Hi! We're TEDxUCSB, a registered campus organization at UC Santa Barbara. We are a group of passionate, undergraduate students from all backgrounds and majors, and we organize an annual TEDx conference every spring quarter hosted right here on campus! Our conference is the perfect space for both student speakers and general speakers to share their insights to the entire Santa Barbara community.
The responsibilities of our team include marketing our conference to UCSB students, helping our speakers prepare for their TEDx talks, hosting fundraisers, managing the event location, and more. If any of these sound exciting to you, you should join our team!
Applications to join our board are now open! Apply at tinyurl.com/tedxucsb-board-app-24. Feel free to contact us at ucsb.tedx@gmail.com or reach out via Instagram at instagram.com/tedxucsb!
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What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.