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TED is a small non-profit New York and Vancouver-based organisation that seeks to foster ideas and provide a platform for the world’s greatest thinkers.

TED, whose motto is “ideas worth spreading”, was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in 1984. It has held conferences annually since 1990, including the one being held in Oxford.