The idea for The Audacious Project sprang from the entrepreneurial and risk-taking minds of Jeff Skoll and Chris Anderson. They believed that the good work of innovators and entrepreneurs that the Skoll Foundation was funding and the ideas being presented in TED talks could be scaled if a big infusion of funding could be directed at the right time to the right people and organizations — those ready to make big changes.
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TEDWomen 2016 will return to San Francisco October 26-28. Discover how the idea for the first TEDWomen was born at TED back in 2009, and get information on this year's TEDWomen theme. (Photo of Ruth Ann Harnisch at TED 2016 courtesy of TED )
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My colleagues at TED released a truly stunning Year in Ideas video earlier this week that features excerpts from some of the most popular and provocative talks to emerge from the TED stage in 2015.
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