TED@State

TED@State is an ideas-focused event that has been held across multiple years, including editions in 2009, 2024, 2025, and 2026. The speaker lineup reflects a broad range of topics spanning global health, data visualization, digital culture, technology's impact on society, and social entrepreneurship. Notable speakers have included Hans Rosling, a global health professor and pioneering data visualization expert, Stewart Brand, a writer influential in shaping digital culture and ecological thinking, Clay Shirky, whose work examines how technology reshapes human interaction, and Jacqueline Novogratz, an impact investor focused on entrepreneurial solutions to poverty. The event's curated speakers suggest programming that explores how ideas and innovation intersect with technology, global challenges, and social change.