TEDxVienna is an independent

TEDx TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded by Richard Sau ...

event founded in 2010 by Vlad Gozman, a Viennese entrepreneur. This initiative is independently organized by a group of entrepreneurs, artists, philanthropists, and educators, and incorporated as a non-profit NGO. The curators and organizers of the past events have been led by Gozman and his co-curator Alina Nikolaou according to

TED TED may refer to: Economics and finance * TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar Education * ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association ** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey ** Transvaal Education Depa ...

philosophy. Many of the talks and performances presented at ''TEDxVienna'' had international resonance. Prominent speakers were, for example,

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

Adrian Raine Adrian Raine (born 27 January 1954) is a British psychologist. He currently holds the chair of Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry in the Department of Criminology of the School of Arts and Sciences and in the Departmen ...

, Ron Haviv,

Johannes Grenzfurthner Johannes Grenzfurthner (; born 1975 in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer. Grenzfurthner is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of ''monochrom'', an international art ...

of monochrom,

Jeffrey Kluger Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is a senior writer at ''Time'' magazine and author of nine books on various topics, such as ''The Narcissist Next Door'' (2014); ''Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio'' (2005); ''The Sibling Effect' ...

Jasmin Hagendorfer Jasmin Hagendorfer (also known as Hagendorfer) is a Vienna-based contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker, curator, producer and festival organizer. She is one of the founders and creative director of the ''Porn Film Festival Vienna''. Since 2019 sh ...

, Kevin Lieber of Vsauce,

Julia Dujmovits Julia Dujmovits (born 12 June 1987) is an Austrian snowboarder. Dujmovits won silver in the parallel giant slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships. She won a gold in the same discipline at the 2013 Winter Universiade. At the So ...

, Gurit Birnbaum, Leslie Scott. ''TEDxVienna'' is being held annually at the

Volkstheater The Volkstheater in Vienna (roughly translated as "People's Theatre") was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Gebrüder Thonet, Thonet, in order to off ...

in Vienna, one of the biggest theaters in Austria, which seats over 800 people."Gehirnfutter im Volkstheater"; in: News; October 10, 2014
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