Every year the TED conference reunites the most brilliant minds of the planet in front of an equally select and exceptional audience. Internet visionaries, Hollywood stars and media gurus gather together to brainstorm ideas that sit at the cutting edge of innovation. Each inspiring presentation has to adhere to one format bound by one condition: a speech that can’t exceed 18 minutes performed against the stop clock.
TED, Technology, Entertainment, Design, was for a long time the best-kept secret of the Silicon Valley. Today, the TED website streams videos of each conference at no cost to the public and receives over 1.5 million hits a month.
For the first time in history, television cameras have penetrated TED’s inner circle: this documentary has managed to film what goes on behind the closed doors of the ultimate ‘intelligence fair’ where each participant share his ideas and aspirations for a better world.