About
The next stop on the TED Idea Search is Athens, birthplace of democracy and the world's oldest debating tradition. Nine speakers — from a fashion manufacturer taking on modern slavery to a microbiologist tackling the science of bad breath — go head-to-head for a shot to speak on the TED stage in Vancouver. Rehearsals are rocky, nerves are real and the stakes couldn't be higher — and only one speaker gets to move on and represent Athens to the world.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED Originals
- Speaker
- TED Idea Search
- Year
- 2026
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed