About
In the Windy City, 10 Chicagoans step onto the iconic red circle, each with six minutes to prove they have an idea that could change everything. Among them: a chemist who believes we can deploy precision medicine to save endangered species, a journalist creating tools to navigate difficult conversations and a runner challenging the narrative of a divided city by exploring every one of its streets. The stakes are personal, the competition is fierce — and one speaker will earn the chance to take their idea to the main stage at TED in Vancouver.
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