Chris Anderson: At TED,
what we've discovered
is that some of the best ideas come
from really the most unexpected places.
Helen Walters: You don't have to be
a super fancy person
in order to make a difference.
Jon Mallow: We put out an open call --
Kelly Stoetzel: And said,
tell us what your idea is.
JM: We wanted to find people
who might not have totally seen themselves
as TED speakers before,
but who definitely are.
Toby Moore: People that are hidden
at home, hidden in their garden shed,
hidden in their community.
KS: From that large batch of people,
we worked hard to narrow it down
to 10 incredible ideas.
CA: An idea by itself
won't achieve anything.
But what if it was presented on a stage
and, secretly, in the audience
there were experts
and mentors and investors?
KS: Something huge can happen
just because they stand on that stage
and share their idea
with a room full of people.
JM: Then eventually the talk goes online.
Things kind of blow up from there.
CA: From TED, this is My Big Idea.
[My Big Idea]
[Brighton, 11 hours until doors open]
CA: It's been so exciting
to come to Brighton
and meet the 10 people
who will be speaking tonight.
JM: In an ideal world,
the TED talk acts as an accelerant.
So this person is an amazing person
with an amazing idea
on an amazing path already.
But getting to speak at TED
and getting to share
their idea with the world
makes things move faster.
CA: At TED, we have got to know
an incredible network of people
who have the connections,
the funding, the businesses
to take these ideas and help them grow.
We've sought to bring them
to each of these events.
KS: So there's this opportunity
for a talk on the TED stage
to lead to massive change.
TM: We had over 500 people
apply for this program.
Going through all of those
took a lot of work.
Person 1: Bear with me.
Person 2: It can be the very tool
that brings us closer.
Person 3: Forming a cohesive framework.
Person 4: To reshape the world for better.
KS: One thing we learned
is that there are so many people
out in the world
doing really amazing, positive things
and just working to make impact.
Person 5: I want to share science,
the wonder, the curiosity, the sparkles.
Person 6: Innovation and how it comes
from strange, unconventional places.
TM: We're looking for people
that haven't had the opportunity
to move their idea forward yet.
Person 7: My idea that I want
to share is a hot take on tears.
Person 8: I would like to share
precision neuroscience.
JM: And we selected 10 people
who are people with these bold,
interesting ideas.
KS: They are 10 ideas we would not
have known about any other way.
Hi, I'm Karli, I faint
at the sight of blood.
Hi, I’m Rishika, and I’m the founder
of Sole Circle UK.
My name is Yijia, I'm a musician.
Hello, I'm farmer Tom.
My name is Hazel Cottle.
I'm Hazel Mead.
My name is Percival Tussamba.
My name is Jade Buffong.
Mav Dhothar: My name is Mav.
I saw it pop up on my socials.
It's kind of a culmination
of an alignment of the stars, I guess.
The idea I want to share
is how artificial intelligence
and advanced technology
can revolutionize accessibility
for people with disabilities.
Dan Flanagan: I thought there would
be hundreds of other people,
much better placed than I was.
But if you don't try,
you never know, do you?
I'm Dan Flanagan,
I'm the founder of Dad la Soul.
They want ideas
that could change the world,
and I think I've actually got one.
Together, we're shaping a new narrative
on the future of fatherhood.
KS: When a speaker gets invited,
sometimes they've spoken
frequently in public.
Sometimes they really haven't.
JM: You know, TED Talks are not a lecture.
They're also not an acting performance.
And so how to do it
is very natural to some people
and less so to other people.
But we've had a number of Zooms.
(Video) HM: So I'm going to try
my best to just kind of say it.
JM: Individually with speakers
as well as a number of group Zooms.
Briar Goldberg: You want, just like all
of this variety in your voice,
up and down and high
and low and fast and slow.
JM: And we worked on some basic skills
around how to succeed
giving a talk on a stage.
(Video) KS: You were practicing
exactly as Briar suggested yesterday,
just using really your own words.
JM: But that's different than seeing
somebody face-to-face.
[08:00 Speakers arrive]
Karli Büchling: Hi.
Hazel Mead: As soon as we came together,
it felt like we'd known
each other for years.
It feels like a family.
MD: We're all connected
through this, like invisible string,
and we will be for the rest of our lives.
Hazel Cottle: I feel like
we're sharing something special.
Tom Morphew: They’re all talking about
something that they’re doing
to help others
and better the world that we live in.
It's always nice to meet
other people like that.
DF: There is a smorgasbord of talent
and people that I wouldn't
have normally met.
KB: We all have deeply
rooted passion within us
to see change in the world
that is so needed.
Like every single idea
will have an enormous impact on the world.
TM: OK, beautiful people.
[09:00 Warm ups]
I welcome and invite you to gather
around the red dot.
More time you get the speakers
spending time together,
learning from each other,
the better they perform
as individuals on the day.
They get to understand
the context of the whole event
and how the audience is going
to receive everything.
JM: Because we did this
in a public open call,
we kind of condensed
the time frame a fair amount.
People didn't have the full length of time
that maybe an average
TED speaker would have.
(Video) PT: Just going over
my script again.
The day is coming soon.
KB: This is literally
how a mom prepares for a TED Talk.
JM: And that creates
a little bit of jeopardy.
(Video) PT: Another late night.
KB: I've just been so ill.
(Coughs)
PT: 12:56.
Really tired.
KB (Coughs)
PT: Yeah, I don't even know
how to describe right now
the feeling that I'm having.
KB: I just feel like nothing will go
into my head anymore.
JM: So we ran through some exercises
that helped people to face
some of the very natural
anxiety that they all have.
DF: For you, it sounds
really, really long.
And that's where the panic sets in.
But actually, for the audience --
TM: Seven seconds before
the audience starts to worry.
DF: Before they start worrying.
TM: But even then,
like, let them worry.
KB: I felt really empowered
by the TED team.
They provided a lot
of support and guidance.
TM: You just take a breath,
and whatever the reset moment
is that you need to take,
just reset and come back to that.
Yijia Tu: We've done lots of exercises
to help us prepare for the talk
that also kind of help us get a better
understanding of our message.
TM: The audience has the power
to actually go and have impact
and make change as a result
of attending the event.
And then when this goes online,
the people that that reach.
And the more reach
and the more engagement it has,
the more power
your idea and your talk has.
CA: It's really quite hard
to make something land powerfully,
but I think everyone
can actually learn to do it.
[13:00 Rehearsals]
KB: That's become even more staggering.
PT: As time went along, I was able to --
I'm just all over the place right now.
I think I was trying to say
exactly how I've written,
and that wasn't the best strategy to do.
I know what to say, but then it's a mix
of what to say and when to say.
Can I have a minute, please?
KS: Speakers rehearse their talks
in front of the team
and in front of each other.
It's so important that they're doing it
in the way that they want
to share the idea.
MD: Only 15 percent
of people with disabilities
have got access to assistive technology.
Let's create a world
where AI and technology
turns limitations into possibilities.
Rishika Bhalla: It's been great
coming up with something
that is almost completely different
from what you started with,
but in essence, the same thing.
CA: Was there an "aha" moment
when you were developing this?
RB: Maybe I could bridge it better
when it comes to the idea.
CA: You're very compelling,
very, very compelling.
This will land, as is, it will land.
YT: My rehearsal was a little bit scary
because Chris was there,
and I wasn't expecting that.
But it was amazing to hear his feedback,
and that kind of took
the weight off my shoulders.
CA: You have such presence,
I think often just standing still
and looking out there
will give you more power.
It's just a huge fear
for a lot of people to stand up,
look at a bunch of strangers,
you feel like your whole reputation
and future is at stake.
RB: Something as simple
as a pair of shoes
can truly transform the world.
It really helped break
down that wall of nervousness,
and it's made me readier
than ever to just do my talk.
Hazel Cottle: What do we do when it rains?
Our instinct tells us
to stay in, get cozy,
put the kettle on.
We need that extra push
to get us out the door
when the weather's bad.
It has been really valuable
to understand myself a bit more,
why this idea came to me.
It's not really sort of by accident.
There's lots of parts of my life
and my character that feed into it.
One of the things I said,
so I had a little connection over there,
and that kind of spurred me on.
YT: In a way, a lot of what I'm sharing
has been literally my life story
over the last 27 years.
So it wasn't too hard
to kind of get it through
in a short period of time
because it was already in there.
It's literally like what my life is about.
I believe that music
has this ability to build a bridge
between what we call
the East and the West.
Now I'm ready to do the real thing.
[18:00 Showtime]
CA: It's time for TED.
TM: This is a collaboration
between TED and TEDx
to create something completely new.
Everyone thinks that they are
the most worried,
the most scared, the most nervous,
the least experienced.
But everyone else is having the same fears
and the same worries.
We have found what we believe
to be a wonderful collection of speakers
to share with you tonight.
JM: It will be exciting to see people face
the challenge and hopefully rise to it.
TM: Something that's important to remember
with each and every one of these speakers
is coming up and doing this sort of thing,
it's not their day job.
and this is scary.
KS: When speakers give talks,
sometimes they do mess up.
Sometimes they forget to say something,
sometimes they have to pause
and get back on track.
MD: Just to see --
Just to -- sorry.
Jade Buffong: Building
a multi-billion dollar company --
Million dollar -- sorry,
added a few zeros there.
KS: The thing that's amazing
about that, too,
is that the audience
is so warm and forgiving.
MD: Thank you.
(Applause)
KS: It's not that that doesn't happen,
but it gets edited out and cleaned up
so that it's delivered
in the clearest way possible
when we all see the videos online.
The reality is, everyone gets nervous.
DF: There is a weight
of expectation with a TED Talk.
Hundreds of thousands of people
would like to be in this position,
so I want to do them justice.
HM: I really didn’t think
I was going to be able to do this,
but I've just surprised myself.
I'm at this place where
I feel like I know it,
and now I'm excited
to go out there and say it.
JM: The people here are really impressive
and really accomplished.
They have big dreams,
and it's our hope that this
will help them to realize that.
JB: We have the power to turn generational
struggle into generational wealth.
I hope
that for the people who are here,
that they can walk away
having learned something
they didn't know before.
That's my biggest hope.
(Cheers)
PT: Stepping on the stage,
it was that moment of realization,
yes, it's actually happening.
The light's in my face right now,
I'm standing in the front of the red dot.
I felt like I needed to just let it go
and be free and speak.
For many young refugees,
that daunting challenge
is finding their voice,
their confidence and a place to belong.
TM: Opportunity will rise
out of the audience
and present itself to each speaker,
and it's up to the speaker
to decide whether they can take it
and do something useful with it.
HM: I think illustration is a great
vehicle for tackling these topics
that might seem too risqué
or scandalous for many.
CA: We want to have millions
of people around the world
dreaming about their chance
to share their idea more broadly
and to give it its chance.
Wow, if that happens,
I really think it will change
how we think about people,
how we think about the future.
RB: I hope this talk inspires you
to believe it too.
Thank you.
(Applause and cheers)
HW: We hear stories for years
after a talk has been given
of how it affected somebody
in some community somewhere,
and then they decided
to do something different with their life.
This is just the beginning
of those stories,
and I'm excited to see what happens next.
TM: Thank you ever so much.
We're extraordinarily grateful for you.
Good night.
(Applause and cheers)
[Since the event]
[many of our speakers have been
contacted by world-leading architects,]
[business strategists
and athletes, among others.]
[Go deeper with some of our speakers
on YouTube.com/TED]
[We can't wait to see
what happens next ...]