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• The Technology Entertainment Design (TED) Conference brings together over 1,000 thought leaders. TED 2009 is held in Long Beach, California, from February 3 until February 7, 2009.Official Site: TED2009 Speakers at the 2009 conference include Bill Gates, Al Gore and Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web.

• Fast Facts

  1. Founded: 1984 by Richard Saul WurmanOfficial Site: About TED
  2. Curator: Chris Anderson
  3. 25th anniversary in 2009
  4. 2009 conference is held in Long Beach, California
  5. In earlier years, the conference was held in Monterey, CaliforniaOfficial Site: TED2008
  6. Patron membership cost: $20,000Official Site: Join TED
  7. Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Jimmy Wales
  8. Event usually sells out about one year in advanceOfficial Site: About TED
  9. Recent conferences have been attended by over 1000 peopleOfficial Site: About TED

• TED 2009

  The 2009 conference include 50 speakers and a variety of performances, such music and comedy. Bill Gates spoke about malaria, which are spread by mosquitoes. While saying: "There's no reason only poor people should get malaria", he released mosquitoes on the audience. After about a minute, he said that the mosquitoes did not have malaria.Daily Mail: ...Bill Gates released jar of mosquitoes at packed conference (February 5, 2009) Other speakers include robot expert David Hanson, who spoke about and showed robots that imitate human behavior, and Al Gore, who spoke about global warming.ZD Net: TED Conference: Gates, Gore, robot wars (February 5, 2009)

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