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10 days to go to our main event, and we're fully booked! We'll have a full venue when we start the show at 9am in the Herbst Theatre. If you couldn't get your hands on the ticket for TEDxSanFrancisco 2017, you can still sign-up to the waiting list and we will inform you if additional tickets are released in the coming days. On October 10th we will have a spectacular line-up of speakers in four sessions. We will start the day with the Age of Precision and the Currencies of

You read it right. TEDxSanFrancisco is the first TED event in the world to accept several cryptocurrencies to pay the registration fee. Starting today you can buy your ticket for TEDxSanFrancisco in both Bitcoin and Ethereum. We became very inspired to pilot the idea after last year session about the blockchain with Alex Tapscott, Kathryn Haun and Juan Benet. This year we’ll have more talks about cryptocurrencies and one of our session is even named “ The currencies of life

Here's a sneak peek of our backstage at the Herbst Theatre Our team starts planning 10 months prior to the event and Sam, our curator, is continuously researching potential speakers throughout the whole year, always looking for these great ideas that will potentially transform our worldview and stimulate us in being always more curious. This year we’re keeping the theme "Dare To Know". The magic really resides in a core team of 20 volunteers who during these 10 months spend a

We often get the question: how do speakers prep for their TED talk? We often get the question: how do speakers prep for their TED talk? Here are the 4 most important tips we share with our speakers every year, hopefully they'll help you too. 1. ONE CORE IDEA Build your talk around one core idea. It is very easy to get lost in your own pool of ideas, but you need to chose one. That’s probably the most important part.This allows the speaker to focus on a very specific issue, an

The E of TED stands for Entertainment. Last year we've had incredible artists on our stage with DawsonDanceSF by Gregory Dawson and The Hiplet Ballerinas by Homer Hans Bryant. This year again we are honored to host incredible artists who will express their point of view around the theme DareToKnow via music and magic. And stay tuned there will be a few surprises! Besides great talks there will be magic and music at TEDxSanFrancisco! Here are 3 great artists we'd like to i