TED 2019: 10 years of 'ideas worth spreading'

TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design) is famous for turning 17-minute talks into viral videos.

This year's conference has kicked off in Vancouver, offering a new set of thought-provoking talks under the tagline of 'ideas worth spreading', BBC News reports.

The theme for this year's conference is ''Bigger than Us'' and includes talks from Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, the president of Sierre Leone Julius Maada Bio and journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The conference has become a showcase for tech innovations, with the talks later shared online, some gaining millions of views.