While looking for things to do this weekend, I came across a TED-like conference called ideaCity. Interesting line-up of presenters, including a young lass who was a TED speaker. I thought I'd written about her talk wondering how she'd handle growing up, but I can't seem to find the post. Anyway, $3000+ for a ticket? Hoooooooly. Elitist, much? The site says that $3000 is a steal compared to TED which charge ~$7000. I don't know if I agree with charging so much for a conference. I suppose they need to charge something to run the event, and pay for the great speakers, but I would think that there would be enough sponsorship and call me naive, but I would hope that it would be enough of an honour to be asked to speak that you wouldn't want to be paid for it. I mean, it's supposed to bring together great minds to inspire change...
Oh, so apparently, TED addresses this. I'm still not completely sure I like the answer.
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