TEDxIIT is a student organization licensed by TED to host a TED-like event on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK.TEDxIIT 2011 was a Break Through. TEDxIIT 2012 did Gain Momentum. All seats were sold out with more than 1,000 viewers live streaming. TEDxIIT 2013 was Exponential.TEDxIIT 2014 was Infinite ImpactTEDxIIT 2015 was XFusionTEDxIIT 2016 UnexpecTEDTEDxIIT 2017 ExclamationNow its turn for 2018 it will be new way to expressTEDxIIT 2018 will be ExpressionFollow TEDxIIT on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDxIIT, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TEDxIIT or Instagram at instagram.com/tedxiit/