Program Our home in Long Beach

The move to Long Beach

After more than 20 happy but increasingly crowded years in Monterey, the TED Conference relocated to Long Beach in 2009. We scoured the U.S. for a venue that would give us some breathing room, while retaining the intimacy and energy that made Monterey so special. We found this in Long Beach.

The Terrace Theater and the Center Theater

At the center of the TED experience in Long Beach is the Terrace Theater, a beautiful auditorium with aisle-free "continental" seating. For those who prefer casual, food- and laptop-friendly viewing, you'll find inspired Social Spaces and cafés throughout the multi-level lobby and fountain plaza. TED University, featuring short talks by attendees on their area of expertise, is presented at the intimate Center Theater, also part of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Presentations from both theaters are also simulcast in comfortable Social Spaces throughout the conference space.

For simulcast and conversation: Social Spaces

We’ve designed the conference space to make it easy to connect and engage. Watch the simulcast or grab a coffee in one of nine Social Spaces, each with a different flavor -- in tents and domes on the fountain plaza, and six amazing spaces inside the theater complex. They offer not just cool things to look at, but food, snacks, coffee, crisp simulcast screens and conversation space. Some of you will want to “graze” all of them. Others may find that one of them is the space you’re most comfortable in and where you can meet the people you want to connect with.