Frozen snacks included snow cones laced with booze.
Photo: Kaz Sasahara
Ball Pit Lounge
Each year organizers create a variety of lounges where attendees can watch a simulcast of speakers. New this year was a ball pit filled with beanbag chairs and beach balls.
Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
Picnic Lunch
To encourage attendees to mingle, organizers provided blankets and picnic baskets filled with food for six and invited them to find others to share it.
Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
Target
Sponsor Target provided illustrators who created unique pieces of art based on guests’ descriptions of their hopes and dreams.
Photo: Marla Aufmuth/TED
TED Fellows
Heart-shaped cookies were an appropriate dessert at a reception for the 21 TED Fellows on Valentine’s Day, the day before the conference opened.
Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
Pancake artist Nathan Shields of Saipancakes created more than 70 pancake portraits during the event.
Photo: Courtesy of IHOP
