TED has very little involvement in TEDx. The TEDx organizer, who is NOT a TED representative, is responsible for screening.
Which has always kind of surprised me, because I always suspected that kind of arms-length involvement would wind up with TEDx running the TED name into the mud.
Which has always kind of surprised me, because I always suspected that kind of arms-length involvement would wind up with TEDx running the TED name into the mud.