A Sarasota version of TED talks inspires ideas

In 1996, Dutch book publisher Nelleke van Lindonk got a phone call from her husband, Peter, who was in Monterey, Calif., attending one of the TED (technology, entertainment, design) conferences that a non-profit group stages worldwide as a forum for innovative ideas. “ ‘Wow, this is amazing,’ ” she recalls him telling her. “He met so many people who had nothing to do with his own job,” she says. “He really got inspired by it.”

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