Big thinkers show the way forward

"The BBC News website reporters attending the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in Oxford sum up their impressions as the gathering ends.

The brains of delegates at the conference were left buzzing with shared ideas about how to use science, design and technology for sustainable development, environmental regeneration and ending global poverty.

But what was evident by the close of the conference was how the smallest ideas can sometimes have the greatest impact.

It was an experiment to hold such a top-drawer event in the UK but it worked, TED chairman Chris Anderson told the BBC News website.

Brits, he said were usually suspicious of lofty ideas that claim to change the world, he said. But that reputation has turned out to be inaccurate.

'What has really excited me is the conversations that have happened outside [the sessions].

'People have taken what they have heard to a new level and have come up with real ideas,' he said. 'It has inspired people.' "

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