I created IdeaWave as I couldn't afford TED ($7k) or IdeaCity ($3k).

We get to hear a speaker explain how to tap into the secret behind dowsing rods to build a space drive?<p>Sounds...um...never mind.

Wow! You created your own conference. Extremely awesome.<p>As someone who wants to do the same thing (and has the contact network to feasibly do it), I am extremely interested in knowing how you did it :) Any pointers?<p>Edit: Also, I would be happy to join in on your project. As in become your assistant organizer or something like that. I am awesome at finding interesting talent and getting it to work for free :) Email me for more info :)

You may also enjoy the BIL conference taking place quite soon on March 3-4: <a href="http://www.bilconference.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bilconference.com/</a>

Or could have hosted an Ignite - even multiple ones :) Greetings from Ignite Taipei <a href="http://ignitetaipei.tw" rel="nofollow">http://ignitetaipei.tw</a>

Unfortunately, I'm out of the country or I might have made the trip over to the island. Best of luck with this.<p>For your future conferences, you may have better luck not having your event at the same time as TED. Though you may not be attracting the same speakers, you may be able to attract some of their audience, and some of their audience may make excellent speakers for your event.

The first Weapons of Mass Creation in Cleveland was community funded on Kickstarter 2 years ago, and keeps getting bigger.<p>It can be done, best of luck to you<p>EDIT: link (<a href="http://wmcfest.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wmcfest.com/</a>)

It costs money to put on a TED talk? As in, TED charges you to speak?

So are you going to post videos of the talks on YouTube? It would be really nice.