As to share your thoughts and ideas if they are lying in category of being discussed among visionaries, intellectuals and luminaries then there are conferences and intellectual platforms like Ted to provide you with the most updated ideas for your thoughts to be carried away in a definite direction. Below are seven places where you can look at great minds to work along.

TED: Operational from Long Beach, California and Oxford. UK and soon to be launched from Mysore, India, Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) gathers thrice a year with World’s most innovative and intellectual thinkers to share, teach and learn across different areas.

Pop!Tech: As organized at seaside village in New England, Pop!Tech attracts 500 visionary  thinkers and philosopher to a restored 19th century opera house to talk about science, technology and the future of ideas. And it is the gathering of the best people from their respective areas.  People from as much as diverse areas like science, technology, business, design, the arts, education, government and culture, performance, demos, and talks gather here to discuss things.

Business Innovation Factory: Organized at downtown Providence, the Business Innovation Factory at its annual collaborative Innovation Summit is a meeting place for some of the best people from the diverse areas and fields to share about their innovation and discoveries in a small, intimate setting.

Gel: Deciphered as Good Experience Live, Gel is an eclectic, mind expanding event that involves experts from the diverse areas of learning, including design, technology, business that gathers at New York every year for two day conference. The event is organized for two days for different activities.  At first day it is the direct experiences, workshops, tours and talks that are organized and on a second day it is theatre for 600 or so attendees packed in an auditorium listen to r the knowledgeable talks by the smarter people.

BIL: Expanding the abbreviation that stands out for “Breeding. Impromptu. Luminary” is an ad-hoc conference that is held every year at the same city where TED is organized as it was started back as an attempt to counter TED conference in 2007 in Monterey, California. More of a conference, it is style for conference, where, anyone can organize their own BIL conference.

Big Think: This is an online forum where people connect with each other to share away their ideas and innovative concepts.

ideaCity: It is held every year at Toronto, Canada in June every year for three day conference in same pattern like TED is attended by 497 people to hear conference of 50 speakers.