Public aquarium and ocean-conservation nonprofit on Cannery Row — marine preservation and the Seafood Watch program.

New York NY. Ideas worth spreading. Annual conference + TED Talks platform. TED Fellowship program selects ~20 fellows/year — innovators, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs working on under-reported problems. Jon Gosier was TED Fellow 2009, TED Senior Fellow.Born in Monterey in 1984 and hosted there through 2009 (the origin of TED Talks) before moving to Long Beach and then Vancouver.

Motorsport road course above Monterey (the Corkscrew turn) — IndyCar, IMSA, MotoAmerica; Monterey County-operated.