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Daphne Bavelier | TED Speaker

Daphne Bavelier studies how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature or by training.
Cognitive researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daphne_bavelier

Matthew White | TED Speaker

Matthew White is a young master of the euphonium, an instrument in the brass family with an ineffably lovely tone.
Brass virtuoso
https://www.ted.com/speakers/matthew_white

Steven Wise | TED Speaker

By challenging long-held legal notions of “personhood”, Steven Wise seeks to grant cognitively advanced animals access to a full spectrum of fundamental rights.
Animal rights lawyer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/steven_wise

Preston Reed | TED Speaker

Preston Reed’s hands have an otherworldly coordination. The fingers, nails, thumbs, and palms of both left and right dance, pluck, strum, and slap his guitar, which bursts with a full sound.
Revolutionary Guitarist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/preston_reed

Adam Alter | TED Speaker

What makes us incessantly check our phones? Adam Alter dives into the fascinating psychology that drives our tech addictions.
Psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/adam_alter

Priyanka Jain | TED Speaker

Priyanka Jain heads up product for pymetrics, an NYC-based startup that uses neuroscience and AI to make hiring more diverse and effective.
Technologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/priyanka_jain

Ji-Hae Park | TED Speaker

Ji-Hae Park spreads the joy of classical to music to those who might not otherwise hear it -- and in the process shows that you can rock out on the violin.
Violinist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ji_hae_park

Nora Brown | TED Speaker

Nora Brown sings ballads and plays traditional old-time music with a heavy interest in eastern Kentucky banjo playing.
Musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nora_brown

Marian Wright Edelman | TED Speaker

Marian Wright Edelman fights for a level playing field for all children, so their chances to succeed don't have to depend on the lottery of birth.
Child advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/marian_wright_edelman

Richard Bona | TED Speaker

For the last 30 years, Richard Bona has toured the world and become one of the rare African artists to have achieved global recognition.
Musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_bona

Rachelle Garniez | TED Speaker

Mischievous and deeply original, accordionist Rachelle Garniez plays her own witty songs and gives a beautiful swing to the classics.
Musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rachelle_garniez

Rainn Wilson | TED Speaker

Rainn Wilson is an actor, writer and co-creator of media and production company SoulPancake.
Actor, writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rainn_wilson

Kitra Cahana | TED Speaker

Kitra Cahana is a Canadian photographer who blurs the line between anthropologist and journalist.
Vagabond photojournalist + conceptual artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kitra_cahana

Qi Zhang | TED Speaker

Qi Zhang is a Master's candidate at University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, and an award-winning international organist.
Organist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/qi_zhang

David R. Liu | TED Speaker

David R. Liu leads a research group that combines chemistry and evolutionary techniques to create revolutionary new medicines.
Chemical biologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_liu

David Byrne | TED Speaker

David Byrne builds an idiosyncratic world of music, art, writing and film.
Musician, artist, writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_byrne

Dan Gartenberg | TED Speaker

TED Resident Dan Gartenberg has spent his adult life trying to make seven and a half hours feel like eight hours.
Sleep scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_gartenberg

Renzo Piano | TED Speaker

Renzo Piano is a builder of shelters for human beings. And communities.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/renzo_piano

Aaron O'Connell | TED Speaker

Aaron O'Connell is the first person to experimentally induce and measure quantum effects in the motion of a humanmade object, bridging the quantum and classical worlds.
Physicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/aaron_o_connell

Siphumeze Khundayi | TED Speaker

Siphumeze Khundayi is founder and artistic director of HOLAAfrica, sparking conversations about sex and sexuality.
Photographer, theatre-maker, performer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/siphumeze_khundayi

Risa Wechsler | TED Speaker

Risa Wechsler uses computer simulations of the entire universe to explore questions about our existence on the largest scales.
Astrophysicist, cosmologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/risa_wechsler

John Q. Walker | TED Speaker

Software entrepreneur John Q. Walker uses computers to bring piano legends back to life -- digitally reconstructing their performances from audio tracks and playing them on real instruments, live.
Musician and inventor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_walker

Brenda Romero | TED Speaker

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.
Game designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/brenda_brathwaite

Beardyman | TED Speaker

Beardyman, “ruler of beats and destroyer of dance floors,” has developed a real-time music-production system that places live looping at the center of a new musical paradigm.
Beatboxer and inventor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/beardyman

Rufus Cappadocia | TED Speaker

Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere.
Cellist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rufus_cappadocia

Dan Gross | TED Speaker

As president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Dan Gross seeks to cut US gun deaths in half by 2025.
Gun-control activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_gross

Elise LeGrow | TED Speaker

Powerhouse singer Elise LeGrow plays with the classic sounds of R&B.
Singer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/elise_legrow

Mallika Sarabhai | TED Speaker

As the leader of Darpana, Mallika Sarabhai is a pioneer in using dance and the arts for social change.
Dancer, actor, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/mallika_sarabhai

David Puttnam | TED Speaker

After a much-awarded career as a film producer, Lord David Puttnam now works at the intersection of education, media and policy.
Producer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_puttnam

Rhiannon Giddens | TED Speaker

With a rich voice and an equally rich sense of history, Rhiannon Giddens animates American folk tradition with her electrifying song interpretations.
Musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rhiannon_giddens
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