Mobile finance entrepreneur

Tech entrepreneur + inventor

Growing up amidst the violence of inner city Toronto, Gavin Sheppard started The Remix Project to catapult creative young people from troubled neighborhoods into lucrative careers. From presidential meetings to local crime scenes to celebrity parties, Gavin stays focused on finding new ways to keep The Remix Project evolving, and improving you...

About this event: In the spirit of "ideas worth spreading," TED has created TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxConstitutionDrive, where x = independently organized TED event. At TEDxConstitutionDrive, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep ...

About this event: TED speakers share a blueprint for a beautiful net-zero future. This plan – along with inspiring stories of local Colorado action – will be amplified by hundreds of TEDx Countdown events around the world and through a special global live stream event. Mark your calendars for the Countdown global live stream. Building on the success of the 2020 ...

About this event: Plans to motivate the community to see beyond the society, desire larger, aim greater and come up with better concepts. Provide as a system, which delivers up impressive & innovative thinkers on to the group.It also features as a university student run a Thinking reservoir and concentrating on Advancement . ---------------------------------...

Aerial robotics researcher + entrepreneur

Policy influencer + healthcare entrepreneur

Ambulance + anti-corruption entrepreneur

About this event: Our TEDx Archivorum March Edition was both incredibly successful and immensely inspiring; we would like to thank all of our guests, speakers and other participants for their precious contributions! After seven months of beautiful adventure, we, sadly, have to announce that TEDx Archivorum will be taking a break in compliance with Countdown rule...

Educator + Innovator

Wanjira Mathai has more than 20 years of experience advocating for social and environmental change on both local and international platforms.

Adam Braun went to school in the US and now runs a nonprofit that builds schools in Ghana, Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala. In contrast, Sugata Mitra—the winner of the 2013 TED Prize—went to school in India and now is a professor in the UK, where his research on self-directed learning routinely brings him into elementary schools. Both of these...

Medical architect

Marine, author + social entrepreneur

Marine ecologist + tourism entrepreneur

About this event: If you knew the end of the world was near, would you continue living your life the same way you've been living it? If tomorrow was your last day to live, could you close your eyes, and without any regrets, say that your life has been satisfying and meaningful? Everyday you cram yourself into the same crowded subway car, or bus, wearing the same ...

About this event: The Future of Everything November 14, 2017 6:00pm - 9:00pm In the LMC MU Music/Recital Hall Nina G. Stuttering Interrupted: The Making of a Stuttering Stand Up Comedian By night Nina G is a comedian performing at comedy clubs and keynote speaker. By day she is a counselor at a community college where she works with student with disabili...

About this event: TEDxFulbright DC Dared Us to Think in Inspiring Ways By Juleyka Lantigua-Williams On April 5, a beautiful Spring morning, hundreds of enthusiastic participants filed into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hall of Flags for a day of inspiring and thoughtful conversations. As they made their way to their seats, participants walked through t...

Sustainable development technologist

About this event: UWAGA! Na wydarzenie obowiązują bilety, które można zdobyć pod adresem: http://tedxkatowicezrobtosam.evenea.pl/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A co, gdybyście tak... zrobili sobie sami główne wydarzenie TEDxKatowice w 2017? 🔨 30 września spotkamy się w wyjątkowym miejscu - Walcownia Cynku ...

About this event: 中文： 李大维 新车间创客空间创始人。 什么是新车间？新车间是一个开放式社区，为硬件高手、电子艺术家、设计师、DIY爱好者和所有喜欢自己动手捣鼓各种东西的人大家不仅可以和兴趣相投的人提供实验空间和基础设备，大家可以一起拆拆装装各种电子和物理产品，还能共同实施一些好的设计和想法。对于一个曾经从事Facebook社交应用开发工作的人来说，李大维也一定也有着一颗爱玩的心。之所以发起创客空间，就是为了有场地和朋友能够一起玩开源硬件。他觉得未来的创客空间，就是很多人，一起做很多好玩的项目，就这么简单。当然，创客空间的茁壮发展，需要强大的热情支持，以对各种技术偏执狂的加入。 张子逸 “叹为观纸”一个看似简单却意蕴丰富的名字，充满着他和团队折纸爱好者的巧妙心思。在这个空间里，我们看到的...

Singer + vocal coach

Farmer + technologist

The revolution that made music more marketable, more personal and easier to pirate began ... at the dawn of the 19th century. José Bowen outlines how new printing technology and an improved piano gave rise to the first music industry.

Deep beneath your feet is a molten ball of energy the same temperature as the surface of the sun -- an immense clean energy source that could power the world thousands of times over, says technologist and climate activist Jamie C. Beard. How do we tap it? She lays out a surprising solution, and an unlikely alliance, to harvest geothermal energy ...

About this event: 1. Miryam Z. Wahrman, Ph.D. BIO: MIRYAM Z. WAHRMAN is Professor of Biology at William Paterson University of New Jersey, where she directs a research laboratory in microbiology, studying bacteria on environmental surfaces. An expert in Bioethics, Professor Wahrman has developed and teaches graduate courses in Bioethics and Research Methods, an...

What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think -- even calling out the boss is fair game. Learn more about how these...

Lisa Gansky, author of "The Mesh," talks about a future of business that's about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer. Examples across industries -- from music to cars -- show how close we are to this meshy future.

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).