For more than 30 years, Ozawa Bineshi Albert has worked on environmental justice and Indigenous rights.

Debbie Lovich is a managing director and senior partner at BCG, where she is the global leader of BCG's people strategy topic.

The world is becoming increasingly open, and that has implications both bright and dangerous. Marc Goodman paints a portrait of a grave future, in which technology's rapid development could allow crime to take a turn for the worse.

Painter Alyssa Monks finds beauty and inspiration in the unknown, the unpredictable and even the awful. In a poetic, intimate talk, she describes the interaction of life, paint and canvas through her development as an artist, and as a human.

About this event: 2011 is the year of 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. So because of that we started TEDxVorobyovy-Gory events from the theme SPACE and look at space from different focuses and invited different experts to make speeches. After the successful event for adult we decide to make event for children and youth attendees because it’s very...

Kristalina Georgieva has helped shape the agenda of the European Union.

Ole Scheeren designs buildings that generate both functional and social spaces.

Richard Ledgett is deputy director and senior civilian leader of the National Security Agency. He acts as the agency’s chief operating officer, responsible for guiding and directing studies, operations and policy.

Hongqiao Liu is an independent journalist and policy advisor who has been covering China’s environmental crisis and decarbonization since 2010. She writes Shuang Tan, a newsletter in which she decodes China’s climate and energy policies for the world.

Nabila Alibhai leads inCOMMONS, a new cultural production lab focused on invigorating public spaces and inspiring collective responsibility for our cultural and environmental heritage.

The president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter has used his post-presidency years to work for peace, teach, write and engage in global activism.

Ximena Loría works to expose the human cost of environmental problems.

Kara Hurst leads the development and evolution of sustainability and social responsibility at Amazon.

Jim Yong Kim is leading a global effort to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.

Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands' chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. In this talk, he explains how his career is one shaped by a love of peace, not a desire for bloodshed -- and why we need armies if we want peace.

Employee diversity and inclusive leadership are goals for most organizations today, but how do we get there? Try a "reverse mentorship" program, which sets up junior team members to guide senior staff. Here are 6 tips to make reverse mentorship work, from executive coach and personal development advocate Patrice Gordon.

Matt Goldman is a co-founder of the international theatrical sensation Blue Man Group and the NYC-based Blue School.

Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil -- but 2 out of every 3 dollars earmarked for development ended up wasted or stolen. This fact has haunted Afra Raymond for 30 years. Shining a flashlight on a continued history of government corruption, Raymond gives us a reframing of financial crime.

Linda Hill studies collective genius -- the way great companies, and great leaders, empower creativity from many.

How do you raise money to get an idea off the ground, support a community, or help change the world? Take a crash course on the secret art of successful fundraising with development strategist Kara Logan Berlin as she shows how you can learn to ask for the resources you need -- and get them, too.

Aziza Chaouni focuses on projects that integrate architecture and landscape, and that ultimately give back to their communities. For years, she has worked to revive the Fez River, which runs through her hometown of Fez, Morocco.

For many, the words “professional development” conjure up memories of sitting in a human resources office, watching a series of awkward training videos and then taking a mandatory quiz. The TED Distribution Team realized: it doesn’t need to be this way. Earlier this year, they started to think about how companies could use TED Talks to get p...

You’re doing everything right at work, taking all the right advice, but you’re just not moving up. Why? Susan Colantuono shares a simple, surprising piece of advice you might not have heard before quite so plainly. This talk, while aimed at an audience of women, has universal takeaways -- for men and women, new grads and midcareer workers.

Carter Emmart uses astronomy and computational modeling to create scientifically accurate, three-dimensional tours of our universe.

For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of racial justice and sexual violence.

Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence.

Kenya's minibuses -- known as "matatus" -- offer a convenient, affordable and colorful way for people to get around. But they also pose safety risks and accessibility issues for many of their passengers, especially women. Bringing a feminist perspective, activist and TED Fellow Naomi Mwaura calls for a revolution in public transportation by maki...

Helen Tupper is the co-founder of Amazing If, an award-winning company with a mission to make careers better for everyone.

As a sports scientist, athlete and director of the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children's Hospital, Kate Ackerman understands that women athletes need more than pretty sports bras or new sneakers to achieve peak performance -- they need true investment committed to their health and well-being. Ackerman advocates for a long overdue sports me...

António Guterres is at the forefront of fighting the climate emergency and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.