Gloria Kasang Bulus has dedicated her life to promoting environmental ethics, sustainable use of natural resources and preserving the natural environment for future generations.

About this event: Join us for an evening of entertainment, great conversation and networking, while experts in diverse fields - visual arts, ethics, business, among others - share ideas worth spreading on living inspired, purposeful lives.

Krista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "On Being," which takes up the great, animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live?

Dan Reisel studies the biology of change, including our ability to rewire our own brains. And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn't we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If the brain can grow new neural pathways after an injury ... could we help the brain re-grow ...

Veronica Barassi campaigns and writes about the impact of data technologies and artificial intelligence on human rights and democracy.

Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate, recruiting 600 Black men to take part. But the study was centered on a lie: the men wouldn't actually receive treatmen...

About this event: All the event is focused on ideas that young people need to build their future. Entrepreneurship, innovation, education, creativity, ethics, art...All this ideas with the energy of a TEDxYOUTH event

About this event: A discussion exploring the implication of diet for health, environment, sustainability and society, and how these balance with animal ethics.

About this event: 1 Re-imagining school - Reinventing Education 2 How to put people before yourself (servant leadership) 3 How to be a “Team Human” in the digital world 4. Social Media, Mobile Technologies and their Transformational Power 5. AI Ethics - Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Society

About this event: The New Futurism - On the 4th February 2012 join TEDxMerseyside to explore themes such as rights of passage, use of bio materials, ethics in art, inspiring our work life, innovations for learning and the effects of non-verbal communication.

Adam Galinsky teaches people all over the world how to inspire others, speak up effectively, lead teams and negotiate successfully.

About this event: A two sessions events with 12 live speakers and 2 TED talks: music, medicine, journalism, technology & ethics, Creativity, Business and much more in the most energetic event in Italy! People, from speakers to partner, staff & team & audience, are no longer the same after our event!

Dick M. Carpenter II studies cutting edge issues at the intersection of social science and constitutional law.

Yesterday, TED posted a jaw-dropping talk from Paul Root Wolpe that rounds up new bio-engineering experiments, most involving animals, that push our current ethical systems to their limits. From bioengineered glow-in-the-dark pets to supersized salmon, from ratbots to the mouse that grows a human ear -- Wolpe asks us to think deeply about wh...

How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing machines, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is working on something a bit different: robots with uncertainty. Hear his vision for human-compatible AI that can solve problems using common sense, altr...

About this event: This year's theme, “This or That,” challenges speakers and audience members to consider how the polarization around us shapes our thoughts, actions, and values – and perhaps more importantly, where we go from here. TEDxACU 2021 will present ideas and pose big questions about relationships, science, art, families, ethics, education, and much more.

Professor Sajay Samuel's proposal to reduce the burden of student loans is part of his larger preoccupation with thinking beyond the conventional categories of economics and ecology.

In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, the bedside chat, the power of informed observation.

Noah Feldman studies the intersection of religion, politics and law.

TED Fellow Jess Kutch is the cofounder of Coworker.org, a nonprofit that helps people join together to improve their jobs and workplaces.

Sarah Corbett does activism in a quiet, humble and intriguing way using handicrafts.

About this event: In a world where digital is woven into every aspect of our lives, change is constant and the pace of innovation cotinues unabat- ed, our values, ethics, structure and purposes will be highly chal- lenged. Therefore, we need to ask: What possibilities, opportunities and threats will come with tomorrow’s technological advancements? It is time to r...

Sister True Dedication is a Zen Buddhist nun ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh, the editor of several of his books and a leading voice in a new generation of young monastics.

About this event: TEDxAzusaPacificUniversity is an independently organized TED event that brings together the smartest thinkers, best ideas, and greatest teachers based on the theme Inspiring Ideas and Meaning. A half-dayTEDxAzusaPacificUniversity affords APU students, faculty and staff the opportunity to deepen community engagement with values, character, ethics...

Nita A. Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of biosciences and emerging technologies, particularly those related to neuroscience and behavioral genetics.

About this event: The world is changing fast. Often so fast that we don’t take the time to think about what kind of society and future we actually want to build. Politics has become disconnected from fact. Innovation is pursued without consideration of ethics. Around the world, we are building walls instead of bridges. New Rules asks: • How can we be more empa...

About this event: Owing to the warmth of gratification, we often forget to take a glance at the soft strings of questions, the strings which have not been pulled yet, but if, then in the pursuit of those unanswered questions a beautiful thought evolves, a thought no matter how little or large, a thought which will touch the ethics of people.Making a powerful perc...

Angelo Vermeulen wears many hats, including one as a crew commander for NASA, another as an artist and community organizer.

About this event: We're at the intersection of it all, the T-junction of faith and scepticism, the convergence of local ideas and substantial realities, and the seams of dreams untold and unheard, all to watch the metamorphosis of a town, a community and it's people. At TEDxYouth@Payyambalam, we hope to unearth the stories behind this shift of paradigm, to educ...

A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to people of all faiths, to those who have power as well as those who don't, the spiritual leader provides illuminating commentary on the world as we c...