Franklin Leonard is a film producer, cultural commentator, professor, activist and entrepreneur.

About this event: As the world evolves into a more stable, inclusive, and egalitarian society, evidence of this development in our community has been somewhat minuscule due to conflicting perceptions, flawed mindsets, and lack of quality exposure. Such ideologies stifle our individual, career, and societal development. Hence, we recognize the need to expose peopl...

Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers.

David Autor's work assesses the labor market consequences of technological change and globalization.

Children of immigrants in the US often experience a unique kind of guilt, brought on by the pressures of navigating different cultures, living up to their parents' expectations and taking on extra family responsibilities. Mental health advocate Sahaj Kaur Kohli offers helpful strategies for dealing with these difficult feelings -- starting with ...

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve exp...

In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development -- with some surprisingly good news -- snaps into sharp focus.

About this event: The First TEDxAgioiAnargyroi is an event and will take place at the Maria Elena Art Center. Our theme for 2022 is FAST FORWARD and how 10 years of digital development was compressed into one year. We look forward to welcoming you and journeying together through the challenges, opportunities, life and career changes created by FAST FORWARD.

Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right. In San Francisco, she's questioning the all too familiar story of gentrification: that poor people will be pushed out by development and progress. "Why is it that we treat cu...

Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mission to establish equity for every person.

Pearl Arredondo helped establish a pilot middle school that teaches students to be good communicators in the 21st century.

About this event: Hope is a feeling that a particular thing or incident would happen, it can be both positive as well as negative and people tend to hope more for positive things in life. Well-being is an essential part of an individual’s growth and development, it comprises of emotional, physical as well as mental well-being. In current times, the situation is...

Niels van Namen leads the global CEVA Healthcare team as the Executive Vice President for Healthcare in BD.

Timothy Ihrig advocates for an approach to healthcare that prioritizes a patient's personal values.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Adam Grant (00:00): Hey WorkLifers, it's Adam. We're getting close to the premiere of season four of our show, but today I've got another conversation for you from our Taken for Granted series of unscripted interviews about re-thinking assumptions. Adam Grant (00:12): This year and last, many of us have been forced to co...

In this wryly funny talk, sociologist Harald Eia explains what some countries are doing differently and argues that capitalism and welfare states can, in fact, co-exist in harmony.

At age 14, violin virtuoso Ji-Hae Park was accepted to a prestigious music conservatory in Mainz, Germany – even though the school only accepted students 16 and older. By the time she was 17, a German foundation had lent Park a rare Guarneri violin to play, worth millions. But Park’s early fame took its toll. “The violin which once meant eve...

In her 20s, Meg Jay saw her first psychotherapy client, Alex, who was there to talk about her guy problems. Jay didn't take the sessions all too seriously at first. But then her supervisor gave her a wakeup call. While Jay said, "Sure she's dating down and sleeping with a knucklehead. But she's not gonna marry the guy." Her supervisor respon...

The second day of the INK Conference in Jaipur, India was another eclectic mix of musicians, inventors, designers and visionaries.   The conference's narrative theme, The Power of the Journey, continued as each session attempted to capture the most important moments of every life. Talks are being held from Thursday December 8 to Sunday December ...

Since launching the TED Fellows program ten years ago, we've gotten to know and support some of the brightest, most ambitious thinkers, change-makers and culture-shakers from nearly every discipline and corner of the world. The numbers speak for themselves: 472 Fellows covering a vast array of disciplines, from astrophysics to the arts...

The TED iPad project was inspired by a number of requests coming in from TED fans wishing to see TEDTalks on mobile devices. In the past, the development community has graciously volunteered building various applications on both iPhone and Android platforms. When the iPad came out, we saw an opportunity to try our hand with our first foray i...

As usual, the TED community is making headlines. Below, some highlights. A close look at the beauty and pain of hospice care. End Game, a short documentary that follows the last few days of terminally ill patients, is up for an Oscar this weekend. The heart-rending film highlights the work of doctors and caregivers — including BJ Miller — ...

About this event: The TEDx program is designed to help communities, organizations and individuals spark conversation, and TEDx Bellarmine College Preparatory will follow that ideology. You can expect to hear engaging talks ranging from creativity in the classroom, to innovations in cybersecurity, and much more. We have lined up five fantastic speakers who will sh...

"My task this morning is to summarize 35 years of work in less than 17 minutes," says Mina Bissell. She is a cancer researcher with a background in chemistry, and as she tells us, the standard explanations for exactly what cancer was didn't make sense to her. Her career has been driven by a tremendous question -- what makes cancer become can...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant November 9, 2021 Esther Duflo wants you to think like a plumber Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Welcome back to Taken for Granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. I’m an organizational psychologist, and this series is about rethinking assumptions we often take for granted about how we work, lea...

As usual, the TED community has lots of news to share this week. Below, some highlights. Human rights for chimps? This week, TED2015 speaker Steven Wise and his organization, The Nonhuman Rights Project, successfully argued for Hercules and Leo, two chimpanzees who have been used for medical experimentation at Stony Brook University, to be ...

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Welcome back to Taken for Granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. I’m an organizational psychologist, and this series is about rethinking assumptions we often take for granted about how we work, lead, and live. Today’s guest is Esther Duflo, the MIT economist who ...

Can’t wait for TEDGlobal 2014? We’re here to help! Spend the next two weeks curling up with these books by the wonderful speakers who will grace the stage in Rio. Memoir American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, by Marie Arana. The writer's classic, in which she shares her own experience growing up between Peru and the United States, whic...

In February 2006, author and educator Sir Ken Robinson stepped on to the TED stage and posed a provocative question: "Do schools kill creativity?” What followed was a masterclass in public speaking -- 19 minutes that sparkled with wit, deep thinking and a fearless confidence in human potential. Since then, Sir Ken's talk has taken on a life ...

The theme of this session is "Blueprints." And so we hear from speakers who have that all-too-easy-to-overlook first step: a plan. Brazil is named for a tree, says Tasso Azevedo. And thus, it is a good place to be a forester. 12% of the world’s forests are in the country, primarily in the Amazon, which plays a vital role in global climate...