Tweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space.

Pastor Rick Warren is the author of The Purpose-Driven Life, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. His has become an immensely influential voice seeking to apply the values of his faith to issues such as global poverty, HIV/AIDS and injustice.

James Rhee is an acclaimed entrepreneur, leader and goodwill strategist

As the cofounder and executive director of Waterford UPSTART, Claudia Miner has one goal: to help families overcome barriers and prepare their children for lifelong learning.

A neuroscientist and engineer, Daniel Wolpert studies how the brain controls the body.

Researchers have identified many things -- like unpredictable laughter, pale skin, unkempt hair -- that people tend to find unsettling in others. But they’ve also realized this: We humans are pretty poor judges of who we should trust, says psychologist Julia Shaw. We sometimes use terms that ascribe negative traits to people we don’t know. Tha...

About this event: Tickets will go on sale late summer.

About this event: With a vast array of speakers, we seek to identify emerging opportunities in the field of design, mushrooming energy and environment problems, and, the eyes through which we see things today, the media.Our event, TEDxPEC carries the baton forward with live speakers and TEDTalks video coming together to spark deep discussion and connection. We st...

Oxford professor Richard Dawkins has helped steer evolutionary science into the 21st century, and his concept of the "meme" contextualized the spread of ideas in the information age. In recent years, his devastating critique of religion has made him a leading figure in the New Atheism.

About this event: Living with purpose has many cascading and positive impacts on well-being and performance. Purpose is a higher calling and can be considered a long-term committed intention to accomplish aims meaningful to oneself and the broader world.” Purpose is the motivational power that enables individuals and organizations to thrive. Why is purpose impor...

About this event: Latent and dormant, we are each born with gifts and talents. It is through experiences in life that these gifts have the potential to be exposed and recognized. How do we increase the odds of finding purpose in life? Is it ever too late to find purpose? What role can the education system play in helping students find purpose? Our goal is to...

Speed Meeting at TED2012 -- 3 minutes to share who you are. Photo: Robert Leslie This thoughtful blog post from Hadiyah at Engineers Don't Blog contains four great takeaways for conference-goers: "TED2012 and why conferences will never be the same" From the post: 2. Attend a conference with a purpose. I previously despised networ...

Mariana Mazzucato helps policymakers understand how the global economy really works (and how we need to fix it).

Rahwa Ghirmatzion is executive director of People United for Sustainable Housing, a membership-based community organization committed to social and climate justice.

Jonathan Klein runs Getty Images, a stock photo agency whose vast archive of still photography and illustrations is a mainstay of the creative class.

A political strategist focused on creating a better future, Tom Rivett-Carnac works at the highest levels of business and government to find creative ways to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis.

About this event: How do you define purpose? Do you live with intent? This year TEDxFargo is focusing on the purpose that we as individuals have and how it plays a role in our lives. Speakers from around the country, and the Cass/Clay County, are coming together to inspire our community. Each speaker will talk about how purpose is relevant to their lives and the...

Lisa Godwin is an educator with the Onslow County School District of North Carolina.

Dr. George Blair-West is an author, researcher and doctor specializing in psychiatry.

Robin Steinberg is the CEO of The Bail Project, an organization designed to combat mass incarceration in the United States by disrupting the money bail system -- one person at a time. As she says: "I hate injustice and simply can't sit still when I see it."

About this event: The purpose of the event is to bring to fore the innumerable struggles, repeated failures and steadfastness of purpose that go behind creating anything meaningful. In this era of instant gratification, we want to remind people that there is no such thing as overnight success.

Kathy Nicholson Hull founded the first freestanding pediatric palliative care center in the US.

About this event: This event will ignite the light in the Nigerian child and awaken creative powers lying dormant making them change agents

About this event: TEDxBuckhead is all about thought leadership for our community. Our event Purpose, Learning and Power is intended to empower action by all of us with its great ideas. Buckhead has always been a special place of growth, collaboration, innovation, and positive energy. Unfortunately our tide of prosperity has ebbed the last few years, and it is ...

Vera Songwe is the UN Under-Secretary General and the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa.

About this event: In this Salon event, with no live speakers, we debate about leadership: types, motivation, purpose, etc...

About this event: TEDxCEU (2018) would be the first ever TEDx conference at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. The theme of the conference is ‘Chasing the Purpose’, and it was chosen as a gateway to bring the diverse CEU community and the locals together for a day full of inspiration and learning. The purpose behind this conference is not only to ...

About this event: Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. Purpose Alliance is an ecosystem compound by a set of organizations that share the same community and serve a common purpose: Empowering extraordinary people to create a better future! TEDxPurposeAlliance will be an online ev...

About this event: Our event will be during the Summer 2011 Semester At Sea Voyage. We will be sailing for 10 weeks to 8 countries throughout the Mediterranean together on the MV Explorer on a study abroad program. There are 670 college students from 290 Universities represented on the ship. Our theme is "Live with Purpose, Work with Purpose, Travel with Purpose" ...

About this event: Living a life of purpose is possible and our Salon will inspiration and how-to steps to beging this journey for yourself.