In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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Barbara Liskov

Computer Pioneer

programming and distributed computing

Daniela Rus

Director of CSAIL

Director of CSAIL

Dava Newman

Astronaut

Astronaut

Hamsa Balakrishnan

MIT AeroAstro Professor

MIT AeroAstro Professor

Hane Lee

Pianist

Musician

John Werner

John Werner has made a career of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. John is Chief Network Officer & SVP Corporate Development at Cogo Labs and a Managing Director at Link Ventures. John was a VP at Meta, a Y-Combinator augmented reality startup based in Silicon Valley. Prior he was the Head of Innovation and New Ventures at the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Group and served as a Managing Director of Emerging Worlds SIG, where he helped lead the launch of collaborative innovation centers in India. John is the Founder of ARIA, a community focused on the potential of AR and with Sandy Pentland launched Blockchain+AI+Human at MIT and the World Economic Forum. John also is the founder of TEDxBeaconStreet, (talks accumulated 250+ million views). John was a co-founder of Citizen Schools; advisor for PhotoButler and VestigoVentures; passionate photographer; and an accomplished triathlete and organized the Boston Light 10 mile Swim. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard.

Judy Brewer

Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Julie Shah

Associate Professor at MIT

Professor

Krystyn Van Vliet

Cell Engineer

Cell Therapy Specialist

Megan Smith

CEO of Shift7

Former CTO, White House

Nergis Mavalvala

Nergis Mavalvala is an American astrophysicist known for her role in the first observation of gravitational waves. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at MIT, where she is also the Associate Head of the Department of Physics. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010. Mavalvala is best known for her work on the detection of gravitational waves in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, but she has also obtained prominent results on other physics problems that evolved out of LIGO: for example, she has performed pioneering experiments on laser cooling of macroscopic objects and in the generation of squeezed quantum states of light. Professor Nergis Mavalvala received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from MIT. She was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the California Institute of Technology before joining the Physics faculty at MIT in 2002. She was appointed Associate Department Head of Physics in February 2015. In 2017, Mavalvala was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Nergis Mavalvala

Astrophysicist

Astrophysicist

Paula Hammond

Department Head of Chemical Engineering

Department Head of Chemical Engineering

Ronitt Rubinfeld

MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Vivienne Sze

Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer