Speaker Lineup
Al Gore
Nobel Peace Prize Winner | Climate Crisis Catalyst and Global Environmental Leader
"New thinking on the climate crisis"
Amy Tan
Acclaimed Novelist | Exploring Identity, Culture & Resilience
"Where does creativity hide?"
Andy Hobsbawm
Founder & CMO | Sustainable Tech & Social Impact Entrepreneur
"Do the green thing"
Brian Cox
Professor of Particle Physics | BBC Science Presenter
"CERN's supercollider"
Bruno Bowden
Former Google Engineering Director | Pioneering Scalable AI Systems
"Watch me fold origami (blindfolded)"
Chris Abani
Nigerian Novelist | Emerging Technology & Human Experience
"On humanity"
Chris Jordan
Photographer & Environmental Activist | 'Midway' Film & Ocean Plastic Pollution
"Turning powerful stats into art"
Craig Venter
Pioneer of human genome sequencing | Founder of Celera Genomics and J. Craig Venter Institute
"On the verge of creating synthetic life"
Curtis Wong
Technologist | Reimagining Digital Experiences
"A preview of the WorldWide Telescope"
Dave Eggers
Pulitzer Prize Finalist | Literary Innovator Transforming Publishing & Philanthropy
"My wish: Once Upon a School"
Dean Ornish
President of Preventive Medicine Research Institute | Proved lifestyle changes reverse heart disease
"Your genes are not your fate"
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian | Author of Team of Rivals
"Lessons from past presidents"
Garrett Lisi
"An 8-dimensional model of the universe"
Gregory Petsko
Biochemist & Protein Researcher | Pioneering New Perspectives on the Human Body
"The coming neurological epidemic"
Helen Fisher
Anthropologist | Decoding the Biological Science of Human Love
"The brain in love"
Isaac Mizrahi
Fashion Designer & Author | Brand Building & Design Thinking
"Fashion and creativity"
Jay Walker
Founder, TEDMED | Pioneer of Personalized Medicine
"My library of human imagination"
Jill Bolte Taylor
Brain Scientist & TED Speaker | Revealing the Power of Neurological Transformation
"My stroke of insight"
John Francis
Environmentalist | From Littering to Lifelong Advocacy
"Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence"
Jonathan Haidt
NYU social psychologist | Author of The Righteous Mind, leading voice on polarization & teen mental health
"The moral roots of liberals and conservatives"
Joshua Klein
Design & Tech Innovator | Pioneering Human-Centered Solutions
"A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows"
Louise Leakey
Paleontologist & Anthropologist | Unearthing Humanity's Origins
"A dig for humanity's origins"
Neil Turok
Founder, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences | Pioneering STEM Education in Africa
"My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa"
Nellie McKay
Singer-Songwriter | Reinventing the American Songbook
""Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You""
Paul Collier
Renowned Economist | The Bottom Billion & Global Poverty
"The "bottom billion""
Paul Rothemund
Caltech Professor | DNA Nanotech & Molecular Programming
"DNA folding, in detail"
Paul Stamets
Mycologist | Transforming Ecosystems with Mushrooms
"6 ways mushrooms can save the world"
Peter Diamandis
Founder & Chairman of XPRIZE | Co-Founder of Singularity University
"Stephen Hawking's zero g flight"
Peter Ward
Founder and CEO | Transforming Sustainable Urban Mobility
"A theory of Earth's mass extinctions"
Philip Zimbardo
Stanford Psychologist | The Lucifer Effect & Situational Ethics
"The psychology of evil"
Rives
TED Speaker | Innovative Performance Poetry and Multimedia Storytelling
"A story of mixed emoticons"
Robert Ballard
Ocean Explorer & Discoverer of the Titanic | National Geographic Explorer
"The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean"
Robert Lang
Origami Artist | Pushing the Boundaries of Design
"The math and magic of origami"
Samantha Power
Former UN Ambassador | Diplomacy, Global Affairs & Human Rights
"A complicated hero in the war on dictatorship"
Siegfried Woldhek
Artist & Facial Analysis Expert | Uncovering Hidden Truths in Art
"The search for the true face of Leonardo"
Stefan Sagmeister
Award-winning Graphic Designer | Expert on Happiness and Creative Time Off
"Things I've learned in my life so far"
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist | Pioneering Cosmology & Black Hole Research
"Questioning the universe"
Susan Blackmore
Psychologist & Consciousness Researcher | The Evolution of Mind
"Memes and "temes""
Sxip Shirey
Innovative Composer | Reconfiguring Everyday Sounds
"A performance with breath, music, passion"
Wade Davis
National Geographic Explorer | Author of Award-Winning Cultural Studies
"The worldwide web of belief and ritual"
Yves Behar
fuseproject founder | Designed One Laptop Per Child, Jawbone; chief creative of August
"Designing objects that tell stories"
Yves Béhar
Designer & Entrepreneur | Transforming Brands Through Design
"Designing objects that tell stories"
Sessions with video
"Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You"
Nellie McKay
"The Dog Song"
Nellie McKay
6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Paul Stamets
A complicated hero in the war on dictatorship
Samantha Power
A dig for humanity's origins
Louise Leakey
A performance with breath, music, passion
Sxip Shirey
A preview of the WorldWide Telescope
Curtis Wong
A story of mixed emoticons
Rives
A theory of Earth's mass extinctions
Peter Ward
A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows
Joshua Klein
An 8-dimensional model of the universe
Garrett Lisi
CERN's supercollider
Brian Cox