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TEDxBeaconStreet

TEDxBeaconStreet is an ideas-focused event held in Brookline, United States. The conference has run across eleven tracked editions spanning 2012 through 2026. The speaker lineup reflects diverse fields including artificial intelligence and algorithmic justice, healthcare innovation, space exploration, software engineering, environmental policy, brain injury research, sustainable architecture, and the intersection of technology with biology and design. Notable speakers have included Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, and NASA spacecraft operations engineer Nagin Cox. Other speakers have explored topics ranging from emotional AI to transforming healthcare through technology to designing sustainable cities.

Brookline, United States

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A camera that can see around corners

David Lindell
2019Watch
An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

Rosalind Picard
2018Watch

How nurses can help drive healthcare innovation

Rebecca Love
2018Watch

American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how

Bob Inglis
2017Watch

Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE

Chris Nowinski
2017Watch

How teachers can help kids find their political voices

Sydney Chaffee
2017Watch

Why you don't like the sound of your own voice

Rébecca Kleinberger
2017Watch

A celebration of natural hair

Cheyenne Cochrane
2016Watch
How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

Joy Buolamwini
2016Watch

How to take a picture of a black hole

Katie Bouman
2016Watch

Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

Dan Bricklin
2016Watch

Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology

Ani Liu
2016Watch

What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood

Naomi McDougall Jones
2016Watch

What time is it on Mars?

Nagin Cox
2016Watch

Why is algebra so hard? The answer is surprisingly simple

Emmanuel Schanzer
2016Watch

How to get back to work after a career break

Carol Cohen
2015Watch

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Robert Waldinger
2015Watch

How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

Vernā Myers
2014Watch

How I help transgender teens become who they want to be

Norman Spack
2013Watch

The career advice you probably didn’t get

Susan Colantuono
2013Watch

A universal translator for surgeons

Steven Schwaitzberg
2012Watch

Hey science teachers -- make it fun

Tyler DeWitt
2012Watch

How movies teach manhood

Colin Stokes
2012Watch

TEDxBeaconStreet

Dorie Clark
2014