Jay Walker
Founder, TEDMED | Pioneer of Personalized Medicine
About
Jay Walker is the founder of TEDMED, the healthcare edition of the renowned TED conference. He is one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, with over 700 patents to his name.
Walker previously founded Priceline. com, which disrupted the travel industry and became a Fortune 500 company.
His keynotes provide a visionary look at the future of healthcare, exploring how emerging technologies will transform disease prevention, diagnostics, and treatment to create a more personalized, proactive model of care.
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The world's English mania
Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.
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