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List Of TED Speakers
This is a partial list of people who have spoken or otherwise presented at official TED (conference), TED conferences such as TED, TED@, TEDActive, TEDCity, TED-Ed, TED-NY, TEDGlobal, TEDSummit, TEDIndia, TEDSalon, TEDWomen, TEDYouth, TED Fellows Retreat, and TED Talks Education. It also includes speakers at the independent TEDMED conferences. Talks from the independent TEDx conferences are not included since there are thousands of such events (over 11,000 held and over 1,100 upcoming ) making them less notable. The TED.com website also hosts videos from conferences not affiliated with TED, but those talks and speakers are not included in this list. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Phu Q R S T U V W Y Z See also * TED Prize References External links * [Baidu] |
TED (conference)
TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "Ideas Change Everything" (previously "Ideas Worth Spreading"). It was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks (broadcast designer), Harry Marks in February 1984 as a technology conference, in which Mickey Schulhof gave a demo of the compact disc that was invented in October 1982. Its main conference has been held annually since 1990. It covers almost all topics—from science to business to list of global issues, global issues—in more than 100 languages. TED's early emphasis was on technology and design, consistent with its Silicon Valley origins. It later broadened to include scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian, and academic topics. It has been curated by Chris Anderson (entrepreneur), Chris Anderson, a British-American businessman, through the non-profit TED Foundation sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manal Al-Sharif
Manal al-Sharif (, ; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right-to-drive campaign in 2011. Wajeha al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif driving a car as part of the campaign. The video was posted on YouTube and Facebook. Al-Sharif was detained on 21 May 2011, released, and rearrested the following day. On 30 May, al-Sharif was released on bail, on the conditions of returning for questioning if required, not driving, and not talking to the media. ''The New York Times'' and Associated Press associated the women's driving campaign as part of the Arab Spring and the long duration of al-Sharif's detention due to Saudi authorities' fear of protests. Following her driving campaign, al-Sharif remained an active critic of the Saudi government, tweeting on issues including imprisoned female foreign workers, the lack of elections for the Shura Council, and the murder of Lama al-Ghamdi. Her work has been recognized by ''Foreign Policy'', ''Time'', and the Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Andraka
Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American who, as a high school student, won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers. In 2018, as a junior majoring in anthropology and in electrical engineering at Stanford University, he was awarded the Truman Scholarship for his graduate studies. Pancreatic cancer sensor Andraka's winning project consisted of a sensor, similar to diabetic test strips, for early-stage pancreatic cancer screening. The sensor, consisting of filter paper coated with single-walled carbon nanotubes and antibodies against human mesothelin, was said to measure the level of mesothelin to test for the presence of cancer in a patient. The project claimed that tests on human blood serum showed a dose-dependent response, and that his method was 168 times faster, times as expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than EL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Anderson (entrepreneur)
Ray C. Anderson (July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011) was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics. He was known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance on industrial ecology and sustainability. Anderson died on August 8, 2011, aged 77, twenty months after being diagnosed with cancer. On July 28, 2012, Anderson's family re-launched the Ray C. Anderson Foundation. with a new purpose. Originally created to fund Ray Anderson's personal philanthropic giving, family members announced the rebirth and refocus of the Foundation on Anderson's birthday, nearly one year after his 2011 death. The purpose of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation is to perpetuate shared values and continue the legacy that Anderson left behind. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization whose miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Anderson (writer)
Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) is an English-American author and entrepreneur. He was with ''The Economist'' for seven years before joining ''Wired (magazine), Wired'' magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief until 2012. He is known for his 2004 article entitled "The Long Tail", which he later expanded into the 2006 book, ''The Long Tail (book), The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More''. He is the cofounder and current CEO of 3D Robotics, a drone manufacturing company. Life and work Early life Anderson was born in London. His family moved to the United States when he was five. He enrolled in a degree program in physics at George Washington University and went on to study quantum mechanics and science journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He later did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Career He began his career with a six-year period as editor at the two scientific journals, ''Nature (journal), Nature'' and ''Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Anderson (entrepreneur)
Chris Anderson (born 1957) is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing. He is also the founder of video game journalism website IGN. Early life and education Anderson was born to British parents in Pakistan in 1957. His father was "an eye surgeon and evangelical Christian", and ran a mobile hospital in rural Pakistan. He has two sisters, and is the middle child. He studied at Woodstock School in the Himalayan mountains of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, briefly, before moving to Monkton Combe School, a boarding school near Bath, England. At the University of Oxford, Anderson initially studied physics before changing to philosophy, politics and economics, and graduated in 1978. Career Anderson began a career in journalism, working in newspapers and radio. He produced a world news service in the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemon Andersen
Lemon Andersen (born Andrew Andersen; April 21, 1975) is an American poet, spoken word artist and actor. He is sometimes credited as Lemon. He is the author of ''County of Kings'' and the subject of the documentary ''Lemon''. In his November 2011 TEDYouth talk ''Please don't take my Air Jordans'', Lemon's performance of the title poem by Reg E. Gaines is followed by his own spoken-word riff on the influence of Gaines, Etheridge Knight, and other poets on his creative growth as a poet and spoken word artist. Early life Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he still resides there. He is the son of Milagros "Mili" Quiñones, from Puerto Rico, and Peter Andersen, a Norwegian-American from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Growing up in poverty, as a teenager Lemon experienced the successive deaths of his stepfather, father, and mother from complications of heroin abuse and AIDS, leaving him and his older brother orphaned and forced to fend for themselves. Lemon became involved in serious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Anas Aremeyaw Anas, better known as Anas, is a Ghanaian journalist born in the late 1970s. He utilizes his anonymity as a tool in his investigative journalism work. Anas is a politically non-aligned multimedia journalist who specializes in print media and documentaries. He focuses on issues of human rights and anti-corruption in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa. In December 2015 ''Foreign Policy'' magazine named Anas one of 2015's leading global thinkers."Anas Aremeyaw Anas — For exposing Ghana's broken courts without exposing himself" , Chroniclers, ''Foreign Policy''. In 2016 Anas had a "Best Journalist" award named after him by the Press Foundation in Ghana. In 2018, Anas brought a defamation lawsuit against Member of Parliament [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Alverà
Marco Alverà (born August 1975) is an Italian businessman and Co-founder and CEO of TES since June 2022. Education Alverà studied at the London School of Economics, where he earned a degree in Philosophy and Economics in 1997. Career Alverà began his career at Goldman Sachs in London., working in private equity focused on internet and technology startups and mergers and acquisitions focused on consumer and retail assets. In 2000, he co-founded Netesi, the first broadband ADSL company in the Italian market. It was sold to Telecom Italia. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked as the Director of Group Corporate Strategy and a member of the management committee at Enel, where he followed Terna’s initial listing in the market. In 2004 he was appointed chief financial officer of Wind Telecom, where he was responsible for the oversight of Wind's acquisition by Orascom in 2004. Alverà was also appointed chief executive officer of Promgas in 2005. He was involved with the Blue S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uri Alon
Uri Alon (; born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in ''Escherichia coli'' and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques. Education Alon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Career After having his interest in biology sparked, Alon headed to Princeton University for his postdoctoral work in experimental biology. He returned to the Weizmann Institute as a professor. Alon features in several popular videos on YouTube such as ''Sunday at the Lab'' (with Michael Elowitz) and ''How to Give a Good Talk''. As of 2011, he is the author of the most highly bookmarked scientific paper on CiteULike ''How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Allende
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as '' The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espíritus'', 1982) and '' City of the Beasts'' (''La ciudad de las bestias'', 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. She has lectured and toured U.S. colleges to teach literature. Fluent in English, Allende was granted United States citizenship in 1993, having lived in Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
