- -: TEDxUWI-Omar Mohammed- Climate Change, Nexus of Innovation
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Omar describes how the Caribbean can use the challenge of Climate Change to further innovation.
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- -: TEDxPalermo - Beniamino Saibene - For a Revolution in Public Space
May 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The TEDxPalermo Talk by Beniamino Saibene was held in the afternoon of April 30th. The location due to bad weather was changed at the very last minute and the studio427 was welcoming our day. His talk is about the challenging, coral mission to redesign together the city of Milan, is about how to ...
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- -: TEDxChapelHill - Holden Thorp - "Innovations as they relate to global health."
June 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Innovations in science, medicine, communications and technology as they relate to global health: At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chancellor Holden Thorp has been an undergraduate student, a chemistry professor, a planetarium director, an inventor and entrepreneur, as well as ...
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- -: TEDxEsade - Pau Garcia-Milà - The journey of an idea
June 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)El viaje de una idea Pau Garcia-Milà, fundador de eyeOS y antiguo alumno de ESADE nos hablará de emprendeduría en su ponencia. Veremos cómo la idea que nace en la mente de una persona va viajando hasta convertirse en un proyecto real. El viaje de esa idea pasa por un estado de "ping-pong " (¿Es...
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- -: TEDxUSC - Jose Antonio Rosa - Hope and Innovation Among the Next Four Billion
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Psychologist Jose Antonio Rosa seeks to understand innovation in its purest form. In his research, he lived amongst the four billion people who sustain on less than $2 a day, communities we know little about, and witnessed the way these people make being innovative, experimental, and creative a w...
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- -: Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US military: Break it in two. He suggests the military re-form into two groups: a Leviathan force, a small group of young and fie...
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- -: Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest
December 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity's greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk calling for a global ethic, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fiel...
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- -: Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power
December 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the long run it's not the size of the army t...
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- -: Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
September 9, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a "freelance diplomat," running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy that gi...
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- -: TEDxMarrakesh - Elisabet Sahtouris - East & West in our Global Family
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Elisabet Sahtouris (PhD) is a Greek-American internationally acclaimed evolution biologist, futurist, author and speaker living in Spain. With a post-doctoral degree at the American Museum of Natural History, she taught at MIT and the University of Massachusetts, contributed to the NOVA-Horizon T...
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