TED2016

Ameera Ahmad - Fixer
Jonathan Bell - Branding expert
Blitz the Ambassador - Afrobeat/hip-hop artist
Joanna Bloor - Amplifier
Arthur C. Brooks - Social scientist, author
Monica Byrne - Author and playwright
Moran Cerf - Neuroscientista
Holly Cohen - Occupational therapist, tinkerer
Raffaello D'Andrea - Raffaello D'Andrea explores the possibilities of autonomous technology by collaborating with artists, architects and engineers.
Angelica Dass - Artist and photographer
Susan Desmond-Hellmann - CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
R. Luke DuBois - Director, Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Hugh Evans - Founder & CEO, Global Poverty Project
Christiana Figueres - Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bonn
Adam Foss - Juvenile justice reformer
Franz Freudenthal - Pediatric cardiologist
Joe Gebbia - Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer, Airbnb
Casey Gerald - Co-Founder & CEO of MBAs Across America
Rhiannon Giddens - Musician
Mark Goffman - Storyteller
Anthony Goldbloom - Founder and CEO of Kaggle
Al Gore - 45th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Laureate, Chairman of the Generation Investment Management, Chairman of The Climate Reality Project, Bestselling Author
Adam M. Grant - Professor, The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Author, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Dan Gross - President, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Uri Hasson - Neuroscientist
ShaoLan Hsueh - ShaoLan Hsueh has been a tech writer, an investor and entrepreneur, who now focuses on teaching Chinese through an engaging new method.
Tom Hulme - Partner at Google Ventures & Design Director at IDEO
Mae Jemison - First African American Woman in Space; Founder and President of Two Medical Technology Companies
Bill T. Jones - Multi-Talented Artist, Choreographer, Dancer, Theater Director and Writer, Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010
Paul Tudor Jones - Paul Tudor Jones is the founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, which is the management company for his various private investment partnerships, also referred to as hedge funds.
Jennifer Kahn - Science journalist
Travis Kalanick - CEO & Co-Founder, Uber
Brian Kelly - Frequent flyer
Afshan Khan - Global relief mobilizer
Parag Khanna - The World's Leading Geo-Strategist; Author of Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century
Alex Kipman - Alex Kipman, general manager of incubation for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft
Kenneth Lacovara - Paleontologist
Norman Lear - Norman Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut and went to high school in Hartford, Connecticut.
Kang Lee - Developmental researcher
John Legend - Nine-Time Grammy® Award Musician & Philanthropist; Known for "All of Me,"Ordinary People" & "You and I (Nobody In The World)"
Brian Little - Award Winning Psychology Professor
Courtney E. Martin - Author, "Do It Anyway"; Activist
John McWhorter - Think texting spells the death of writing? Language expert John McWhorter suggests it's actually a new form of speech.
Wanda Diaz Merced - Sonic astrophysicist
Chris Milk - Artist, Director, Technologist; CEO & Founder of Vrse
Dalia Mogahed - President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC
Siyanda Mohutsiwa - Writer, satirist
Michael Murphy - CEO and Co-Founder at MASS Design Group
Nalini Nadkarni - The Queen of Rainforest Canopy Research
Mary Norris - Author and Copy Editor for The New Yorker; Known for "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Copy Queen"
Sarah Parcak - Sarah Parcak uses satellite imagery to discover ancient, previously unknown archeological sites.
Judit Polgar - Chess grandmaster
Linsey Pollak - Musician, instrument maker, composer
Jason Pontin - Innovation Expert; Renowned Journalist; Influential Editor and Publisher of MIT Technology Review
Rachel Pritzker - Philanthropist
A.R. Rahman - Composer
Joseph Ravenell - Men’s health advocate
Alice Rawsthorn - Design critic
Shonda Rhimes - Creator and Executive Producer of “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice” and “Scandal”
Joshua Roman - Joshua Roman, a TED Fellow, is an independent-minded cellist.
c - Scientist, entrepreneur
Reshma Saujani - Founder, Girls Who Code and Candidate, New York City Public Advocate
Adam Savage - Co-Host, "MythBusters"
Mariano Sigman - Neuroscientist
Silk Road Ensemble - Musical explorers
Michael Sng - Toy designer
So Percussion - Percussion ensemble
Amit Sood - Technologist
Kio Stark - Author of Don't Go Back to School.
Astro Teller - Captain of Moonshots, Google X
Tshering Tobgay - Prime minister of Bhutan
Peter J. Toren - Litigator
Linus Torvalds - Finnish Creator of the Linux Operating System & Freeware Visionary
Dave Troy - Serial Technology Entrepreneur
Tim Urban - Blogger, cartoonist
Haley Van Dyck - Disrupter
Cédric Villani - Mathematician
Stephen Wilkes - Narrative photographer
Esther Wojcicki - Founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program
Özge Yilmaz - Entrepreneur
Andrew Youn - Founder, One Acre Fund
Lidia Yuknavitch - Author
Noah Zandan - Data scientist

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