TED TALK SPEAKERS

• Sociologist, entrepreneur & author of Startup Your Life: Hustle and Hack Your Way To Happiness

• Harvard professor on how to boost creative productivity

• One of the world's foremost authorities & experts on the impacts of weather and extreme weather events both here & abroad

• Journalist & NPR correspondent

• Author of American Eclipse

• Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products, at Adobe

• Bestselling author of two books & writer of leading technology industry newsletter, Implications

• Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life

• Author of Reimagining Design 

•  Award-winning author of the acclaimed book, Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World

• Inspirational speaker, journalist-turned marketer on using compassion to enhance health, productivity and performance. 

• Creator/Host of the Emmy-winning ESPN show Sports Science

• NY Times Bestselling author of The Perfection Point

Music Director for the Los Angeles based cover band ProjectM and creator of FrontmanTalk

• Author of The Invisible Gorilla

• Expert on English usage and the history of the English language, and Professor at the University of Michigan

• Author of several books, including Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words (2024)

• Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College 

• Bestselling author of several books, including Hypercompetition & The Pan-Industrial Revolution

Professor of criminal justice and author of The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

•  Author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community

• Senior Managing Director at Teneo

• Former Director of external affairs for Google and former Editor at Fortune

Author of The End of Suburbs & The Airbnb Story

• Expert on A.I. & disruptive strategy

• Author of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

NY Times bestselling author

• TED speaker, social scientist & pioneer in the use of data

• Former executive editor of Wired & Chief of Research/Chief Communications Officer at GoodRx

• Bestselling author & entrepreneur on creating a culture of health

• Co-founder of Building H, a nonprofit with a mission to build health into everyday life

• Professor & author on the power of storytelling


• Expert on Growth Mindset

• Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University

• Best-selling author

• Leading Expert in Cybersecurity & Hacking

New York Times columnist, acclaimed author & physician

• Creator of the social justice oriented service-learning program “Books Behind Bars”

• Educational innovator at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence

• Author of the NY Times Bestseller A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

• Advocate for mental health 


• President of Environmental Defense Fund

• Founder of the Moving Up Media Lab & Host of the PBS podcast, Attribution

• Author of the best-seller, Three Little Engines

• Expert on social mobility and the American Dream

• Cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California

• Author of The Power of the Downstate: Recharge Your Life Using Your Body's Own Restorative Systems

• Author of Stealth of Nations & Shadow Cities on the power of the informal economy 

• Journalist & co-founder of Memory Well

• Author of Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works


• Author of There Goes the Neighborhood and Crossing Borders.

• President & CEO of the National Immigration Forum

• A leader in the application of human-centered design

• Author of several books including, The Design of Everyday Things

Author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

• Olympian on how to reach your potential every day

• Silicon Valley futurist and technologist

• Author of exclaimed book The Extended Mind on helping people understand how we learn & how we can do it better 

• Motivational Speaker on the Future of Leadership and the Mindset for Success

Forensic psychologist, professor of criminology and author of The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

• Leading inspirational speaker 

• Author of several books including, Why Good Things Happen to Good People

•  Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• Co-director Designing Organizational Change Project

• Author of 'Scaling Up Excellence' & 'Market Rebels'

• Silicon Valley forecaster and Stanford Professor

• Host of the Emmy-nominated PBS Kids show Dinosaur Train

• Passionate advocate for connecting people with nature 

• Musician with a message: Dream in 3D

• Economic Forecaster & Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute

• Award-winning columnist at Bloomberg Opinion

• Author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel and host of the podcast Risk Talking

• Director of the Better Life Lab & The Good Life Initiative at New America 

• Author of the NY Times Bestseller Overwhelmed

• Lecturer at UC Berkely's Haas School of Business 

• Author of Practical Wisdom

• One of TED’s most popular speakers 

Former psychiatric nurse, heart-led consultant, and international speaker who has spoken on stages like TEDx 

• Author of The Invisible Gorilla

• Worldwide leading expert on veganism and coveted speaker on body positivity and social justice issues

• Author of the memoir Always Too Much and Never Enough and The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan

Artist & Speaker

• Founder of PeaceLove Foundation

• Georgetown University professor, U.S. Army veteran, and resilience expert

• Author of Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma

• Author of Looking Up: How a Different Perspective Turns Obstacles into Advantages 

• Broadway's longest-running 'Lion King' shares his secret to fulfillment & joy in everyday work & life

• Dynamic singer, songwriter, actor and transformational speaker

• Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Team Rubicon

• Founder/CEO of Groundswell

• Author of Once a Warrior and Take Command 

• In the top 0.3% most cited and influential scientists

• TED Speaker and media personality

• 4x Tech Entrepreneur & Author of several books including, Immersion, Trust Factor & The Moral Molecule