Ultramarathon athlete Ivan Borzenko shares his journey from a childhood prognosis that he might spend his life in a wheelchair to completing a 320-mile triathlon and serving on an emergency medical team on Mt. Everest. His talk explores the invisible barriers…

Oxford-trained Clinical Psychologist Dr. Romi Ran discusses moving past traditional psychological frameworks to explore the core of human identity. Drawing from years of intensive contemplative practices, including extended solitary and darkroom retreats…

Prema Walker, Founder and CEO of Prema’s Permaculture & Composting, outlines a durable model for local social entrepreneurship based on California's organic waste diversion law. She details how her proof-of-concept urban farm has successfully diverted over…

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JoeDreamz.com - people who are striving to live their dreams - @joedreamz Instagram My name is Joe Dreamz, born and raised in Slam Diego (Go Padres), California…

How can a museum save the ocean? Dr. Christina Connett Brophy, President and CEO of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, has an answer rooted in her own childhood at sea: by connecting people to the past, to each other, and to the future — one ship, one story…

Tyler texted this to Jami before the show - Jami still trying to clarify with Tyler 9-20-2026: What can surfing teach us about cancer?
Tyler Callaway is a lifelong surfer and multi-time cancer survivor whose colorful life has taken him from championship surfing…

There's a poverty we don't talk about. Forty percent of American kids are growing up with one caring adult in their lives — or none. Louie Nguyen, refugee-turned-nonprofit CEO, spent years believing grit explained his rise. He was wrong. This talk reveals…

You've been chasing gold stars and doing everything “right” since kindergarten. And you're exhausted. Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey argues the problem isn't your effort, your skills, or your ambition. It's that no one ever taught you what to subtract. After…

How is it that so many of us get blindsided by what’s coming next? Dev Patnaik explains how our wiring keeps our attention on the present, leaving us vulnerable to disruption and change. He shows how becoming more future focused can change the way we think…

What if the people most impacted by displacement got to design the future of land itself? Ramla Sahid shares how the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) purchased 2.2 acres of land to build Global Village, a community-owned project rooted…

We've been told the future of AI looks like ever-bigger data centers — warehouses that drink a town's water and draw a city's power so the same two chatbots can answer everyone's questions. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, who has spent 30 years in high-performance…

Why are we so obsessed with productivity? Horticulturist Rebecca Mc...

In this electrifying performance of trumpet, tuba and trombone, Bulldog Brass Society Quintet lights up the stage with their original composition “Spark!” (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 9, 2025)

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In her TEDx Talk, Dr. Natasha Latouf emphasizes the critical role of context in scientific research and the interpretation of evidence. Drawing on her own research on how to best find extraterrestrial life, she demonstrates how findings can be misleading…

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What does a war look like when you sit still long enough to draw it? Reportage artist and TED Fellow George Butler sketches the people that the news passes by: a 99-year-old survivor of the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, a man gathering books blasted into a…

Dr. Kristin Anderson Moore states that society should measure children's success by positive indicators like curiosity, empathy, resilience, and healthy relationships, not just by the absence of problems such as crime or school dropout. She explains that…

When you need to make a decision, you might turn to AI for advice. But what happens when you let algorithms decide more and more things for you? Computational social scientist Sandra Matz reveals how AI models limit what you see, discover and try, subtly…

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A raw, personal account of turning repeated setbacks, loss, financial hardship, and failed ventures into the foundation for building Social Sculpt and Nebula Startup School. Arun traces his journey from being an 18-year-old with nothing…

What if ownership is not something we inherit, but something we learn by experiencing it?
In this talk, Ankush Mehrotra traces a deeply personal journey from childhood lessons and his father's quiet acts of trust, to entrepreneurship, failure, leadership…