TEDxUDLALive es un evento en el que podrás presenciar las charlas TED antes de que sean públicas. El programa de este año explora todas las ‘Possibilities 2023’ desde la evolución de la inteligencia artificial con el cofundador de ChatGPT, Greg Brockman, hasta desafiar las fronteras de sostenibilidad de la medicina con la energía solar junto a Ali Hajimirito y charlas de motivación y empoderamiento con actores como Melissa Villaseñor, Sheryl Lee-Ralph, y el CEO de TikTok, Shou Chew.
El evento se transmitirá durante todo el día en UDLAPark de 08h00 a 19h00. Son 68 charlas que se dividen en 12 sesiones; las seis primeras se transmitirán en el Auditorio 2 mientras que las últimas seis se transmitirán en el Auditorio 1.
Al inscribirte a este evento, podrás tener más posibilidades de asistir al evento de TEDxUDLA 2023: Transformación, que se realizará el 9 de noviembre de 2023.
A continuación, encontrarás la agenda completa separada por lugar, sesión, módulo, charla y speaker. No es necesario que asistas a toda la jornada. Revisa, escoge la charla que más te guste e inscríbete en el formulario al final de la página
Agenda
Auditorio 2 UDLAPark de 08h05 a 18h30
Horario: 08:05 – 08:10
«Song of the Ambassadors» is a collaborative opera conceived and written by K Allado-McDowell, scored by Derrick Skye and illuminated by multimedia artist Refik Anadol. It posits a future humanity in harmony with life and the cosmos.
Fresh from its staging at Lincoln Center in October 2022, Song of the Ambassadors is less an operatic performance and more a healing ritual beamed in from a utopian future, where transhuman «ambassadors» reveal a human spirit in harmony with Earth and the universe. Conceived by artist K Allado-McDowell in collaboration with the language model GPT-3, the opera explores links between music and the mind via a score and libretto framed by constantly evolving imagery.
Song of the Ambassadors is an experimental immersion that fuses a traditional art form with artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The opera’s Al-generated imagery (orchestrated by artist Refik Anadol) engages the audience in hypnotic feedback loops as performers sing a meditative hymn to the Sun, space and life. The music, composed by Derrick Skye, is inspired by Ghanaian Ewe music, Persian classical, electronica and environmental sounds and it intertwines with the imagery and narrative to reveal how music and ritual feed the depths of the human spirit.
Credits:
Debi Wong, Solar ambassador
Laurel Semerdjian, Space ambassador
Edmond Rodriguez, Life ambassador
Derrick Skye, Composer and music director
Nina McNeely, Choreographer
K Allado-McDowell, Creator and librettist
Mary Birnbaum, Original stage director
Refik Anadol, Media designer
Oana Botez, Costume designer
Ian Smith, Technical supervisor
Ben Newman, Executive producer
Horario: 08:11 – 08:28
Angus Hervey is an economist, journalist and editor of Future Crunch, a newsletter covering topics including human rights, global health, scientific breakthroughs and conservation victories.
Angus Hervey finds and shares good news from around the world via Future Crunch, a newsletter focused on human progress. Why? He believes that «if we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves.»
Prior to Future Crunch, Hervey was the Australian community manager for Random Hacks of Kindness, an initiative to create open-source technology solutions to social challenges. He has also acted as an advisor to multiple Fortune 500 companies.
Horario: 08:29 – 08:43
Stuart Kauffman’s work on the origin of life on Earth posits that complex biological systems may have resulted as much from self-organization as from natural selection.
Theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman has developed groundbreaking theories that have shaped scientific understanding since the 1960s, including work on the genetic regulatory networks of living cells and the emergence of life in the universe. With biochemist Marc Ballivet, he holds broad biotechnology patents for creating artificial proteins which led to new medicines and catalysts that have been foundational to modern medicine.
Kauffman is perhaps best known for developing the TAP equation, or the «theory of the adjacent possible,» which seeks to explain the (relatively) recent explosive growth in the number and diversity of goods in the global economy and, thus, the Anthropocene. More recently, he has been collaborating with AI and complex systems researcher Andrea Roli to use set theory to deduce the evolution of Earth’s biosphere. He is a MacArthur Fellow and an emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
Horario: 8:44 – 8:52
The founder and chair of the Innovative Genomics Institute’s governance board, Jennifer Doudna earned the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work developing the groundbreaking genome-engineering technology CRISPR-Cas9.
Growing up roaming the rainforests of Hawaii, Jennifer Doudna developed an early curiosity about how the living world works. This interest would lead to a PhD in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology from Harvard and an esteemed research career focusing primarily on RNA. In 2002, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley (where she remains a professor and researcher) and began focusing on a new puzzle: CRISPR.
Horario: 08:53 – 08:59
xiled from her home country of Iran, Golshifteh Farahani continues to push boundaries in both her work and activism.
Born in Tehran, Golshifteh Farahani studied classical music from a young age and then became a professional actor, creating a rich portfolio of Iranian films and becoming one of the country’s most beloved actors. Her role in Ridley Scott’s 2008 thriller Body of Lies changed everything: Iranian authorities accused her of working with the US Central Intelligence Agency and of tarnishing the image of Islam and the Islamic Republic. After months of interrogation, she was forced to leave Iran permanently.
In Farahani’s 15 years in exile, she has continued her work in the arts, having acted in more than 30 films, series and works of theater, released several songs and worked as an environmental and human rights activist. She now uses her virtual networks to reflect and amplify the voice of the Iranian people, advocating for Iranian women’s struggle for freedom and equality.
Horario: 09:00 – 09:14
Tom Graham is using AI to make the impossible possible.
Tom Graham is the CEO and cofounder of Metaphysic, a firm he cofounded in 2021 to use AI tools to create hyper-realistic content and avatars. Think: photo-realistic, Hollywood-grade content featuring utterly convincing but entirely tech-generated versions of today’s biggest stars, deceased celebrities, even regular people. To date, they’ve created viral moments such as a performance on America’s Got Talent that resurrected Elvis Presley as well as the TikTok parody account @DeepTomCruise, which posts deepfake videos «featuring» actor Tom Cruise. Other projects include Every Anyone, a web3 platform and community which lets anyone create hyperreal avatars using AI and biometric data.
Horario: 09:15 – 09:29
Karen Bakker explores the relationship between digital innovation and environmental sustainability.
A professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Karen Bakker is known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance and sustainability. She is currently a fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, where she’s furthering her Smart Earth project – a collaborative of ecologists, environmentalists, digital technologists and computer scientists exploring how AI and biodigital technologies can be mobilized to address challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
Bakker is the author of more than 100 academic publications and a dozen books. Her most recent, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, is a journey into the hidden realm of sound, exploring the surprising and wondrous world of acoustic communication in nature. A Guggenheim Fellow, Stanford Annenberg Fellow and Trudeau Foundation Fellow, her work has been covered by Fast Company, Science, The New York Times, the BBC and more.
Horario: 09:30 – 09:41
Wangechi Mutu investigates what it means to represent ourselves, seeking to understand the human inclination to remake and redefine who we are.
In expansive work that incorporates painting, sculpture, collage, film, installation and performance art, Wangechi Mutu centers on the creation of hybrid creatures that explore themes of power, culture, femininity, colonial history and global consumption. Her art is often made of multiple materials, creating fantastical forms that evoke Afrofuturism and interspecies connections.
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Mutu has held various acclaimed museum and gallery shows around the world, exhibiting in cities including London, Hong Kong, Venice and Brussels. For her exhibition The NewOnes, will free Us, she installed four iconic bronze sculptures in front of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A solo show of new work opens at the New Museum in New York in March, 2023.
Horario: 09:42 – 10:04
A leading interpreter of Mahler and Beethoven, Benjamin Zander is known for his charisma, unyielding energy and brilliant pre-concert talks.
Benjamin Zander is one of the world’s most well-known classical musicians. A deeply insightful conductor, a master teacher of music and an engaging speaker on leadership, his emotionally rich and insightful performances stem from his endless pursuit of a deeper understanding of the masterworks of classical music. Generations of musicians have been stimulated by his all-encompassing approach, his communicative openness and his commitment to creating ambassadors for the art form.
Zander’s belief that music is a vehicle for enhancing societal connectivity transcends the concert hall. He uses music to help people open their minds and create joyful harmonies that bring out the best in themselves and their colleagues – all while enrolling a global community to become lifelong devotees of classical music. His provocative ideas about leadership are rooted in a partnership with Rosamund Stone Zander, with whom he co-wrote The Art of Possibility.
Horario: 10:05 – 10:41
AI pioneer Greg Brockman wants to ensure general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits everyone.
Greg Brockman leads an organization in the news. Recently, OpenAI has gained reams of headlines and lashings of attention for tools such as the GPT-3 language model, the largest neural network ever created, which produces human-like text and powers the groundbreaking chatbot and internet obsession, ChatGPT. The org’s DALL-E 2 deep learning model generates digital images and art from text prompts, creating imagery both simple and dazzlingly complex.
Before OpenAI, Brockman was the founding engineer and CTO of the financial services company Stripe, which he helped build from four to 250 employees.
Horario: 10:42 – 11:00
Yejin Choi investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning.
MacArthur Fellow and natural language processing expert Yejin Choi is immersed in artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on understanding if these systems can (or should) learn a sense of moral reasoning. She is a computer science professor at the University of Washington, a distinguished research fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford and a senior research director at the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, where she oversees the commonsense-focused Mosaic project.
Choi is the corecipient of two Test of Time Awards and five best paper awards from top academic conferences in AI. She won the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, was a corecipient of the Borg Early Career Award in 2018 and was named to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ «10 to Watch» in AI list in 2016.
Horario: 11:01 – 11:17
A leading voice in artificial intelligence, Gary Marcus is both bull and bear, known for championing the possibilities of new technologies while highlighting their limitations.
Cognitive scientist, author and serial entrepreneur Gary Marcus has been at the forefront of conversations considering both what is wrong with current approaches to AI (think: closed systems and fixed sets of rules) and ideas for how to change them (think: creating machines with common sense and an awareness of the past).
Known for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience, Marcus is the emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at NYU and the author of five books, including The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind and Guitar Zero. He regularly contributes to the New Yorker, Wired and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust, co-authored with Ernest Davis, was named one of the «7 Must Read Books in AI» by Forbes. Marcus is currently challenging the field in a series of articles at garymarcus.substack.com, which has quickly became a leading blog on AI, and has just launched an eight-episode podcast, Humans versus Machines.
Horario: 11:18 – 11:32
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a foundational thinker on the long-term future of artificial intelligence.
With more than 20 years of experience in the world of AI, Eliezer Yudkowsky is the founder and senior research fellow of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an organization dedicated to ensuring smarter-than-human AI has a positive impact on the world. His writings, both fiction and nonfiction, frequently warn of the dangers of unchecked AI and its philosophical significance in today’s world.
Yudkowsky is the founder of LessWrong, an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making, and the coinventor of the «functional decision theory,» which states that decisions should be the output of a fixed mathematical function answering the question: «Which output of this very function would yield the best outcome?»
Horario: 11:33 – 11:47
Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, a data platform seeking to supercharge businesses through artificial intelligence.
Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI while he was a student at MIT. His idea? To pair high-quality data with smart tools and infrastructure to bring more intelligence and relevance to AI models, and to help any business tap into their power. His hunch led him to grow Scale into a multi-billion-dollar company, becoming the world’s youngest self-made billionaire along the way.
Scale AI has partnered with organizations including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, General Motors and the US Army. Wang’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune and more.
Horario: 11:48 – 12:06
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
From humble beginnings as a YouTube channel offering short educational lessons via video, Khan Academy today offers free courses to more than 145 million registered users around the world. The nonprofit provides learning tools for parents, teachers and kids in more than 50 languages, and they partner with school districts across the US that serve historically under-resourced students.
Khan is also the founder of the Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in California, and cofounder of both Schoolhouse.world, a nonprofit that offers free tutoring over Zoom, and Khan World School, a nonprofit online high school. He has been profiled by 60 Minutes and was recognized as one of TIME’s «100 Most Influential People in the World» in 2012.
Horario: 12:07 – 12:18
Jennifer D. Sciubba’s work on population trends translates the statistics of birth, death, migration and more into human stories and new ways to understand the world.
Jennifer D. Sciubba is an internationally recognized expert in the field of demographic security. That means that while she spends much of her time with numbers, she does so because she remains fascinated by the stories about people those numbers hide. She examines the shifting patterns of population growth through the lenses of national security, global health and economics. Her work often brings together communities such as business and academia or social science and tech, demonstrating how demographics can help us see political, economic and social relations in new ways.
Sciubba is the author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World and The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security. She has written numerous academic articles and is the editor of A Research Agenda for Political Demography. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, vice chair of the Population Reference Bureau’s Board of Trustees and a 2022-2023 Wilson Center Fellow, she is also affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She remains convinced that even though the world can seem deeply chaotic, studying demographics can help it all make sense.
Horario: 12:19 – 12:29
Piyachart Phiromswad studies technological, social and economic ways to unleash the power of a globally aging population.
Economist Piyachart Phiromswad is a professor at the Sasin School of Management at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. With more than a decade of experience teaching executive education, he has developed a program around «responsible transformation,» a discipline to help leaders prepare for the demographic, economic and environmental disruptions ahead. At the heart of responsible transformation is a recognition that while companies need to adapt to survive, they must also — and can! — do so without disregarding the survival of others and society.
Phiromswad particularly focuses on disruption as it relates to senior citizens, those living and working in developing countries and small and medium-sized enterprises. He was a winner of the 2022 TED Idea Search.
Horario: 12:30 – 12:39
Ashif Shaikh is the cofounder and CEO of Jan Sahas, a nonprofit working to facilitate the safe migration of informal workers in Asia through the Migrants Resilience Collaborative.
Born in India, Ashif Shaikh experienced profound discrimination from an early age. As a result of this, he cofounded the nonprofit Jan Sahas («People’s Courage») with the dream of promoting the rights of those within socially excluded communities.
Shaikh has grown the organization from five volunteers to a network of thousands that in turn serves millions of vulnerable groups, including migrant workers and survivors of sexual violence, sex trafficking and manual scavenging work. In 2020, Shaikh launched the Migrants Resilience Collaborative, a grassroots-led effort that helps vulnerable migrant families access social benefits and support to become economically resilient. He was named a Schwab Foundation Social Innovator of the Year in 2020 and an Ashoka Fellow in 2016.
Horario: 12:40 – 12:58
Barbara F. Walter’s love of peace led her to become an expert in civil wars, the conflicts that last the longest and are the hardest to resolve.
A specialist in international security and professor of international affairs at the University of California, San Diego, Barbara F. Walter has dedicated her career to studying war. Her research on civil wars, domestic terror and violent extremism has led her to interview members of Hamas in the West Bank, ex-Sinn Fein members in Northern Ireland and former FARC members in Colombia. It has also led her to experience some dicey situations, including being interrogated by members of Myanmar’s military leadership and threatened with a machine gun by an Israeli soldier.
Walter previously served on the US Central Intelligence Agency’s Political Instability Task Force, helping predict where civil wars would break out around the world. She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations and the US Departments of Defense and State. Her most recent book is How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them.
Horario: 12:59 – 13:15
Keyu Jin is a fierce advocate for the coexistence of divergent worldviews, urging leaders to look beyond their own borders at different systems that might help bolster their own economies.
A Beijing-born, US-educated professor at the London School of Economics, Keyu Jin works to connect east and west, with a particular interest in enhancing global understanding of what’s really going on within the Chinese political economy. She is a fierce advocate for the coexistence of divergent worldviews, and in her work she makes the case that national leaders would be wise to look beyond their own borders to consider different systems that might help bolster their own economies.
Jin sits on the boards of various international organizations, including Richemont Group, Credit Suisse and AInnovation, a leading Chinese AI company. She writes regularly for outlets including The Financial Times and The New York Times, and she is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism.
Horario: 13:16 – 13:32
Ian Bremmer helps business leaders, policymakers and the general public make sense of the world around them.
Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of political risk research and consulting firm Eurasia Group as well as GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He also created Wall Street’s first global political risk index (GPRI) and established political risk as an academic discipline. He teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, serves as foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large for TIME and hosts GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, which airs weekly on national public television in the US. He is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and many other networks around the world.
A prolific writer, Bremmer is the author of eleven books including Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, which examines the rise of populism across the world, and The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World, which discusses how health emergencies, climate change and the technological revolution will impact global prosperity.
Horario: 13:33 – 13:49
Yara Shahidi became a household name as a teenager on the hit ABC television series black-ish and continues to star in and executive produce its spin-off, grown-ish. In 2019, she and Keri Shahidi (her mother and business partner in 7th Sun Productions) expanded her relationship with ABC by signing a multi-year producing deal. She also stars in and executive produces Meta and 7th Sun’s interview show, Yara Shahidi’s Day Off, offering a glimpse into the lives of her celebrity peers. Next up, she’ll play Tinker Bell in Disney’s live-action film Peter Pan & Wendy.
Offscreen, Shahidi is a champion for inclusive media programming and an advocate for equity and education. She has been recognized as one of TIME’s «30 Most Influential Teens,» Forbes’s «30 Under 30,» British Vogue’s «Forces for Change,» Glamour’s «Women of the Year» and Essence’s «Black Women in Hollywood.» Inspired by her extensive work with President and First Lady Obama, Shahidi founded Eighteen x 18/WeVoteNext to shine a light on Gen Z and BIPOC inclusion in the political process. Shahidi is a class of 2022 Harvard University graduate.
Horario: 13:50 – 14:03
An expert on electronic and photonic integrated circuits, Ali Hajimiri is investigating how to collect solar power in space — and transmit the energy wirelessly to Earth.
Ali Hajimiri is a tireless inventor always looking to come up with innovative, realistic solutions to seemingly impossible problems by applying scientific and engineering principles. Most recently, as codirector of the Space Solar Power Project, he’s been focused on building a prototype of a modular, ultralight, foldable device to collect sunlight, convert it to electrical power, then wirelessly transmit that power in a steerable beam. The hope? To bring to reality a vision first described in 1968 by Peter Glaser of collecting solar power in space and wirelessly transmitting it for use on Earth.
Hajimiri is the Bren professor of electrical engineering and medical engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and director of the Holistic Integrated Circuit Laboratory. He has founded several companies, including Axiom Microdevices and GuRu, holds more than 160 patents and is the author of several books, book chapters and nearly 300 peer-reviewed publications. He was awarded the Feynman Prize for excellence in teaching, Caltech’s most prestigious teaching honor. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Horario: 14:04 – 14:21
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a founding member of Pussy Riot, the feminist protest art movement known worldwide for defiant activism against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2012, artist Nadya Tolokonnikova gained global recognition and attention — and was sentenced to two years in prison — following “Punk Prayer,” an anti-Putin performance piece she and conspirators staged inside a cathedral in Moscow. She started a hunger strike protesting the conditions in which she was being held and was ultimately sent to a Siberian penal colony before being released in December 2013.
Tolokonnikova is a founding member of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist protest art collective which now counts hundreds of people among its numbers. A longtime thorn in Putin’s side, she was declared a “foreign agent” by Russia in 2021 and has lived in exile ever since. She is also a cofounder of the independent news service and media outlet Mediazona and, as cofounder of UnicornDAO, was instrumental in raising more than $7 million via UkraineDAO. She has spoken before the US Congress, British Parliament and European Parliament. Among her many artistic achievements, she collaborated with Bansky on his “Dismaland” exhibition and created an immersive experience at the Saatchi Gallery in London. She is the author of Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism.
Horario: 14:22 – 14:33
Tavares Strachan probes the intersections of art, science and politics, asking us to consider the cultural dynamics of scientific knowledge.
MacArthur Fellow Tavares Strachan tells lost stories. His ambitious, extensively researched projects often delve into hidden histories and little known or largely overlooked subject matter. He gained early acclaim for his conceptual artwork The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (2004-06), for which he extracted a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice and shipped it to his birthplace in the Bahamas, where it was exhibited in a specially designed, solar-powered freezer. In December 2018, Strachan launched his project ENOCH into space. Created in collaboration with SpaceX and LACMA Art + Technology Lab, ENOCH is centered on the development and launch of a satellite that brings to light the forgotten story of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut selected for any national space program. The sculpture was designed to remain in orbit around Earth until 2025. More recent work includes The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, a sculptural work featuring thousands of entries focused on historically marginalized individuals, places and events.
In addition to the MacArthur Prize, Strachan is the recipient of numerous awards including the Frontier Art Prize in 2018. He was the Allen Institute’s inaugural artist in residence in 2018 and an artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2019-20. He works with organizations and institutions across disciplines to promote a broader, more inclusive understanding of the work of artists, scientists and the networks that make their work possible.
Horario: 14:34 – 14:49
A self-described «radical, queer, emotionally driven, instinct-based concept artist and thinker,» Machine Dazzle creates costumes and theater sets that push the boundaries of craft and identity.
An artist, costume designer, set designer, singer/songwriter, art director, drag queen and all-around creative polymath, Machine Dazzle has worked with a host of New York downtown luminaries, including several projects with actor and playwright Taylor Mac. Their collaborations include the musical A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Lily’s Revenge, which won an Obie Award in 2010.
In 2019, Dazzle was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund to create Treasure, a rock and roll cabaret of original songs with an accompanying fashion show, which debuted at Joe’s Pub in New York City in the fall of 2022. That same season, he opened his first solo exhibition, Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle, at New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design. Dazzle also recently designed and performed in Bassline Fabulous, a modern take on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, in collaboration with the Catalyst Quartet at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He won the 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award, was a 2022 United States Artists Fellow and most recently won the 2023 Obie for sustained achievement in design.
Horario: 14:50 – 15:02
Using digital tools to create stunning photographic images, Doris Mitsch depicts what lies beyond the range of normal human vision.
Doris Mitsch began her career as a designer at Apple, where she explored ways to bring together computing and creativity, and where she experimented with then-nascent technologies. Now, even though those tools are more established, she continues to fuse high tech with a keen eye for the natural world, combining the use of cameras and scanners to produce exquisitely detailed pieces. Her photographic prints are intricate renditions of processes ordinarily invisible to the naked eye, illuminating the interiors of flowers and urchins, the flight paths of birds or often overlooked facets of objects when struck by light.
Mitsch has exhibited her work in solo shows in New York and the Bay Area and, more recently, at a group exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been described as «luminous and tender,» a «meditative revelation» and as «interrogating the notions of time, space and our own linear reality.»
Horario: 15:03 – 15:13
Peter McIndoe is the brains behind «Birds Aren’t Real,» the theory that birds are actually drones created by the US government to spy on Americans.
Home-schooled in a deeply conservative religious community in rural Arkansas, Peter McIndoe wants to explore the «us-versus-them» mentality implicit in conspiracy theories (and currently pervasive in global society). His work has been featured everywhere from The Guardian to 60 Minutes, he has been profiled in Vice and on 60 Minutes, and he once appeared on the Howard Stern Show. He is currently working on a book, due out later in 2023.
Horario: 15:14 – 15:30
Hannah Ritchie wants to use data to change the way we see the world.
Hannah Ritchie is deputy editor and research leader at Our World in Data, an online publication making data and research on the world’s largest problems accessible and understandable for non-experts. She is a senior researcher at the University of Oxford, where she studies how environmental issues intersect with others like poverty, global health and education. She has also done extensive research into the question of how to feed everyone in the world a nutritious diet without wrecking the planet. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Economist and New Scientist.
In 2022, Ritchie was named Scotland’s Youth Climate Champion. Her forthcoming book, The First Generation, makes an evidence-based case for why we have a meaningful chance to solve global environmental problems for the first time in human history.
Horario: 15:31 – 15:44
Garry Cooper uses technology to help organizations ensure the materials they no longer need get reused — again and again.
A neuroscientist by training, Garry Cooper shifted from academia to entrepreneurship when he realized how many materials and instruments were going to waste at his Northwestern University laboratory. He became known for pushing a cart of resources around campus, hoping to find another use for them. From these beginnings, he cofounded the climate tech company Rheaply (a portmanteau of “research” and “cheaply”) to help businesses better visualize, quantify, use — and reuse — their physical resources, bringing the circular economy to all.
Cooper is on the board of two tech innovation hubs, P33 Chicago and 1871, and is a founding partner and investment team member at LongJump Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to funding underrepresented founders. He has published in various peer-reviewed international journals, holds a US patent and has received recognition on several top entrepreneur lists, including the Forbes Next 1000.
Horario: 15:45 – 16:02
Shane Campbell-Staton seeks to understand how human activity is driving rapid evolutionary change in animals across the planet.
An assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, Shane Campbell-Staton studies a wide array of animals adapting to life on a planet dominated by humans — from lizards evolving to survive scorching city heat to tuskless African elephants thriving during a time of rampant poaching. In 2022, he was named a Pew Biomedical Scholar for his team’s research on the evolution of cancer resilience in gray wolves within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. His work has been featured in several media outlets, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Sports Illustrated and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Campbell-Staton is the creator and cohost of The Biology of Superheroes podcast, which explores cutting-edge science through the lens of science fiction and comic books. He will make his television debut in summer 2023 as the host of a science travel show Human Footprint, which will explore how humans have reshaped the planet and what those changes reveal about who we are, and as the narrator of a natural history series, both on PBS.
Horario: 16:03 – 16:15
George T. Whitesides is applying his experience in aerospace to the growing global crisis of extreme wildfires.
Megafires are defined as fires that burn more than 100,000 acres of land — and in an era of climate crisis, they’re becoming more common. Longtime aerospace executive George T. Whitesides is working to make them a manageable challenge. A venture partner at Convective Capital, he invests exclusively in «firetech» companies that provide critical support and solutions such as vegetation-monitoring satellites and firefighting drones. He is also the chairman of Megafire Action, an advocacy organization that supports wildfire science and forest treatment through policy, and an advisor to several philanthropic efforts in the wildfire sector.
Horario: 16:16 – 16:31
Plant physiologist and bioengineer Steve Long is hacking photosynthesis to feed the world and tackle climate change.
Obsessed with bioenergy and food security, Steve Long is chair of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There, he also directs the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project, a Gates Foundation-funded program to develop technologies to increase photosynthetic efficiency and sustainably improve crop yields. His lab is working at the genetic level on crops, and experiments to date have shown a promising uptick in soybean productivity and crop leaf water use efficiency, critical factors in the quest to feed the world’s humans while minimizing the impact of that endeavor on the planet. Long led the development of the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (SoyFACE) facility, the world’s largest open-air space testing research on adapting crops to climate change.
Long is the founding and chief editor of GCB Bioenergy, in silico Plants and Global Change Biology, which the Institute for Scientific Information listed as the most cited journal on climate change after Nature and Science. He has presented on bioenergy and food security to multiple world leaders and has been awarded fellowships by prominent scientific societies including the Royal Society of London and the US National Academy of Sciences.
Horario: 16:32 – 16:44
Nicole Rycroft is the founder and executive director of Canopy, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to protecting the world’s forests, species and climate.
A scientist by training, Nicole Rycroft began her career as a physiotherapist before deciding to pursue social justice work, fighting for ancient forests in Canada. It was there that she realized there was something powerful she could do beyond standing in blockade frontlines in the forest. Namely, to bridge the gap between business and the environment by creating a market for ecologically viable alternatives to the unsustainable products that so often originate in these vital forests. Canopy, the organization she founded as a result of this insight, focuses on reimagining business sectors such as paper and pulp and protecting the world’s forests in the process.
To date, Rycroft has worked to transform the practices of hundreds of companies, famously convincing publishers in 24 countries to «green» the Harry Potter series by printing the books on ancient-forest-friendly paper. Rycroft is an Ashoka Fellow, member of the UBS Global Visionaries program, recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada, winner of the 2020 Climate Breakthrough Award and a 2022 Global Australian of the Year.
Horario: 16:45 – 16:55
Through the forest restoration initiative Restore Local, Wanjira Mathai is working to help both Africa’s people and its landscapes flourish.
Growing up in Kenya, Wanjira Mathai developed an early understanding of nature’s restorative power. Her mother, Wangari Maathai, was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, earned for founding the Green Belt Movement. This woman-led, grassroots NGO has empowered communities for decades through the act of planting trees — and it’s one that has remained close to Mathai’s heart. For while she initially studied health and business and worked on disease control at The Carter Center, she ultimately became head of the Green Belt Movement herself. She later led Women Entrepreneurs in Renewables and served as executive chair of The Wangari Maathai Foundation.
As managing director for Africa and Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute, Mathai now leads the Restore Local project, helping advance forest protection and landscape restoration. By investing in local restoration projects, Restore Local is revitalizing forests, pastures and mangrove clusters, fighting climate change and promoting sustainable, income-generating agriculture at scale. Mathai also serves on the boards of the World Agroforestry Centre and the Clean Cooking Alliance, and she is a member of the Africa-Europe Foundation’s High-Level Group of Personalities.
Horario: 16:56 – 17:10
Crowdsourcing pioneer and Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine the skills of humans and computers to take on large-scale problems neither can solve alone.
Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and former professor at Carnegie Mellon University known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow and selling two companies to Google in his twenties. He is the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, the world’s most popular language-learning platform and most downloaded education app, which allows you to learn languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Navajo, Zulu — even Klingon! — for free.
von Ahn’s work takes advantage of the ever-growing, internet-connected population to achieve collaboration in unprecedented numbers. He was named one of the “10 Most Brilliant Scientists” by Popular Science and one of the “100 Most Innovative People in Business” by Fast Company; in 2018 he won the Lemelson-MIT Prize honoring world-changing inventors.
Horario: 17:11 – 17:26
Andy Dunn redefined retail with the success of the digitally native menswear brand Bonobos. Now he wants to change the way we think about entrepreneurship and mental health.
Andy Dunn cofounded the men’s apparel company Bonobos in 2007, and he served as the company’s CEO for 10 years. Bonobos was the first American brand launched at scale using the internet, and its inventory-free store model pioneered a new retail experience for the digital era. In 2017, he sold the company to Walmart for $310 million.
So far, so success story. But in May 2022, Dunn published his memoir, Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind, which chronicles his journey at the intersection of entrepreneurship and bipolar disorder. He is passionate about sharing his own story in the name of helping us all rethink our attitude toward innovation, reality — and delusion. Meanwhile, he hasn’t given up his work as an entrepreneur: his latest venture, Pumpkin Pie, is a social app subverting the societal trends of loneliness and social isolation. He describes it as, «Tinder, but for platonic friendship.»
Horario: 17:27 – 17:40
Gus Worland helps people develop the resilience, emotional muscle and social connections needed to prevent suicide and build mental fitness.
Lots of people talk about the need to be physically fit, but mentally fit? Not so much. Radio host and TV personality Gus Worland wants to change that. He’s the driving force behind Gotcha4Life, a charity working to prevent suicide and break the stigma around mental health issues. He was driven to action when his friend and mentor took his own life, prompting Worland to host a three-part mental health documentary series, Man Up, which aired on Australia’s national broadcast service, ABC. The series explored the relationship between masculinity, social isolation, mental health and suicide.
What started as a mission for men has developed into a mission for everyone. Worland’s focus now is on preventing suicide while working to engage, inspire and enable all people to build and develop their mental fitness.
Horario: 17:41 – 17:55
Maya Shankar brings together behavioral science and storytelling to help us understand how we respond to big life changes.
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, named show of the year in 2021 by Apple. Her podcast blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behavior to explore who we are and who we become in the face of change.
Prior to podcasting, Shankar applied her knowledge of cognitive science to the design of public policies and programs, first as senior advisor to the Obama administration, where she served as chair of the first White House Behavioral Science Team, and later at the United Nations. Today, she serves as global director of behavioral economics at Google.
Horario: 17:56 – 18:11
Nita Farahany’s research into emerging technologies (think: mind-reading brain-computer interfaces) illuminates their ethical, legal and social implications.
With a focus on the fields of neuroscience, genomics and artificial intelligence, Nita Farahany spends her time helping to bridge divides and foster dialogue about the emerging technologies shaping our lives. She is a professor of law and philosophy at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, which works to advance the responsible use of science and technology. She has advocated for a new international human right to cognitive liberty that would enable us to embrace a future where neural interfaces have become ubiquitous.
From 2010 to 2017, Farahany served as a commissioner on the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Since then, she has been appointed to numerous government committees and consulted for corporations as an ethicist, all with the aim of translating her academic research into real-world impact. She is an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Law Institute, and she is an appointed commissioner for the Uniform Laws Commission. Her most recent book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology, deals with the promise and peril of the neurotechnology revolution.
Horario: 18:12 – 18:30
With OpenBCI, Conor Russomanno is developing low-cost, open-source brain-computer interface hardware and software.
Conor Russomanno is the founder and CEO of OpenBCI, a company working to build ethical brain-computer interfaces. He became fascinated with the relationship between the human brain and mind after suffering concussions playing college football and rugby. While pursuing an MFA in Design & Technology at Parsons School of Design, he spent two years creating DIY brain-sensing headsets and neuro-interactive games, animations and stories. In 2013, he began work on what would later become OpenBCI, which has since designed and distributed more than 40,000 tools for neuroscience to more than 100 countries around the world. One of Russomanno’s leading innovations is the award-winning Galea headset, a hardware and software platform that merges next-generation biometrics with mixed reality.
Russomanno’s work has been featured in media outlets such as Bloomberg, Scientific American and Wired. He was recognized in the Forbes «30 Under 30» in 2018 and has served as an adjunct professor and research affiliate at Parsons, NYU and MIT.
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Horario: 8:05 – 8:22
Natalie Cargill is the founder and co-CEO of Longview Philanthropy, where she is on a mission to replace pessimism about the world’s biggest problems with plans for solving them.
In 2018, Natalie Cargill left a career in human rights and law to found Longview Philanthropy, a nonprofit that provides free, independent, expert-led funding recommendations to some of the world’s largest donors. Her work is driven by a belief in a scientific mindset: all grant recommendations are informed by research into where new donations can make the biggest impact, with a particular focus on global challenges that pose existential risks but which traditionally receive much lower sums of funding (think: threats of nuclear war or bioweapons).
«Longview was founded on the idea that globalization, wealth inequality and technological change puts philanthropy in a position to help vastly more people than ever before,» she says. «The very best philanthropy can be a powerful tool for justice and for progress.»
Cargill previously worked with the United Nations Human Rights Council and was a barrister at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers in London.
Horario: 8:23 – 8:35
Sixto Cancel is the founder and CEO of Think of Us, a nonprofit working to transform the child welfare system in the US.
Sixto Cancel entered foster care when he was 11 months old, and his personal experiences through young adulthood powered a passion to transform the system. In 2014, he founded Think of Us, a nonprofit research and design lab aimed at giving every young person within child welfare the conditions they need to heal, develop and thrive. The organization also equips program managers and leaders with data and evidence of what really happens to young people and families in the system — and creates ways for them to change practices and policies for the better.
As chief executive of Think of Us, Cancel is driving change by leveraging the power of those with direct experience of the child welfare system, working across tech, service delivery, research, data and state and federal policy to improve outcomes for youth and families. He was named to the Forbes «30 Under 30» list of social entrepreneurs and also appointed as a White House Champion of Change.
Horario: 8:36 – 8:53
Richard V. Reeves offers tangible solutions for social progress, with a recent focus on understanding why boys and men are falling behind.
Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-directs the Center on Children and Families. His Brookings research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility, while he has most recently been focused on leading the Boys and Men Project, tackling what he sees as the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. His most recent book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, was named a book of the year by The Economist.
Reeves’ work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. Previous roles include director of the political think tank Demos, director of strategy for the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister, principal policy advisor to the UK’s Minister for Welfare Reform, social affairs editor of The Observer and economics correspondent for The Guardian. In 2017, Politico named him one of the top 50 thinkers in the US.
Horario: 8:54 – 9:08
Coleman Hughes believes in the power of conversation to bridge ideological and cultural divides.
Coleman Hughes created his podcast, Conversations with Coleman, to host radically honest discussions about today’s most pressing social and political questions. Specializing in issues related to race, public policy and applied ethics, Hughes is a former fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. His upcoming book argues in favor of racial color-blindness, or as he puts it: «the idea that we should strive to treat people without regard to race, both in our personal lives and in our public policy.»
Hughes was named to the Forbes «30 Under 30» in 2021 and has appeared on many TV shows and podcasts, including Real Time with Bill Maher and Making Sense with Sam Harris. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review and more.
Horario: 9:09 – 9:17
Maria Arnal builds beguiling sonic sculptures, weaving together folk forms with techno-pop to create dazzling soundscapes.
As one of the freshest voices in contemporary electronica, Barcelona-based singer-songwriter Maria Arnal continually astonishes adventurous music audiences. Works such as «Hiperutopia,» which fuses traditional melodies, tectonic sound and futuristic mythology, build entire universes that stretch the boundaries of multimedia and create something cosmic from shared human experience.
Arnal’s other works include «Sirena» (co-created with John Talabot), an installation fed by real-time data harvested from Barcelona’s atmospheric and meteorological environment, and the sound essay «Cada Capa de l’Atmosfera» (composed with José Luis de Vicente), a meditation on the sounds of the Anthropocene that has been nominated for two Ondas awards. She has performed everywhere from the Venice Architecture Biennale to the legendary Sónar music festival and is currently composing her next full-length album, performed on a computer-controlled organetto, a button accordion commonly associated with Italian folk music.
Horario: 9:18 – 9:30
Anne Morriss is dedicated to helping people unlock their own potential –– in the name of building extraordinary organizations.
As founder of The Leadership Consortium (TLC), Anne Morriss is dedicated to building inclusive executive teams and preparing emerging leaders for senior roles. For the past 20 years, she has guided entrepreneurs, companies and governments throughout the United States and Latin America on strategy, leadership and organizational change. She has also put her own theory into practice: as CEO of GenePeeks, she oversaw a computational genomics company developing breakthrough ways to identify disease risk.
Morriss serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the board of IGNITE, which champions the need for more women to serve in public office. She is the coauthor of Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business and Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Her next book, Move Fast & Fix Things, will be available in the fall of 2023.
Horario: 9:31 – 9:52
Tony Award-winning performer, writer, director and producer Sarah Jones is best known for the chameleon-like ease with which she slips in and out of characters.
Known for tour-de-force solo theater shows in which she introduces the audience to an array of provocative and often hilarious characters, Sarah Jones came to prominence with her Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel. Her subsequent play, Sell/Buy/Date, inspired a hybrid documentary movie of the same name. The film, executive produced by Meryl Streep, had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in 2022.
Jones’s acting credits include costarring in the Netflix series On the Verge; she also appeared in Marriage Story and on the final season of Broad City. She recently launched Foment Productions, a social justice-focused entertainment company, while she continues to perform for high-profile audiences around the world. She has also served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Horario: 9:53 – 10:03
Sheena Meade is chief executive of the Clean Slate Initiative, an organization advancing policies to automatically clear eligible arrest and conviction records in the US.
Born into a family of labor organizers, Sheena Meade was exposed to the fight for economic justice early on. That fight became her own when a bounced check led to an arrest record that continually limited her opportunities. Determined to do something to help everyone get a shot at redemption, she now leads the Clean Slate Initiative, where her bipartisan approach has helped drive the clearance of more than seven million conviction and non-conviction records.
Meade previously worked at the labor unions SEIU and AFL-CIO, and she ran for the Florida House of Representatives in 2016. She helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians at the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and at the Second Chances Florida Campaign, where she developed blueprints for fundraising, events and grassroots organizing. She serves on the boards of the Public Welfare Foundation; NYU School of Law’s Policing Project; Live Free USA; and the Florida Coalition on Black Civic Engagement.
Horario: 10:04 – 10:18
Yat Siu is a veteran technology entrepreneur and digital property rights advocate who believes digital property rights are the key to a thriving web3 economy and open metaverse.
Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, an umbrella group of businesses in digital entertainment, blockchain and gamification on a mission to establish a truly open metaverse. After getting his start at Atari Germany, Siu established Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998, he created Outblaze to provide multilingual white-label web services. After selling Outblaze’s messaging unit to IBM, he began to focus on digital entertainment projects and the promise of web3.
Siu was named a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” at the World Economic Forum in 2002 and “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” at the DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards in 2009. He was recognized on Cointelegraph’s list of most influential people in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in both 2021 and 2022. A classically trained musician, he is also a member of the advisory board of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and is a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.
Horario: 10:19 – 10:34
Physician-scientist and cell biologist Anna Greka is on a mission to unlock the secrets of cellular dysfunction in genetic diseases.
How does a single errant letter in the genome lead to disease? What can a faulty cellular circuit in the kidney teach us about diseases in the eye or brain? A physician-scientist and cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, MassGeneral Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Anna Greka leads a program aimed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms of cellular dysfunction. Her team’s discoveries have revealed new ways to address disorders that affect kidneys, eyes, brains and more. Clinical trials founded on their work are showing promising results and have the potential to help millions of patients across the globe.
Greka is looking to build a future where we have treatments and cures for all genetic diseases. Her work has been recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; the Donald W. Seldin Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Nephrology and the American Heart Association; and the Seldin-Smith Award for pioneering research from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). She was elected to serve as ASCI president by her peers and selected to join the National Academy of Medicine’s Emerging Leaders Forum.
Horario: 10:35 – 10:51
Amy Baxter develops low-cost, low-tech mechanical solutions to pervasive health care problems.
Pediatric emergency physician Amy Baxter’s wide-ranging medical research career has included work on PTSD, pain relief for infants and much more. Perhaps most notably, she is the pioneer behind the Baxter Animated Retching Faces Scale, a tool to assess and monitor the presence and severity of nausea. The scale has been validated in multiple languages and is now regularly used to improve relief for children with cancer.
On a mission to eliminate unnecessary pain, Baxter founded Pain Care Labs in 2006. Distressed by other doctors’ indifference to needle pain, she developed a prototype to help moms get their kids vaccinated pain-free. This led to the launch of Buzzy, a device that can help with needle fear and pain — and which has now been used in more than 45 million procedures. Having quit formal medicine in 2016 to focus on research and innovation, her current NIH-funded work focuses on providing alternatives to opioid use for lower back pain.
Horario: 10:52 – 11:00
With just a few simple lines, cartoonist Liana Finck takes on life’s toughest challenges.
Liana Finck believes that drawing is the most direct artistic medium, communicating only the essentials of a story or a message. Her minimal, poignant and humorous style is instantly recognizable to readers of the New Yorker and the more than 600,000 followers she has amassed on Instagram. With three graphic novels and one cartoon collection under her belt, Finck explores topics including religion, dating, being weird and the perils of subway etiquette.
Finck is a regular contributor to The Awl and Catapult. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and has residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Headlands Center for the Arts. You can also find her doling out social wisdom every month as her canine alter ego in the New Yorker advice column «Dear Pepper.»
Horario: 11:01 – 11:09
As president and CEO of Global Fishing Watch, Tony Long is creating a transparent, open-access picture of the impact of global fishing to sustain a healthy, productive and resilient ocean.
Tony Long spent 15 years as an officer in the Royal Navy. While commanding the HMS Blyth and HMS Monmouth, he was struck by the immense challenge of monitoring the high seas to detect the illegal fishing that threatens the ocean’s health and the livelihoods of coastal communities. So when he left the Navy, he committed to ending destructive fishing practices and spent five years at Pew Charitable Trusts, where he directed the «Ending Illegal Fishing» campaign and played a key role in developing the satellite monitoring initiative Project Eyes on the Seas.
In 2017, Long became the first CEO of Global Fishing Watch. He leads a global team of policy experts, fisheries analysts, data scientists and engineers using cutting-edge technology to visualize, track and share fishing activity data. Their goal: to transform ocean governance by telling the full story of humanity’s impact on life at sea.
Horario: 11:10 – 11:19
Angeline Murimirwa is the CEO of CAMFED, a pan-African movement revolutionizing education for girls.
Angeline Murimirwa went to secondary school in rural Zimbabwe thanks to support from CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education), a nonprofit whose mission is to eradicate poverty in Africa through the education and empowerment of girls. After she graduated in 1998, she became a founding member and the first elected Chair of the CAMFED Association (CAMA). Far more than your run-of-the-mill alumni group, CAMA is a peer support and leadership network of activists educated with CAMFED support that has since grown to more than 240,000 members.
Murimirwa took on the chief executive role at CAMFED in January 2023, and she now focuses on ensuring the organization remains true to its original mission — all while building capacity for expansion. She won the Yidan Prize for Education Development in 2020 and accepted the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize on behalf of CAMFED in 2021.
Horario: 11:20 – 11:41
Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor oversees a range of companies and entities focused on expanding the middle class in Peru.
Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor is the founder and chairman of Intercorp, one of the largest Peruvian business groups, and managing partner of Nexus Group, one of its largest private equity funds. Through these groups, he manages portfolios of companies in financial services, retail, real estate, education, health care and more, primarily investing in Peru and the Andean region.
Rodríguez-Pastor is co-chairman of the Chairman’s International Advisory Council at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, a forum for addressing political, social and economic issues in the Americas. In 2010, he cofounded Innova Schools to redesign the K–12 learning experience. The growing network of schools now serves more than 60,000 students in Peru, Colombia and Mexico. He is a member of the board of trustees of Dartmouth College and the New York Public Library.
Horario: 11:42 – 11:52
Mark Edwards is the cofounder and CEO of Upstream USA, a nonprofit working to expand contraceptive access in the United States.
Raised by a father who focused on giving his kids the privileges he didn’t have, Mark Edwards grew up with an awareness of opportunities. After college, he became involved in local anti-poverty work and helped launch a preschool program for homeless children before founding Opportunity Nation, a bipartisan coalition of 300 national nonprofits focused on expanding economic mobility through federal policy reform.
In that work, for which he was named an Ashoka Fellow, Edwards kept hearing different versions of the same story: young people whose lives were derailed by unplanned pregnancy. This inspired him to cofound Upstream USA. The organization works with health centers to strengthen reproductive care and autonomy by increasing equitable access to a full range of contraceptive options. Edwards is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation entrepreneur, serves on more than a dozen nonprofit boards and advisory committees and is currently a trustee of the Barr Foundation.
Horario: 11:53 – 12:04
Jessie Reyez molds the disparate elements of her eclectic upbringing into multifaceted, lyrically bold songs that radiate emotion.
Born in Toronto to Colombian immigrants, Jessie Reyez has experimented with all forms of music and performance since childhood. Taught guitar by her father, she has built an acclaimed career as an electrifying live performer and multi-platinum recording artist.
Reyez’s debut album, Before Love Came To Kill Us, earned a top-five spot on Billboard’s R&B Album Chart and has amassed more than a billion streams globally. She has performed at Coachella, opened for Billie Eilish and made a cameo on Beyonce’s Black Is King visual album. Her sophomore album, Yessie (her childhood nickname), chronicles her stirring journey from love and loss to healing, closure and happiness. Her work has been recognized with four Juno Awards and a Grammy nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Horario: 12:05 – 12:20
Becky Kennedy wants to change the way we raise kids, envisioning a world where parents prioritize connection over consequences.
A mom of three, clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy launched Good Inside in 2020 to help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and what she defines as «sturdy» leadership. Good Inside is now a thriving online community focused on Kennedy’s approach to parenting, driven by firm boundaries and positive relationships maintained with trust and respect.
Kennedy’s work has resulted in a bestselling book; the podcast Good Inside with Dr. Becky, which topped the charts after its launch in April 2021; and a sparkling presence on Instagram, where she has amassed nearly two million followers. She was dubbed the «Millennial parenting whisperer» by TIME.
Horario: 12:21 – 12:41
Alua Arthur is the founder of Going with Grace, an organization focused on redefining what it means to die gracefully.
Alua Arthur is a leader in the field of «death work,» essentially helping individuals and families to navigate the emotional, legal and spiritual issues that arise around death. This involves decisions about care, funeral planning and a surprising amount of paperwork — something she, a recovering attorney, feels more than qualified to help with. Her organization, Going with Grace, helps educate fellow death doulas around the world in nonmedical end-of-life care and, well, in assisting people to «go» with grace.
Arthur was recently featured in the National Geographic television series Limitless, in which she helped actor Chris Hemsworth map out his own future death. She speaks regularly on how to bring awareness to dying — and, most importantly, how that process can inspire us to live with verve. She has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, InStyle and more. She is a former director of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance.
Horario: 12:42 – 13:21
Shou Chew is the CEO of TikTok, the trend-setting video app – and cultural phenomenon – that’s used by more than a billion people every month.
Shou Chew led early investments in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, while working at venture capital firm DST Global. In 2021, he became ByteDance’s CFO and, in 2022, he gave up his role at ByteDance to focus entirely on TikTok. Since then, he’s overseen explosive growth of the video hosting service; it was the world’s most-downloaded app for three years in a row, with nearly 700 million downloads in 2022.
Born and raised in Singapore, Chew was educated at University College London and Harvard Business School. Fun fact: he interned with Facebook during its early startup days.
Horario: 13:22 – 13:29
Eileen Isagon Skyers is an expert on digital art and culture.
Artist and curator Eileen Isagon Skyers has nearly a decade of experience producing online exhibitions at non-profit and contemporary arts institutions including David Zwirner, Rhizome and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through recent roles in curation and creative direction for various web3 platforms, she has conducted extensive research on contemporary digital art and culture in an effort to understand the community-building potential for artists working on the blockchain. She is cofounder and CCO of a new cultural fund called Gemma.
Skyers’s own moving image work has been exhibited in the US, UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Mexico. Her first book, Vanishing Acts, looked at the role of network-based art practices, and her writing has been published in Frieze, Hyperallergic and Dirt, among other publications.
Horario: 13:30 – 13:36
Bilawal Sidhu wields AI and 3D technologies to blur the lines between reality and imagination.
Bilawal Sidhu is a creative technologist, product builder and AI innovator. With more than a decade of experience in the tech industry, he spent six years as a product manager at Google, where he made significant contributions to groundbreaking projects such as Google’s Immersive View, ARCore Geospatial API and YouTubeVR. His work with organizations and people – including Warner Music, Pepsi, Elton John and Gorillaz – showcases his talent for crafting engaging experiences through technology.
As a content creator, Sidhu has captivated more than a million followers across YouTube and TikTok with his AI and visual effects expertise. Driven by a mission to empower the next generation of artists and entrepreneurs, Sidhu openly shares AI-assisted workflows and industry insights on Twitter and Substack, demystifying AI creation and inspiring others to embrace the potential of the «co-pilot era.»
Horario: 13:37 – 13:43
Refik Anadol’s data-driven art puts creativity at the intersection of humans and machines, expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative and the body in motion.
Refik Anadol is a media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. Using data as his primary material, he creates site-specific sculptures, live audio/visual performances and immersive installations that encourage us to rethink our engagement with the physical world and with the creative potential of machines.
Anadol has exhibited widely around the world, recently in a piece installed in the foyer of MoMA in New York, which used artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art at the museum. For the neuroscience-based AI opera Song of the Ambassadors, his Al-generated imagery is infused with real-time brainwave data from performers and audience members, creating a hypnotic feedback loop.
Horario: 13:44 – 13:49
K Allado-McDowell uses AI to deepen human understanding through writing and music.
Writer and musician K Allado-McDowell is the co-editor of The Atlas of Anomalous AI and has co-written three books with the computer language model GPT-3. Pharmako-AI, Amor Cringe and Air Age Blueprint all explore what’s possible when we blend human and AI-generated writing. Allado-McDowell also records music under the name Qenric, and they are the mind behind the neuro-opera Song of the Ambassadors, which reimagines opera as a musical ritual that produces scientific understanding about the effects of music on body and mind.
In 2016, Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google. They also educate and consult with institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.
Horario: 13:50 – 14:06
One half of the artist duo DRIFT, Lonneke Gordijn aims to reconnect people to the planet through immersive, technology-driven installations, sculptures and performances.
Lonneke Gordijn takes artistic inspiration from how humans encounter nature and the world around us: birds swarming, plants proliferating, clouds moving. She founded DRIFT with Ralph Nauta in 2007, aspiring to use technology and art to raise fundamental questions about life and to explore positive scenarios for the future. Their exhibits and performances have pioneered the experiential art movement and beautifully illuminated parallels between man-made and natural structures. Their installation Franchise Freedom includes a fleet of lit drones that mimic the flight behavior of starlings as they soar through the night sky. Fragile Future, a sculpture made of real dandelions glued to LED lights, offers a critical yet utopian vision of the future.
Based in Amsterdam, DRIFT has exhibited around the world, in venues such as The Shed in New York, the Garage Museum in Moscow and Burning Man in the Nevada desert. Their work is featured in the permanent collections of institutions including LACMA, the Rijksmuseum, SFMOMA, the Stedelijk Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. They were recognized with the Dezeen Award for designer of the year in 2019 and the Arte Laguna Prize in 2014.
Horario: 14:07 – 14:22
Using natural materials such as mud and waste, Vinu Daniel creates beautiful, sustainable buildings.
Architect Vinu Daniel is the founder of Wallmakers, a design firm dedicated to building dream-like spaces that are responsive to specific site contexts and conditions. Wallmakers has no official office and is constantly on the move, looking for ways to minimize the carbon footprint of buildings and make construction more sustainable. Using innovative designs and locally sourced materials (including waste and debris), Daniel and his team have developed new natural building techniques that are both utilitarian and alluring, earning them global recognition. Wallmakers won the 2022 Royal Academy Dorfman Award, which celebrates new ideas that highlight the future potential of architecture. In 2020, ArchDaily selected Wallmakers as the only Indian practice in its «20 Young Practices of 2020» list.
Daniel has also worked with the Auroville Earth Institute and the United Nations Development Programme. For Daniel, the central question for architects now is not «What should we build?» but rather: «Should we build?»
Horario: 14:23 – 14:35
Photographer, entrepreneur and social activist Misan Harriman is chair of the Southbank Centre in London.
Misan Harriman is a photographer of extraordinary range, creating glorious portraiture as well as up-close reportage and behind-the-scenes coverage of major media events. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, People and The Telegraph, among others. In September 2020, he became the first Black man to shoot a cover for British Vogue. As he says, not bad for a self-taught photographer.
Harriman chairs the Southbank Centre, the largest arts center in the UK, and is the founder of Culture3, a platform for artists and makers exploring what web3 means for culture, commerce and society. He also created What We Seee, a publishing platform that surfaces and amplifies the work of diverse creators to raise the tone of cultural conversation. He is an outspoken activist supporting diversity and inclusion in the workplace and a mental health campaigner with a keen interest in dyslexia and neurodiversity.
Horario: 14:36 – 14:44
Tolliver’s music is a mix of soul, funk, pop and camp that’s as funny as it is soul-baring.
A self-described «dance floor demon,» Tolliver is the son of a preacher, but his music is anything but holy. He makes pop records with frank lyrics about redemption, relapse and «twerking at the altar of one’s mind.» Born from the realization that he had more in common with his devout-yet-flawed late father than he ever knew, his EP Daddyland was recently named a top album of 2022 by Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW.
In 2022, Tolliver made his late-night television debut, performing his single «Say What!» on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Horario: 14:45 – 14:59
The first Latina cast member of «Saturday Night Live,» Melissa Villaseñor is an actress, comedian, impressionist, visual artist and musician.
Melissa Villaseñor first came to the world’s attention with her impressions of the likes of Barbara Walters and Christina Aguilera on the sixth season of America’s Got Talent. More recently, she made history as the first Latina cast member of Saturday Night Live, where she worked for six years. Other credits include appearances in Comedy Central’s Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, Freeform’s Alone Together, Netflix’s The Stand-Ups and HBO’s Crashing and Barry. Villaseñor also voiced characters for Toy Story 4, Wreck It Ralph 2, Cartoon Network’s OK K.O.! and Fox’s American Dad and Family Guy. Her latest project sees her leading an ensemble cast in the original scripted comedy Vendors, following the lives of concession workers and ballpark employees at a minor league baseball stadium in Coney Island, New York.
In 2017, Villaseñor was featured in the Forbes «30 Under 30» list and Rolling Stone’s «50 Funniest People Right Now.» Outside of comedy, Villaseñor is an author, visual artist, musician and host of the podcast Laughing With Myself. Her first self-help workbook, Whoops … I’m Awesome: A Workbook with Activities, Art, and Stories for Embracing Your Wonderfully Awesome Self, was published in 2022.
Horario: 15:00 – 15:15
Imran Chaudhri spent more than 20 years at Apple creating some of the world’s most beloved consumer products. Now he’s using AI to rethink and reshape the role of technology in our lives.
With thousands of patents to his name, Imran Chaudhri is best known for his work at Apple, where he helped to create iconic products such as the Macintosh, iPod, iPad and Apple Watch. He is particularly lauded for developing the user interface and interactions on the iPhone. Driven by his insistence on putting the human experience front and center in the design process, his work has helped to define how the world interacts with technology.
In 2018, Chaudhri and fellow Apple alum Bethany Bongiorno cofounded Humane, a company creating AI-driven technologies and platforms for the intelligence age. Looking to build for the world as it could be tomorrow, their first device will be unveiled later in 2023.
Horario: 15:16 – 15:29
Lucas Rizzotto blends art, tech and storytelling to create projects that ask deep questions and invite millions of people to imagine what the future might look like.
The creator of the viral web series Lucas Builds The Future, Lucas Rizzotto creates ridiculous yet surprisingly insightful tech projects that show us glimpses of the future – and then makes hilarious videos about them for millions to see. Be it a VR time machine that lets you replay memories from your past, an ad blocker that replaces real-life ads with independent art or an AI microwave with a mind for murder, Rizzotto’s projects entertain and inspire. His latest startup, Pillow, is creating a mixed-reality platform that turns your bed into a metaverse.
Rizzotto has collaborated on tech projects with Microsoft, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, SpaceX, Meta and Google. He has lectured at Columbia, MIT and Stanford, while his VR films have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW.
Horario: 15:30 – 15:40
As a part of the art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, Ersin Han Ersin combines installation, sculpture, performance and mixed reality to explore the invisible but fundamental links between the human and natural worlds.
Ersin Han Ersin is an artist and director of the London-based experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF). His work combines a wide range of disciplines, all with the goal of providing viewers sensory experiences that transcend daily life.
MLF’s virtual reality installation We Live in an Ocean of Air incorporated breath sensors, heart rate monitors, binaural sound, scent dispersal systems and wind machines. The goal? For viewers to interact with the ecosystem around a giant sequoia tree. The piece debuted at the Saatchi Gallery in London and won a British Animation Award in 2020. Another MLF experience, In the Eyes of the Animal, transformed viewers into woodland creatures, challenging our human-centric view of the world. It was nominated for the design of the year award at the London Design Museum and won Wired’s innovation award for experience design in 2016. Ersin’s work has been exhibited around the world, at venues including the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Tribeca Film Festival and Istanbul Design Biennial.
Horario: 15:41 – 15:58
Sheryl Lee Ralph has brought characters to life on the big screen, Broadway and television, while her philanthropic work has touched countless lives across the world.
A prominent figure in the entertainment industry, Sheryl Lee Ralph most recently earned an Emmy for her performance on ABC television show Abbott Elementary. Equally at home in theater as onscreen, she created the role of Deena Jones in the legendary Broadway musical Dreamgirls, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, and she recently appeared as Madame Horrible in Wicked. As a writer and director, her short film, Secrets, was a finalist in the HBO Film Short Competition, while her debut book, Redefining Diva: Life Lessons from the Original Dreamgirl, was a bestseller when it came out in 2012. The followup, DIVA 2.0, was published in March 2023.
Beyond her career in entertainment, Ralph is a passionate health advocate and activist. She founded the nonprofit DIVA Foundation to raise awareness and provide support to those affected by HIV/AIDS. They’re «Divas Simply Singing!» event, an evening of song and entertainment, is the longest running musical AIDS benefit in the US. Ralph was awarded the first Red Ribbon Award at the UN for her unique use of the arts in HIV/AIDS activism and was recently appointed as an AIDS Ambassador for Jamaica’s Ministry of Health.
Horario: 15:59 – 16:19
In less than a decade, Jacob Collier has amassed a lifetime’s worth of accomplishments, including a series of trailblazing tours, a pack of A-list collaborators and a Grammy for each of his first four albums.
Exploding onto the global stage with the viral success of his multi-frame, multi-instrumental YouTube covers, Jacob Collier caught the attention of Quincy Jones and, under his mentorship, released his debut album, In My Room, in 2016. Recorded, produced and played entirely by Collier, the accompanying one-man-band international tour saw him develop an innovative live show where he played and layered 12 instruments to recreate the world of the album onstage.
Collier’s voice has been featured on recent songs from musical icons such as Coldplay and Stormzy and American R&B superstars including SZA, Kehlani and Alicia Keys. In his own projects, Collier has worked with an unpredictable cast of artistic powerhouses, from Malian singer Oumou Sangaré to John Mayer, T-Pain, Jessie Reyez and more. His album cycle Djesse (with its upcoming and final fourth volume) is a progression from the one-man process of In My Room, featuring musical themes that encompass everything from orchestral composition to folk songwriting, R&B, rap and pop.
Horario: 16:20 – 16:36
With The On Being Project, Krista Tippett takes up the ancient, animating questions of: What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other?
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster Krista Tippett is the founder and CEO of The On Being Project and host of its titular podcast, which sits at the intersection of spirituality, science, creativity and the arts. On Being has been named to best podcast lists by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the Webbys, iHeart Radio and more, and it has been downloaded more than 400 million times. The show pursues deep thinking, social courage, moral imagination and joy. Meanwhile, On Being Studios produces a second podcast, Poetry Unbound, while later in 2023 comes the Lab for the Art of Living, a collection of tools and gatherings in service of and informed by On Being content.
Tippett started her career as a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin. She was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2014 for «thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence» and received the Four Freedoms Medal from the Roosevelt Institute in 2019. A best-selling author, her most recent book is Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.
Horario: 16:37 – 17:00
David McWilliams strives to demystify economics and make the topic accessible to audiences worldwide.
David McWilliams is an economist, author, podcaster, journalist, documentarian and broadcaster. He is the founder of the world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival «Kilkenomics» — described by the Financial Times as «simply, the best economics conference in the world.» He also cofounded the Dalkey Book Festival, Ireland’s largest literary and ideas festival. McWilliams has written five books, writes a weekly column for the Irish Times and contributes regularly to the Financial Times.
McWilliams hosts The David McWilliams Podcast, which aims to make economics uncomplicated and accessible, and he is creator of Punk Economics, a cartoon series explaining global economic issues. He is an adjunct professor of at Trinity College Dublin and the sixth most influential economist in the world, according to Richtopia. In a previous life, he had a few «real jobs,» working as an economist at the Irish Central Bank, UBS and Banque Nationale de Paris.
Horario: 17:01 – 17:13
Former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho is an Emmy-winning producer and host for Fox Sports and his online series «Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.»
Emmanuel Acho was drafted into the NFL by the Cleveland Browns in 2012, and also played as a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles. He now cohosts Fox Sports 1’s SPEAK, a show that offers unfiltered takes on the hottest topics in sports. Acho has parlayed his experience from the field into thoughts and advice on how to live a more purposeful and successful life. His most recent book, Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits, was published in 2022.
In 2020, Acho created Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man to help drive meaningful dialogue about race in the United States. The interview-based digital series has amassed more than 90 million views and won an Emmy for outstanding short form nonfiction or reality series. It also spawned a New York Times-bestselling book of the same title.
Horario: 17:14 – 17:36
Julia Sweeney creates comedic works that tackle deep issues including cancer, family and faith.
After taking improv classes with The Groundlings, comedian Julia Sweeney became a household name for her work on Saturday Night Live, particularly for her creation of the androgynous character Pat (later the basis of her 1994 movie, It’s Pat). Sweeney has written four one-person shows, each diving into personal experiences, including processing her and her brother’s joint cancer diagnoses (God Said Ha!), divorcing from her Irish Catholic faith (Letting Go of God) and adopting a child as a single parent (In the Family Way). Her latest show, Older & Wider, was filmed in 2022.
Sweeney’s acting and voice credits include the TV series Maybe It’s Me, Shrill, Father of the Pride and Work in Progress, as well as appearances in According to Jim, Frasier and Sex and the City. She’s acted in several films, including Pulp Fiction, Clockstoppers, Monsters University and the Beethoven and Stuart Little franchises. Her book, If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother, is a collection of essays on her life and experiences as a mom.
