Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.

What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores "Penrose tiling" -- two shapes that fit together in infinite combinations without ever repeating -- and ponders what it might mean.

Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way.

Women around the world have always had to hustle--an ancient mode of survival. The bustling marketplaces of Nigeria reveal communities of female entrepreneurs who have mastered the art of trade and travel across far-reaching regions and intersecting cultures. Let's journey into the heart of Igboland and explore the phenomenon known as the transn...

Tira Murray discusses the difficulties and microaggressions women and people of color face, using results from her internationally recognized research and stories from her own life. She discusses the issues of being told you are not good enough to reach some dream, and the roadblocks put in front of female people of color. She also discusses the...

Dr Mari Takayanagi is a Senior Archivist at the Parliamentary Archives, and currently joint project manager and co-curator for 'Voice and Vote', Parliament's Vote 100 exhibition, celebrating 100 years of the vote for some women and all men in 2018. Her doctoral thesis was on Parliament and women in the early 20th century.

Conferred this year with Fellowship by Distinction by the Faculty of Public Health (Royal College of Physicians UK), Mairo is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist with extensive knowledge and experience in strategic planning and implementation of health and social transformation initiatives in Reproductive and maternal child health. Possesses strong exp...

Cork based GP and founding member of Doctors For Choice Dr Mary Favier describes how she campaigned for many years to remove the Eight Amendment as it was harmful to Irish women's health. Dr Favier takes us on a moving journey from Ireland’s past, present and future showcasing the devastating struggles Irish women have faced in relation to abort...

This talk asks us to consider if our relationships to or through screens are now presiding over our relationships with each other - and, if the price of constant connectivity is fast becoming a new human disconnect?

An Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Public Health Physician with extensive knowledge and experience in strategic planning and implementation of health and social transformation initiatives, Mairo has worked with a wide range of stakeholder locally and Internally including high level government officials, traditional and religious leaders, women gro...

Dra. Meira Souza, após décadas de estudos, pesquisas e práticas na medicina, estabeleceu novos procedimentos e passou a encarar a dor sob outras perspectivas.

An alarming number of children today bring many life stressors into the classroom as they face toxicity and adversity outside of school. This talk will explore the staggering prevalence of childhood trauma, and how it can affect the developing brain and body, lifelong health and wellness, and school success. While adversity occurs universally fo...

How can we turn the Chaos in our lives into our strongest driving force and let it take us to outstanding career and personal accomplishments?

Everybody knows that young children have an incredible capacity to learn. Kids learn new languages much more easily than adults, for example. We’re not telling you anything you didn’t know by now, right? What if we told you that they are like that since they’re born, and that with the right early stimulation they can develop sooner than what we’...

Dr. Maria Cantalini-Williams makes a strong case that fostering an innovative mindset in youth needs to start as early as kindergarten. In her talk, she describes the definition of innovation, the process of creating the resources and the Innovation Cycle which guides youth to design their own innovations to make an impact. Results that demonstr...

This is a live portrait of what Venezuela and its people was, the journey through a difficult era that led its people to forget who they were and who they should be. We all have a spark of hope inside that shines and remind us when needed the good and the beautiful of who we are so we can keep going forward.

Is there a change in society and its behavior? Dr. Johannes Meier gives you a new view on the change in Neoliberalism based on the current developments in the world.

Heart disease is the number one killer in the world, but researchers are evolving a new branch of medicine to tackle the issue. For over 20 years, Dr. Chuck Murry has studied the causes of cardiovascular disease and researched harnessing the potential of stem cells to repair damaged heart muscle. In this talk, he shares his journey and groundbre...

Mario nos cuenta, a través de su ejemplo, como la educación y el amor cambian el mundo

In his talk, Dr. Ben Meir Maoz explains how tissue engineering can be used to replace animal models and advance personalized medicine.

Dr. Anne Marie Lennon of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, describes a new way to detect eight common types of cancer (esophagus, stomach, colon, pancreas, liver, breast, lung, and ovarian) using a simple blood test. The technique combines genetic indicators with blood protein markers to identify these cance...

Dr. Gabriela Hernández Mora is a veterinarian and researcher from the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). Since 2009, Gabriela has led the Bacteriology Laboratory of the National Service of Animal Health of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the Costa Rican government. Her main interest is the diagnosis and pathobiology of Brucell...

We aren’t stuck with the cognitive cards we’ve been dealt! Cognitive psychologist Dr. Amy Lawson Moore shares lessons she and her colleagues have learned about brain training from their clinical research and experience working with more than 101,000 brains. In this talk, Dr. Moore illustrates how brain training should match the complexity of cog...

Through this dance piece, the dancers depict the different idioms and metaphors of life. The complexities of different human relations are portrayed through these metaphors. Through Sasvatha the limitlessness of different complexities of human relations is portrayed

We are pleased to have her as our speaker this year. She is an active psychiatrist who also served as one of our vice-chancellor here at UPN Veteran Jakarta. Through this year's TEDxUPNVJ, she will share her thoughts on "The Rhythm of Heart, Mind, and Body".