TED@IBM
TED@IBM is a multi-year collaboration, with touch points across the TED ecosystem. The partnership with IBM includes master classes and workshops to exchange expertise at TED conferences, organizational professional development in leadership and public speaking, video content to amplify IBM's untapped ideas and features a TED-curated banner event with diverse group of speakers from across the IBM community. Jointly produced by TED and IBM, this event puts a spotlight on ideas, data and insights that celebrates the thinkers reimagining our world. Learn more about the TED Institute
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Lisa Feldman Barrett: You aren't at the mercy of your emotions — your brain creates them
Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research -- and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Eric Berridge: Why tech needs the humanities
If you want to build a team of innovative problem-solvers, you should value the humanities just as much as the sciences, says entrepreneur Eric Berridge. He shares why tech companies should look beyond STEM graduates for new hires -- and how people with backgrounds in the arts and humanities can bring creativity and insight to technical workplaces.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Raphael Arar: How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions
How can we make AI that people actually want to interact with? Raphael Arar suggests we start by making art. He shares interactive projects that help AI explore complex ideas like nostalgia, intuition and conversation -- all working towards the goal of making our future technology just as much human as it is artificial.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman: The wonderful world of life in a drop of water
"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen -- without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engineer Simone Bianco hook up a 3D microscope to a drop of water and take you scuba diving with plankton. Learn more about these mesmerizing creatures and get inspired to protect them against ongoing threats from climate change.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Tapiwa Chiwewe: You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems
Driving in Johannesburg one day, Tapiwa Chiwewe noticed an enormous cloud of air pollution hanging over the city. He was curious and concerned but not an environmental expert -- so he did some research and discovered that nearly 14 percent of all deaths worldwide in 2012 were caused by household and ambient air pollution. With this knowledge and an urge to do something about it, Chiwewe and his colleagues developed a platform that uncovers trends in pollution and helps city planners make better decisions. "Sometimes just one fresh perspective, one new skill set, can make the conditions right for something remarkable to happen," Chiwewe says. "But you need to be bold enough to try."
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
David Katz: What if you could turn plastic trash into cash?
Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank: a worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is available for purchase in exchange for plastic garbage -- which is then sorted, shredded and sold to brands who reuse "social plastic" in their products. Join David Katz to learn more about this step towards closing the loop in the circular economy. "Preventing ocean plastic could be humanity's richest opportunity," Katz says.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Lisa Feldman Barrett: You aren't at the mercy of your emotions — your brain creates them
Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of physiology studies to understand what emotions really are. She shares the results of her exhaustive research -- and explains how we may have more control over our emotions than we think.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Eric Berridge: Why tech needs the humanities
If you want to build a team of innovative problem-solvers, you should value the humanities just as much as the sciences, says entrepreneur Eric Berridge. He shares why tech companies should look beyond STEM graduates for new hires -- and how people with backgrounds in the arts and humanities can bring creativity and insight to technical workplaces.
TED@IBM San Francisco 2017
Eric Berridge
Why tech needs the humanities
Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman
The wonderful world of life in a drop of water
Lisa Feldman Barrett
You aren't at the mercy of your emotions — your brain creates them
Adam Cutler
Can we be friends with our AI?
The Ferocious Few
"Crying Shame"
Robin Hauser
Can we protect AI from our biases?
Bruno Michel
How our brains will keep up with AI
Eleftheria Pissadaki
A mathematical model for predicting Parkinson’s
TED@IBM San Francisco 2016
Caleb Barlow
Where is cybercrime really coming from?
Grady Booch
Don't fear superintelligent AI
Adam Grant
Are you a giver or a taker?
Joshua Smith
New nanotech to detect cancer early
George Tulevski
The next step in nanotechnology
Charity Wayua
A few ways to fix an ailing government
Andrew Arruda
The world's first AI legal assistant
Tim Exile
An instrument anyone can play
Juliane Gallina
A library of minds
Villy Wang
A business against racism
Holladay Brothers
To the beat of light
Ise Lyfe
We are not mud
Wobbly World
Diversity in harmony
TED@IBM San Francisco 2015
Maria Dubovitskaya
Take back control of your personal data
Jeannette Garcia
A super-strong plastic that reverts to dust
Lisa-Marie Johnston
"Home to Oakland" and "Walk Away"
Shoel Perelman
How a company can nurture its internal rebels
Robert Prill
The microbes in our food can save lives
Lloyd Treinish
This weather forecasting model is actually accurate
TED@IBM San Francisco 2014
Kare Anderson
Be an opportunity maker
Susan Etlinger
Critical Thinking: The Killer App for Big Data
Gianluca Ambrosetti
A local, sustainable solution to the energy crisis
Monika Blaumueller
How we could use big data to forecast the next global outbreak
Erick Brethenoux
The big data behind complex human emotions
Lisa Seacat DeLuca
A vision of the future from IBM's most prolific inventor
Bryan Kramer
Why social media is reimagining our future
Charlene Li
Efficient leadership in the digital era
Marie Wallace