Theme: TEDxTehranLive 2022

It has been over two years that our lives have changed for good; A global pandemic, momentous movements, wars, great deal of technology progress, and countless other life changing matters,
“A New Era” has begun and that is why we should educate ourselves on the novel path that is upon us.
It is our choice to rejuvenate our mind path for the better; What to read? What to let go? What to strengthen within? What to adapt or what to change? In TEDxTehranlive2022, we will watch together and enlighten ourselves on new ideas world has and will face.
The New Era by TEDxTehran will be held on April 29th at “Haftohasht Studio” to mirror a group of TED2022 Talks.

HaftoHasht Coworking Space
Azadi Innovation Factory
Tehran, Tehrān, 10013
Iran

Andrew Ng

AI visionary

At Landing AI, Andrew Ng is on a mission to make artificial intelligence accessible to everyone. Andrew Ng is the founder and CEO of Landing AI, which helps organizations with limited data access the benefits of advanced technologies such as computer vision and deep learning. A pioneering computer scientist, Ng was a co-founder and head of Google Brain and chief scientist at Baidu. An adjunct professor at Stanford University, he is a long-time advocate of accessible education. He led the development of Stanford’s massive open online courses platform (MOOC) and taught an online machine learning class that was offered to more than 100,000 students. That led him to co-found Coursera, the world’s leading MOOC platform, while he also founded the DeepLearning.AI education platform. To date, his AI courses have had more than seven million enrollments. In 2013, Ng was named to the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people.

Bill Gates

Technologist, philanthropist

Bill Gates warned that we weren’t ready for a global pandemic in a talk at TED2015. Now he’s working to make sure the world is better prepared next time around. Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen, and together the pair established the company as a worldwide leader in business and personal software and services. In 2008, he transitioned from his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus full-time on his foundation's work to expand opportunity around the world. In Gates’s upcoming book How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, he outlines the lessons we must learn from COVID-19, the innovations we need to save lives and the new tools we need to stop pathogens early and equitably. He also shares his conversations with public health leaders including Dr.

Elon Musk

Serial entrepreneur

Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. At Tesla, Elon Musk leads all product design, engineering and global manufacturing of the company's electric vehicles, battery products and solar energy products. At SpaceX, he oversees the development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets. SpaceX is developing Starship — a fully reusable transportation system that will carry crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond — and Starlink, which will deliver high-speed broadband internet to places where access has been unreliable, expensive or completely unavailable. By pioneering reusable rockets, SpaceX is pursuing the long-term goal of making humans a multi-planet species by creating a self-sustaining city on Mars.

Garry Kasparov

Grandmaster, analyst

Garry Kasparov is esteemed by many as the greatest chess player of all time. Now he’s engaged in a game with far higher stakes: the preservation of freedom and democracy. Garry Kasparov became the youngest world champion ever at the age of 22 in 1985 and spent 20 years as the world's top-rated player. His legendary matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997 made him a central figure in artificial intelligence and the evolution of the human-machine relationship. He retired from professional chess in 2005 to help lead the Russian pro-democracy opposition against the rising dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. In 2012, Kasparov was named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, which promotes individual liberty worldwide and organizes the annual Oslo Freedom Forum.

James Hodge

Data-driven technologist

At Splunk, James Hodge builds elegant navigation tools to help make big data accessible and useful. James Hodge is a leading data strategist who is the chief strategy advisor at Splunk, a software company focused on helping organizations use data more effectively. Fascinated by the possibilities inherent in data and technology, he believes that when technological tools are intuitive to use, innovation will follow. Hodge is also passionate about data ethics and runs an internal group at Splunk dedicated to supporting efforts in this space. He’s also a startup advisor, helping founders use data to remain competitive.

Katherine Mangu-Ward

Libertarian journalist

Katherine Mangu-Ward is a leading voice of American libertarianism and editor-in-chief of "Reason," the magazine of "free minds and free markets." Journalist Katherine Mangu-Ward started at Reason as an intern in 2000 and has been its editor-in-chief since 2016. She also co-hosts The Reason Roundtable podcast. Topics she's taken on include an argument for why you almost certainly shouldn't vote, a defense of plastic bags and a welcome to our new robot overlords. Mangu-Ward has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Slate and numerous other publications. A Future Tense Fellow at New America, she is also a frequent commentator on radio and television networks including NPR, CNBC, Fox News and MSNBC.

Michael Novogratz

Investor

Michael Novogratz is building a bridge between the worlds of crypto and institutional investing. Michael Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, a financial services firm dedicated to the digital asset, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry. He was formerly a partner and the president of Fortress Investment Group; before that, he spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected partner in 1998. A former US Army helicopter pilot, Novogratz serves as chairman of The Bail Project and is a founding partner of REFORM Alliance. He is a leadership council member at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership and sits on the boards of Hudson River Park Friends, Jazz Foundation of America, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club and USA Wrestling.

Ralph Chami

Environmental economist

Ralph Chami champions an approach to economics that values biodiversity and keystone species. Financial economist Ralph Chami is an assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the co-founder of Rebalance Earth, who has developed a novel way to tackle both climate change and biodiversity loss. Namely, to reposition species such as whales and elephants as crucial allies in the quest to sequester carbon, secure climate-resilient ecosystems and generate income for local communities. Chami himself experienced the majesty of whales firsthand in the Sea of Cortez in 2017. Chami advocates for integrating natural capital into our economy, bringing together investors, conservationists and policymakers. "We're seeking to build a new economic paradigm that is nature-positive and promises to deliver sustainable and shared prosperity to all," he says.

Sergiu P. Pasca

Neuroscientist

Sergiu P. Pasca is deepening our understanding of what makes the human brain unique — and searching for effective therapies for brain disorders. Founding director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis program Sergiu P. Pasca has pioneered transformational new technologies to build human brain circuits in the lab — and gain access to previously inaccessible aspects of brain function. A physician by training, Pasca developed some of the first "in-a-dish" models of disease by deriving neurons from skin cells taken from patients with genetic brain disorders. His lab pioneered a modular platform known as "assembloids" to study the wiring of the human brain -- work that was hailed as the "leading edge of stem-cell research" by Nature and recognized with a Breakthrough in Life Sciences Award by Falling Walls in 2020.