[applause] Hi everyone, my name is Nicole Lopez Alvar and I'm the food editor of Miami New Times. I was born and raised in Miami and I attended the University of Miami and so did my parents. But my twin brother AJ, he did not go to college. You see, my twin brother AJ has autism spect spectrum disorder.And for those unfamiliar, the spectrum ranges from high functioning to low functioning. And my twin brother AJ falls on the low side of that spectrum. But that does not make him any less than.They always say ...

Remember [applause] when you were little and you heard a scary noise in the house. You froze, didn't move, because if you moved, the monster will hear you and will come get you. I was 12 when my monster changed a little bit.At 12, we packed everything we had and moved from Ukraine to California with $5,000 in our pockets. As we moved, I started riding my bike to school. One day, on my way back home, I was riding my bike.It was sunny, warm, palm trees everywhere. As I turned into our street, something felt d ...

[applause] I want to start with something you've probably seen recently. Maybe your own home, maybe in someone else's. The elf on the shelf.Now, every December, millions of households place this small figurine somewhere inside their home. The rules are simple. The elf watches the children and each night it reports back to Santa on who has been naughty and who has been nice.But here's what I find striking. The elf never actually does anything. It doesn't explain consequences. It doesn't punish anyone. It doe ...

Before [applause] most of us even get out of bed, we've already given our attention away. The notifications, the emails, the to-do list flashing on your phone long before your feet have even touched the ground. We live in environments designed for speed, consumption, and constant attention. And then we wonder why we feel overwhelmed, why we can't focus, why we feel behind, why becoming our best self feels exhausting instead of natural. We're told to be productive, to change the world. They say if you do som ...

Just by a simple raise of hands, who here took the exact same route to get to school or work today as you did yesterday. Did you go up the same hill, turn left at the same spot as you did last week. Have you only taken one route to get to work every day this autumn.Just raise your hand if any of that applies to you. Okay, if your hand is raised, let me ask you one more question. Are you a robot.Sorry, sorry, this is a TEDex talk. Let me use a buzzword. Are you one by AI.Because that's what robots do. The ex ...

[applause] [applause] I am an opera director. I know it sounds like a madeup job, but I promise it's real and it's really fun. I actually get paid to be around beautiful singing and costumes and lights and sets, you know, really glamorous, over-the-top stuff. Now, in the classical music world, we sometimes joke that our work involves recreating the music of dead white guys, you know, Puchini, Veri, Mozart. And admittedly, opera can be offputting to some people. I mean, it's hard to relate to a guy in a powd ...

You've all probably seen this annoying message keep popping up on your screen over and over again on your apps, on login, on websites. The world keeps asking us the same question over and over again. Are you human.The message that you're seeing right here is called, go back one slide, a capture, a completely automated public touring test to tell computers and humans apart. Really, it's getting that difficult to tell the difference between me and my computer. Now, technologies can analyze our data. AI can wr ...

Have you ever looked at a student athletes and thought they have it all without recognizing how much they're holding together when nobody's paying attention. You see, people notice the confidence. People notice a performance.People notice a version of you that looks steady even when the world is pulling you into opposite directions. What people don't always notice is the pressure behind that steadiness, the choices behind the confidence. And tonight, I want to talk about what it really feels to grow up as a ...

سبحان الله يوسف السليماني الاهلي ‏For those of you don't know me, last year I was the first president of the student council. So what I going to talk about today. Today I want to talk about a skill that really shaped my life and that is management.سو خلينا نرجع خطوه خطوه حرجع للسنوات الابتدائيه ل في المدرسه primaryoc ‏student you know of course it has pr my social circle is quite narrow and i have much responsibilities on my hand so around grade 6 I decided that I want to try something new but what was hold ...

Um, if you didn't hear already, my name is Salam Munchi and I'm an an alumni from AGS. But before I start my talk, I just want to ask you all one question. At any point in your life, did you feel like you had to go on one set path or one specific path just because someone else told you to do it.Raise your hands if you agree. I see a lot of hands. A lot of agreement.Okay. Okay. That was my life for the most part.So, okay. Let me set the scene. So, I'm an only child and I didn't grow up with anyone my age fro ...