Core Message - Architecture is ubiquitous but often unnoticed, much like the lines on one's hand [2] - Good design disappears when it works well, becoming seamless and unnoticed [6] - Architecture evokes memories and nostalgia, connecting people to the past [7] - Actions today impact future generations, reflecting on the buildings of tomorrow [8] Architectural Impact - Architects translate chaos into reality, creating functional and aesthetically pleasing structures [9] - The built environment, including roads and buildings, shapes daily experiences and commutes [3][4] - Thoughtful design considers even small details like paving and benches [5] Call to Action - The industry encourages people to pay attention to the architecture around them [9] - Noticing and caring about design leads to creating better futures [9]

It was early morning just before rounds. I was putting on my white coat when my phone rang. It was Anita's mom.Her voice broke before she could even say the words. She's gone. A fist closed around my chest, my breath caught.I leaned against the hospital wall as the world around me swirled. The antiseptic sting in the air, the steady beeping in the monitors, nurses shuffling quietly past me with clipboards in their hands. The sounds of the hospital still there, but suddenly distant, muffled, unreal.Anita, my ...

[applause] 5:30 a. m. My mother says a brief prayer.Hands are intellect as I prepare myself to make the 43 kilometer commute from Tokaza to Santon. 5:40 a. m.I feel the crisp morning breeze on my face. Index finger pointed downwards to signal to oncoming traffic. One taxi passes, then another, and another, and eventually one stops.With my lunch bag and laptop bag, I quickly make my way into the taxi. Right to the back. By the way, you know, want to be at the back of the taxi.In South Africa, there is no han ...

Ladies and gentlemen, do welcome onto the stage Julia Hasslon. [applause] [applause] If you ask me what's one of the biggest mistakes leaders make, some expect me to say something about market shift strategies or KPIs. But hear the truth.One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is thinking that love is a feeling. It is not. Love is a set of actions that bring out the best in you without expecting anything in return.And when you lead from that place, magic happens. People don't just perform, they thrive. I g ...

The ice cold medication shot up my arm and into my neck. The room was spinning. I rolled over and closed my eyes trying to make it stop. The pain in my back was still there. Was not quite as bad, but it made it really hard to move. The ER was busy. The monitors chirp next to me and in the distance like the drone of crickets on a summer evening. The head nurse called the staff together outside my door for morning meeting. "Don't forget to be kind today," she reminded them as if speaking to a class of kinderg ...

[Music] A very good morning to everybody. The youth of India is right here. The growth drivers of our Indian economy in the coming years.So I'm very pleased to be a part of this event today and be sharing my thoughts and my life stories with you all on this wonderful topic of care to create. Now you've heard I've been part of the IT corporate sector for over 15 years now. Now to the young minds out here I feel that you are intrigued by this wonderful world of technology.So before I move on, I would like to ...

My comeback didn't begin in a stadium or at a life-changing conference. It began in aisle 5 of a Walgreens. It was a cold January day. I was picking up toothpaste, nursing a hangover again, clutching a coffee, and feeling the pain rock my brain from back to front. I studied myself. Shopping basket on my arm. The fluorescent lights a little too bright for me. Valentine's Day was around the corner, but I was worried about my friend Steve. He'd been acting erratically the night before, and I'd stepped in to ta ...

[music] I'm often asked, how would you describe yourself. A lifelong learner, a free will traveler, environmentalist, a conservationist, or an ocean advocate. And often I pause to think and then I always inevitably choose to be an oceans's advocate. And why I choose to be an ocean advocate lies from my childhood to the way my career has shaped the way I have shaped.Let me take you back. Let me take you to decades ago when I was a child holding my father's hand standing at the railway station waving goodbyes ...

designed a simple solution for tight shirt collars, an elastic band with a button. If you have ever worked a dress shirt that is just a little too tight, you know the sheily, that pinch, that pressure, that desperate urge to unbutton just to breathe. And yet you keep it closed because appearances matter.That was me. Trying to keep it all together on the outside, suffocating on the inside, trapped by fear. I couldn't bring it.I didn't want just a divorce from my husband. I wanted a divorce from fear, from th ...

[संगीत] हम वो आखिरी पीढ़ी हैं जिसने पोस्ट ऑफिस का इस्तेमाल किया और उसे अलविदा भी कहा। हम वो आखिरी पीढ़ी हैं जिसने ट्रंक कॉल बुक करा के बात की और आज दिन में दसों बार फेस टाइम करते हैं। हम ही वो पीढ़ी हैं जिसने अपनी इंटेलिजेंस से आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस बना डाला। इसलिए यह हमारी जिम्मेदारी है कि आने वाली पीढ़ी को बताएं हाउ टू स्टे इंटेलिजेंट इन द वर्ल्ड ऑफ आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस। इस वक्त चाहती हूं कि आप एक नाम सोें। एक नाम जो जिसे आप जानते हैं आपके लिए बहुत खास है। एंड यू लुक अप टू दैट पर्सन। सोच लिया. आप में स ...