Oh, great. I can't see you. Thank you so much for having me.I'm so excited to be here today. Before we get started, I can't see you, but I do want you to raise your hand if you've ever made a mistake that made you want to just crawl in a hole and hide for the rest of your life. I certainly have made my fair share of mistakes.In fact, on my career journey, I have faced fear, failure, and embarrassment. But what if I told you that your mistakes can become really powerful learning opportunities. That's right.I ...

Growing up, like every normal 10-year-old, my biggest fear was failure. I'd look at all your slightly shocked and sat slightly confused faces and think, "Maybe this wasn't as common as a fear as I thought." You have to understand that I was as type A as they came. I was the type of kid that needed to organize her toys before playing with them.I had built so much of my identity on my grades and my accomplishments, whether or not I got the highest grades, whether or not I won the best competitions. I mean, th ...

Good afternoon everyone. It's so nice to see all your lovely faces here today. Thank you for coming. Uh I'm Lauren Bojarski. Like they said, I am a geriatric neurologist. I specialize in memory care. Uh all my patients call me Dr.. Bojo. So if you ever see me in the supermarket, feel free to call me Dr.. Bojo. I'm also assistant professor and I'm associate program director. So do a lot of teaching. But today I want to teach you about something else. I want to tell you a story that actually came from a patie ...

Last year, I lost both my younger sister and my mother to cancer in the same week. The day my younger sister died, my older sister took care of everything and I stayed with my mother on but the sound was off. We weren't watching.The room was still left to say. I just sat beside her as she faced the unimaginable loss of her youngest child. And days later, she was gone.People keep asking me, "How did you get through it?" But that's not the right question. The real question is what holds you together when ever ...

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming. I'm truly honored to be here.Ambitious. I have heard that word many times. Usually right before I'm about to do something unusual, something unexpected, a little outside the box.And every time I hear it, it lands differently. I still remember the first time it really confused me. I was at a family gathering with my cousins when I told them that I wanted to build my career in healthcare that I wanted to become a doctor and right away they said oh you want to beco ...

Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning. It's a beautiful sunny day, unlike today, of course. You put the kettle on, but just then you hear a knock on your door.When you open it, you see that the police are waiting for you. You're confused. What could you have possibly done.It is then that you are falsely accused of brutally murdering your own child. This is the start of an ordeal that will remain etched in the history of the Irish legal system. You don't know it yet, but the law will fail you.Your vindication ...

When we talk about changes, we're thinking about faster machines, smarter systems, and greater efficiency. But today, I'm going to ask a different question. Are we building the machines to improve human lives. As the machines become more intelligent, are we feeling more fulfilled.In 20 in 20 sorry, in 1926, we built machines to assist human labor. In 2026, we build systems that amplify intelligence. We call them digital or AI assistant or agent.This is a profound shift. It seems everything has changed, but ...

So, I may well be the worst PhD student that Trinity College Dublin has ever had in its 400y year plus history. Um, my sincere thanks go to my PhD supervisors who are evidently very patient individuals. When it comes to this talk, I think it's important to say that um you may leave with more questions than answers and that's absolutely fine.And in fact, it's better than fine. It's great. That's what I want. Um and that's what we need when it comes to ecosystems. So curiosity is an extremely powerful thing w ...

If you told me that I'd be a rugby player, I would have said no. That have more than 52 cup for Ireland, more than 20 cup for Lester. Never. That journey just didn't start there. The journey started when I was 9 years old. When my mother put me on a plane from Cameroon, I recently had a conversation with her and asked her why and she told me for better opportunity. She had a dream for me that I couldn't see. So I pack she packed my bag my backpack and I met my dad here. My dad lived here with his family. I ...

It's a crisp winter evening. There's frost racing around the edge of my window. The one that makes the whole world feel quieter.As I often do, so I step into my back garden, not to stargaze dematically, but just to have a quick survey of the clouds. Clear sky, good visibility. As I'm standing there looking at the constellations above my head, I notice something different.Soft green ripples of light across the sky. Aurora in Dublin. I run upstairs, probably screaming something incoherent, and drag my parents ...