I spent most of my life not believing the main point that I'm trying to make today. But what if the next big thing was sitting right in our front porch. So, I'm born and raised in the South and when I was six years old, I launched my first venture along with my brother and sister who are here today and we built a putt putt course in our backyard.Violated all kinds of HOA rules and we would charge kids from around the neighborhood to come play around a putt putt. Pineacres putt was the name. And when they ge ...

I'd like to begin my talk not with a personal anecdote or anything that might be considered very heavy immediately, but instead I want to cover a couple of ground components. So, how many know what word altruism means? All right, I've got a few hands. I've got a few hands. Um, let's cover that and then I'll get into my talk. Right. So altruism is essentially the fancy word that behavioral scientists and psychologists like to give doing charitable acts. So that's things uh that you do without anything in exc ...

Okay. The the the thing I am here to say the culture of the coffee shop it it changed me. It changed everything about how I want to connect with people.You know, it changed the way I view you. It changed the way I saw myself. And um I think that's because through coffee I found my medium for connection. Uh I think I think we all have a medium and and to my surprise that that was it.Um there's are so many dialects of connection, right. Like the way that we want to interact with people and the way that we wan ...

The year is 2007. The first iPhone is already two years into development and Steve Jobs presents it to the whole world at a key conference. After the conference, the engineers ask Job, "How is it. " And he says, "Everything is great except one problem. We need glass." Jeff Williams, the COO of Apple at the time, explains to him that it would be impossible for them to have glass on it and that it would take at least 3 to four years before the technology developed enough where the glass wouldn't shatter on th ...

The last time I was on a stage like this, I was giving an apology. It was January 24th and me and a team of high schoolers were organizing the first TEDex youth event in upstate South Carolina. TEDex 5 Forks Youth.We had been planning for six to seven months with 15 change makers, eight youth speakers, hundreds of emails, hundreds of Zoom meetings, all of it leading up to this moment. I remember waiting backstage excitedly thinking to myself that all of these efforts that we'd been putting in would finally ...

Hello everyone, my name is Yana Romanesco and before starting I have a question for all of you. Does anyone here have a superpower? Well, I thought I had one. Growing up, I thought perfectionism was my superpower. Overanalyzing the slightest events, creating multiple scenarios with different courses of action, overthinking each decision, and feeling like the world has ending for every tiny mistake. No, I wasn't born with it. My perfectionism, which is in fact a fancier and more acceptable way for saying anx ...

Imagine a world integrated into AI. And I don't mean the ones where robots take over or like the movie The Matrix. I mean a world where AI is loved and admired.When I think of this, I think of autonomous vehicles, delivery drones, smart houses, smart buildings, and most importantly, robots and humans living together. This is how tragic depicted what I was imagining. Now I want all of you to think about your dream AI world.How does it look. How does it feel. Do you feel safe.The possibilities and questions a ...

[applause] Sometimes a person enters our life who changes everything. We may not know it at the time, but years later when we look back, we realize that if we hadn't met that particular person, our life wouldn't be what it is now. For me, one of those people is Keith McKenzie, a retired veteran of the British Army's elite parachute regiment and a retired firefighter with more than 20 years of service who was suffering with nightmares due to the traumatic events they had been through. I first met Keith at a ...

When I retired from municipal policing in 2018 after decades in uniform, one of which I actually was, Sergeant Slaughter, I left I left my team with some words of wisdom. Four exactly. They were the four Ps of policing.Purpose, power, partnerships, and play. At the time, I thought those lessons were just for law enforcement. I didn't realize that they would guide me through one of the most difficult chapters of my life.Because when I left the job, what stayed with me wasn't the badge or the uniform. It was ...

I want to ask you a question. Have you ever wonder how just in one year you could turn your life around. 2023 was a very lucky year for me.I got the job I dreamed of. I married the love of my life and became German citizen. But none of those things happened because of luck. They happened because of a series of small small steps.And none of those small steps were an indicator of where I am and who I am today. But let me start by the beginning of this chapter of my life. Today I'm 36 years old.I was born in D ...