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How to shape your future: the four gates of change

Claude Garcia
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How to build better buildings

Magda Posani
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Courageous Swiss Senior Women for Climate Protection

Elisabeth Stern
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Turning the world’s largest waste stream into a CO2 sink

Anna Haas

2023 – Rebuilding

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Developing assistive technologies through co-creatio

Sarah Ebling
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Choosing to Matter

Chris Luebkeman
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Burnout is a cyber risk

Yanya Viskovich
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The Power of Positivity : How to "unjerk" our communication

Guy Katz
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Why the next personal computer will give you AI superpowers

Alexander Ilic
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To prepare a Simpler Future, other than Preserve a Complex Past: Cities, Complexity and Coexistence

Markus Schaefer
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A bacterial link between nutrition and health

Tomas de Wouters
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Why we should search for alien artifacts

Beatriz Villarroel
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Humor today for a better tomorrow?

Jamie Gloor
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How to bring community-led culture to life

Patrycja Pielaszek
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Perfomance

Zurich School of Samba
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Performance

Olga
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Perfomance

Nola

2021 – Trail Blazers

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Who am I?

Cachita
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Ballet - the embodiment of culture, communication & practice

Gabriel Stoyanov
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Inflatable Robots – More Than Hot Air

Matthias Hofer
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How to question numbers and prevent manipulation

Quentin Gallea
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Analogue Space Missions: A rehearsal for the achievement of greatness

Eleonore Poli
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How to be truly happy at work

Aurélie Litynski
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Re-imagine everything!

Håkan Lidbo
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How AI helps us know in time when a child stops breathing

Ana Campos
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Reinventing Fridays

Fikret Zendeli

2020 – Breakout

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AI – freedom within and freedom without

Dorothea Baur
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Humanity, it's time to grow up

Oksana Pilatova
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3 Key Elements to Thriving Mentorship

Janet Phan
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Make the glaciers great again

Jean-Baptiste Bosson
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A new perspective on managing difficult social situations

Rob Thompson
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Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable

Andres Andrekson
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Shooting Blanks: What Happens When Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology?

Jody Madeira
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What conversations with machines can teach us about human conversations

Anne Scherer
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Robots that feel by seeing

Carlo Sferrazza
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How to write an email that will always be answered!

Guy Katz

2019 – TEDxWomen: Bold & Brilliant (Museum für Gestaltung)

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Change: What are we really avoiding?

Ruth Wood
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Mothers and managers have much in common

Daniela Marino
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It’s not a matter of gender, it’s a matter of universal message

Elisa Pistis
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Save your company money; give your employees a raise!

Wies Bratby
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Swiss Women: 50 years of struggles and development of political rights

Zita Küng

2019 – Power of 10

How to Win when the Race is Over | Marco Büchel
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How to Win when the Race is Over

Marco Büchel
Illusion - Just Another Reality? | Lionel Dellberg
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Illusion - Just Another Reality?

Lionel Dellberg
Musical Performance | Priya Ragu | TEDxZurich
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Musical Performance

Priya Ragu
Moving Money to Meaning | Marta Ra | TEDxZurich
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Moving Money to Meaning

Marta Ra
How Our Weaknesses Can Become Our Strengths | David Rendall | TEDxZurich
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How Our Weaknesses Can Become Our Strengths

David Rendall
Musical Performance | Naomi Lareine | TEDxZurich
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Musical Performance

Naomi Lareine
Reversing Climate Change with One Word | Sarah Perreard | TEDxZurich
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Reversing Climate Change with One Word

Sarah Perreard
Good Enough Sex | Anka Grzywacz | TEDxZurich
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Good Enough Sex

Anka Grzywacz
How to Win Election Campaigns in a Changing World | Louis Perron | TEDxZurich
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How to Win Election Campaigns in a Changing World

Louis Perron
Decipher the Female Body | Lisa Falco | TEDxZurich
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Decipher the Female Body

Lisa Falco
3D Print Evolution | Benjamin Dillenburger | TEDxZurich
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3D Print Evolution

Benjamin Dillenburger
Failing Heroes: Why Diversity Isn’t As Brave As Inclusion | Isaac Glover | TEDxZurich
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Failing Heroes: Why Diversity Isn’t As Brave As Inclusion

Isaac Glover
A Plea for Improvisation | Jojo Mayer | TEDxZurich
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A Plea for Improvisation

Jojo Mayer
Teaching Robots to See: Current Challenges & Developments in Robotics | Margarita Chli | TEDxZurich
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Teaching Robots to See: Current Challenges & Developments in Robotics

Margarita Chli
Create Enduring Love with and Against the Odds | Rebekka Grun | TEDxZurich
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Create Enduring Love with and Against the Odds

Rebekka Grun
Hard Facts for Soft People | Peter Lång | TEDxZurich
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Hard Facts for Soft People

Peter Lång
Decoding Yoga | Sanjeev Bhanot | TEDxZurich
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Decoding Yoga

Sanjeev Bhanot
Lifelong Employability | Philippa Dengler | TEDxZurich
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Lifelong Employability

Philippa Dengler
Behind the Art | Bob Sumner | TEDxZurich
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Behind the Art

Bob Sumner

2018 – Connection

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The Perfect Mother Needs To Go

Andrea Jansen
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Wicked games: using games to resolve environmental conflicts

Claude Garcia
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Land as a Commons

Nikolai Fuchs
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Why identity is a human right

Dominique Kunz
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Can we overcome division? Learning from those who've been through the worst

Lea Suter
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What nobody told me about growing up

Alexandra Mandoki
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Connecting with the world

Jamil El-Imad
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WE GO TO MARS!

Domenico Giardini
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What's Good Architecture And Why The World Doesn't Need More Star Architects

Xi Zhang
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Expanding our experimental horizons through untranslatable words

Tim Lomas
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The new wine language: a simpler concept

Madelyne Meyer
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Consciousness, connection and nature - the root cause of the root cause

Davor Kosanic
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Gaming meets fitness: Engaging virtual training Worlds

Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken
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Poetic Spaces of Human Experience - Art and Research

Jan Schacher & Daniel Bising

2017 – Opening Doors

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The World through Labels

Rima Alaifari
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Opening Doors for Refugees in the IT Industry

Christian Hirsig
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Learning from the Grassroots Response to the European Refugee Crisis

Liska Bernet
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Separating Leadership from Pay

Stephan Hostettler
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Dream Big. Smile and Take a Step

Judith Safford
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A Magical History Tour

Diccon Bewes
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Transforming Ownership to Create a Better Economy

Armin Steuernagel
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Striving for the Perfect Digital Human

Pascal Berard
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Reclaiming Journalism for Readers

Nadja Schnetzler
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A Conversation with Democritus

Ben Moore
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Cyborgs – Fantasy, Threat or Chance?

Robert Riener
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I Want to be a Stand Up Comedian, but I’m Swiss

Fabian Unteregger
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Broken Place & I See the Light

CEE
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That’s One Big Living Room!

CHEZ LIM
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Beautiful and Stunning Adagio Performance

Gabriel Stoyanov

2016 – People First

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Phoenix

Stella Cruz
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100 Happy Days

Dmitry Golubnichy
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The Mental Health System – A Call for Change

Nora Blum
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Augmented Creativity

Bob Sumner
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Humans & AI: A Healthy Relationship?

Marcel Blattner
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Willpower

Evelyne Binsack
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Small Money – Big Impact

Peter Fanconi
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Capture You

TRUE
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Why Diversity Matters

Suzie LeVine & Eric LeVine
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Human Rights in 2066

William Schabas
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Plea For Daily Creative Act

Cristina Riesen
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Some Truths About Honesty

Alexander Wagner
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Point Cloud Modeling the Alpine Landscape

Christophe Girot

2015 – Re-imagining Everything

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Flying through (virtual) reality

Patrik Künzler
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Tomatoes talk, birch trees learn – do plants have dignity?

Florianne Koechlin
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Dementia precaution should become as normal as going to the dentist

Ioannis Tarnanas
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Shady Midnight Orchestra

Marena Whitcher
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Why its time to elect your boss

Marc Stoffel
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The power of voice

Nadine Bienefeld
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Negotiation engineering

Michael Ambühl
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Aesthetic activism in the business of beauty

Anju Rupal
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Fighting dyslexia with computer science

Markus Gross
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What happens when no one is watching… and how to break the cycle

Andreia Fernandes
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The right and the wrong way to look at the war in Syria

Kurt Pelda
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Allowing mobile devices to navigate and understand the world we live in

Simon Lynen
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Re-setting the public image of modern successful women

Jennifer Miksch
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Mental (w)illness

Christian Wehbe

2014 – STOP.START

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Live music act

Mich Gerber
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Stop, look, think, and then, maybe you can do

Xavier Vilalta
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This bullsh*t might save the world

Thomas Rippell
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Empowering women to power the world

Anya Cherneff
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It's ok to look

Kristen Vermilyea
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How to inspire leaders to grow

Omid Aschari
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Fascinating ants -- lessons for humans?

Danielle Mersch
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Theory of mind through the lens of algorithms

Andreea Diaconescu
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Not a thing of the past -- the mysteries of hush-hush syphilis

Natasha Arora
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The power of the small world phenomenon

Richard Olsen
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Artificial intelligence: dream or nightmare?

Stefan Wess
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Music performance

Rival Kings
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Honey, football changed my life

Honey Thaljieh
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My survival story -- what I learned from having cancer

Martin Inderbitzin
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From kites to drones (to kites again)

Sergei Lupashin
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Designing the data economy

Georg Polzer
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A late-onset physics love story

Emily Costello
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Down to Earth - retrieving our true human potential

Rolf WInters
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Music performance

Black Barons
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Puppies! Now that I've got your attention, complexity theory

Nicola Perony

2013

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Risk literacy

Gerd Gigerenzer
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The future of marketing, from Plato to Bill HIcks

Sean Dromgoole
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Shaping liquids to find tumors in human tissues

Emmanuel Delamarche
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The power of play

Ian Livingstone
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Music performance

Mia Aegerter
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Impact through rationality

Michael Moor
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A futurespective of a life yet to be lived

Marily Nika
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Crime investigation -- possibilities and limitations?

Marco Gercke
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How the body shapes the way we think

Rolf Pfeifer
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Music performance

Rodrigo Botter Maio
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Boundary extensions with aerial silking adventures (Talk)

Miki Adderley
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Boundary extensions with aerial silking adventures (Performance)

Miki Adderley
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Decoding our digital traces

Suzy Moat
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Loss and recapture of hand control

Jan Frieden
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Be the architect of your own world

Ankita Makwana
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The philosophy of government surveillance

Judith Simon
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Listening to data from the Large Hadron Collider

Lily Asquith

2012

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Why bodybuilding at age 93 is a great idea

Charles Eugster
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Bicycle culture by design

Mikael Colville-Andersen
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Who controls the world

James B. Glattfelder
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How to avoid gender stereotypes

Eleanor Tabi Haller-Jordan
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Music performance

Domi Chansorn
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Building medical robots, bacteria sized

Bradley Nelson
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Musical sculptures

Jan Henrik Hansen
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Music animation machine

Stephen Malinowski
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A tax on bottled water

Jorge Vinuales
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Researching human locomotion

Stelian Coros
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Humanity in action

Christoph von Toggenburg
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Mind-controlled machines

Jose del R. Millan
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Swisscross, protecting health care in times of war

Enrique Steiger
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Music performance

Jurczok 1001
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How the Swiss Confederal Model could be applied to a United Europe

Jacques Neirynck
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Running and Flying across the Alps

Thomas Theurillat & Christian Maurer
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Deep water horizon: How hunting territory made an oil rig sink

Istvan Gorgenyi
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Pool medical patents, save lives

Ellen' t Hoen

2011

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Journey to the ends of the world

Saytabrata Dam
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Music performance

OY
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Exploring the distance between 0 and 1

Joio Meyer
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Value driven living

Benedikt Germanier
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Are nanosensors the future's guardian angels?

Christofer Hierold
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Bubble Trouble

Tobias Preis
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Sprawl Rocks

Matthias Daum
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Musical Performance

All Hands
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History and future of mapping

Bernhard Seefeld
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Why I create pop-up farms in my city

Roman Gaus
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Drugs and morals

Molly Crockett
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Inside the belly of CERN

Eleanor Dobson
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Australopithecus sediba

Peter Schmid
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Leading through language

Thomas Zweifel
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Play to break taboos

Karin Stierlin
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Bloch

Johannes Hedinger
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Political leaders' use and abuse of social media

Matthias Lüfkens
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Interdisciplinary science

Arzu Çöltekin
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1000 TED Talks in 8 minutes

Sebastian Wernicke
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The magic of truth and lies

Marco Tempest

2010

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Listen to those from whom we expect nothing

Martin Werlen
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About living environments

Rachel Armstrong
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How to manage organizational energy

Heike Bruch
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How technology can influence our behaviour

Elgar Fleisch
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On how to end torture worldwide

Karen Tse
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Wants to make clothing traceable

Robin Cornelius
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Explains how he builds a sustainable bank

Reto Ringger
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On how ideas can travel further

Bruno Giussani
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How to play Birom

Gian Klainguti
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How to turn urban sprawl into an «aggloasis»

Margrit Hugentobler
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Visualizing politics and the two kinds of smart people

Michael Hermann
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How an ancient greek thinker can help us understand technology

David Bauer
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Look at our one-wheeled robot

Gwender & Limacher (tech demo)
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How a high-tech sorcerer works

Marco Tempest
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Switzerland needs more brainpower

Nicola Foster
Sarah Ebling

          Sarah Ebling holds a professorship in Accessibility Studies at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and is a senior researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on natural language processing in the context of disabilities and special needs, specifically, sign language technology and automatic text simplification. Her groups’ contributions involve artificial intelligence techniques with a strong emphasis on user involvement. She is involved in various international and national projects and leads a large-scale Swiss innovation initiative entitled „Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies“ (2022-2026; https://www.iict.uzh.ch/).