TED Speakers

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Joseph Stiglitz
Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Former Chief Economist at the World Bank & Former Chairman of the U.N. Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary & Financial System
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Lemn Sissay
Former Chancellor at The University of Manchester, Official Poet of the 2012 London Olympics & Winner of the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize
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Yuval Noah Harari Official Speaker Profile Picture
Co-Founder of Sapienship, New York Times Bestselling Author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Presenter of the First TED Talk Using a Digital Avatar & Lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Martin Rees
Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, 60th President of the Royal Society & Plumian Professor of Astronomy & Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
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Yoshua Bengio
One of the three Godfathers of AI, Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Operations at Universite de Montreal, Co-director of the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program & Recipient of the Turing Award
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Demis Hassabis Official Speaker Profile Picture
Co-Founder & CEO of Google DeepMind, Former Research Fellow of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit UCL, Founder & CEO of Elixir Studios, Former Lead AI Programmer at Lionhead Studios & 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recipient
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Kai-Fu Lee
Former Vice President at Apple, Google & Microsoft, Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council & Bestselling Author of AI 2041
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Martin Ford
Internationally renowned futurist & New York Times Bestselling Author of Rise of the Robots, Who Received Four Million Views on his TED Talk How We’ll Earn Money in a Future Without Jobs
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John C. Havens
Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous & Intelligent Systems, Executive Director of The Council on Extended Intelligence & Author of Heartificial Intelligence
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Gary Marcus
Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Neural Science at New York University, Founder of Geometric AI & Listed on Forbes 7 Must Read Books in AI for Rebooting AI
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Peter Norvig
Engineering Director at Google, Education Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence & co-author of the standard text on AI, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach With Stuart Russell
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Daniella Genas
Founder of Be The Boss, Visiting Lecturer for Birmingham City University & Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for Ethical Equity