TED Tech Creators & Guests

Chris Anderson is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing.

Sherell Dorsey is the founder and CEO of The Plug.

Modupe Akinola is a psychologist, associate professor of Management at the Columbia Business School, and host of the TED Business Podcast.

Debbie Lovich is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group.

Jamie Beard is the Founder and Executive Director of the Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization.

Holly Herndon is a composer, musician, and sound artist.

Zeynep Tufekci is a writer, academic, and techno-sociologist. She is known primarily for her research on the social implications of emerging technologies in the context of politics and corporate responsibility.

Aicha Evans is the Chief Executive Officer at Zoox.

Shouzi Chew is the CEO at TikTok.

Dr. Keyu Jin is an associate professor (with tenure) of Economics at the London school of Economics. She is from Beijing, China, and holds a B.A., M.A. and Phd from Harvard University.

Lucas Joppa is the Chief Environmental Officer at Microsoft

Nithya Ramanathan is the CEO & co-founder of Nexleaf Analytics.

Karoli Hindriks is the founder of Jobbatical.

Danielle Keats Citron is a law professor. Currently, she is a Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law. She is also the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, an organization which provides assistance and legislative support to victims of online abuse.Prior to joining UVA Law, Citron was a Professor of Law at Boston University Law School and at the University of Maryland School of Law.Citron's first book, "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," was published in 2014, and her second book, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age," was published in 2022. Citron received her B.A. in Middle East Studies from Duke University and her J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law.

Dr. Nita A. Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies. She is a Professor of Law & Philosophy, the Founding Director of Duke Science & Society, Chair of the Duke MA in Bioethics & Science Policy, and principal investigator of SLAP Lab.

TL Uglow ('Tea') is Creative Director for Google's Creative Lab in Sydney. She works with cultural and creative organisations around the world exploring the space between technology and the arts and what can happen where they intersect.

Yuval Noah Harari is an author, public intellectual, historian, and Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Yejin Choi is the Brett Helsel Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington.

Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy