TEDx University of San Francisco

06/22/2017

Steve Kraus gave us the grand finale to our event. His talk is titled "The Bifurcated Economy: How Wealth Concentration Is Reshaping Business, Society and the American Dream." We loved his talk and strongly recommend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3F-U_ECGZo

Wealth concentration is the “rich getting richer,” but its implications are far more profound and widespread than this simple phrase conveys. In fact, four d...

06/22/2017

Our third talk of the night was by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati. Sadhvi spoke on her journey to become who she is today. Her talk is titled "From Holywood to Holy Woods: Losing My Mind, Finding My Self." Her talk already has over 33,000 views!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYqIjqwHuc

For most of us, a good education, financial prosperity and a happy marriage are the keys to a successful life, but Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati had all of that...

06/22/2017

Our second talk of the night was by Thomas Nazario. Tom, a Professor at USF's School of Law, gave us insight into how to live life. His talk is titled "Building a Meaningful Life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJukYBVtb9Q

One of the most puzzling questions that nearly all of us, if not all of us, wrestle with, as we grow up, and go out to carve our own paths in life, is the qu...

06/22/2017

Our first talk of the night was Valter Tucci's. His talk, titled "Why Mom and Dad Make Us Who We Are: An Evolutionary and Epigentic Perspective," is about human behavior and genetics. We enjoyed it and hope you do too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEw9qkx78f8

Why Mom and Dad Make Us Who We Are: An Evolutionary and Epigenetic Perspective The attachment style we develop during childhood, by interacting with our care...

06/22/2017

After a long wait, all of our speaker's videos are on the TEDx youtube page!

01/30/2017

Completing our list of speakers, we are fortunate to announce Stephen Krauss will speaking at our event! Stephen Kraus is Chief Insights Officer of Ipsos MediaCT, and author of three books about success and affluence in America. Currently Steve helps lead the design, analysis and interpretation of the Ipsos Affluent Survey USA, a 38-year study tracking Affluent lives, lifestyles, media habits and purchasing patterns.

Mr. Krauss' talk will focus on how wealth concentration follows the idea of “rich getting richer,” but its implications are far more profound and widespread than this simple phrase conveys. In fact, four decades of wealth concentration and economic bifurcation have reshaped virtually every aspect of life throughout much of the world.

For more information on Stephen Krauss please visit http://spotlight.ipsos-na.com/index.php/author/steve-kraus/

Author of three books, Steve is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on consumer insights and market research. His particular areas of expertise include understanding affluent consumers, luxury markets, and the effects of wealth concentration on business and society. Steve is a Senior Vi...

01/30/2017

Our next speaker is Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati! Sadhvi lives in India today, but she was born and raised thousands of miles away in another country and culture. An only child of affluent parents in Los Angeles, she had all she needed to live “the good life”. After completing her undergraduate degree at Stanford she took a vacation with friends to India. What she found changed her life forever.

For more information on Sadhvi please visit
http://www.sadhviji.org/

01/30/2017

Our next speaker is Thomas Nazario! Over his 35-year career, he has taught courses in Family Law, Children's Rights, Education Law, Race Discrimination, Human Rights and Economic Justice and has also worked extensively with inner-city kids in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Nazario's expertise lies in the area of Children's Rights as well as issues related to global poverty. He currently has two books titled "In Defense of Children" and “Living on a Dollar a Day, the Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor.” In addition, Mr. Nazario will be releasing another book called “Doing Good” this spring, and often serves as a host to the le Dalai Lama when His Holiness visits California.

Thomas Nazario will be speaking on “The Making of a Meaningful Life” in which he will dive into the question of "What to do with the years we have been given in the world we live in?" For more information on Mr. Nazario please visit http://www.thomasnazario.com/

The Forgotten International works to bring together people in the world who have great resources with people who have great needs. We provide those with means a way to contribute globally and encourage compassion.

01/23/2017

We have four great speakers coming to our event! Over the next four days we will be introducing the speakers one by one. Our first speaker is Dr. Valter Tucci. Dr. Tucci is a neuroscientist and leader of the laboratory of Genetics and Epigenetics of Behavior at the Italian Institute of Technology (Italy). Previously, he has worked in some of the most important research institutes around the world, including Boston University, MIT and Oxford. Tucci’s recent work is focused on the effects of maternal and paternal genes on sleep and brain functions. For more about Dr. Tucci please visit https://www.iit.it/people/valter-tucci

We are very excited to hear him speak about how genetic and epigenetic factors play an important role in the equation of a healthy family environment!

Valter Tucci is Senior Group Leader of the Neurobehavioural Genetics group at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa).

01/16/2017

TED talk of the day! A simple task that many of us have done wrong our entire lives.

http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes -158317

Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given from the TED stage, in 2005.)

01/15/2017

TED talk of the day! This is a TEDx talk that isn't on the TED website but definitely should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHW5hvTFhrg

A child refugee turned human rights hero, Derreck Kayongo devised a simple solution to a colossal problem. Using an ordinary object to make an extraordinary ...

01/14/2017

TED talk of the day
http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_shape_shifting_dinosaurs

In a spellbinding talk, paleontologist Jack Horner tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs.