The world is experiencing exponential growth and Rio de Janeiro, a true megalopolis of six million people, is a prime example. Thus, TEDGlobal 2014 has announced they will be “setting up shop” in Rio’s Copacabana Beach theater in the search to find “fresh thinking” in emerging geographies.
More than 40 speakers and performers have confirmed their attendance, each focusing on the “many facets of the Global South’s rise in influence and power” and relevant new stories from around the world.
Register here and continue after the break for complete list of confirmed speakers and Rio’s Mayor Eduardo Paes’ TED Talk “Four commandments of cities”...
Speakers:
- Grimanesa Amoros, Peruvian interdisciplinary artist
- Marie Arana, Biographer of Simón Bolívar
- Alejandro Aravena, Chilean architect
- Séverine Autesserre, Congo scholar
- Tasso Azevedo, Brazilian forest conservationist
- Rodrigo Baggio, Brazilian digital inclusionist
- Khalida Brohi, Pakistani equality activist
- Circle of Sound, World music duo
- Teresa Corção, Chef and campaigner
- Melissa Fleming, UNHCR spokesperson
- Wendy Freedman, Astronomer
- Misha Glenny, Journalist
- Glenn Greenwald, Journalist
- Isabel Hoffman, Food-print activist
- Syed Karim, Satellite datacaster
- Vincent Moon, Nomadic filmmaker
- Kimberley Motley, Afghanistan's only foreign litigator
- Robert Muggah, Global urban thinker
- Vik Muniz, Brazilian artist and activist
- Ethan Nadelmann, Global drug policy specialist
- Jimmy Nelson, Last tribes photographer
- Miguel Nicolelis, Brain interface pioneer
- José Padilha, Filmmaker, director of Elite Squad
- Mark Plotkin, Amazonian ethnobotanist
- Navi Radjou, Jugaad thinker
- Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk
- Ricardo Semler, Visionary entrepreneur
- José Miguel Sokoloff, Colombia anti-guerrilla creative
- Steve Song, Africa connectivity tinkerer
- Jorge Soto, Cancer detection technologist
- Danay Suárez, Cuban singer/songwriter
- Robert Swan, Antarctic explorer
- Fred Swaniker, African leadership entrepreneur
- Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Drug policy expert
- Bruno Torturra, Livestreaming activist
- Zeynep Tufekci, Technosociologist
- Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas, Favela painters
- Joanna Wheeler, Violence researcher
- Oren Yakobovich, Hidden-camera activist
- Tashka Yawanawa, Amazonian chief
Eduardo Paes: The 4 Commandments of Cities
