Building a future-proof economy with Abhijit Banerjee and Matt Brittin | Google Zeitgeist
How do economic opportunities and access to education transform lives? What drives economic growth, exports, and widespread prosperity? Join Nobel laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee and Google EMEA President Matt Brittin for an insightful discussion on these critical questions.Show More
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Building a future-proof economy with Abhijit Banerjee and Matt Brittin | Google Zeitgeist
How do economic opportunities and access to education transform lives? [...]
How do economic opportunities and access to education transform lives? What drives economic growth, exports, and widespread prosperity? Join Nobel laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee and Google EMEA President Matt Brittin for an insightful discussion on these critical questions.Show More
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Climate Change: A global challenge, a shared responsibility | Google Zeitgeist
Join science and natural history broadcaster Liz Bonnin as she [...]
Join science and natural history broadcaster Liz Bonnin as she discusses the importance of persevering in the fight against climate change with Professor Engineer Bainomugisha, Project Lead at AirQo; Dr. Kevin Austin, Deputy Executive Director at C40 Cities, and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Google & Head of Google Research. In this conversation, they explore the challenges and opportunities in tackling climate change while sharing innovative solutions, and discussing how we can all contribute to a more sustainable future.Show More
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AI vs the hackers
Meet cybersecurity rockstar Keren Elazari, an internationally renowned [...]
Meet cybersecurity rockstar Keren Elazari, an internationally renowned expert who makes technology, and innovation accessible and engaging for everyone. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the “friendly hacker” herself, whose TED Talk, "Hackers: The Internet's Immune System," has been viewed over four million times.Show More
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Unfolding the secrets of life: AI & The Future of Science | Google Zeitgeist
Discover how AlphaFold is revolutionising biology and paving the way [...]
Discover how AlphaFold is revolutionising biology and paving the way for solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Moderated by Professor Hannah Fry, and featuring world-renowned scientists Dame Janet Thornton, Professor John McGeehan, and Head of Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator, Anna Koivuniemi.Show More
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Next gen Gemini: the future of AI with Joelle Barral | Google Zeitgeist
Joëlle Barral, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, offers [...]
Joëlle Barral, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind, offers a glimpse into Gemini, the next generation of Google AI, and how it can be used to solve real-world problems.
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The shot of a lifetime with Katharine Viner, Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin | Google Zeitgeist
Join Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, as she sits [...]
Join Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, as she sits down with Professors Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, the pioneering founders of BioNTech and creators of the first mRNA-based vaccine approved for use against COVID-19. They discuss the vaccine's groundbreaking impact on the pandemic, as well as their ongoing research into utilising mRNA technology to revolutionise cancer treatment.Show More
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Sustainability & Equity: a conversation with Amina Mohammed & Ruth Porat | Google Zeitgeist
Join Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer, and Chief [...]
Join Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet and Google, as she engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Together, they delve into the power of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a roadmap to a better future. Explore how these 17 interconnected goals address global challenges like poverty, inequality, and climate change, empowering nations to build a brighter future for all through the combined efforts of businesses, governments, and individuals.Show More
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Longevity Secrets: How to live to 100 with Dan Buettner | Google Zeitgeist
Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and New York Times [...]
Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling author of "Blue Zones," has spent his career exploring the five places in the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives. In his talk, he shares tips on how to live to 100, based on his own research and experiences.Show More
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Democracy’s discontent with Prof. Michael Sandel | Google Zeitgeist
Michael Sandel, Author & Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of [...]
Michael Sandel, Author & Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, tackles the most vexing moral and civic questions of our time. His book ‘Democracy’s Discontent’, recently released in a new 25th anniversary edition to address our perilous times, has been described as “essential–and ultimately hopeful–reading for all those who wonder if our democratic experiment will survive in the twenty-first century.”Show More
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The future of music creation with Wyclef Jean, Radzi Chinyanganya and Lyor Cohen | Google Zeitgeist
Join Radzi Chinyanganya as he talks with Lyor Cohen, Global Head of [...]
Join Radzi Chinyanganya as he talks with Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music at YouTube & Google, and multi-Grammy Award-winning rapper, humanitarian, and producer Wyclef Jean about the latest innovations in the music industry. Get exclusive insights into the cutting-edge technologies and trends shaping the future of music.Show More
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The Power of Narrative: Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Kerry Washington and Dwyane Wade
Baratunde Thurston, host and executive producer of America Outdoors on [...]
Baratunde Thurston, host and executive producer of America Outdoors on PBS, in conversation with Kerry Washington and Dwyane Wade on success, representation, family, love and defining your identity.
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Through the Lens: Protecting our Planet with Ami Vitale
National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale shares stories that expand [...]
National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale shares stories that expand our understanding of the natural world—including our place in it.
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How AI is Impacting Humanity with James Manyika, Anna Greka, Sal Khan and Yossi Matias
James Manyika, Senior Vice President, Research, Technology & Society, [...]
James Manyika, Senior Vice President, Research, Technology & Society, Google, talks with Sal Khan, Educator & Founder of Khan Academy, Anna Greka, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google, about how AI can help address global challenges and benefit society.Show More
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A Rational Look at Irrationality: Steven Pinker
Renowned cognitive scientist and author Steven Pinker explains the [...]
Renowned cognitive scientist and author Steven Pinker explains the link between rationality and progress, and reminds us how we can take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning that our species has discovered over the millenniaShow More
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The Science of Happiness with Arthur C. Brooks
Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard professor and New York Times best-selling [...]
Arthur C. Brooks, Harvard professor and New York Times best-selling author, shares how cutting-edge research in behavioral science coupled with philosophy and wisdom can teach us how to build the life we want.Show More
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Cybersecurity in the Digital Age
New York Times National Security Correspondent, David Sanger will lead [...]
New York Times National Security Correspondent, David Sanger will lead a discussion on how companies can better protect themselves from new emerging threats with Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Susan Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Royal Hansen, VP, Privacy, Safety and Security, Google.Show More
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Quantum Computing
James Manyika, SVP, Technology and Society, Google, in conversation [...]
James Manyika, SVP, Technology and Society, Google, in conversation with Hartmut Neven, VP Engineering, Quantum AI, Google
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How to Be Happy
Dr. Laurie Santos, Cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at [...]
Dr. Laurie Santos, Cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University shares the factors contributing to our happiness, evidence-based practices to boost your happiness, and why it’s important to protect yourself from unhappy people.Show More
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The Lens of Conflict
Anastasia Taylor-Lind shares her experience reporting from the [...]
Anastasia Taylor-Lind shares her experience reporting from the frontlines in Ukraine for Time, National Geographic and the New York Times.
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A Perspective with Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, author, best known for his unique perspective on [...]
Malcolm Gladwell, author, best known for his unique perspective on popular culture.
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Staying Young: A Focus on Brain Health & Longevity
Google's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, discusses the [...]
Google's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, discusses the secrets to keeping your body and brain young, healthy, and sharp using Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s science-driven guide to protecting your mind.
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Brighter Days with Blessing Offor
A performance of the song Brighter Days and a conversation with [...]
A performance of the song Brighter Days and a conversation with recording artist Blessing Offor about the importance of mentorship and the power of acceptance.
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Uniting to Fight the Climate Crisis: Jane Goodall, Vanessa Nakate & Jack Harries | Google Zeitgeist
Jane Goodall, Primatologist & Anthropologist & Vanessa Nakate, climate [...]
Jane Goodall, Primatologist & Anthropologist & Vanessa Nakate, climate activist & UN Youth Envoy In conversation with Jack Harries, YouTube creator and environmentalist.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
As Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy, Sal Khan seeks to remove the barriers to education that leave over 600 million children lacking basic math and reading skills. His free, world-class curriculum—available to anyone, anywhere—has made a massive impact, with the academy’s videos reaching over a billion views. In talks, Khan shares how we can revolutionize education with technology, open interaction, and a personalized approach to learning. Recognized for his incredible influence in the field of education, Sal Khan has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. His passion project, the Khan Academy, started humbly when he began tutoring his cousins and a few family friends in math. Soon, word spread, demand grew, and the Khan Academy was born. Today, the platform has more than 62 million registered users across 190 countries, each able to access practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized dashboard to help students learn at their own pace. Boasting a state-of-the-art, adaptive technology, Khan Academy has partnered with world-class institutions such as NASA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and MIT. The technology has had a reported meaningful impact for students attending top schools such as Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, especially those who are first-generation college students.Show More
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Emi Mahmoud Slam Poetry Reading | Google Zeitgeist
World champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emtithal (Emi) [...]
World champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud speaks on building anew.
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Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
As Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy, Sal Khan seeks to remove the barriers to education that leave over 600 million children lacking basic math and reading skills. His free, world-class curriculum—available to anyone, anywhere—has made a massive impact, with the academy’s videos reaching over a billion views. In talks, Khan shares how we can revolutionize education with technology, open interaction, and a personalized approach to learning. Recognized for his incredible influence in the field of education, Sal Khan has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. His passion project, the Khan Academy, started humbly when he began tutoring his cousins and a few family friends in math. Soon, word spread, demand grew, and the Khan Academy was born. Today, the platform has more than 62 million registered users across 190 countries, each able to access practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized dashboard to help students learn at their own pace. Boasting a state-of-the-art, adaptive technology, Khan Academy has partnered with world-class institutions such as NASA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and MIT. The technology has had a reported meaningful impact for students attending top schools such as Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, especially those who are first-generation college students.Show More
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How To Effectively Change the 4-Year College Model | Khan Academy's Sal Khan | Google Zeitgeist
Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan gives his take on how to evolve the [...]
Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan gives his take on how to evolve the current traditional 4-year college model.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
As Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy, Sal Khan seeks to remove the barriers to education that leave over 600 million children lacking basic math and reading skills. His free, world-class curriculum—available to anyone, anywhere—has made a massive impact, with the academy’s videos reaching over a billion views. In talks, Khan shares how we can revolutionize education with technology, open interaction, and a personalized approach to learning. Recognized for his incredible influence in the field of education, Sal Khan has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. His passion project, the Khan Academy, started humbly when he began tutoring his cousins and a few family friends in math. Soon, word spread, demand grew, and the Khan Academy was born. Today, the platform has more than 62 million registered users across 190 countries, each able to access practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized dashboard to help students learn at their own pace. Boasting a state-of-the-art, adaptive technology, Khan Academy has partnered with world-class institutions such as NASA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and MIT. The technology has had a reported meaningful impact for students attending top schools such as Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, especially those who are first-generation college students.Show More
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Geoffrey Canada on Preparing Kids for a Changing World | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Harlem Children's Zone President Geoffrey Canada talks with Soledad [...]
Harlem Children's Zone President Geoffrey Canada talks with Soledad O'Brien about how children of color constantly feel alone because of the lack of representation.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Geoffrey Canada is a leading advocate for children and innovator in the field of education. Canada grew up in one of the most devastated communities in the United States, the South Bronx, raised by a single mother. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, and
eventually went on to earn a master’s degree at Harvard University. He vowed to help children who grew up in disadvantaged circumstances to succeed through education. Canada created the Harlem Children’s Zone, a birth-through-college network of programs that today serves more than 13,000 low-income students and families in a 97-block area of Central Harlem in New York City.
The unprecedented success of the Harlem Children’s Zone has attracted the attention of the media and leaders around the world. In 2011, Canada was named one of the world’s most influential people by Time magazine and as one of the 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine in 2014. President Barack Obama created the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone model across the country, Canada has been profiled extensively in the media, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Forbes, among others. He was featured in the documentary about the dire state of American education Waiting for Superman, and has received more than 25 honorary degrees including ones from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also influenced a new generation of education reformers through his writings, having published essays in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Chronicle of Philanthropy as well as two critically acclaimed books on poverty and violence: Fist Stick Knife Gun and Reaching Up for Manhood.
After 30 years with the organization, Canada stepped down in 2014 as Chief Executive Officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone but continues to serve as President. In June 2020, Canada founded The William Julius Wilson Institute (WJW), which will serve as the national platform to help communities impacted by poverty across the country design and implement their own place-based programs —and its first initiative will be to combat the devastation of COVID-19 in the Black community.Show More
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How Educators Helped Shape Pharrell Williams | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Grammy Award winning musician Pharrell dives deep into how educators [...]
Grammy Award winning musician Pharrell dives deep into how educators has truly shaped him into the person he is now and how he currently is using that philosophy to give back.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Pharrell Williams is a visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. He has been a creative force in the music industry and beyond for more than two decades.
Over the years, Pharrell has been honored with 13 Grammy Awards, including 2004’s, 2014’s and 2019’s Producer of the Year, and ASCAP’s prestigious Golden Note Award in 2012. In 2014, his original song “Happy,” featured in Despicable Me 2, also received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Award nomination for co-producing Best Picture-nominated Hidden Figures (2016), as well as a Golden Globe nomination for co-scoring the film. In June 2021, Williams will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Chad Hugo for their work as The Neptunes.
In 2008, Pharrell founded From One Hand To AnOTHER (FOHTA), a foundation that provides over 1,700 children across the US with summer camps focused on S.T.E.A.M.M. – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Motivation. Serving predominantly at-risk and low-income elementary, middle and high school students. In the spring of 2020, Pharrell will launch YELLOW, an organization that will focus on "evening the odds" for every student to have access to a first rate education.Show More
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How Important are the SATs in Admissions? | Brown University's Christina Paxson | Google Zeitgeist
Brown University President Christina Paxson gives her take on the [...]
Brown University President Christina Paxson gives her take on the standardize testing debate and how much weight SAT scores actually have in college admissions. Moderated by Google's Allan Thygesen.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Christina Hull Paxson has served as Brown University’s 19th president and professor of economics and public policy since July 1, 2012. Under Paxson’s leadership, Brown has fortified its standing as a leading research university known for its excellence and innovation in undergraduate education, its transformational vision in fueling economic development through community and government partnerships, and its commitment to inclusion and access. Paxson’s ambitious strategic plan for Brown establishes the University at the forefront of higher education in all these areas. She has led the creation and growth of centers and institutes that connect top researchers and scholars to confront critical 21st-century issues in areas spanning neuroscience, environmental and climate studies, economics, international and public policy, humanistic studies, and translating science and technology to find treatments and cures for disease. At the same time, Brown continues to lead in undergraduate education, with Brown students and graduates earning more Fulbright Scholarships than any other university in the U.S. for three consecutive years. Led by Paxson, Brown’s public-private partnerships with government, businesses and industry have anchored the ongoing economic transformation of the formerly depressed Jewelry District in downtown Providence. This includes fueling the development of South Street Landing by moving 400 Brown employees into a former power plant; becoming the lead anchor tenant to enable the opening of the Wexford Innovation Center developed by Wexford Science and Technology; and Brown’s partnership with the University of Rhode Island and two global startup accelerators to create one of the state’s new innovation campuses.Show More
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How the US is Addressing the Pandemic Completely Wrong | Malcolm Gladwell | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Malcolm Gladwell on how the country's mentality of making the best [...]
Malcolm Gladwell on how the country's mentality of making the best better is the wrong mentality to address the pandemic.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.
Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong. Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure and challenges our assumptions on human nature and strategies we use to make sense of strangers, who are never simple. He explains why we act the way we do, and how we all might know a little more about those we don’t.
Malcolm is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent and warm and funny. He has an unsurpassed ability to be both entertaining and challenging.Show More
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How a Pharmaceutical Company Is Developing a Vaccine | CEO Kenneth Frazier | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth Frazier details ways his company is developing [...]
Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth Frazier details ways his company is developing a vaccine for Covid-19 and the logistics of distributing a vaccine to everyone around the world.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Dr. Karen DeSalvo is the Chief Health Officer of Google Health. She is a physician leader working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology whose career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities. She leads a team of health professionals at Google who provide clinical guidance for the development of research, products and services. Prior to joining Google, Dr. DeSalvo was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and acted as the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Obama Administration. During her time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. DeSalvo focused on creating a more consumer-oriented, transparent and value-based health system. Dr. DeSalvo served as the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. Prior to that she was Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing physician, educator, researcher and leader. She serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.
Kenneth C. Frazier has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. since 2011.
Under Ken's leadership, Merck is delivering innovative lifesaving medicines and vaccines as well as long-term and sustainable value to its multiple stakeholders. Ken has substantially increased Merck's investment in research, including early research, while refocusing the organization on the launch and growth of key products that provide benefit to society. He has also led the formation of philanthropic and other initiatives that build on Merck's 125-year plus legacy.
Ken joined the company in 1992 and has held positions of increasing responsibility including General Counsel and President. Prior to joining Merck, Ken was a partner with the Philadelphia law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath. Ken's contributions, especially in the legal, business and humanitarian fields, have been widely recognized. He sits on the boards of PhRMA, Weill Cornell Medicine, Exxon Mobil Corporation, and Cornerstone Christian Academy in Philadelphia, PA. He also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, The Business Council, the Council of the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association. Additionally, Ken is co-chair of the Legal Services Corporation's Leaders Council.Show More
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How We Could End the Pandemic Now | Malcolm Gladwell | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Malcolm Gladwell talks about relatively simple but vitals steps that [...]
Malcolm Gladwell talks about relatively simple but vitals steps that could be taken to end the pandemic much sooner than later.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.
Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong. Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure and challenges our assumptions on human nature and strategies we use to make sense of strangers, who are never simple. He explains why we act the way we do, and how we all might know a little more about those we don’t.
Malcolm is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent and warm and funny. He has an unsurpassed ability to be both entertaining and challenging.Show More
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Why Pausing Covid-19 Vaccine Trials is Necessary | Karen DeSalvo & Ken Frazier | Google Zeitgeist
Google's Dr. Karen DeSalvo and Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth Frazier talk [...]
Google's Dr. Karen DeSalvo and Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth Frazier talk about why the recent temporary pauses on vaccine trials are very important and are a positive thing in the race for a vaccine.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Dr. Karen DeSalvo is the Chief Health Officer of Google Health. She is a physician leader working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology whose career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities. She leads a team of health professionals at Google who provide clinical guidance for the development of research, products and services. Prior to joining Google, Dr. DeSalvo was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and acted as the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Obama Administration. During her time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. DeSalvo focused on creating a more consumer-oriented, transparent and value-based health system. Dr. DeSalvo served as the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. Prior to that she was Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing physician, educator, researcher and leader. She serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.
Kenneth C. Frazier has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. since 2011. Under Ken's leadership, Merck is delivering innovative lifesaving medicines and vaccines as well as long-term and sustainable value to its multiple stakeholders. Ken has substantially increased Merck's investment in research, including early research, while refocusing the organization on the launch and growth of key products that provide benefit to society. He has also led the formation of philanthropic and other initiatives that build on Merck's 125-year plus legacy. Ken joined the company in 1992 and has held positions of increasing responsibility including General Counsel and President. Prior to joining Merck, Ken was a partner with the Philadelphia law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath. Ken's contributions, especially in the legal, business and humanitarian fields, have been widely recognized. He sits on the boards of PhRMA, Weill Cornell Medicine, Exxon Mobil Corporation, and Cornerstone Christian Academy in Philadelphia, PA. He also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, The Business Council, the Council of the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association. Additionally, Ken is co-chair of the Legal Services Corporation's Leaders Council.Show More
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How Covid-19 Has Accelerated Education Reform | Sal Khan & Christina Paxson | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and Brown University President Christina [...]
Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and Brown University President Christina Paxson talk about the vital role of virtual classrooms during the Pandemic how it reveals many of the flaws of our current education system. Moderated by Google's Allan Thygesen.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
As Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy, Sal Khan seeks to remove the barriers to education that leave over 600 million children lacking basic math and reading skills. His free, world-class curriculum—available to anyone, anywhere—has made a massive impact, with the academy’s videos reaching over a billion views. In talks, Khan shares how we can revolutionize education with technology, open interaction, and a personalized approach to learning. Recognized for his incredible influence in the field of education, Sal Khan has been profiled by 60 Minutes, featured on the cover of Forbes, and named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. His passion project, the Khan Academy, started humbly when he began tutoring his cousins and a few family friends in math. Soon, word spread, demand grew, and the Khan Academy was born. Today, the platform has more than 62 million registered users across 190 countries, each able to access practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized dashboard to help students learn at their own pace. Boasting a state-of-the-art, adaptive technology, Khan Academy has partnered with world-class institutions such as NASA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and MIT. The technology has had a reported meaningful impact for students attending top schools such as Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, especially those who are first-generation college students.
Christina Hull Paxson has served as Brown University’s 19th president and professor of economics and public policy since July 1, 2012. Under Paxson’s leadership, Brown has fortified its standing as a leading research university known for its excellence and innovation in undergraduate education, its transformational vision in fueling economic development through community and government partnerships, and its commitment to inclusion and access. Paxson’s ambitious strategic plan for Brown establishes the University at the forefront of higher education in all these areas. She has led the creation and growth of centers and institutes that connect top researchers and scholars to confront critical 21st-century issues in areas spanning neuroscience, environmental and climate studies, economics, international and public policy, humanistic studies, and translating science and technology to find treatments and cures for disease. At the same time, Brown continues to lead in undergraduate education, with Brown students and graduates earning more Fulbright Scholarships than any other university in the U.S. for three consecutive years. Led by Paxson, Brown’s public-private partnerships with government, businesses and industry have anchored the ongoing economic transformation of the formerly depressed Jewelry District in downtown Providence. This includes fueling the development of South Street Landing by moving 400 Brown employees into a former power plant; becoming the lead anchor tenant to enable the opening of the Wexford Innovation Center developed by Wexford Science and Technology; and Brown’s partnership with the University of Rhode Island and two global startup accelerators to create one of the state’s new innovation campuses.Show More
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"Education is the Glue That Holds Us Together" | Pharrell Williams, Geoffrey Canada | Zeitgeist 2020
Soledad O'Brien talks with Grammy winner Pharrell Williams and Harlem [...]
Soledad O'Brien talks with Grammy winner Pharrell Williams and Harlem Children's Zone President Geoffrey Canada about how they are working to bring equal opportunities to underserved communities of color especially during the pandemic.
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
Geoffrey Canada is a leading advocate for children and innovator in the field of education. Canada grew up in one of the most devastated communities in the United States, the South Bronx, raised by a single mother. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, and
eventually went on to earn a master’s degree at Harvard University. He vowed to help children who grew up in disadvantaged circumstances to succeed through education. Canada created the Harlem Children’s Zone, a birth-through-college network of programs that today serves more than 13,000 low-income students and families in a 97-block area of Central Harlem in New York City.
The unprecedented success of the Harlem Children’s Zone has attracted the attention of the media and leaders around the world. In 2011, Canada was named one of the world’s most influential people by Time magazine and as one of the 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine in 2014. President Barack Obama created the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone model across the country, Canada has been profiled extensively in the media, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Forbes, among others. He was featured in the documentary about the dire state of American education Waiting for Superman, and has received more than 25 honorary degrees including ones from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also influenced a new generation of education reformers through his writings, having published essays in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Chronicle of Philanthropy as well as two critically acclaimed books on poverty and violence: Fist Stick Knife Gun and Reaching Up for Manhood.
After 30 years with the organization, Canada stepped down in 2014 as Chief Executive Officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone but continues to serve as President. In June 2020, Canada founded The William Julius Wilson Institute (WJW), which will serve as the national platform to help communities impacted by poverty across the country design and implement their own place-based programs —and its first initiative will be to combat the devastation of COVID-19 in the Black community.
Pharrell Williams is a visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. He has been a creative force in the music industry and beyond for more than two decades.
Over the years, Pharrell has been honored with 13 Grammy Awards, including 2004’s, 2014’s and 2019’s Producer of the Year, and ASCAP’s prestigious Golden Note Award in 2012. In 2014, his original song “Happy,” featured in Despicable Me 2, also received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Award nomination for co-producing Best Picture-nominated Hidden Figures (2016), as well as a Golden Globe nomination for co-scoring the film. In June 2021, Williams will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Chad Hugo for their work as The Neptunes.
In 2008, Pharrell founded From One Hand To AnOTHER (FOHTA), a foundation that provides over 1,700 children across the US with summer camps focused on S.T.E.A.M.M. – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Motivation. Serving predominantly at-risk and low-income elementary, middle and high school students. In the spring of 2020, Pharrell will launch YELLOW, an organization that will focus on "evening the odds" for every student to have access to a first rate education.
Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist, who founded Soledad O’Brien Productions, a multi-platform media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on a range of social issues. She anchors and produces the Hearst TV political magazine program "Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien" and is a correspondent for HBO Real Sports. O’Brien’s work has been recognized with three Emmy awards, twice with the George Foster Peabody Award, three times with the Gracie Award, which honors women in media, twice with Cine Awards for her work in documentary films and also with an Alfred I. DuPont Award.Show More
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Why We Need to Treat the Pandemic Like Soccer | Malcolm Gladwell | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell gives his take on how the world [...]
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell gives his take on how the world is handling the pandemic today and how we can improve in the next inevitable pandemic.
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Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.
Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong. Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure and challenges our assumptions on human nature and strategies we use to make sense of strangers, who are never simple. He explains why we act the way we do, and how we all might know a little more about those we don’t.
Malcolm is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent and warm and funny. He has an unsurpassed ability to be both entertaining and challenging.Show More
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What's Next After a Vaccine is Made | Dr. Karen DeSalvo & Kenneth C. Frazier | Google Zeitgeist 2020
Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth C. Frazier and Google's Dr. Karen DeSalvo talk [...]
Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth C. Frazier and Google's Dr. Karen DeSalvo talk about what it will take to control the pandemic in the long term, and how could businesses think about planning to return to the office.
Moderated by Allan Thygesen, President of the Americas at Google.
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Dr. Karen DeSalvo is the Chief Health Officer of Google Health. She is a physician leader working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology whose career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities. She leads a team of health professionals at Google who provide clinical guidance for the development of research, products and services. Prior to joining Google, Dr. DeSalvo was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and acted as the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Obama Administration. During her time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. DeSalvo focused on creating a more consumer-oriented, transparent and value-based health system. Dr. DeSalvo served as the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. Prior to that she was Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing physician, educator, researcher and leader. She serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.
Kenneth C. Frazier has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. since 2011.
Under Ken's leadership, Merck is delivering innovative lifesaving medicines and vaccines as well as long-term and sustainable value to its multiple stakeholders. Ken has substantially increased Merck's investment in research, including early research, while refocusing the organization on the launch and growth of key products that provide benefit to society. He has also led the formation of philanthropic and other initiatives that build on Merck's 125-year plus legacy.
Ken joined the company in 1992 and has held positions of increasing responsibility including General Counsel and President. Prior to joining Merck, Ken was a partner with the Philadelphia law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath. Ken's contributions, especially in the legal, business and humanitarian fields, have been widely recognized. He sits on the boards of PhRMA, Weill Cornell Medicine, Exxon Mobil Corporation, and Cornerstone Christian Academy in Philadelphia, PA. He also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, The Business Council, the Council of the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association. Additionally, Ken is co-chair of the Legal Services Corporation's Leaders Council.
Staying Hopeful in the Face of Racism | Bryan Stevenson | Google Zeitgeist
Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson tells the story of his encounter [...]
Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson tells the story of his encounter with a racist prison guard and how he stayed hopeful in the face of racism despite being humiliated by the guard.
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Is It Too Late to Solve the Climate Crisis? | John Doerr | Google Zeitgeist
John Doerr answers the daunting question on whether he thinks we as a [...]
John Doerr answers the daunting question on whether he thinks we as a society can drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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John Doerr is an engineer, acclaimed venture capitalist, and the chairman of Kleiner Perkins. For more than 39 years, John has served entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, bringing ideas worth spreading to disruptive leaders and teams. John was an original investor and board member at Google and Amazon, helping to create over 600,000 jobs and the world's second and third most valuable companies. He's passionate about helping entrepreneurs reimagine the future, from health care transformation to machine learning. Outside of Kleiner Perkins, John works with social entrepreneurs for change in public education, the climate crisis, and global poverty. John serves on the board of the Obama Center and ONE.org.Show More
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Stoking Creativity | Sir Ken Robinson | Google Zeitgeist
The late Sir Ken Robinson discusses how creativity is constantly [...]
The late Sir Ken Robinson discusses how creativity is constantly evolving and how he encountered a slight issue with Microsoft Word when he was rewriting his book.
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Cloud Gazing to Spark Creativity | Gavin Pretor-Pinney | Google Zeitgeist
Cloud-spotter Gavin Pretor-Pinney tells us to look up at the sky, [...]
Cloud-spotter Gavin Pretor-Pinney tells us to look up at the sky, admire the clouds and appreciate what they can offer.
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He proposed on the first date. 25 years later, they're still married | StoryCorps | Google Zeitgeist
Dave Isay of StoryCorps presents a beautiful Brooklyn love story. [...]
Dave Isay of StoryCorps presents a beautiful Brooklyn love story.
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Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including six Peabody Awards and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work. In 2015, Dave was recognized with the RED Prize k, awarded annually to one exceptional individual with a creative, bold vision to spark global change.Show More
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Parachuting from the Earth's Stratosphere at 822 MPH | Alan Eustace
Alan Eustace talks us through how he accomplished the incredible feat [...]
Alan Eustace talks us through how he accomplished the incredible feat of reaching the Earth's stratosphere without using a rocket.
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Let Your Sons Cry | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Mary Beard | Google Zeitgeist
During the Q&A, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie and Mary Beard answer a [...]
During the Q&A, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie and Mary Beard answer a question about their opinions on how to raise a son.
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All nighters don't work. Here's why. | Matthew Walker | Google Zeitgeist
Sleep expert Matthew Walker explains why all nighters are detrimental [...]
Sleep expert Matthew Walker explains why all nighters are detrimental to your health and why you should never pull an all nighter.
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Neuroscientist and sleep diplomat Dr. Matthew Walker is a former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and currently is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the UC Berkeley. He is also the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the UC Berkeley. In his best-selling book, Why We Sleep, he argues that we are in the midst of a public health crisis caused by a global sleep-loss epidemic. Why We Sleep explains how we can harness sleep to improve everything from learning, mood, energy levels, preventing diseases, slow the effects of aging and much more. Dr. Walker is also a Sleep Scientist for Google.Show More
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How Running Saved My Life (Three Times) | Charlie Engle | Google Zeitgeist
Ultramarathon Runner Charlie Engle went from being a drug addict to a [...]
Ultramarathon Runner Charlie Engle went from being a drug addict to a marathon runner to a convict. He tells us why despite all the unfortunate events in his life, he was still able to be in control of his happiness.
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How to Set (and Stick to) Life-Changing Habits | Charles Duhigg | Google Zeitgeist
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg explains why this rat [...]
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg explains why this rat experiment reveals the psychology behind why we form habits.
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"Up" in Real Life: How I Made a House Fly With Balloons | Jonathan Trappe | Google Zeitgeist
Watch balloonist Jonathan Trappe tell us the long process of how he [...]
Watch balloonist Jonathan Trappe tell us the long process of how he made a house float in the sky with just balloons.
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The Science Behind Why Meditation Works—and an Easy Way to Start | Bob Roth | Google Zeitgeist
Meditation guru Bob Roth explains why transcendental meditation is [...]
Meditation guru Bob Roth explains why transcendental meditation is important and teaches you a simple meditation technique you can do right now.
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How We Can Help Our Kids Stick With Math | Freeman Hrabowski | Google Zeitgeist
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski discusses why the college school [...]
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski discusses why the college school system needs to change in order help students continue on within STEM majors.
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