Recording: TEDx University of Tartu

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Author: Rasmus Koppel

On 2 June, the first TEDx event was held at the University of Tartu’s Delta Centre. The TEDx University of Tartu talks are now available to watch on the official TEDx YouTube channel.

The first TEDx University of Tartu event featured 20 speakers presenting 20 fascinating topics. The speakers included University of Tartu students and professors, as well as guest speakers ranging from a soprano to a minister.

Explore the TEDx talks below.

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Session 1: Learning beyond frames

Elina Nechayeva – The Courage To Be Impossible To Categorize

Aikaterini Niovi Triantafyllaki – Beyond labels: creating galaxies of inclusion

Helena Valvur – Bad books are good, actually

Francisco José Maldonado Torralba – From gravity to brains through geometry

Kristina Kallas – When AI knows everything, what should humans learn?

Session 2: The art of being a human

Maryna Starodubska – The trap, The Art and The Science of Small Talk

Kristjan Pulk – Financial knowledge alone is not enough

Teele Siim – AI will not take over my job, will it?

Dmytro Fishman – Can a computer help save a life?

Julija Sovane – Global expansion is a personal transformation

Session 3: Mindful existence

Mark Braschinsky – Migraine: Hacking Your Brain’s Hidden Painkillers

Ruby Gupta – Practicing yoga to harness fear and foster everyday leadership

Piret Paal – We do not just die biologically, we die culturally

Aljona Galazan – Between A and B: Take Another Path

Sander Šašlov – ADHD is a curse or a superpower?

Session 4: Inside the global systems

Bogdan Janakov – The UN is closer than we think

Hüseyin Rüzgar Akcan – The Right to Die Digitally

Dmytro Khutkyy – We should engage in digital democracy

Hanna Maria Kariis – The drugs work, just not for everyone