my name is Asha DeVos my name is Karl
Schoonover my name is christine marie my
name is moses sangha and i'm from uganda
in new york city Beirut Lebanon
I'm originally from Kansas but now I
live and work in Zurich Switzerland I'm
a molecular biologist who co-founded a
community biotechnology laboratory in
Brooklyn I'm a political innovator I'm a
video sculptor we make affordable
non-invasive diagnostic technology I'm
writing a book about mental illness and
other animals and what that means about
being human but if we're able to cure
hundreds or even thousands of diseases
it would be really unbelievable if one
person can do one thing that's good it
could set like a ripple effect Ted what
it really is it's about curiosity and
finding the people in the world who are
the most curious about what's going on
and giving them a platform to express
their ideas in a way that we can then
spread them to everybody else
the TED Fellows program began when we
looked around and we noticed that the
audience was missing a bunch of people
and we wanted to have young innovators
maverick scientists NGO heads
entrepreneurs filmmakers artists etc to
be there and to be part of the community
not just taking from the community but
giving to the community so what we do is
a three-day pre conference which is a
combination of getting to know each
other better through activities we go
out and do excursions and things but
also through intense skills building
workshops so by the end of the three-day
pre conference everyone knows each other
really well and are bonded together very
carefully and therefore entering the
insanity that is Ted is a little bit
easier
Oh a brain guy and I'm interested in how
the brain essentially filters out
information that's coming in and
extracts only the interesting stuff I
make large-scale cinematic shadow
theater with 3d stereoscopic effects the
possibility of tanning agricultural
waste into an alternative source of fuel
made a lot of sense to me
we actually have 1.7 million tons of we
culture waste so we decided to do
something with that
usually if I go up to somebody and I say
my work right now is trying to
understand if other animals can be
mentally ill and I think they can be
oftentimes they lead with laughter but
I'd love that when I was a kid I had
these all these weird collections I got
collected hot sauces from around the
world
eclectic bugs and jars one day I was at
the Natural History Museum and I was
looking at all these dioramas of deer
that were basically presented as
memorialized objects for us and I was
thinking like wouldn't it be nice if I
could memorialize my own life in some
way so I've been capturing my friends on
video for a long time and then I video
project them into different objects so I
get this collection in the end of all my
friends
as an interactive video artist you don't
necessarily have the easiest way of
showing work or selling work or you know
distributing work and so this gives me
an opportunity to meet a lot of people
who you know can help me out but also
hopefully I can help them out and maybe
we can collaborate on things Thank You
Ted to me seems to be like a huge mix
like a salad but people from all
different creative ideas everybody has a
dream and everybody has the strength and
confidence to believe in themselves and
they're like stirring it up to see what
happens when you put all those ideas
together this has been the most amazing
week first just meeting everybody has
been like Christmas every day musicians
and artists and visual designers and it
forced me to think that there are so
many different ways to look at the way
people throw out ideas that can trigger
things and so you're constantly growing
and and developing and reevaluating you
know everything you've known we're the
innovators we're the kind of people that
don't take no for an answer I want to
say pushing the boundaries but that's
also cliched I don't think I can use one
word to define us all
I think I'm gonna look back in disbelief
I have never been around before with
such amazing ideas this is not just an
event it's something which does it end
with just one week
do you build these connections these
bonds with extraordinary people there
with you for life it becomes a part of
you