Jerome is a 4th year biomedical engineering undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. He embraces a "learn something new every day" lifestyle and enjoys coding and designing blank canvas startup ideas.
Aswin is also a 4th year biomedical engineering undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. He loves making tea, once bought a ukulele, and wants to be an entrepreneur.
Sameera is a 2nd year psychology undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. She's a devoted epicure, adrenaline junkie, TED fanatic.
Pooja is a 2nd year industrial engineering undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. She's a certified dance teacher and performer, enjoys painting and lives to travel and teach kids.
Shreya is a 2nd year industrial engineering undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. She is fond of squirrels, abstract pottery, and hopping rooftops.
Erik is an MD/PhD student at Georgia Tech & Emory. He enjoys neuroscience, fine cuisine, Korean medical dramas, and excellence in design and communication.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, California, along with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs; the annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, the recently launched TED-Ed platform for students and educators, the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide, and TEDBooks, short e-books by speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED's stage. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Follow TED on Twitter or on Facebook.