Against All Odds - Naaz Joshi
Naaz Joshi shares her inspiring journey from Mumbai to becoming India's first transgender supermodel, overcoming obstacles and breaking stereotypes to achieve international recognition and advocate for trans rights.
Importance of Listening and Understanding Your Child
Discover the transformative power of active listening in parenting. Learn how understanding and appreciating your child can boost their self-esteem, independence, and confidence, fostering a stronger parent-child relationship.
The Intentional Impact of Images
Explore the power of visual communication and its influence on our decisions. Learn how images shape our perceptions and actions in advertising, marketing, and everyday life.
Wrongful Convictions - A Life Sentence
Exploring the challenges faced by wrongfully convicted individuals in Canada, highlighting the lack of support for reintegration and inspiring a more compassionate approach to exonerees' struggles.
The Myth of Compostable Plastic
Debunking compostable plastic myths: Learn why PLA isn't the eco-solution it claims to be, how to spot greenwashing, and take action for real environmental change in your community.
Fostering Love
Inspiring talk on fostering children, addressing infertility, and improving the foster care system. Shares personal experiences and insights to encourage compassion and support for vulnerable youth.
Building Bridges, Not Bias - Navigating Relationships in Uncertainty
Explore the power of relationships in dismantling biases and stereotypes. Learn how cultural understanding and mutual respect can transform perceptions and inspire positive change in society.
Social Justice in a Gymsuit
Empowering talk on creating personal social justice movements, inspiring individuals to address community issues and become 'warriors of justice'. Highlights the impact of small actions in driving significant change.
Regretting Motherhood - Breaking the Taboo and Challenging Societal Expectations
Explore maternal regret, societal pressures, and gender roles influencing women's experiences of motherhood. Challenges cultural perceptions and advocates for pro-women policies to empower women's choices and aspirations.
Feeling Out of Place
Explore identity, immigration, and minority experiences in Scotland through Eileen Njotu's personal perspective, offering insights on diversity and inclusion in Edinburgh's community.
How Can We Get 80,000 People to Agree on Something?
Explore how Som Energia, Europe's largest renewable energy cooperative, fosters agreement among 83,000 members to drive a social and energy movement towards 100% renewable consumption.
3 Ways Going Vegan Helped My Anti-Racism Advocacy
Exploring connections between veganism and anti-racism, this talk examines how rejecting animal products challenges racial hierarchies and white supremacy, drawing from historical and contemporary examples.
A Holistic Approach to Reach Sustainable Goals
Holistic sustainability in project management: Integrate data, empower underrepresented groups, and consider broader impacts to enhance benefits beyond project scope and drive meaningful change.
Changing the World Everyday
Inspiring journey through decades of activism and philanthropy, from civil rights to corporate ethics, showcasing the power of everyday actions in creating lasting positive change.
How Art Seeds Change, and Seeds Change Art
Indigenous artist Carey Newman explores how art can inspire ordinary people to create extraordinary change, showcasing his powerful installations that address colonialism, social issues, and environmental concerns.
I Am an "Ally," and I Am Part of the Problem
Challenges non-Indigenous people to question the term "ally" and rethink beliefs about Indigenous peoples, offering insights for Truth and Reconciliation in a thought-provoking talk.
Resisting the New Jim Code in the Old South - Lessons from the Field
Explore strategies to combat algorithmic bias and digital discrimination in the Southern US, drawing insights from real-world experiences and community-driven initiatives.
Sociology & Machine Learning
Explore the intersection of sociology and machine learning in this thought-provoking session, examining how AI impacts social structures and human behavior.
Feminist Design Principles in the Future of Global Work
Explore feminist design principles shaping the future of global work, examining their impact on technology, labor practices, and societal structures.
3 Ways to Retain Your Gen Z Employee
Discover actionable strategies to retain Gen Z talent in the workplace, based on research and personal insights, addressing unique preferences and challenges faced by organizations post-pandemic.
Alien Invasion? An Antidote to Xenophobia
Exploring cultural curiosity and empathy as tools to combat xenophobia, highlighting the positive contributions of immigrants through personal experiences and global perspectives.