2019 Salons
Melissa Ferrick

Salon Performance: Melissa Ferrick
Max Krasnow

Altruism Is Selfish, And That’s Ok
Bethany Burum

Why Is Morality So Puzzling?
Boston Dance Theater

Salon Performance: Boston Dance Theater
Erik Thulin

Saving Nature With Behavioral Science
Scott Lindell

Farming The Ocean To Feed The World
Sonia Olla & Olivia Pérez Collellmir

Salon Performance: Sonia Olla & Olivia Pérez Collellmir
Cansu Canca

How To Solve AI’s Ethical Puzzles
Kade Crockford

Why Face Surveillance Must Be Banned

2019
Ruby Rose Fox

Event Performance: Ruby Rose Fox
Anthony Jack

On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion
Dorsa Amir

How Industrialization Changed Childhood
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Why We Should Be More Sexist
Ashley Whillans

A Simple Strategy For Happiness
Erin Kelly

Who Belongs In Prison?
Rafael Campo

How Poetry Heals Us
Will Dailey

Event Performance: Will Dailey

2018 Salons
Anjimile

Salon Performance: Anjimile
Laura Gee

Certainty Inspires Action
David Rand

How You Can Help Combat Fake News
Molly Zenobia

Salon Performance: Molly Zenobia
Esteban Moro

Overcoming Urban Isolation
Matthew Claudel

Civic Innovation: A Future For Cities & Technology
Kate Jeffrey

Why Are Diseases Of Affluence & Age Rising?
Robert Moir

Are Infections Causing Alzheimer’s Disease?

2018
Lisa Feldman Barrett

Cultivating Wisdom: The Power Of Mood
Sebastian Buckup

Breaking Big: Fixing Our Godzilla Problem
Joel Salinas

We’re All Weird And That’s Normal
Andrew McAfee

Dematerialization: Humanity’s Biggest Surprise
Andrea Lauer

“Untitled” The Future Of How We Work
Erez Yoeli

Harnessing Reputations To Inspire Altruism
Tony Luciani

A Visual Diary: On Dementia & Caregiving

2017 Salons
Daniela Rus

Unleashing Your Inner Maker
Andrew Lo

Hacking Humanity
Jessika Trancik

How To Make Technology Solve Big Problems?
Polina Anikeeva

Why You Shouldn’t Upload Your Brain To A Computer
Iyad Rahwan

Why We Need A New, Algorithmic Social Contract
Kevin Esvelt

Can We Engineer Social Ecosystems?
R.D. King

Salon Performance: R.D. King

2017
Michael & Amy Port

How To Perform During Life’s High Stakes Moments
Glenn Cohen

Are There Non-human Persons? Are There Non-person Humans?
Mike Boston

What Freedom Of Expression Really Means
Tsedal Neeley

Why Global Success Depends On Separating Language & Culture
Dheeraj Roy

Do We Really Forget In Alzheimer’s?
Phunk Phenomenon

Event Performance: Phunk Phenomenon

2016 / Fall
David Autor

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?
Iyad Rahwan

The Social Dilemma Of Driverless Cars
Tricia Wang

The Cost Of Missing Something
Laura Gassner Otting

Stop Asking “How Can I Help?”
Mark Gendreau

How To Stay Healthy
Janet Wu

Redefining Happiness
MASARY Studios

Event Performance: MASARY Studios

2016 / Spring
Luminarium Dance

Event Performance: Luminarium
Brian Olson

Engineering Elections Without Bias
Rebecca Saxe

Baby Brains: Unlocking Our Humanity
Susan Schneider

Can A Robot Feel?
Jon Feinman

Stopping The Cycle Of Incarceration
Kevin Esvelt

Openly Engineering Our Ecosystems
Adam Melonas

Food As A Religion
MASARY Studios

Event Performance: MASARY Studios

2015 / Fall
Daniel Koh

What Government Can Learn From Baseball
Andrew Lo

Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
Mina Cikara

When ‘I’ Becomes ‘We’
Primavera De Filippi

From Competition To Cooperation
Adam Cohen

Lighting Up The Brain
Julie Shah

Engineering Intelligent Machine Teammates

2015 / Spring
Gina Razón

Learning To Breathe Again
Bernat Olle

Ending The War On Microbes
Kayla Montgomery

Multiple Sclerosis Made Me A Better Runner
Hasier Larrea

What If Furniture Had Superpowers?
Sebastian Wernicke

Better Decision Making, As Seen On TV
Polina Anikeeva

Rethinking The Brain Machine Interface
Sep Kamvar

Cultivating Organic Learning Environments

2014 / Fall
Lotfi Merabet

Blindness Is Just Another Way Of Seeing
Tali Sharot

How To Motivate Yourself To Change Your Behavior
Gabriel Stulman

A Winning Recipe: Lessons From Restaurants On Engaging Your Team
Tyler Jacks

Life Lessons From 34 Years Of Fighting Cancer
Colleen Macklin

What We Learn From Recess
Linda Hill

Collective Genius: The Key To Leading Innovation
Peter Hurley Anna Rowley

Bridging The Self-Acceptance Gap With “Psyphotology”

2014 / Spring
Sebastien Christian

How Words Create Worlds
Hamid Ghanadan

Persuading The Scientific Mind
Tobias Otting

We All Have A Voice
Max Tegmark

Consciousness Is A Mathematical Pattern
Maggie Campbell

Living A Life Without Compromise
Tom Asacker

Why TED Talks Don’t Change People’s Behaviors
Christopher Ahlberg

Navigating The Future With Web Data

2013
Sara Seager

A Real Search For Alien Life
Bruce Schneier

The Battle For Power On The Internet
Todd Rogers

Turning Mass Intention Into Mass Action
Deepak Jagdish Daniel Smilkov

The Power Of Metadata
Zeynep Ton

The Good Jobs Strategy
Manolis Kellis

Decoding A Genomic Revolution
Ariel Diaz

Inverting The Curriculum