发言人: I think it's a massive opportunity.

发言人: Cool place to be TED. Cool thing to be a part of.

发言人: I'm ready to go. Let's do it.

发言人: You see? Oh, no. Straight away.

发言人: A couple speakers have a lot of work to do on the talks.

发言人: Okay, it becomes real.

发言人: Artificial intelligence is learning.

发言人: Tradition itself is a form of resistance. He's extremely sick today.

发言人: I'm so worried.

发言人: I think there's a massive opportunity there.

发言人: Sorry. Those top spots are

发言人: quite tight and the winner is

Reggie Watts: My name is Reggie Watts and my life changed forever when I got the opportunity to speak at TED. Now TED is searching the globe for ideas that could change everything. Nine TEDx events around the world, giving a global voice to the unknown. Six minutes that can inspire, motivate, and change their lives forever. But that's not all. Coached by an expert panel, one lucky speaker will be surprised with the opportunity of a lifetime.

发言人: It's just so exciting. Wow. Wow. This is exactly the opportunity to reach out to millions of people.

发言人: It's the biggest stage in the world. It's bigger than any dream. There were a bunch of people that were reading their scripts.

发言人: Small batch lines.

发言人: There's a lot of work to be done. No, no content notes.

发言人: Can I start again?

发言人: This cannot go.

发言人: It blew me away. Wow.

发言人: I'm really sorry. It's so big.

发言人: This is the TED Idea search. London, a city that has shaped culture, politics, and progress for centuries. From literature to technology, movements born here have echoed around the globe. And today it's home to our next group of TED hopefuls.

Jammer: Hello speakers. Welcome y'all. You have been chosen because we believe that you have an idea that is truly worth sharing from the TEDex London stage. I'm Jammer. I'm a civil engineer from South London, born and bred. I'm really proud to be a civil engineer, but engineers are brilliant problem solvers. notoriously bad storytellers. The idea I'm sharing on the stage today is all about invisible infrastructure. It's the hidden structures and systems that kind of power and connect our communities that no one really knows about. Construction is a bit of a climate culprit. Very heavy kind of carbon usage in the industry, but we could be a climate solution. So, I'd just like to tell the stories that let people know what it is that we do and encourage innovation.

发言人: You've each been chosen as part of a global idea search. All of you will take the stage here, but what you don't know is that one of you will be chosen to go on and take the stage at TED in Vancouver. This is where talks are seen by millions of people. Perspectives are shifted, movements are born, and lives are changed.

发言人: The moment when Kelly told us that one of us is going to Vancouver is, yeah, it still has not synced in to be honest.

发言人: I think it's a massive opportunity, man. I think that Vancouver, cool place to be, TED, cool thing to be a part of.

发言人: The opportunity to get to speak at TED and Vancouver would just be amazing. I think it's such a massive massive stage. So, you're going to have to really bring it tomorrow. You'll have to give the talk of your lives. No big deal. White Ted, you know, I've been dreaming about doing a TED talk for many, many years now.

Gabriella Dilacho: I'm Gabriella Dilacho. I am a classical singer, a soprano. I am originally from Brazil. My idea is to show the world how many women in music have been invisible through the history. I'm also the founder of the Don Foundation which is a foundation that amplifies women in music from past and present. Now with artificial intelligence if we do not fix this silence now machines will just perpetuate this for the future. I really hope I can help to amplify not only the women from the past but also the women of today who are still finding difficulties into finding their own space in the music industry.

Kelly Stetszel: We the TED panel that's Kelly and Miam and myself will be listening carefully. We're going to be listening for things like the strength of your idea, the power of your storytelling, your stage presence, and observing your delivery. I'm Kelly Stetszel. I'm leading the TED panel. My role at TED for the past 20 years has been curation. So, I've worked with thousands of speakers on the TED stage to select them, to help them develop their talks, and get them ready to share them with the world. I'm so passionate about this initiative in particular because it brings up ideas that we could not have found any other way. things that I look for are really the strength of the idea, but you then have to make it land. The delivery is how well they connect with the people in the room.

Kelly Shu: My name is Kelly Shu. I run Ted's YouTube channel. So, anything that gets distributed on Ted's YouTube goes through me first. I always believe that content is king. And so, if it's a great talk and it's great delivery, it will do well. But selfishly, I'm always looking for a really concise way to like present it to people. I plan to bring my knowledge of what I think our audience enjoys. You can honestly have an amazing talk in person, but sometimes on the screen, it's like not as intriguing as it was in real life. I'm a sucker for an inspiring TED talk that just makes me feel like there's hope again.

发言人: Joining them on the panel is London local and TEDex organizer Miam Pasha.

Miam Pasha: TX London represents what makes London special, which is that it's diverse. It has people from all around the world that call it home and therefore it has ideas about everything for everyone. I'm going to be looking for two things in a winning talk today. First, is it addressing a conversation I think we really need to be having right now at this moment? And I'm also going to be thinking about how it's going to transform the speaker's life. like what impact is it going to have on them and their work and their ability to take that idea to the world.

Miam Pasha: I've had the privilege of hearing your ideas over the past few weeks and I know how amazing they are and so I'm so excited for you to show the world what London has to offer. Let's do this.

发言人: Stepping on to the TED Main Stage really is the opportunity of a lifetime.

发言人: It has hosted some of the world's most influential visionaries, leaders, and architects of the future.

发言人: We have a long way to go in front of us.

发言人: Sharing their ideas to a room of thousands, entrepreneurs, investors, and change makers, each waiting to be moved, provoked, and inspired. This is a moment when we have to rise to this occasion.

发言人: But the power of TED doesn't end when the lights go down because the talk joins a global library of ideas watched by billions. Doors opened, media attention, book deals, and funding and support for their projects.

发言人: Standing on the TED main stage is more than delivering a talk.

发言人: All I want to do is show joy and hope. Your impact magnified far beyond the moment.

发言人: That's what life is about. About daring greatly about being in the arena.

发言人: It's a journey I've been on myself. So, I know how hopeful the speakers will be for that opportunity.

发言人: With show day fast approaching, the panel worked closely with each speaker to refine structure, strengthen delivery, and help their ideas land with maximum impact.

发言人: I'm just going to tell you how this is going to run. You'll get up here. You'll run your talk. There's a countdown clock right here. There is a what we call a confidence monitor behind that so you can see your slides. We're going to do it as much like we can on the day. For those of us watching who are not standing up here, let's just be the audience that we hope to see. Like really eyes on the speaker. Let's fully engage. Let's just really like practice being great audience members and great support for each other. All right, everybody. Let's give it up for Gemma.

发言人: Group rehearsals were a little bit intense. Um, I've never done anything like this before, so it was all new to me and it was really helpful to have those rehearsals in the group because everybody's been really supportive.

发言人: Think about the first thing you did this morning. You turned on a tap, switched on a light, trusted that the world around you would just work. It's such an incredible lineup, the craft, the the passion.

发言人: I'm so impressed by all that ideas. I really liked every one of these talks.

Maxim Pria: I've been developing an image making technique called Naturopi. It's a very sensitive coating on paper and everything that touches the surface leaves a trace. It's so fine that it can reveal the footprints of ants. I'm Maxim Pria. I'm an artist and I'm coming from Germany.

Maxim Pria: The idea that I want to share is a technique that I developed over the past 15 years. It's a very sensitive coating and with it, it's possible to show the tiniest traces from nature. These are the lines they leave behind. I don't know. The biggest fear was the language barrier. Everybody around me is a native speaker and I haven't felt that I could express myself in English like in German. And do we similar to them also create collective pathways through parks or through what we call culture.

发言人: This talk is beautiful. Your words are beautiful. You just did that not in your first language. I love it. I think Max's talk really just like intersected so many different topics. He had science in it, he had art in it, and like he also had like humanity in it. For the people who live in Koala Lumpur, Malaysia, heavy rainfall is common and potential flash floods are a serious threat.

发言人: Gemma who spoke first and talked about um the hidden systems in buildings and cities was just stunning. Hidden below the city, a motorway tunnel that not only diverts 30,000 cars a day to combat traffic congestion, but also transforms into a giant storm water channel. You make mistakes, people give you feedback, you learn from it. It's really helpful to be in that kind of environment.

发言人: The group around me was super encouraging. If you're anything like me, you've probably asked yourself the question, how did we get here? You see? Oh no. Straight away. Um, how did we get here? All of the data. Yeah. All of the data or it points in the same direction. You're like, yeah, all of the data. All of the data. All of the data points towards the same thing. Now I'm lost. The ways we police,

发言人: we tell our men and boys to open up. Guys, the rehearsal session was really bad. I mean, the rehearsal session was great. It was bad. I bombed bad.

Ben Hurst: My name is Ben Hurst. I am the director of facilitation at Beyond Equality, which is a gender equality charity. The idea I'm sharing today is about I guess it's a question which is are we misdiagnosing the manosphere? I would describe the manosphere as like a collection of forums, websites. A lot of it is like anger, bravado, um, and maybe in some ways unmet needs. And I feel like most people want to be good people. Most people when they're given the the opportunity will arrive at good conclusions for themselves. I kind of just want to shift that dial a little bit and move us a bit more towards like caring because I think caring is the way to solve the problem. No, I'm I'm gone. Sorry. I made it far, though. That was good.

发言人: Thanks, guys. Stop. Oh, it's good. It was easy. It's easy. No problem. Honestly, it's true.

发言人: Ben still had uh a lot of his talk to learn. I think we also have some wild cards and people who have homework and we're going to see what happens tomorrow. I feel like anything could happen.

Gabriella Dilacho: Women's voices and women's music were dismissed, unpublished, removed from textbooks and from cataloges. But if we do not repair this catalog now, tomorrow's music will repeat yesterday's mistake exponentially. AI is learning. Let's teach it to remember the sounds of all of us. Thank you.

发言人: Gabriella at the end made me totally cry. She just gave a beautiful presentation that was just like super super super special.

发言人: Sorry. Mom, I'm sorry.

发言人: I think this is so stunning. I almost like I accidentally got a little too wrapped up in it, but I was sort of struggling to look out for things.

发言人: I found the atmosphere um really inspiring and very warm.

发言人: Breathe.

发言人: Mhm.

发言人: Let yourself feel it. If you need to pause, pause.

发言人: They told me to slow down a little bit when I talk about myself.

发言人: You rush it cuz you don't want to talk about yourself.

发言人: I know.

发言人: I want to spend more time at the end. But you have it.

Nisha: I really enjoyed the group rehearsals. All of the feedback I received was positive. Everyone was really encouraging. Told me it like my speech really touched them. My great grandmother fostered my love for crochet, embroidery, knitting. She taught me that crafts are more than just hobbies. They tell a story. I'm Nisha. I'm currently a third-year medical student at Cambridge, but I'm really into crafts and I always have been. So, my idea revolves around how crafts, particularly crochet, they tell a story and their important legacies and how throughout history they've often gone unseen and unheard. And I just want everybody to understand that there's so much more behind the scenes that is ready to be explored. I still remember as a child whenever I would visit, I would run up to her and ask her, "Nani, what will you teach me today when she passed away earlier this year?" It broke me a little, but the first thing I did was pick up my hook and yarn. We often hear about like art and community and hers was specifically about crafting and that was like a take that I've never heard before.

发言人: So, beautiful.

发言人: No, no content notes.

发言人: All of our talks are so different, but we're all in the same boat trying to prepare these really short TEDex talks. We've all been there to support each other, which has been really, really encouraging.

发言人: Amazing. Okay. Beautiful. Thank you. Thank you.

发言人: On stage, speakers experience the full TEDex setup for the first time. Lights, cameras, and the red dot where their ideas will soon come to life. Can I describe the feeling of stepping onto the dot for the first time?

发言人: Ah, the red dot.

发言人: Okay, it becomes real.

发言人: Terrifying. It's really different when you're miked up and the lights are down and the red dot is there.

发言人: It was amazing. It felt like everything was finally coming to life.

发言人: If I was selected, I think it would be a really cool moment.

发言人: I can just plant a seed and make people uh see things differently.

发言人: I think there's a massive opportunity there to connect with other people and I'd love to just meet other people from around the world to do that.

发言人: I think those top spots are quite close, quite tight.

发言人: Yeah, I'm ready to go. Let's do it.

发言人: Morning breaks in London as today preparation turns to performance as the red dot awaits.

发言人: Who gets nervous before they go on stage? Who feels their heart race?

发言人: Yeah. Oh, some are really gross. They love it on the stage.

发言人: My fears and anxieties are that my jokes don't land. I trip up over the red dot and fall flat on my face. Um the mic stops working. All those things. Very often our brains are buzzing and it's hard to concentrate. We've got a million thoughts in our head. My fears and anxieties are everything. I hope that it goes well. I hope that I can leave feeling proud of myself and what I've delivered and what I've achieved. What we're going to do is we're going to lift our shoulders up to our ears and breathe in. And then we're going to give a big exhale and let our shoulders down. Now we're going to wake up our bodies a little bit. We're going to tap our bodies. We're going to start by tapping down on our leg. Tap our tap our skin. Wake up. Wake up our bodies.

Gabriella Dilacho: My hope is that I can make all the women that I'm trying to bring with me proud. That helps me. It helps me also to cry a lot, which doesn't help. Um, my fear is exactly that, that I will get too emotional.

发言人: 1 2 3.

发言人: Ideas change everything.

发言人: I think it's such an important message to be shared and I'm so grateful that I get to share it here today, but to be able to spread that globally, I think it would raise so much awareness. I'm hoping that it's going to lead to more and more and more. I want to just keep saying this over and over again. If I was selected to go, it would mean a huge amount. I would be honored to be the person to deliver that message, you know, and hopefully encourage other people to speak up and do the same.

发言人: I would say percentage chance of me winning. Yeah, it's it's tight.

发言人: The answer is a very similar process.

发言人: Just deviating what?

发言人: 48 hours.

发言人: Yeah, like a monthly.

发言人: Lastminute adjustments are made and with the audience seated, TEDex London is ready to begin.

发言人: Let us start by introducing our very first speaker for this evening. Please welcome Gemma Andrews.

发言人: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited for these talks.

发言人: Hey. Hey, London. Let's do this. London town.

发言人: First up, we've got Gemma. Yeah, she was really great during rehearsal. I'm hoping she can bring that same energy today.

Gemma Andrews: Construction is sexy. Not influencer sexy. More like the quiet, calm, clever, dependable type you bring home to your mom.

发言人: She's feeling confident. She's I think I think this is it's a good start. It's a really good start. So I can tell you all about the unseen and unsung work that goes into powering, protecting and connecting our communities. But I can also tell you this, the construction industry is responsible for 34% of global carbon emissions. Is the solution to stop building? No. The challenge and the opportunity is to build smarter. her passion. I know she's a great speaker as well. Deep under Lake Ontario, icy water is being drawn up from 80 m below the surface. It's pumped through giant pipes, looping silently below the city, cooling offices, hospitals, even data centers before returning to the lake.

Gemma Andrews: It's called deep lake water cooling and it uses 80 to 90% less electricity than conventional mechanical air conditioning. Every year it saves about 90 million kwatt hours of energy. That's the same energy it takes to boil a kettle 500 million times. In the UK we call that Monday morning.

发言人: The way she simplifies that measurement into terms we can understand makes this so relatable. We need a big drive towards efficiency, cutting carbon, and reducing waste to ensure that construction isn't a climate culprit. It's a climate solution. Because the more we share these stories, the more we inspire the next generation to build even better. Thank you.

发言人: Listen to the audience go crazy. Come on. People loved it. She's definitely one of the top people that are in my mind right now, but there's so many amazing people in this program. We're just going to have to see how she stands up. She came in right on time as well. And delivery-wise, that was absolutely perfect cuz I think it's such a beautiful talk and you don't kind of expect or I don't expect a beautiful talk about engineering.

Gemma Andrews: Yeah. Yeah. I feel relieved to be able to do that on a bigger global TED stage would be even more awesome. Even more fantastic.

发言人: Oh, now we get to hear from Max, our artist friend.

发言人: Yes.

发言人: Who developed this really beautiful technique for these special prints. He was one of my favorite from yesterday. So, I am hoping the best for him. I know he's extremely sick today.

Kelly Shu: Oh, Kelly. I just saw him backstage. He is like his head is down and I'm so worried. I hope that he's like gathering his strength right now because he is going to need it to really give the energy when he gets up there. It's so important.

Maxim Pria: When I was a child lying in the meadow, I saw a small frog right in front of me. We both stared at each other through the blades of grass. In that moment, I became completely absorbed by one simple question. What does the tiny fingers feel like? So, because I knew the tongue can magnify objects, I came up with this wonderful idea and put it in my mouth. I could feel his tiny hands gripping the sides of my tongue as if he was afraid I might swallow him. Suddenly, my mother came around the corner, froze, and gave me that face, the one reserved for moments like this. I looked back at her, sheepish, slowly opened my mouth, and the tongue ride of rock jumped out. With these stories, the descriptive words make all the difference.

Maxim Pria: I'm an artist and for over 15 years I have been developing an image making technique called Natan to pee. It's a very sensitive coating on paper and everything that touches the surface leaves a trace. It's so fine that it can't reveal the footprints of ants. the wing beat of a moss circling around the light bulb. Trails of snails. I built different machines, carried out hundreds, sometimes thousands of tests and experiments to make visible and to highlight the character and beauty of the creatures and phenomena revealed through this technique. These are the lines they leave behind. Chemical path full of information. And which kind of communication and connection emerges through this? Like here where two ants under an upside down bucket respond to each other's scent trails even in the upsense of the other. These are thousands of tiny footprints from ants. Out of a shapeless a trace begins to crystallize. Like an antrail appearing out of nothingness, like a lightning that connects the nest with the food source. The ants use a very similar process on a basic level to what happens in our brain. Through repetition of signals, they build structures that are on one hand highly intelligent on the other show how deeply rooted this pattern can become.

发言人: and we know he's not feeling great, but he is fighting through.

Maxim Pria: So much invisible life suddenly appeared. Okay, nobody really wants to know how many mites are living around them. But we're so used to seeing life everywhere that we forget what an incredible exception it is because without nature, without a single cell, a bacterium or perception, would the universe even exist?

发言人: He also is bringing our awareness to things we don't notice. And I feel like it might make me look at the world differently

Maxim Pria: once we realize that wonder that we are a part of it and understand what a true miracle life really is. Thank you.

发言人: That came in at 5 minutes. Audience loved it. I I mean that was just really a stunning talk. I know. To me that's almost like a perfect talk. Like he's going to be hard to beat.

Maxim Pria: It's crazy. Super crazy. It's like between laughing and crying. I don't know. Never experienced something like this. I think the people liked it. I hope so. Yeah.

发言人: Okay. Now, we're going to hear from Ben who um has a talk about the manosphere and navigating it.

发言人: I mean, he struggled a lot in rehearsal yesterday. His topic is great, but it was hard to fully encapsulate what his talk was going to be about. Hopefully he has done a bunch of work since we saw the talk yesterday because he did have a long way to go. So I'm I'm I'm excited to see what he's got for us. Now,

Ben Hurst: if you have spent any time around young men or boys, you've probably heard of the manosphere. People know it as a dark corner of the internet where influencers preach strength without empathy or dominance without compassion. And if you're anything like me, you've probably asked yourself two questions. Number one, what is wrong with these guys? And number two, how did we get here? Over the last decade, I've had conversations with men and boys from the classroom to the boardroom about masculinities. And I want to suggest something that might feel a little bit uncomfortable, but bear with me.

发言人: He really worked hard and he is having fun up there. and the audience is having fun right along with him. I am so happy to see how far he has come.

Ben Hurst: What if this Manosphere stuff isn't just about a fringe group of bad apples somewhere at the far reaches of the internet? What if this is about a generation of men and boys who feel unanchored, unseen, and unheard? Now, over the last decade, I've been using something called the Alec model. It's a simple conversational framework which has four main points. Number one, asking. Number two, listening. Number three, encouraging action. And number four, checking in. Now, when we begin to do these things, we see things begin to shift. Young men and boys begin to re-imagine what masculinity can look like for themselves. strength and gentleness, ambition and empathy. So maybe the manosphere isn't the disease that we all think it is. Maybe it's just another symptom, a cry for connection in an age of disconnection. And maybe we need to stop asking what's wrong with our men and our boys. And we need to start asking what do our men and our boys need from us. Thank you.

发言人: Good job, Ben. You crushed that. He totally pulled that out of the bag. There was like not a single mistake or anything. It was just like perfect and so like gave everyone the feelings. The audience loved him. And this topic is so important. I think it's on a lot of people's minds. I think that's true. He will not be the first person to talk about this. Is his perspective on it fresh enough?

Ben Hurst: Bro, I feel relieved. I'm so happy that it's over. I'm so happy that it's done. Yesterday I was freaking out cuz I was like, "This is really bad." But that was cool. Yeah.

发言人: Now we have Nisha with her talk about the importance of crafts. I remember this being very sweet and endearing yesterday. It's a nice personal story, but also mixed with the importance of craft in in history. Yeah, for a topic that might not seem super emotional on the surface, she was really able to hone it in yesterday. She had almost everyone there in tears. So, I'm really curious to see if the audience gives that same reaction. Stories can live in unexpected places, and a handmade object can hold memory just as powerfully as a book or a monument.

Nisha: Across cultures, crafts have shaped history and preserved identity. There are stories of African-American communities using quilts to secretly guide people along the Underground Railroad or in Japan where Sashiko stitching was used as a medium for storytelling.

发言人: She's got the personal she's got the the the depth example.

发言人: You cannot dismiss craft. Like it's it matters. It matters. This is not a lightweight talk.

Nisha: Mhm. These works use craft to challenge the boundaries and expand the horizons of what storytelling can be. Tradition itself is a form of resistance. Every time a grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to crochet, she quietly defies a world which once said, "These skills don't matter." So, I want to leave you with this. Look back at your own family's traditions as vessels of meaning and heritage. Maybe your grandfather painted or maybe your mom collects stamps. Whatever it may be, these are your family's autobiographies. And if we start to see these small traditions differently, how may that change how we see the world? When I wrap myself in this blanket, it is no longer about just keeping warm. It's about the memories and the stories it holds. All of us in this room are weavers. Weavers of love, memory, and meaning. The question is, what stories are you weaving? Thank you.

发言人: Her talk is like great to me. It's beautiful. And she she really did deliver it so well. She knew exactly what she wanted to say and how she wanted to say it and she said it with such deep authenticity and care. For me, the question is going to be from a number of strong contenders. How does this talk stack up against the others in terms of, you know, the impact that it can make

发言人: and the strength of the idea.

Nisha: So relieved. I'm so glad that it's finally done. But I'm really happy the audience had a really positive reaction. So all was good. I was really scared about not messing it up, but when I was there, everything just came really naturally to me. I mean, obviously, this is a fairly small venue. Doing that in front of however many more people would be an amazing opportunity.

发言人: Now, we're going to hear from Gabriella, who is talking to us about kind of the history of music and where were the women. I spent most of my life studying and performing music, but it took me decades to realize that I was only hearing half of it.

Gabriella Dilacho: This is me growing up in the south of Brazil, probably starting to dream of becoming a classical singer. A dream a bit far away from my reality at the time, but I have a very inspirational mom and she used to tell me, "Of course, you must follow your dreams. You know, think of all the musicians who achieved great things in spite of all difficulties. Think of Beethoven. He was deaf, right? Look how far he got. And I tell you, I held into that dead white European male role model like there was nobody else. And that dream brought me all the way to London to study at the Royal College of Music. And it continues to take me around the world to share music with audiences. Eight years ago, I was walking in a secondhand bookmark. You know, the one in South Bank under the bridge, and I found an encyclopedia that listed 6,000 women composers in the history of music. I was shocked. Did I miss a lesson or something? Because that was only I could think. So, I decided to look into statistics. And then I found out that over 90% of the music we hear in concert halls today is written by men.

发言人: And I know you must be thinking, "Oh, it's just classical music." But when you look at other music genres, you can see that nearly 90% of the music we hear is also written by men. I like that she brought in the current environment of music, the current problems within music, because people would think that this is just like a a problem back then.

发言人: Did you know that?

发言人: No. So surprising to me.

Gabriella Dilacho: Oh, for centuries, you know, women's voices and women's music have been dismissed, unpublished, removed from textbooks and from cataloges. And now AI is learning from that same silence. AI tools are already generating new music based on our current musical catalog. But these systems don't choose music by quality. They learn from the available data. And our musical data is biased. Is missing half of humanity's creativity. If we, you know, everybody's racing to protect our copyrights. Please continue. But if we do not fix this catalog now, the music of the future will repeat yesterday's mistakes exponentially.

Gabriella Dilacho: Some good news. You know, there's still time and ways to recover some of this silence. A lot of this music still survives in archives, in manuscripts, in libraries. And those are all voices who can teach both people and machines. You know, I continue to discover so much beautiful music, incredible stories, and some amazing women.

发言人: That must be amazing for her to be on this journey of discovery, like just really unearthing these voices.

Gabriella Dilacho: Ilber was a poet, a singer, a mother who was imprisoned in the ghetto of the resinat during the second world war. As she was there, she wrote songs to entertain the elderly and the children. She sadly died in Avitz, but a few of her songs survived. This one is a lullabi and it's called Vigala.

发言人: Val seem great

发言人: and

发言人: So powerful.

Gabriella Dilacho: Artificial intelligence is learning. Let's teach it to remember the sounds of all of us. Thank you.

发言人: There's so much conversation around AI, you know, right now. Um, but this is, you know, this is something like it's so human. Bringing the truth about history into AI and she's doing this work, too.

发言人: Her talk makes you think about what other things haven't been recorded and then how AI will exacerbate that.

Gabriella Dilacho: Oh my god, I'm really, really happy. Um, I think I did my best. Nothing wrong happened. Uh, I almost didn't cry, but just at the very ending, I got very emotional.

发言人: From bold new thinking to deeply personal stories. Each talk adds to a powerful evening of ideas watched by a highly engaged and curious London audience.

观众: It was outstanding. I really enjoyed it. I'm walking away feeling inspired. deep, meaningful, and powerful.

观众: Personally, the one that stood out for me the most was Ben Hurst. I just loved how he talked about instead of thinking about what's wrong with men and boys, let's think about what they need.

观众: Gabriella like completely took my breath away. I had that moment at the end where she wasn't singing and I just went my favorite speaker who was the first um person, she was a civil engineer, Gemma. And I just thought it was incredible how, you know, she could connect so deeply to our day-to-day lives while telling us something completely new. I loved the artist with the special paper, Maximillion. Um, something I'd never imagined before. That's the joy of a TEDex talk. It's always like, "Oh, I never thought about that."

发言人: But now the hardest decision of all is left to the TED panel. Which idea has the clarity, originality, and power to make it to the TED main stage?

发言人: Wow, y'all. How incredible was that?

发言人: Amazing. Like, they just all did such an incredible job, and they came so far just in 24 hours. It's amazing.

发言人: That's going to be tough, y'all.

发言人: My least favorite. This is the thing I've been looking forward to the least.

发言人: It's going to suck, but we have to make a decision. Let's get going. Gemma,

发言人: her delivery and and like knowing what she was going to say, it was perfect. She was like 100% on script on exactly what she wanted to say. I just wondered if this is a talk for Vancouver. Her whole takeaway was kind of like think about this stuff more. Maybe that takeaway wouldn't be strong enough for Vancouver.

发言人: Maxameleian.

发言人: I love Max.

发言人: We love Max.

发言人: I think this was a stunningly beautiful talk when this to me is one of those that has like so much awe in it. He's doing this in a in a language that's not his first language and he's sick. It's kind of incredible. The only reservation I have is like what's the idea in it? He's he's showing his work and and I just question what the idea is that we can take away from it. Ben the most charismatic person ever.

发言人: I mean basically I just think this is such an important conversation and I mean adolescence was such a moment here in the UK. Everyone was talking about it and I think the question was what do we do?

发言人: Also a huge improvement from yesterday when he like didn't know his talk at all.

发言人: Yeah, he is not the only one talking about this and there are there are other people talking about um about it in a similar way. Nisha

发言人: I think it's such a beautiful approach to like art and resistance and art and belonging and all of the things like she approached it so well.

发言人: Is it the biggest idea? Is this an idea that truly could make global impact? Gabriella. Oh my god. Because people did cried and like

发言人: people cried. We cried in rehearsal.

发言人: Yeah. And I feel like she also added some of her own like flare today. Like I heard a couple of like tidbits that I didn't hear yesterday in rehearsal that like really connected her with the audience. When you think about the performance aspect of a TED talk and like the delivery of it, I mean that ending she gave I I mean she took a risk with it too, right? Cuz you never know. Is the audience going to get it? Are they going to feel what you feel about it? And they got it. You know, maybe thinking about it now, should she have talked more about like that database? Should she have gone into like the the and what of it? Did she go far enough on that?

发言人: All right. Well, uh, that was really tough, y'all. But I think we've made the right decision. Let's go tell them.

发言人: Let's do it.

发言人: speakers. Y'all just did something so incredible. Each one of you completely completely nailed it out there. And the audience really felt that gift too. You could feel that room. I just wish that we could take all of you with us, but we do have to choose just one winner. We have had a conversation with the TED panel and we have chosen a winner and the winner is

发言人: Gabriela.

Gabriella Dilacho: I still don't believe it. I think it's going to sink in tomorrow for sure or in the next weeks. So excited for Gabriella.

发言人: So excited for Gabriella. She gave this talk. It had this really sort of surprising, powerful, beautiful ending and it massively connected with everyone in the room. Her delivery was just incredible and something that no one was expecting, which was really cool to see.

发言人: The Vancouver community is made up of a lot of people who work in tech. When Gabriella gives this talk in front of that community, it has the potential to make a giant amount of impact.

Gabriella Dilacho: I never decided to do this for me. I wanted to bring all these women with me and and to actually um just plant a seed, you know. Thank you so much.

发言人: And with that, London sends Gabriella as its voice to be heard by millions on the TED main stage. But the TED idea search continues. Next, we head east to a city built on food and the future, Singapore.

发言人: It relates to the sea shell.

发言人: No. Oh, it doesn't.

发言人: And this is pre AI, so it's true story. Yeah,

发言人: that's a big idea. My brain was like, whoa.