In this TEDxWilmington talk, venture capitalist Chad Stender unveils a groundbreaking trillion-dollar investment opportunity hiding in plain sight: the business of sports. As a leader in the sports investment movement, he explains how this emerging asset class is reshaping industries and influencing our daily lives. Chad shares insights on how anyone can gain access to this powerful new frontier of investing. Managing Partner at SeventySix Capital, Chad Stender is a sports investor, tireless networker, and community activist. With a unique background that spans working across professional sports teams, Fortune 500 entertainment companies, startups, and over a decade as a venture capitalist, Stender has been a leader in the sports investment movement. Stender holds numerous board seats, both in for-profit and non-profit entities, and has been recognized across the industry, receiving a number of awards. Most recently, Stender was named DealMaker of the Year. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Luis Ramirez Alonso highlights the importance of investing in yourself, especially when it comes to professional development. He outlines four key pillars: training, which builds essential skills and knowledge; ownership, where individuals take charge of their growth journey; experiential learning, which emphasizes learning through real-life experiences; and coaching and mentoring, which provide guidance, perspective, and support from those with experience. Together, these elements empower individuals to grow with purpose, make informed decisions, and reach their full potential.Luis joined Honoris in 2020. He was before Vice President of Human Resources, Professional Education at Adtalem Global Education. He was previously Founder and Principal at LRA HR Solutions, providing senior HR consulting services to companies worldwide.Prior to founding his consultancy, Luis spent 10 years at LIU, holding various roles in HR, and most recently as Vice President Human Resources, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa. He started his career at Iberia Airlines of Spain in Chicago followed by 13 years at Motorola in various international HR leadership roles Luis has 30+ years of experience (12+ years in Education) and holds a Bachelor in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a MHRIR from Loyola University in Chicago This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Step inside the MIT Museum as curator Deborah G. Douglas resurrects Claude Shannon’s legendary 1950 “Theseus” maze‑solving mouse—the electromechanical demo that introduced the world to machine learning decades before the term existed. In this hands‑on session Douglas:Recounts Shannon’s journey from his MIT master’s thesis (where he coined the “bit”) to Bell Labs breakthroughs in information theory and cryptography.Reveals how Shannon and his wife Betty turned a Christmas Meccano set and surplus relays into a self‑learning mouse that stunned LIFE and TIME audiences.Shows the painstaking restoration and Arduino‑powered replica that now lets visitors watch Theseus explore, learn, and adapt in real time.Explains why this playful gadget cements Shannon’s place not just in communication theory, but at the dawn of artificial intelligence.Witness the moment the replica rediscovers its cheese, learn how museum curators reverse‑engineer history, and appreciate the playful genius whose “useless” experiments reshaped our digital century. Debbie Douglass arrived at the MIT Museum. Deborah Douglas has a dual role—Senior Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology. And she not only collects and curates, but also serves as a teacher, a speaker and a visible advocate for all things MIT.Debbie led the creation of the “MIT 150 Exhibition,” working with community members to select 150 objects most important to the Institute. In 2016, she led the creation of another wonderful exhibit when MIT celebrated 100 years in Cambridge.She contributed to the decades-long planning of the new MIT Museum – and at the same time, she was managing an enormous effort to digitize the Museum’s collections and create an online portal for open access to the amazing assets of MIT. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

MIT mechanical‑engineering professor and VulcanForms co‑founder John Hart shows how the convergence of high‑power lasers, metal 3‑D printing, and AI‑driven “digital threads” is reinventing manufacturing from the factory floor up. Tracing a line from Gutenberg’s press to modern jet‑engine parts, Hart explains why today’s fragmented, globe‑spanning supply chains can be “re‑architected” into flexible, information‑rich production networks that fabricate hip implants, smartwatch housings, and aerospace components on the same industrial printer. MIT News MIT Department of Mechanical EngineeringInside VulcanForms’ 150,000‑sq‑ft Devens, MA “foundry,” racks of synchronized lasers hum like data centers while machine‑vision systems build a real‑time digital twin of every layer. Hart details the software stack that simulates heat flows, catches microscopic flaws on the fly, and feeds back data to improve alloys discovered through large‑scale numerical searches. The result: parts that emerge stronger, lighter, and faster than legacy processes can deliver. MIT News Additive ManufacturingLooking ahead, Hart argues that multimodal AI models will fuse design, simulation, and production into a single conversational interface—collapsing complexity, unlocking custom materials on demand, and shifting value toward “cloud manufacturing” platforms. The talk closes with three implications: radically new product architectures, highly reconfigurable factories, and a rebalanced global value chain where production itself becomes a high‑value, data‑driven asset. John Hart is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies (APT) at MIT. John’s research focuses on additive manufacturing, nanostructured materials, and the integration of computation and automation in process discovery.John has published more than 125 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is co-inventor on over 50 patents, many of which have been licensed commercially. He has also co-founded three advanced manufacturing startup companies, including Desktop Metal. John has been recognized by prestigious awards from NSF, ONR, AFOSR, DARPA, ASME, and SME, by two R&D 100 awards, by several best paper awards, and most recently by the MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Why are one‑in‑four female collegiate runners sidelined by the same pelvic stress injury while their male teammates stay healthy—and why do women still wait years for diagnoses like endometriosis? In this candid lightning talk, MIT machine‑learning master’s student and former varsity distance runner Lily shares how her own back‑to‑back pelvic fractures exposed a systemic blind spot: less than 1 percent of global R&D targets female‑specific conditions, and women are diagnosed four years later than men across 770 diseases.Lily spotlights MIT’s new Female Medicine through Machine Learning (FEML) initiative, showing how AI models trained on inclusive data can:Screen for endometriosis non‑invasively using multi‑omics and symptom dataDetect bias in state‑of‑the‑art chest‑X‑ray algorithms that miss Black, Hispanic, and low‑income womenMine wearables and patient‑reported data for personalized insights at scaleShe then demos the prototype she’s building with classmates and FEML: a private, AI‑powered chat tool that answers birth‑control questions with evidence‑based, personalized guidance—no Reddit rabbit holes required.Lily call to action is clear: “AI systems mirror what—and who—we value.” With the right datasets, validation standards, and equity‑first mindset, we can stop asking women to wait and start delivering the answers their health demands today. Lily Janjigian is working in the Earth Intelligence Lab, conducting computer vision research for agriculture mapping. Lily was a member of the varsity cross country and track & field teams throughout her undergrad, and is a huge fan of distance running. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

"Don’t let others define your success" challenges traditional ideas of achievement by encouraging a personal and authentic approach to success. The talk inspires self-trust, resilience, and the courage to follow unique paths, reminding us that true success is defined from within, not by external expectations. Sattorbek Yuldashev is the Principal of Khiva Presidential School. He has been teaching English and helping students prepare for the IELTS exam for over 8 years. He holds an IELTS score of 8.5 and has been leading the school as Principal since January 2022. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx