TED Women 2015: A Man's Eye-View

I participated both as founder of WomenAdvancing and as author of my forthcoming book The Future of Men Masculinity in the TwentyFirst Century As always the TED experience was valuable and worthwhile and TED Women held in TED39s original Monterey Conference Center venue was a throwback to the more intimate and emotionally rewarding TED experience Curator Pat Mitchell programmed an excellent agenda and TED marketing guru Ronda Carnegie managing her final TED event organized a thoroughly enjoyable two days under the leadership of June Cohen and Kelly Stoetzel While presentations are not yet available at TEDcom several will be eventually Here are a handful I recommendRana el Kaliouby an expert on emotional intelligence tells us that women smile more often than men and their smiles last longer Younger women are even more expressive She predicts that our devices will have an quotemotion checkquot and communicate our emotions to others As chief science officer and cofounder of Affectiva a MIT Media Lab spinoff Rana speaks with knowledge and authority Her emotion analytics team is responsible for developing emotionsensing algorithms and mining the world39s largest emotion data repository More than 30 Fortune 100 Global companies are currently measuring consumer engagement through emotionenabled digital apps Emotiontech is being applied to humanize how machines communicate with humans and each other It is also being used to help those with autism kalioubyamp160 wwwaffectivacomChristina Mercando founder and CEO of Ringly believes technology can be more discreetly and smartly integrated into our lives At TED Women she demonstrated Ringly39s digital fashionforward jewelry featuring a ring that vibrates to alert wearers of relevant emails texts social updates and calendar events quotWe will shop for technology the way we shop for clothesquot Christina predicts quotWe can39t just turn a product pink to make it appeal to womenquotamp160 jetpeaamp160 wwwringlycomamp160Margaret Heffernan39s bestselling book Willful Blindness examines why businesses and the people who run them often ignore the obvious She points out that a culture of helpfulness and collaboration in organizations leads to greater success quotWhat happens between people countsquot People who are good at getting and giving help are more likely to succeed and that depends on people getting to know each other quotWe are so focused on individual work that we need to invest time in getting to know each other We need the water coolerquot Companies she points out don39t have solutions people do Social capital gives companies momentum quotOnly when we accept that we need everybody to be engaged do we liberate the energy imagination and momentum we need to create the bestquot mherrnan wwwheffernancom httpwwwtedcomtalksmargaretheffernanthedangersofwillfulblindnessThe driving force behind the HeforShe campaign Elizabeth Nyamayaro is the Executive Director of UN Women amp8211 a solidarity movement for gender equality HeforShe has mobilized more than 100000 men in every country around the globe rallying men as advocates and change agents in ending the inequalities faced by women and girls globally Elizabeth points to a quothusband schoolquot created in Zimbabwe to help men become better husbands and fathers quotWhat we share is more powerful than what divides usquot enyamayaro wwwheforshecomSociologist Michael Kimmel author of Angry White Men believes quotwhite men are the beneficiaries of the greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world It39s called 39the history of the world39quot Gender inequality he suggests costs companies money wwwmichaelkimmelcomPhiladelphia high school principal Linda CliattWayman should be US Secretary of Education if not president of the United States quotSo what now whatquot she exclaims when confronted with individual and organizational success quotIf you39re going to lead then LEADquot Her students hear every day from her quotIf nobody told you they love you today remember I do and I always willquotamp160amp160 wwwprincipalwaymancomJane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in an interview with TED Women curator Pat Mitchell commented quotWe are not better than men we just don39t have our masculinity to provequot and they add quotfemale friendship is a renewable energy sourcequot janefonda wwwjanefondacomamp160 wwwlilytomlincomHere are a selection of additional highly recommended talks from TED Women 2015Memory Banda who at age 18 has played a key role in Malawi39s successful national campaign to outlaw child marriage memorybanda75President Jimmy Carter who acknowledged that the average man enjoys a privileged position and quotdoesn39t give a damnquot about women39s equality quotWe need to start training men to know the potential of womenquot wwwcartercentercomAlix Generous was among my favorite presenters combining an infectiously sensitive presentation style with intriguing content Alix has Asperger syndrome and at 19 she won first place in a nationwide competition for her work in quorum sensing and coral reefs When her presentation is posted watch it wwwalixgenerouscom wwwautismseescomNancy Lublin is the founder of Crisis Text Line CEO of DoSomethingorg and the founder of Dress for Success anything Nancy has to say is worth paying attention to nancylublinamp160 dosomethingSakena Yacoobi twice talked her way out of arrest and probable death at the hands of Taliban extremists Sakena has supported 80 underground home schools for 3000 girls in Afghanistan She continues to lead training programs learning centers schools and clinics for girls and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan wwwaafghaninstituteoflearningorgamp160

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