Discover the story, mission, and vision behind TEDxSJCC.
We have known the world as a space where humans strive for intellectual competence. Now machines emulate, and sometimes outsmart, our thinking. Ask anything, and AI answers; imagine anything, and it appears on the screen. The techno-business world’s dream of exploring the infinite seems to have found its wings in AI.
However, the planet it stands on runs on a tight budget of water, minerals and land. AI lives in vast data centres that consume staggering amounts of electricity and water; the chips it thinks with are dug out of the earth; yesterday’s hardware becomes tomorrow’s e-waste.
Machines, we say, hallucinate. Perhaps the bigger hallucination is ours: the quiet belief that all this intelligence comes for free, and that we have now invented the ultimate problem solver. Who enjoys the benefits, and who quietly pays the price?
The first ever TEDxSJCC was held with the theme 'Igniting Minds'. We hosted 8 speakers and over 200 attendees.
Returning post-pandemic, we scaled up to an audience of 500, exploring themes of resilience and future tech.
Our biggest edition yet. A journey beyond the horizon featuring global thought leaders and an audience of 800+.