Baylor School senior Liam Zhang admits sleep and homework might have suffered while he’s been planning his latest extracurricular activity, but the TEDx Talk he has organized for Saturday has made those temporary deficits worthwhile.
Among the speakers he’s lined up are the creator of a robot lawyer, a basketball performance coach and the author of a business manual titled “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.”
“This is something I’ve wanted to do for three years,” says the 18-year-old boarding student from Shanghai, China, who came to the U.S. to attend high school at the private prep school.
“In China, it was a really big hit with people who watched TED Talks. It really teaches a lot of cool lessons.”
Speakers & topics
› Alan Stein: basketball performance coach, corporate speaker, podcast host, social-media influencer; “Respecting Time and Living Present.”› Christian J. Collier: artist and educator; “Mama Said” (poem).› Derelle Roshell: founder and CEO of Lingua Cocoa; “Escaping the Impoverished Mindset.”› Elijah Anderson Barrera: world languages department chair at Baylor School; “Join the World Language Party.”› Felicia Jackson: chief executive officer of CPR LifeWrap; “Three Dynamics to Life-Saving Success.”› John Sterling: professor of criminal justice at Bryan College; “Learning Problem-Solving Skills With Old Cars.”› Joshua Browder: founder of DoNotPay and one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30; “How Lawyers Are Going To Be Replaced With Artificial Intelligence.”› Justin Lewis-Weber: chief executive officer of Empower Earth Inc.; “Doublethink, Nondisprovables and the Scientific Method.”› Liz Kislik: president of Liz Kislik Associates; “Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and How To Fix It.”› Mike Michalowicz: author of “Surge,” “Profit First,” “The Pumpkin Plan” and “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur”; “Protect the Queen: The Simple System To Make Any Business Permanently More Efficient.”› Myke Kelly: president of Tennessee Valley Pride; “LGBTQ Alphabet Soup.”› Rob Headrick: chief of thoracic surgery, co-director of Rees Skillern Cancer Institute at CHI Memorial Hospital; “A New Approach To Reducing Cancer Mortality: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.”› Robin Fazio: farmer and world language instructor at Baylor School; “Why You Want To Be a Farmer.”› Sam Feinburg: executive director of Helena; “How To Avoid High-Altitude Electronic Magnetic Pulse Threats and Save the Nation.”› Stuart Friedman: chief executive officer of Global Context; “Cracking the Truth Codes: How Culture Impacts the Way People Tell the Truth … or Why They Don’t.”› Elizabeth Hayslett: junior at Baylor› Cannon Hunt: singer/songwriter and sophomore at Baylor