Presentations from students on stages.

Watch talks that TKS students have given at international conferences.

TED Talks

Welcome to the next 100 years of our lives

Riya Karumanchi shares her views on how we can solve global problems and make the world a better place.

Microsoft Summit

Designing the future using emerging tech

Isabella Grandic inspired the audience by sharing her story, which includes projects in cellular agriculture and artificial intelligence.

Singularity Summit

Vision for the Future, Panel Conversation

Anupra Chandran, 15, studies gene editing, and how this can be used to eradicate disease. Cassia Attard, 18, focuses on cellular agriculture (lowering the cost of lab grown meat to decrease the carbon footprint of meat). Ananya Chadha, 17, focuses on brain computer interfaces and machine learning.

C2 Conference

The future of proactive healthcare

Samarth Athreya and Ayaan Esmail share their research on developing a proactive healthcare system, rather than the reactive healthcare system we currently experience. By leveraging synthetic biology and nanotechnology, we can better predict health problems and address them sooner.

Fortune Conference

Interview at Fortune

17 year old Ananya Chadha created her own cryptocurrency and is using blockchain to help people share their genetics anonymously. Fortune’s legendary finance reporter Shawn Tulley asks where it’s all going.

Web Summit

Solving Climate Change

Isabella, Liam, and Brianna spoke at the world’s largest technology conference, Web Summit, which was held in Portugal. In their talk, they break down the problem of climate change, and give tangible solutions on how to solve the problem. Their vision is to use emerging technologies to advance our understanding of methods that we can use as a global society to minimize carbon emissions and limit greenhouse gases. Before joining TKS, they didn’t know anything about this topic,

TED Talks

Developing a proactive healthcare system

Ayaan is a 14 year old genomics and nanotechnology enthusiast, as well as a young cancer researcher and pharmacogeneticist. He is a TKS Innovator with a passion for and an unwavering dedication to the advancement of research in the field of medicine and its intersection with technology. His talk is impactful to the community and our future and will inspire and educate.

SWSW

Transforming Civilization with Quantum Computing

Tommy Moffat talks about how the development of computers changed civilization forever, but we’re still operating on the same technology from over 70 years ago. Today, quantum is primed to be humanity’s next big transformation.

C2 Conference

Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

Zaynah Bhanji talks about artificial intelligence, and more specifically computer vision. She shares how computer vision can be used to impact different industries like agriculture, security, and much more.

TED Talks

Virtual worlds to solve global challenges

Sabarish Gnanamoorthy, a 15 year old Virtual Reality (VR) developer, argues that virtual worlds hold the promise to solve these challenges and create a more positive, perfect and exciting future.

Web Summit

Carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas

Taira Mehta, Riya Mehta, and Anupra Chandran – on stage at Websummit talking about their Carbon Capture project, Kaptis.

Web Summit

Non-invasive biosensor technology

Ben Nashman gives an overview of biosensor technologies and what he’s working on at Synex Medical.

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Panel: Young Minds, Brilliant Ideas

Caroline Riseboro, CEO of Plan International Canada, speaks to the Youth Summit and introduces the Youth Panel. Caroline talks to the bright minds of the next generation about their experiences in STEM. Students Tanisha Bassan, Zaynah Bhanji, and Hannah Le also tell us what they want industry and political leaders to know.

Collision Conference

Life, death and everything – thoughts on future medicine

Nina Kera shares her research in telomeres and senescent cells to reduce aging, increase human longevity, and improve health span. She sits on a panel at Collision with an MIT professor.

CES

Artificial intelligence and education

Jerry Qu presents at CES after winning the Top Young Innovator to Watch award. His project, Backen, applies AI to curricula generation in education.

CES

Quantum machine learning algorithms

Tanisha Bassan presents at CES after winning the Top Young Innovator to Watch award. Her project uses quantum vector machine kernel algorithms.

Elevate Festival

Nadeem Nathoo interviews Vinod Khosla

TKS Co-Founder Nadeem Nathoo interviews Vinod Khosla, one of the world’s leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalist.

TED Talks

Are we Making the Most of Human Potential?

TKS Co-Founder Navid Nathoo shares his views on how to unlock human potential and create a better future.

 Kadoka Academy, 2023