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Here's the list of my favorite conference speeches and keynotes:-). Enjoy!

1. North Pole Expedition - Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo journey to the North Pole.
2. Zooming Out from the Trenches (mp3) – Doug Bowman argues that today's work and thinking is impacted by the potential of tomorrow.
3. Universal Access to All Knowledge - Brewster Kahle arguing that universal access to all knowledge is possible
4. As The Future Catches You - Juan Enriquez invites us to evaluate our access to, and relationship with, the information that is shaping our world and lives today and in the future.
5. Social Entrepreneurs - David Bornstein profiles several social entrepreneurs from around the world.
6. Starbucks Tribal Knowledge (mp3) – John Moore gives you 10 tips to improve your company's branding and promotion.
7. Forgotten Ape - Frans de Waal tries to convince us that we're all apes and that there's little difference between us except that we walk on two legs.
8. The Ten Faces of Innovation – Tom Kelley talks about how to encourage and recognize daily innovation and creativity, assessing what tools, talents, or personas drive innovative projects and ideas.
9. Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age – Tom Peters talks about how the new world of business works, explores radical ways of overcoming outdated, traditional company values, and embraces an aggressive strategy that empowers talent and brand-driven organizations where everyone has a voice.
10. The Perpetual Business – Dr. Jim Goodnight speaks on growing and sustaining the long-term enterprise.
11. Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki, argues that while there are many benefits to aggregate decision making, there are several perils and misbehavior that individuals and observers would be wise to take into account.
12. Biomimicry - Janine Benyus speaks on biomimetic design principles and explained the differences between how nature would make a material and how we make that same material using toxic, ecologically wasteful processes.
13. Why Good Content Must Suck (mp3) – Jared Spool talks about User Interface Engineering's recent research on how people find information on large web site.
14. How to Drive Customers Through Your Website – Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg are interviewed by Sean D'Souza from PsychoTactics
15. Designing the Next Web - Jeffrey Veen will look at how new thinking is being infused into design practices in the new trends.
16. Radical Evolution - Joel Garreau talks about technologies (GRIN: genetics, robotics, information and nanotech), how they are now aimed inward and gives a number of curve examples.
17. The Participation Age - Jonathan Schwartz goes back in time to show how standardization and access to communication has resulted in enormous all round economic growth.
18. Creating Passionate Users (mp3) – Kathy Sierra answers what do game designers, neurobiologists, and filmmakers know about creating passionate users? How can we take better advantage of how the brain works to reach our users at a deep emotional level that inspires their enthusiasm and participation?
19. The Rise of the Creative Class – Richard Florida suggests that technology alone in this creative age is not going to make us safe. We need to bring in the kind of creative entrepreneurs who can make great ideas into sustainable business models.
20. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens on our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket and offers a few coping strategies: gnawing on wood, beating the crap out of somebody, and having friends.
21. A Genetic Odyssey - Spencer Wells traces human evolution back to our very first ancestor in The Journey of Man.
22. The Pentagon's New Map - Thomas Barnett calls globalization "this country's gift to history" and explains why its wide dissemination is critical to the security of not only America but the entire world.
23. The Future of Work – Thomas Malone argues that information technology is reducing the costs of communication to such a low level that it's now possible for huge numbers of people even in very large organizations to have all the information they need about the big picture to make their own decisions for themselves about what they do rather than waiting for people above them in some hierarchy to tell them what to do.
24. Less is More – Grant McCracken argues against the idea that consumers are given "empty choices."
25. Brand Sense – Martin Lindstrom argues that in the future, successful companies will need to find ways of appealing to all five senses of consumers.
26. Lessons from Game Design – Will Wright, creator of Simcity, delivers a keynote
27. New Solutions – Ethan Zuckerman talks about technology and the developing world
28. Future of Mental Health - Dr. Daniel Amen shares the lessons he has learned from imaging, the roadblocks to further progress, and ways to use this technology to benefit society in general.
29. Why We Love – Helen Fisher outlines the bio-chemical foundations of love (and lust), and discusses the natural talents of women, and their new significance in the modern world.
30. The Dawning of the Age of Experience (mp3) - In his usual entertaining and insightful manner, Jared Spool talks about what it takes to build a design team that meets today's needs.
31. 12 Thing I wish I'd Know Before Building a Web App (mp3) - Ryan Carson, owner and organizer of The Future of Web Apps conference, gives his presentation entitled "12 things I wish I'd known before building a web app"
32. The Social Web - John Clippinger discusses the role of trust in developing a social network. He suggests that centralized, authoritarian systems in networks are antithetical to non-hierarchical empathetic interaction on the Internet.
33. Children Sewing Clothing for Major US Companies - Charles Kernaghan, the Executive Director of the National Labor Committee, recently found hundreds of children in Bangladesh sewing clothing for Wal-Mart, Hanes, Puma, J.C. Penney and other major U.S. companies.
34. My Life as a User – Philip Greenspun thinks as a user instead of a programmer.
35. 300 Years of Blogging, Etiquette and the Singularity (mp3) – Ben Hammersley argues that Richard Steele was the first blogger, publishing his first post was on April 12, 1709. He postsed three times a week, ran comments, had 800 readers, and drank lots of coffee.
36. The Biological Way – Mind the Gap (mp3) - Thomas Harttung gives fun, and interesting, analogy between networks and the modern "everything emergent" network economy and natural systems.
37. Tags and Delicious (mp3) - Joshua Schachter talks about things he learned while building del.icio.us.
38. Customer Emotion and Psychology – James Currier takes a deep dive into consumer psychology and its implications for the future of online consumer services.
39. Perspective: Distrusted Business –John Seely Brown talks about the emotive topic of off-shoring and highlights the advantages that can be gained from understanding that it is never only a simple question of wage arbitration.
40. Re: Mix me – Lawrence Lessig argues that as technology has advanced the mechanisms by which we remix our culture have changed to keep pace but the law has not.