AtGoogleTalks

AtGoogleTalks (or @Google Talks or Talks@Google) is a series of presentations by invited speakers sponsored by Google given at various Google offices throughout the world. The series has feature categories such as Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, Women@Google, Musicians@Google and others. For technical topics, there is Google Tech Talks (also known as EngEDU^[1]) which is dedicated to exploring areas of technology and science. Guest speakers range from present and past world leaders to little-known poets and artists. Talks range from about 40 to 70 minutes. As of February 2009 there had been over 1700 guest speakers.

In March 2006, Google announced that videos of the talks would be available on Google Videos.^[2][3] Most are now put on YouTube before they are put on Google Videos.

Speakers include

• Lady Gaga, musician^[4]
• Karmapa, Tibetan Spiritual Leader ^[5]

List of speakers, by category and date

Actors@Google

• Kamal Haasan, Indian film actor ^[6]

Authors@Google

• Esther Gokhale, author of 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, delivered February 14, 2008.
• Tim Keller, author of Reason for God, delivered March 5, 2008.^[7]
• Rebecca MacKinnon, author of The Consent of the Networked, delivered February 9, 2012.
• David Chang and Peter Meehan, authors of Lucky Peach quarterly magazine, delivered May 24, 2012.
• Kelly McGonigal, author of The Willpower Instinct, delivered January 26, 2012.
• Rich DeMillo, author of Abelard to Apple, delivered January 25, 2012.
• Jeff Galloway, author of Run Injury Free, delivered January 23, 2012.
• Ann Lee, author of What the U.S. Can Learn from China, delivered January 20, 2012.
• Robert B. Reich, author of Aftershock, delivered August 29, 2011.
• Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, delivered August 4, 2011.
• Tina Fey, author of Bossypants, delivered April 20, 2011.
• Randall Munroe, xkcd webcomic author, delivered December 7, 2007.
• Eric Ries, author of the "The Lean Startup", delivered April 7, 2011.
• Slavoj Žižek, author of "Violence", delivered September 12, 2008.
• David Chang, author of Momofuku, delivered November 16, 2009.
• Jason Zweig, author of "The Devil's Financial Dictionary and The Intelligent Investor" ^[8]
• William Green, journalist and author of The Great Minds of Investing, delivered March 28, 2016.

Comedians@Google

• Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comic and actor, delivered August 15, 2011.
• Stephen Colbert, American comedian and television host, delivered December 7, 2012.
• Amy Schumer, American comedian and actress, delivered August 14, 2015 at Google Ireland.
• Bill Hader, American comedian and actor, delivered August 14, 2015 at Google Ireland.
• Vanessa Bayer, American comedian and actress, delivered August 14, 2015 at Google Ireland.

Entrepreneurs@Google

• Yu-Kai Chou, Gamification Guru ^[9]

Leading@Google

• Susan Cain, author of the bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, delivered in early February 2012.^[10]

Musicians@Google

• Lady Gaga^[4]
• A.R. Rahman
• Reggie Watts
• Lang Lang
• Andrea Bocelli
• Gurdas Maan

Politics@Google

• Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister ^[11]
• Ron Paul

References

1. "Top 10 Google Tech Talks | A Beautiful WWW". Abeautifulwww.com. 2007-02-17. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
2. Google announcement of the videos being online
3. Thomas Claburn (June 20, 2007), Google Offers Tech Talks On Video, InformationWeek
4. Musicians@Google Presents: Google Goes Gaga
5. "Day Two: Karmapa Tours Googleplex and Gives Talk to Google Staff". Kagyu Office (kagyuoffice.org). March 15, 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
6. Kamal Haasan: "10X: Leadership in Innovation"
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxup3OS5ZhQ, retrieved 2015-10-15 Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. Jason Zweig: "The Devil's Financial Dictionary and The Intelligent Investor"
9. Yu-kai Chou: "A Framework on Actionable Gamification
10. "Leading@Google: Susan Cain" (WebCite archive), official "AtGoogleTalks" YouTube channel, video uploaded February 8, 2012.
11. Yanis Varoufakis: "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?"

External links

• AtGoogleTalks, on YouTube (Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, etc.)
• Google Tech Talks, on YouTube.
• Google announcement of the videos being online