This year’s edition was once again hosted by tech leader Binette Seck, and the speaker sessions at A Taste of Brilliant Minds gave 300 students and young adults from local communities across Stockholm the opportunity to experience some of the core principles and thinking of the larger Brilliant Minds event. The series of panels and interviews on stage shared powerful stories of HumanKIND and moments of reflection, with inspiring conversations and opportunities to not only take a deeper look at the world around us, but also to look within, embrace vulnerability, and discover the strength in kindness and humanity.
While the main Brilliant Minds gathering remained a closed event — with speakers including Grammy-nominated artist Gracie Abrams, 7x Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, Olympic swimmer and humanitarian Yusra Mardini, and bestselling author and Harvard professor Arthur Brooks — A Taste of Brilliant Minds continued as an on-record and open program, designed for local communities, running in parallel with the main event.
We were so excited to be able to offer young people the chance to be a part of Brilliant Minds — to hear from bold thinkers and inspiring innovators, to better understand and connect through Swedish values, and to collaborate and share their own perspectives.
Speakers
Speaker Annika Sten Pärson – Founding Partner and Executive Chair, The Inner Foundation
Speaker Arthur C. Brooks – Harvard Professor and Best-selling Author
Host Binette Seck – Social Entrepreneur in Tech, Co-Founder of ChangersTech
Speaker Estefania Castillo – Youth Leader and project communicator
Artist Felix Sandman – Artist
Speaker Hamdi Ulukaya – Founder of the Tent Partnership for Refugees, Founder & CEO of Chobani
Moderator Hans Vestberg – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon
Moderator Johan Andersson – Chairman of Mellby Gård AB
Moderator Malala Yousafzai – Founder, Malala Fund, Extracurricular and Reces
Speaker Rob Kenney – Content Creator, Dad How Do I?
Speaker Tom Brady – 7X Super Bowl Champion, NFL Broadcast Analyst & Entrepreneur
Speaker Yusra Mardini – Olympic swimmer & humanitarian