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^[update] there had been over 1700 guest speakers.

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

Speakers include [edit]

• Lady Gaga, musician^[4]
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political commentator
• Salman Rushdie, author
• Slavoj Žižek, philosopher
• John Searle, philosopher
• Michael Kinsley, journalist
• Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist
• Christopher Hitchens, journalist
• Bob Woodward, journalist
• Muhammad Yunus, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Raphael Saadiq, musician
• Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
• Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, cartoonists
• Steve Kamb, author and personal trainer
• Brian Dunning, science writer and podcaster
• George R. R. Martin, author
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
• Steve Blank, entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and writer for Startups
• Alton Brown
• Goleman, Daniel, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

List of speakers, by category and date [edit]

This section requires expansion. (July 2012)

Authors@Google [edit]

• Esther Gokhale, author of 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, delivered February 14, 2008.
• Rebecca MacKinnon, author of The Consent of the Networked, delivered February 9, 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.

Comedians@Google [edit]

• Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comic and actor, delivered August 15, 2011.
• Stephen Colbert, American comedian and television host, delivered December 7, 2012.

Broadway@Google [edit]

Candidates@Google [edit]

Chefs@Google [edit]

Education@Google [edit]

Leading@Google [edit]

• Susan Cain, author of the bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, delivered in early February 2012.^[5]

Musicians@Google [edit]

• Lady Gaga^[4]

Politics@Google [edit]

Women@Google [edit]

References [edit]

This article relies on references to primary sources. Please add references to secondary or tertiary sources. (May 2008)

External links [edit]

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

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