The fifth annual TedxBoston gets underway today at the Seaport World Trade Center, where innovators in technology and other fields will showcase their game-changing ideas.
"The mission of Ted is to deliver talks that are full of ideas worth spreading," said Jimmy Guterman, one of the event's curators. "We are lucky enough to be in a community that is full of innovators."
Among this year's speakers are:
• Daniel Clarke and Joshua Trautwein, co-founders of Fresh Truck, who took a retrofitted school bus and are turning it into a mobile market for Boston residents who don't live near a grocery store. Beginning next month, Fresh Truck will bring healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains and granola to people at prices 20 percent lower than those of an average grocery store.
"Food access is a big issue," Clarke said, "and it's causing a lot of health disparity, particularly in urban areas."
• Nikita Bier, founder and CEO of Outline.com, which builds public policy simulators to see what the financial impact of those policies are at the ZIP code level. Using his app, Bier will do a demonstration showing the impact of cutting the income tax and education spending in Massachusetts.
"The big problem is, when assessing public policy, people tend to base their decisions more on emotion or rhetoric than empirical evidence," Bier said.
• Helen Greiner, CEO of CyPhy Works, whose flying robots are in the development stage to work with the military. Her robots also could be used for everything from farming to bridge inspections but are restricted by the Federal Aviation Administration for commercial applications.
"These are applications where you could save time and lives," Greiner said.
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