From food security to racial justice to battling a global pandemic, TEDx Toronto’s “UNCHARTED” series of talks will tackle urgent issues and aim to form a map for our collective future. Schwartz Reisman Institute Director Gillian K. Hadfield will deliver a talk within the last of UNCHARTED’s four parts, “Shifting Our Course.” Hadfield’s talk will focus on why regulating Big Tech isn't working—and what we can do about it.

A scholar of law and economics who has spent her decades-long career examining how rules function in human societies, Hadfield has, in recent years, focused her research on how we might envision, build, and oversee complex computational technologies like artificial intelligence to ensure they remain trustworthy, responsible, and in the service of human values.

The first two parts of the UNCHARTED series, “Understanding Where We Are” and “Discovering Our Connections,” aired in late 2020. The third part, “Exploring New Territory,” was live-streamed on February 4, 2021, and explored health inequity, clean energy, caregiving, and personal identity.

This fourth and final part of the series, “Shifting Our Course” is scheduled for March 4, 2021, and will feature talks on equitable city building, the vulnerability of our ecosystems, revitalizing and preserving language, and Hadfield’s talk on innovations in regulating Big Tech.

Read more about the speakers in the line up of the Winter 2021 portion of the series here.