This year's line-up includes: prominent scientists and thinkers from multiple disciplines ranging from astrophysicists, anthropocene, gene editing, genomics,social, economic and health impacts of social media on society.

CERN has held a total of four editions of TEDx events. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.