BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx and other branded events. Learn the tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world!

Today Nathan chats with Brian Sullivan about his talk "Empower Human Connection with Emotive Tools".

Brian Sullivan uses his talents and insatiable curiosity for how people think and behave to better understand how technology can bring us together, not push us apart. Brian and his team have taken the concept of the emoji and turned it from a cute footnote or add-in to a message into a way to truly transmit a level of satisfaction, happiness or other emotion within a message.