We love Minneapolis!
TEDxMinneapolis began in 2014 and hosts at least one event each year, pulling together incredible local voices and ideas with global impact. Our all-volunteer team works together across teams like curation, speaker coaching, attendee experience, production, and more to amplify these Minnesota ideas to the world. Whether you’re joining us for an in-person event with live TEDx talks or a viewing party of past TED or TEDWomen events, you’ll find TEDxMinneapolis to be an incubator of phenomenal ideas that sparks worldwide conversation.
TEDxMinneapolis, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, EIN 81-4643333.
Our Board of Directors:
- Board Chair and Design Lead: Anna McKenna
- Board Treasurer and Operations: Aeriel Waters De Garcia
- Board Secretary and Volunteer Coordinator: David Long
- Member and Executive Director: Katy Preston
- Member and Production Lead: Pat Laeger
TEDx is a grassroots initiative, created in the spirit of TED’s overall mission to research and discover “ideas worth spreading.” TEDx brings the spirit of TED to local communities around the globe through TEDx events. These events are organized by passionate individuals who seek to uncover new ideas and to share the latest research in their local areas that spark conversations in their communities. TEDx events include live speakers and recorded TED Talks, and are organized independently under a free license granted by TED. These events are not controlled by TED, but event organizers agree to abide by our format, and are offered guidelines for curation, speaker coaching, event organizing and more. They learn from us and from each other. More than 4000 events are now held annually.
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED Conferences, intimate TED Salons and thousands of independently organised TEDx events around the world. Videos of these talks are made available, free, on TED.com and other platforms. Audio versions of TED Talks are published to TED Talks Daily, available on all podcast platforms.
TED’s open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translators Program, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also offers TED@Work a program that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, WorkLife with Adam Grant, Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala and How to Be a Better Human.
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