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About TEDxMinneapolis
We Love Minneapolis. TEDxMinneapolis is devoted to telling the grand Minneapolis story via the TED “Ideas Worth Spreading” platform. We host several events per year, pulling together local ideators with global impact. These innovators creatively collaborate with our team for a truly immersive, engaging, inspiring and entertaining event. 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.
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. Based on the parent model, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMinneapolis, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxMinneapolis events, pre-recorded TED talks and/or live TEDx speakers encourage deep discussion and connections within our diverse community of attendees. While the TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
About TED
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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TEDxMinneapolis, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, EIN 81-4643333.
Our Board of Directors:
- Thong Nguyen, Co-Chair
- Kim Bauer, Co-Chair
- Lisa-Marie Hanson, Vice Chair
- Sara Traun Newman, Treasurer
- David Long, Secretary
- Roya Bashier, Executive Director
- Kelly Sjostrom, Member
- Thad Brenny, Member
- Anna McKenna, Member