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TEDxOshkosh 2023 - Untamed Imagination Presents 13 Speakers to Challenge Conventional Thinking on Nov. 4

TEDxOshkosh is a full-day conference highlighting live speakers and a small number of select TED videos. The day is designed to build community and conversation during breaks allowing audience members to engage with speakers and other attendees, and during a catered lunch. TEDxOshkosh 2023 will present speakers who stretch common thinking on topics including technology, perception, art, the human experience and more. 

AI-Assisted Theme in 2023

Like TEDx events around the world, TEDxOshkosh curates each annual event with a theme. For 2023, the TEDxOshkosh team took the titles of all of the speakers’ talks, and supplied them, along with goals for theme to Artificial Intelligences (AI) and requested the AIs generate the theme. With that AI assist, TEDxOshkosh selected the theme Untamed Imagination.

The theme-generation process didn’t stop there. Using another AI, the team developed a visually abstract graphic that supports the Untamed Imagination theme and reflects the global reach of TEDxOshkosh talk videos once they are released on the Internet.

Outstanding Speakers Selected from Large Candidate Pool

“Over the seven years of TEDxOshkosh events, our team has consistently been impressed and inspired by the dedicated people who seek to present their ideas — for no financial compensation — on the TEDxOshkosh stage,” said Craig Burnett, TEDxOshkosh co-organizer.

“Our team’s task of speaker and talk selection is a large one. In 2023, for instance, the 13 talks selected were drawn from over 340 candidates. Their breadth of ideas will make for an extremely engaging and enlightening day for our audiences.”

Keep Up With TEDxOshkosh News & Register to Attend

A nonprofit, TEDxOshkosh is locally organized and produced by a core group of volunteers. The event is open to the public. Registration is required. Prices to attend the all-day conference range from $69, $89 or $99 for seats in different areas of the theatre, as well as a special price of $39 for up to 30 high school or college students.

• Register to attend by Oct. 29. 
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Here are Three More to Whet Your Appetite

Tom McInnis - Between-the-Lines: Parking, Parking Lots, and Human Behavior

Using and designing parking lots is not nearly as straight-forward as we might think, yet it’s something most of us take for granted nearly every day. This talk, by a multi-decade observer of the parking lot dance, will delve into human behavior expressed through parking an automobile, and examine the subtleties that go into the design of parking lots to accommodate not only vehicles, but the interesting ways people use them. Learn more...

Benjamin Weston - Guns, Drugs, and Strokes: Equity in the Ambulance

This talk, by an emergency physician who is the Chief Health Policy Advisor for Milwaukee County, explores how a focus on equity is measurably improving community health. Learn more...

Andrew Campbell - Navigating Toxic Organizational Environments: Healing Through Forgiveness

This talk introduces forgiveness and reconciliation as a key strength in working with others; a shift in how to navigate difficult organizational environments. Learn more...

There's more to come! Keep your eye here, or on our social media (we're TEDxOshkosh everywhere).

Three More Speakers Announced

Here's another batch of great people and interesting content.

TJ Hobbs - Community Fridges: An Accessible and Scalable Form of Mutual Aid

This talk explores the nature of mutual aid in a community, manifested via the concept of "community fridges" - working outside of governmental systems to provide both food and hygiene supplies without limitation or paperwork.

Scott Sopata - Support-and-Comfort: A New Form of K9 Policing

What do we think about when contemplating working police dogs? A drug or bomb sniffing K9 officer? A dog trained to apprehend dangerous suspects? Newly-added to those well-known canine policing specialties, is the K9 officer who is a therapy dog

Monica Anderson - What Dentistry Teaches us About Curbing Racism

The speaker, a licensed dentist of 33 years and a Black female, has experienced many forms of discrimination and diagnosed thousands of diseased teeth. Tooth decay is a disease that is preventable through early education before bad habits develop Likewise, racism should be seen not as an attitude, but as a disease that can, and should be addressed at an early age.

It's Time to get TEDxOshkosh on Your Calendar

Gather your friends, and make a day of it November 19, 2022. It's going to be another great year: check-out our speaker line-up.

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