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2019 Registration is Open

Registration for the fourth annual TEDxOshkosh is now open. The thought-provoking, full-day event will take place on Saturday, October 5, 2019, at The Grand Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, starting at 8:00 a.m. There will be 15 speakers on this year’s program, and the theme of the event is “Connect the Dots.”

TEDxOshkosh brings the spirit of TED’s mission of ideas worth spreading to local communities around the globe. Since 2016, local organizers have brought a diverse lineup of speakers and topics to the TEDxOshkosh stage. TEDxOshkosh was organized to discover ideas and spark conversations in the Oshkosh community and beyond through the magic of Internet video. Today the TEDxOshkosh speaker videos have been viewed more than 470,000 times on YouTube.

Online registration and speaker information are available on this Web site..

Seating Options

Registration options for adults include VIP (in The Grand’s roomy “Suite Seats”) for $99, Main Floor seats for $89, and Balcony for $69. All registrations include an unreserved seat for the entire day at The Grand, catered lunch, pre-event snacks, beverages at mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks, and a swag bag of TEDx goodies. Some registration packages include an opportunity to attend a post-event reception with the speakers.

Special Discount for Students

Thanks to gracious supporting sponsors, discounted seats will be available on the main floor for students. The number of student seats is limited to two blocks of 30, and a student ID will need to be shown at admission. The first block of student tickets will go on sale on September 5, with a special price of $25 for up to 30 registrants before September 15. The second block of 30 seats will open after that for $44 each.

Join Us

“The entire TEDxOshkosh team looks forward to hosting another year of insightful ideas and the cascading conversations they generate among those who attend, and beyond. It’s a great line-up, and the chance to witness it live is priceless--don’t miss the opportunity to attend,” said Craig Burnett, TEDxOshkosh Co-Organizer.

Registration Open for TEDxOshkosh 2017

Registration for the second annual TEDxOshkosh event is now open. The event will take place on Saturday November 4th, 2017 at the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, WI from 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. for a day of dialogue around the theme Break Through. TEDxOshkosh will feature a diverse lineup of 14 speakers presenting a wide range of topics.

Speakers and topics include:

  • Javad Ahmad – The Internet of Everything
  • Ken Arneson – The Future of Aging
  • Atiba R. Ellis – Using Memes to Break Out of Voter Fraud Talk
  • Sharon Hulce – The Story of Courage: Lessons from the Wizard of Oz
  • Charlie Krebs – Everyone is a Performer
  • Curt Kubiak – Manufacturing Healthcare
  • Nina Maybe – Radical Vulnerability: Choosing Authenticity as an Act of Resistance
  • Matt McVeigh – What Can Musical Performance Teach Us About Servant Leadership?
  • Jonathan Patz – Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure?
  • Joseph Peterson – T.rex and T-Birds: Patterns of Evolution by Automotive Analogy
  • Carl Reible III – Family Dairy Farms: Drawing from the Past, Looking Towards the Future
  • Tracey Robertson – Black Girls Aren’t Magic
  • Tracy Slagter – No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Politics for Eaters
  • Nancy Yarbrough – Myths, Misconceptions, Mysteries and Mistakes…of the Sex Trade

Registration options include VIP for $99, Main Floor seats or balcony Suite Seats for $89, Balcony for $69 and Student for $49. All registrations include an unreserved seat for the entire day at the Grand Opera House, catered lunch, pre-event snacks and beverages, snacks and beverages at mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks, and a swag bag of TEDx goodies.  Some registration packages include an opportunity to attend a post-event reception with the speakers.

Online registration and more information about the registration options and can be found at www.TEDxOshkosh.com/attend/register.

 “We invite you to join us at the Grand Opera House to listen to people who have great ideas worth spreading, and engage with our community in conversation,” said Craig Burnett, TEDxOshkosh co-organizer.

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Speaker Announcements Come to a Close with the Final Four

We're happy to have announced the final four speakers:

  • Tracey Robertson, "Black Girls Aren't Magic"
  • Javad Ahmad, "The Internet of Everything"
  • Atiba R. Ellis, "Using Memes to Break Out of Voter Fraud Talk"
  • Jonathan Patz, "Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is there a cure?

Visit our Speakers and Talks page to find more detail about these and the rest of our 2017 speakers.

While you're on our Facebook page, like the page and mark your self "interested" or "going" on our Facebook Event. It you do, the announcements will come right to you.

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2016 Speaker Announcements Continue

We are delighted to introduce you to our next two amazing presenters:

  • John Koker, "Neither Created, Nor Destroyed - Waste to Energy"
  • Grace Lim, "Finding Color in a Lily-White Community"

Visit our Speakers and Talks page to learn more detail about them and our other speakers, and watch this Web site and our Facebook page for upcoming speaker announcements.

Speaker Announcements are Under Way

We'll be announcing our speakers and topics over the next few weeks in small groups, and are delighted to introduce you to this group of amazing presenters:

  • Andrea Schneider, “Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense”
  • Dale Feinauer, “Why Conflict is a Good Thing”
  • John Mayrose, “Composing by the Numbers.”

Visit our Speakers and Talks page to learn more detail about these and other speakers, and watch this Web site and our Facebook page for upcoming speaker announcements.