The TEDxOshkosh team has made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel the October 3, 2020 event, due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Planning is already underway to return – for the fifth year – in the fall of 2021.

With the health and safety of the audience, speakers, facility employees, and TEDxOshkosh team always in the forefront, multiple options for putting on TEDxOshkosh 2020 were considered. Given the nature of the close indoor confines of the performing facility -- in both audience and speaker spaces -- the team determined that a live performance should not be held before an audience.

An online live-stream was also considered, but vetoed because it would eliminate one of the most important features of TEDxOshkosh – the opportunities, during the course of the event, for interactive group discussions about the talks, and the ideas those discussions generate. In the end, once the live or live-stream options were eliminated, no practical options remained, and the team made the decision to wait a year before coming back full-force, and with the pandemic behind us.

 Although disappointed at not being able to continue the event in 2020, the TEDxOshkosh team remains as committed as ever, and will return for another great year in 2021.

There have been a number of requests for titles and links to the TED.com videos shown at TEDxOshkosh 2019. Ask, and ye shall receive!

• Randall Munroe: Comics that ask, "what if?"
• Ivan Poupyrev: Everything around you can become a computer
• Nora Atkinson: Why art thrives at Burning Man
• Improv Everywhere: A TED speaker's worst nightmare
• Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)
  Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

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.

Seeking Speakers

We are scheduling live auditions for speaker candidates for TEDxOshksh 2019. We are making 22 4-minute audition slots available for people to make a live pitch of their idea. The public is welcome, and a cash bar is available for those who wish to partake.

Audition Candidates - Pre-Registration REQUIRED

Because we have only 22 audition slots, pre-registration is required. First-come-first-served. Registration opens April 1 at 8:00 AM (Central).

• Important: Download and read our Speaker Information Packet (PDF) before registering
• Pre-register to audition

Unable to Make Our Live Audition "Pitch Night?"

You are welcome to submit your application to speak via our online talk proposal form.