Speakers & Talks - All Years
Here is the complete list of all TEDxOshkosh speakers and talks since our origin in 2016.
All 118 Speakers & Talks
(Click/tap any speaker's name to go to their bio and talk video)
| Rashid Abdullah | 2022 | How Comedy Creates Community and Builds a Sense of Belonging |
| Shola Adegbite | 2025 | The World is a Marketplace: Lessons from the Yoruba Culture |
| Javad Ahmad | 2017 | The Internet of Everything |
| Monica Anderson | 2022 | What Dentistry Teaches us About Curbing Racism |
| Ken Arneson | 2017 | The Future of Aging |
| Stav Atir | 2025 | The Unexpected Benefits of Talking with Strangers |
| Sahil Badruddin | 2018 | Disagreement: An Essential Part of Pluralism |
| Amanda Bauer-Frisch | 2023 | In Defense of Participation Trophies |
| Adam BellCorelli | 2018 | Smile and Give Someone Superpowers |
| Alina Bennett | 2021 | Moral Injury on the Front Lines: Lessons From Healthcare |
| Jerry Benston, Jr. | 2018 | What Difference Does Difference Make? |
| Colleen Bies | 2019 | Why Children of Immigrants Work so Hard |
| Danielle Block | 2025 | Exploring the Hidden, Human-Created World Beneath Our Feet |
| Kristin Bock | 2025 | Saying Yes to Strangers Can Change Everything: Lessons Learned from Hosting International Exchange Students |
| Erin Boehme | 2024 | A Vocal Jazz Performance |
| Keydi Bognar | 2023 | More than a DREAMer: Overcoming unintended consequences from decisions about immigration |
| Blair Braverman | 2021 | What Sled Dogs Can Teach Us About Courage |
| Thom Britton | 2018 | Science as Spectacle: Bringing Science Back Into the Public Eye |
| Andrew Campbell | 2022 | Navigating Toxic Organizational Environments: Healing Through Forgiveness |
| Robin Cardell | 2016 | Drum Circles, Integrating Self and CommUnity |
| Mai Lee Chang | 2023 | Artificial Intelligence That Helps Seniors Stay in their Homes |
| Seon Yoon Chung | 2024 | New Tools in Healthcare Education: Incorporating AI-Generated Simulations |
| Mary Beth Connors | 2025 | Micro-Enterprise for All Abilities: Brewing Futures Through Coffee & Confidence |
| Ron (Muqsahkwat) Corn, Jr | 2018 | Language is the Key to Everything |
| John Curtin | 2021 | Mental Healthcare at Our Fingertips |
| Gabrielle Dorn | 2021 | Wance Revolution (no, that's not a typo) |
| Pete Dulcamara | 2021 | Humanity-Centric Innovation: Redefining the Meaning of Billionaire |
| Courtney Dvorak | 2024 | The Real Impact of Workplace Trauma |
| Allen Edge | 2018 | Weird |
| Atiba R. Ellis | 2017 | Using Memes to Break Out of Voter Fraud Talk |
| Ignacio Enriquez Jr. | 2022 | In Case of Emergency, Listen |
| Zach Evans | 2019 | Playing it My Way: A New Verse in Music Education |
| Dale Feinauer | 2016 | Why Conflict is a Good Thing |
| Gabriela Fleury | 2024 | Interspecies Diplomacy |
| Michael Ford | 2024 | People Matter: Getting Governing Back into Politics |
| Angie Freeman | 2025 | The Answer to Performative Allyship: Having the Courage to Call Your Own Bluff |
| Allison Garner | 2019 | Life is Messy: Let's Stop Pretending it's Not |
| Piper Garner | 2022 | The Power of Struggling with Mental Illness |
| Mikki Gates | 2025 | When was the last time you really thought about toilets? |
| Misty Gedlinske | 2018 | The Invisible Letter "B" |
| Bethanie Gengler | 2021 | Should we be Punished for a Lifetime for our One Worst Act? |
| Sean Gibbons | 2019 | The First Responder Mindset: The Life You Save May be Your Own |
| Chris Gleason | 2019 | Lighting A Fire In Kids: Three Insightful Teaching Truths |
| Peter Glick | 2019 | Masculinity Contest Culture: How Organizations Become Toxic, and How to Fix Them |
| Gina Glover | 2023 | The Heart of Connection, in Ten Simple Steps |
| Shaheda Govani | 2024 | What if We Were to Like Ourselves a Little Less? |
| Cassandra Haack | 2018 | Counteracting Loneliness with Meaningful Mail Art |
| Justin Hamm | 2022 | The American Midwest: A Story in Poems |
| John Harmon | 2022 | Improvisation: Instant Composing |
| Gretchen Herrmann | 2018 | Make it a Beautiful Day: A reflection on living and dying… |
| TJ Hobbs | 2022 | Community Fridges: An Accessible and Scalable Form of Mutual Aid |
| Sharon Hulce | 2017 | The Story of Courage: Lessons from the Wizard of Oz |
| Alex Hummel | 2016 | Alone Together: A Crash Course in Cognition and Community |
| Jeanette Hurt | 2021 | The Real Truth About the Wisconsin Brandy Old Fashioned |
| Brian Kinghorn | 2023 | Is TheDress Blue or Gold? The Psychology of Perception |
| Dick Knapinski | 2016 | The Oshkosh Approach: Creating the World’s Busiest Airport |
| John Koker | 2016 | Neither Created, Nor Destroyed - Waste to Energy |
| Charlie Krebs | 2017 | Everyone is a Performer |
| Shermin Kruse | 2024 | Stoic Empathy: The Synergy of Compassion and Resilience |
| Curt Kubiak | 2017 | Manufacturing Healthcare |
| Rebecca Langley | 2021 | Re-Thinking Charity: Where Would We Begin? |
| Bethany Lerch | 2016 | There are Wrong Ways to Help: Examples from Afghanistan |
| Scott Lesnick | 2018 | Limited Resources or Unlimited Resourcefulness: Getting More Done |
| Grace Lim | 2016 | Finding Color in a Lily-White Community |
| Sadaf Lodhi | 2023 | Sex Education for Doctors: Lessons from a Muslim Gynecologist |
| Kiran Loewenstein | 2016 | Robots, Engineering and Me - A Young Woman’s Perspective |
| Caitlin Looby | 2023 | Rebuilding (or Building) Public Trust in Science |
| Sean Lynch | 2021 | Songs of Moving On |
| Rajon Lynch | 2016 | The Ham Sandwich |
| Isaac Marquardt | 2019 | Drumming While Disabled: From Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis to Drumming in a Band |
| Nina Maybe | 2017 | Radical Vulnerability: Choosing Authenticity as an Act of Resistance |
| John Mayrose | 2016 | Composing by the Numbers |
| Mike McGinley | 2022 | What Stinks? Odor's Impact in Our World |
| Tom McInnis | 2022 | Between-the-Lines: Parking, Parking Lots, and Human Behavior |
| Matt McVeigh | 2017 | What Can Musical Performance Teach Us About Servant Leadership? |
| Lia Medeiros | 2025 | Visualizing Black Holes: Seeing More thanks to Machine Learning |
| Heidi Nicholls | 2021 | Where Have all the Conversations Gone? Talking About the Hard Stuff |
| Kary Oberbrunner | 2023 | Blockchain: The Future of Intellectual Property Protection |
| Andy Olen | 2019 | "Yes, if" in Getting to Agreement |
| Madeleine Pape | 2021 | How do we Decide Who Competes in Women’s Sport? |
| Jonathan Patz | 2017 | Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure? |
| Masha Pavlova | 2024 | Unmasking Autism in Adulthood |
| Joseph Peterson | 2017 | T. rex and T-Birds: Patterns of Evolution by Automotive Analogy |
| Janet Planet | 2016 | Finding Your Voice |
| Camin Potts | 2019 | Small Town “Gangs for Good” - Anonymously |
| Shannon Rawski | 2018 | #MeToo, #TimesUp, Now What? |
| Carl Reible III | 2017 | Family Dairy Farms: Drawing from the Past, Looking Towards the Future |
| Tracey Robertson | 2017 | Black Girls Aren't Magic |
| Connie Schneider | 2025 | Another look at CPR: Two Hands to Save a Life |
| Karen Schneider | 2023 | The Power of the Printed Press in a Digital World |
| Andrea Schneider | 2016 | Women Don’t Negotiate and Other Similar Nonsense |
| Jordan Schroeter | 2023 | Are We Asking the Disabled to be Better than the Rest of Us? |
| Cody Schuhart | 2023 | Nothing Matters, so Everything is Possible: How Nihilism Can Save a Life |
| Natraj Shanker | 2024 | Micro-Factories: Manufacturing Re-Invented |
| Jennifer Skolaski | 2024 | An Antidote for an Overdose Epidemic: We Heart You |
| Tracy Slagter | 2017 | No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Politics for Eaters |
| Aaron Smith | 2019 | Paws and Effect: A Journey of Transformation |
| Abraham Smith | 2025 | Life Is a Poem |
| Estelle Song | 2023 | From Soundwaves to Brushstrokes: Predicting Art Taste from Musical Preference |
| Scott Sopata | 2022 | Support-and-Comfort: A New Form of K9 Policing |
| Brad Spanbauer | 2016 | A World Without Elephants |
| Juliëtte Sterkens | 2023 | Hearing Loss: Beyond Hearing Aids |
| Erin Stevens | 2021 | Ending the "War on Cancer" |
| Charles Sykes | 2018 | Navigating a Post-Truth World |
| Jennifer Szydlik | 2018 | The Cold Hard Truth about School Math |
| Steve Szydlik | 2021 | How a Mathematician Looks at Redrawing Political Boundaries |
| Sharon Tenhundfeld | 2018 | Being a Creativity Detective |
| Pallavi Tiwari | 2024 | Are We Ready for an AI Oncologist? How AI Can Help Doctors Personalize Cancer Care |
| Steve Toll | 2022 | What Is An Inch? The Hidden Science of Measurement |
| Alex Tyink | 2019 | Disrupting the Food System: Innovative Models of Fresh Food Delivery |
| Saanvi Uppalapati | 2025 | A Hidden Cost of AI No One Wants to Talk About |
| Jim VandeHei | 2021 | The Art of Smart Brevity - Write Less, Say More |
| Lucinda Vette | 2016 | Leading from the Back of the Herd: Lessons from Listening to Horses |
| Andy Weins | 2019 | Supporting Soldiers Out of the Hole |
| Benjamin Weston | 2022 | Guns, Drugs, and Strokes: Equity in the Ambulance |
| Paul Wiegel | 2019 | Writing Poems in the Street |
| Tom Willadsen | 2016 | Laughter is Carbonated Holiness |
| Nancy Yarbrough | 2017 | Myths, Misconceptions, Mysteries and Mistakes....of the Sex Trade |