Dreams & Reality
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" Eleanor Roosevelt
Disabled Reality
Dr. Ashley Shew
How Sound Heals
Lincoln Jesser
Cosmic webs and flows on Earth and within us
Dr Mark Neyrinck
Can AI Find Its Own Poetic Voice?
Lee Frankel-Goldwater
How natural disasters are more connected than you think
Dr. Jadwiga (Yaga) Richter
The Wisdom of Darkness
Dr. Andrew Holecek
Getting Unstuck: Moving Towards Better Mental Health
Dr. Devin Effinger
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains
Dr. Merritt Turetsky
The real story of a trans athlete
Lia Thomas
Why craft matters now more than ever
Jonathan Fields
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." Carl Jung
Why it's OK to be single
Dr. Peter McGraw
How being human saved my life
Aaron Stark
How To Retire a Few Decades Early
Pete Adeney
A Toxic Legacy: How Racism is Killing the Planet
Parker McMullen Bushman
Recovering the Lost Self Through Retreat
Brie Doyle
From Adversaries to Allies - A New Paradigm for Divorce
Allison O'Brien
Reducing Uncertainty: Bridging Fear and Action in the Mountains
Jason Antin
How puppets make us better people
Bradley Freeman Jr.
How the search for extraterrestrial life can make us better people
Dr. Graham Lau
Want to live long? Learn to live better.
Kim Boyd
Sexual Harm: A Different Shade of Blue | Isabella Cohn | TEDxBoulder
Isabella Cohn
"I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then." -Jimmy Buffett
Fierce Fearless & Fantastic: A Scientist's Way to Crisis & Connection
Amanda Shapiro
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Bridging Science and Spirituality
Charles Lief
Rebooting the tech user experience for the elderly
Christine Rohacz
Trombonology: The Musical Journey of the Trombone; 7 Songs in 7 Genres
Darren Kramer
Reimagining City Beautiful: Boulder's Path to Equity
Jill Grano
The future of space is in our past
Lee Steinke
Rediscovering Connection & Belonging
Mickey & Emma Rose Connolly
Rhythms of Resistance: Hip Hop as Nature's Original Language
Mike Wird
What no one tells you about freezing your eggs
Natalie Lampert
Seeds of Change: The Power of Community in Education
SSG Lacy McDonald
You are more: Overcoming Eating Disorders and Redefining Self-Worth
Tabor DeFore
Navajo Roads and the Echoes of Spirituality and Archaeology
Taft Blackhorse Jr.
2019 Fall
An Elegant Diet
EvaClaire Synkowski
Deep Time Sympathy for the Human Devil
Dr. David Grinspoon
Why You Should Try Therapy Yesterday
Dr. Emily Anhalt
Climate Crisis Courage
Elizabeth Hartman
Teen Brains Are Not Broken
Roselinde Kaiser, Ph.D.
How Americans Can Become Tech Policy Activists
Caroline McCarthy
Trauma Unmakes the World
Samira Rajabi
Loving Is For Everyone
Wisdom Amouzou
Stop Meditating and Start Being Present
Peter McEwen
Resilience Thinking for a Fractured World
Claire Chase, Ph.D.
Creating Connection Through Dialogue
Danny Mazur
How To Be A Tourist
Katrina Gulliver
These Poems Made Me Possible
Suzi Q. Smith
2019 Spring
What Is Your Origin Story?
Zach Barack
Portals
Kid Astronaut
Queer & Muslim: Nothing to Reconcile
Blair Imani
Sexworking Mommas Love Their Babies Too
Juniper Fitzgerald
Are You A Hybrid Professional?
Sarabeth Berk
With Everyone... Forever
Ned Breslin
It is Not About The Devices
Dr. Julie Albright
Pachelbel's Guitar Hero
Trace Bundy
What Color Is Sunset On An Alien Planet?
Zachory Berta-Thompson
Will The 10% of Your Life Define You?
Jan Broberg
2018 Fall
TEDxBoulder Rise & Fall was September 16th, 2018.
As Opioids Continue to Kill, Looking to Marijuana as a New Painkiller
Ricardo Baca
The Danger of Live Theater
Pesha Rudnick
Scream to Meditate
Benjamin Lovejoy
From Babylon to Google Earth: How Maps Shape our Worldview
Gopal Shah
Do you have Impostor Syndrome ... too?
Phil McKinney
Black Hole Sun
Ann-Marie Madigan
Majestic Neurophysiology
Jane Weintraub
Rock Violin, Live Looped, No Net
Adam DeGraff
Feed More, Waste Less
Riley Bright
From Scars to Strength: The Poetry of Recovery
Bianca Mikahn
2018 Spring
On June 3rd, 2018, the spring edition of TEDxBoulder tackled the themes of reality and boldness. The event sold out the amazing Chautauqua Auditorium.
Failing Upwards: Science Learns by Making Mistakes
Phil Plait
How We Say No Matters
Liz Marasco
Kids Should Be Their Own Role Models
Jack Bonneau
What Does your Activism Look Like?
Katie Breen
Future of Blockchain
Chelsea Rustrum
Using the Rubik's Cube to Enrich STEAM Education
Dan Van der Vieren
Brave Over Perfect: A Full Life Beyond Anxiety & Depression
Susie Rinehart
I Was Almost A School Shooter
Aaron Stark
String Magic
Spinphony
The Art of Living a Happy Life
Dan "Nitro" Clark
2017
The 2017 installment of TEDxBoulder took place on Sunday, September 17th at the historic Macky Concert Hall. The event sold out with 2,200 in attendance.
I've always wanted to tell you...
Brenton Weyi
Lessons from the World Avoided
Sean Davis
What We Lose When We Undertreat Pain
Kate Nicholson
Stop Trying To Change
Kaley Klemp
Failing to go the distance: what's the beef with food miles?
Peter Newton
Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic
Tania V. Chairez
Alejandro Fuentes Mena
Dancing On The Walls that Divide Us
Isabel von Rittberg
Chris Hopper
Gordon Graham
2016
The 2016 installment of TEDxBoulder took place on September 17th at the historic Macky Concert Hall. It sold out with 2200 in attendance.
Do You Like me? Do I?
Leah Pearlman
Late Night Taco Delivery by Drone (The Future?)
Star Simpson
Without Currency, How Do Communities Survive?
Amanda Szabo
The Banjo Cut Four Ways
Otis Taylor
What Can We Learn From Fermentation?
Mara King
Water for Peace: extinguishing the fire of war and conflict
Ahmed Abukhater
Intersex People and the Physics of Judgment
Cecelia McDonald
Why We Need Universal Design
Michael Allen Nesmith
Frozen in Space and Time: Antarctic Meteorites
Con Tsang
Do Gut Microbes Predict or Cause Diseases like Parkinson's?
Martha Carlin
2015
TEDxBoulder 2015 took place on September 19th at the historic Macky Concert Hall. It sold out with 2200 in attendance.
The Body, The Mind, The Spirit: Pitfalls on the Path to Enlightenment
Scott Carney
Pluto: Worth the Wait?
Carly Howett
Sensational Strings: Empathy & Malice
Christen Lien
The Connection from Plate to Work
Brian Coppom
Studying Sexual Rewards: It may not be orgasm
Nicole Prause
Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?
Dave Brain
Mastery through Leonardo da Vinci
Hikaru Miyakawa
Vaccination: A Story of Risk & Community
Lindsay Diamond
How Do You Cultivate the Artist's Path?
Brenda Alderete
Understanding 'How do I Sleep Better'
Dr. Vyga Kaufmann
2014
September 27 2014 was just a week after the historic flood of Boulder County. The community gathered between helping each other out for this event which had a accidentally timely theme. It sold out with 2200 in attendance.
Be a Hospitalian
Bobby Stuckey
The Joy of Less
Kim Coupounas
Choosing to Fly
Steph Davis
Tickets to Space: All Aboard
Dan Durda
Commit
Catie Webster
The upside of crisis
Joseph Logan
Music is a visual art
Hunter Ewen
Forgiveness in an unforgiving world
Megan Feldman
Falling into grace
Deborah Bowman
Embrace Adversity
Gerry Valentine
2013
The fourth TEDxBoulder was hosted on September 20, 2013. It sold out with 2200 in attendance.
Embracing fear for growth
Sue Heilbronner
The promise of connected vehicles
Sheldon Drobot
Authenticity's impact on democracy
Myriah Conroy
Make the damn call - the gifts of cancer
Merredith Branscombe
The surprising story of medical marijuana and pediatric epilepsy
Josh Stanley
Volunteering collaboratively with community
Jennifer Armstrong
Transcending addiction and redefining recovery
Jacki Hillios
Capturing the moment
George Lange
The success of nonviolent civil resistance
Erica Chenoweth
Buildings that teach
Craig Schiller
