Prepare to be challenged and inspired as the world’s largest platform for ideas returns to Kansas City for an evening of TED Talks, performances, and experiences. Now in our 15th year, the lineup includes a NASA JPL Scientist, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a neuroscientist and NOVA series host, a journalist and podcaster, an author, philosopher, and suicide preventer, an artist with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and much more.

Don't miss the opportunity to extend your experience beyond the event. Join us for a post-event celebration filled with more experiences, music, and refreshments (weather permitting).

The program consists of two 90-minute sessions and an intermission. Many people like to come straight from work and happy hour with us at the cash bar. There will be lots to see and do before the program begins in the Brandmeyer Great Hall outside the theater doors.

4:30 Arrivals, cash bar, immersive experiences

5:30 Theater doors open

6:00 TEDxKC begins

7:30 Intermission

9:30 Program ends

9:30 Act iii begins (music, food, refreshments) till 10:30

TEDxKC (Muriel Kauffman Theatre): $52 to $95 + $8 facility fee (tickets)

Live Watch Party (Helzberg Hall) $22 to $32 + $8 facility fee (tickets)

Each ticket is a gateway to an evening of TED Talks, performances, and immersive experiences. After the program is over, your ticket opens the doors to Act III on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts lawn (weather permitting) for more music and experiences, a cash bar, and some light bites, making it a value-packed experience.

The live watch party is an immersive movie theater-like experience of the live event taking place in the adjacent theater. When TEDxKC concludes, everyone in attendance is invited to join us for a post-event celebration (Act III) filled with more experiences, music, and refreshments.

Act III takes place directly after the event. Past Act III’s have included interactive experiences, art, live music, a cash bar, snacks, games, sponsor experiences, and more.

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TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California more than 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan, and Daniel Kahneman.

The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; TED Translators, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established The Audacious Project that takes a collaborative approach to funding ideas with the potential to create change at thrilling scale; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks videos and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)