TO CREATE A FUTURE WORTH HAVING
Navigating the Unknown
August 2, 2024
Music
Talks
Thanks to our sponsors
Attend in person
Join us at Kansas City’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on August 2, 2024 to connect with a diverse community on the timely examination of our ability to navigate the unknown.
Photo by Alistair Tutton Photography
Become a volunteer
Volunteers are the reason why TEDxKC is one of the largest TEDx events in the world. In addition to being part of a great event, TEDxKC volunteers get exclusive TEDxKC details and behind-the-scenes opportunities.
Be inspired by 12+ speakers
Stay tuned for speaker announcements
Journalist, Podcaster, Radio Host
Religious Scholar, Author, Affirmative Thinker
Psychiatrist, Author, ADHD Expert
Author, Professor, Suicide Preventer
Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Pet Savior
Artist, Musician, Peacemaker
Filmmaker, Documentarian, Series Streamer
NASA Scientist,
Climatologist, Galactic Communicator
Neuroscientist, Professor, Science Communicator
Artist, Guggenheim Fellow, Activist
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Paleoartist, Naturalist, Maker
Hip-hop meets big band jazz
FAQs
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Tickets can be purchased via kauffmancenter.org starting June 12.
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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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You can sign up to volunteer here
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You can nominate yourself or others here.
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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.
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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.)