TEDx Organizers
TEDx organizers around the world create grassroots, local events dedicated to spreading ideas within their communities, and beyond. Select any name to learn more about them and their events. Learn about participating in a local event near you

Katie Ackerman
Yakima, Washington, United States
Dorelle Ackermann

Branimir Ackovic
Belgrade, Serbia , Yugoslavia
Byron Acosta

Carla Acosta
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Danna Acosta
Viedma, Argentina
Me apasiona el poder de una idea cuando se vuelve acción.
El poder de una comunidad cuando se mueve por un propósito.
Y el poder de una persona cuando se atreve a liderar su destino.
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Me apasiona transformar. No solo ideas, sino a las personas que se atreven a pensarlas en voz alta. Me mueve ver cómo una conversación, una comunidad o una decisión pueden ser el punto de quiebre entre lo que éramos y lo que podemos llegar a ser.
Me obsesiona entender cómo funciona la mente, qué nos inspira, qué nos frena, por qué decidimos lo que decidimos. Estudié neurociencia, coaching, comportamiento del consumidor y diseño de experiencias porque necesito conectar lo invisible con lo concreto. Las intuiciones con las estrategias. El alma con el plan.
Diseño experiencias educativas y espacios de comunidad que no solo informan, sino que despiertan. Creo que cuando un proyecto te trasciende, ya no podés renunciar. Porque ya no se trata de vos: se trata de lo que representás.
No me interesa acumular logros. Me interesa dejar huella.
Por eso, todo lo que hago —desde el contenido que escribo, hasta los eventos que organizo o las ideas que impulso— lo hago con una sola intención: que algo se mueva adentro. Que nada vuelva a ser igual.
Me apasiona el futuro. Pero no cualquier futuro:
Uno donde trabajemos con sentido.
Emprendamos con conciencia.
Y lideremos sin tener que dejar partes de nosotras afuera.
Porque sí: creo que se puede cambiar el mundo.
Pero primero, hay que animarse a cambiar la forma en que lo habitamos.
Emily Patricia Acosta Ramírez

Tony Acosta
Provo, Utah, United States

Vanesa Nahir Acosta
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marvin V Acuna
Los Angeles, California, United States
I am drawn to anything that helps me understand the world a little more clearly.
Books do that. They let you borrow the hard-won wisdom of people who made mistakes before you had the chance to make them yourself. Reading, at its best, is not escape. It is leverage. It lets you travel through history, strategy, failure, faith, invention, and human nature without needing to learn every lesson the expensive way.
Food does something similar.
I love food, but more than that, I love the craft of food. I think chefs are the new rock stars. The difference is that you do not have to stand in a stadium with 20,000 people to experience what they have made. You can sit at a table, take a bite, and listen for the story they are trying to tell.
Food tells you where you are in the world. Sometimes it takes you somewhere else entirely. A dish can move you across a border, into another culture, or back into a room you thought you had forgotten. It can return you to someone you love, or someone you loved. In that sense, food is one of the most underrated time machines we have.
Travel expands that feeling.
The more I see of the world, the smaller and more connected I feel. Travel reminds me that I am a speck of dust standing on the shoulders of people who sacrificed, built, fought, loved, failed, and endured so that the rest of us could inherit something larger than ourselves.
It also reminds me that people are not nearly as different as we are sometimes told. Across countries, languages, and customs, the deepest things tend to rhyme: God or purpose. Family. Friendship. Love. The desire to matter. The need to belong.
And finally, I am passionate about who I am becoming.
That may be the real subject beneath all the others. Learning, food, travel, faith, relationships, ambition, discipline. They are all part of the same inquiry: how do we become more fully what we were created to be?
I believe we are always changing. The question is whether we are changing by accident or by intention.
I am interested in the intentional kind.

Riku Adachi
Fukuoka, Japan

Akshaya Adaikkalavan
Houston, Texas, United States
I love playing the piano during my free time and an interest I have found quite recently and am working on, is the genetics research.

Beyza Adakoğlu
Abdikani Adam
Baidoa, Somalia

Andrei Adam
Oakville, Ontario, Canada

hassan adam
Cairo Egypt, Egypt
i'm passionate about design , art and charity work

Umar F. Adam
Karachi, Pakistan
Startups, Technology & Marketing

Dwija Adamala

Vindhya Adamala
Emanuele ADAMO

Ovoke Adams Adamatie
Paisley, United Kingdom

Bethany Adams
Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States

Chris Adams
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Don Adams
Toronto, Ontario, Canada