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, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. 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).

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center
122 Hourglass Drive
Stowe, Vermont, 05672
United States

Aaron Wisniewski

A mad scientist, artist, olfactory activist. Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Alice & the Magician: an experimental Flavor and Fragrance company. He is also founder and CEO of OVR Technology: an innovative company combining the power of olfaction with the potential of virtual reality to advance human experiences.

Ashley Reynolds

Ashley Reynolds co-founded Elmore Mountain Therapeutics in 2017. She discovered the healing power of CBD after her own battle with postpartum anxiety, and began educating herself about the endocannabinoid system and cannabis as a whole.

Bryan Blanchette

Bryan studied music at the world-renowned Berklee College of Music. He started pow-wow drumming in 1996, and soon after began writing Abenaki language songs. His music is the continuation of millenniums of music tradition of the land that flourished before America was America.

Corrina Thurston

Corrina Thurston is a professional wildlife artist, specializing in detailed, vibrant colored pencil portraits of animals. She's a speaker, giving presentations at galleries, nonprofits, and businesses, and a business consultant for other creative entrepreneurs.

Dan Batsie

Dan Batsie is the Chief of Emergency Medical Services for the Vermont Department of Health. He has been a working paramedic in New York, Maine and now Vermont for 30 years.

Duane Dunston

Duane is an Assistant Professor at Champlain College and been in Information Security since 1997. Duane has spoken and written on cybersecurity topics, including a bi-weekly column for VTDigger. He mentors middle and high school students on learning security computer systems.

Georgia Grace Edwards & Charlotte Massey

Georgia Grace & Charlotte are mountaineers, entrepreneurs and self-described “yes women!” They are the co-founders of SheFly Apparel and are on a mission to make answering nature’s call easier for everyone in the outdoors.

Grace Darrow

Grace Darrow is a High School sophomore in Morrisville, Vermont. She loves the art of storytelling and has always been intrigued by writing, film making & poetry. Grace is also a runner.

Ilana Copel

Ilana Copel is the Field Supervisor at the Green Mountain Club. She supports trail crews and caretakers who maintain Vermont’s 272-mile Long Trail and its many side trails.

Isabel Masi

Isabel Masi is a junior at Stowe high school in Vermont. When not playing sports or spending time with friends she can be found outside. Isabel has always loved to push her limits while hiking, canoeing, and biking - her greatest mental challenge yet was when hiking the Long Trail with her Dad in the summer of 2017.

Julia Rogers

Julia Rogers is a seasoned traveler, writer, speaker and experiential education expert. She is the founder of EnRoute Consulting, an organization dedicated to fueling the gap year movement and developing a generation of compassionate, driven and resourceful global citizens.

Kiah Morris

Kiah Morris is an award-winning trainer, speaker, performer and presenter who provides consultative services on issues of diversity, equity and leadership for organizations across the globe. She served in the Vermont general assembly as a State Representative from 2014-2018, only the second African-American woman to be elected to the legislature in state history. She is co-owner of the TESA Collective cooperative and is the Executive Director of the Vermont Coalition on Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools.

Sascha Mayer

Sascha Mayer is the CEO and Co-founder of Mamava, Inc. Mamava designs solutions for nursing mamas on the go, and since 2015 has placed over 750 lactation suites. In 2018 Sascha and her Mamava co-founder, Christine Dodson, were the SBA’s Small Business Persons of the Year from Vermont.

Turner Osler

Turner Osler was an academic trauma surgeon (University of Vermont) for over 20 years with over 300 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. But then he went off script, got a masters in Biostatistics, an NIH grant and abandoned the operating room to study trauma epidemiology. Somewhere in the last decade he became obsessed with the problems that come from sitting too much.