x = independently organized event
TEDxDuluth is an independently organized TEDx event that brings bold ideas and powerful stories to the Duluth community. Produced by a team of local volunteers under a TED license, TEDxDuluth features speakers from the region and beyond who share ideas worth spreading across science, culture, business, art, and community impact.
TEDxDuluth began in 2025 with the first conference hosted on February 6th, 2026. The annual event creates a space for connection, curiosity, and conversation while amplifying voices that inspire action both locally and globally.
TEDx is a program of local, independently organized events that bring the spirit of TED to communities around the world. Organized by volunteers under a free license from TED, TEDx events feature live speakers, recorded TED Talks, and shared conversations designed to spark connection and new ideas at the local level.
While independently run, all TEDx events follow TED’s mission of spreading ideas worth sharing. These events are not controlled by TED, but event organizers agree to abide by TED format, and are offered guidelines for event curation, speaker coaching, event organizing, and more.
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED Conferences, intimate TED Salons and thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world. Videos of these talks are made available, free, on TED.com and other platforms. Audio versions of TED Talks are published to TED Talks Daily, available on all podcast platforms.
TED’s open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translators Program, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also offers TED@Work a program that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, WorkLife with Adam Grant, Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala and How to Be a Better Human.