Meet Our 2024 Speakers
We are thrilled to introduce our 2024 TEDxWinnipeg idea-generators! Mohammad Almaleki Mohammad has helped hundreds of refugees find affordable and appropriate housing in Manitoba. His experience as a real estate developer informs his talk on the need to revolutionize how we deliver social housing in Canada, including the benefits of social housing for everyone. Pauline […]
TEDxWinnipeg 2024 Applications Are Now Open!
You heard it here first: TEDxWinnipeg 2024 speaker applications are now open! Every year we invite the best and brightest minds in our community to share their ideas and stories on the TEDxWinnipeg stage – could it be YOUR turn this year? We have a pretty complicated (and super-secret) method of choosing each talk, but […]
Conversation, Connection, and Community
TEDxWinnipeg is back! In September, Kerry Stevenson gathered a new volunteer committee to bring TEDxWinnipeg back to the stage. Since then, speaker applications have opened and a date and venue has been confirmed, Join us on Thursday, June 6 at Prairie Theatre Exchange! TEDx is the grassroots TED initiative with the mission to discover “ideas worth […]
Today would have been TEDxWinnipeg 2020
Dear TEDxWinnipeg family, Today was to have been our 10th-anniversary show. We had plans to celebrate past ideas that have changed us and showcase new ideas from amazing speakers. Then the pandemic closed all but essential work in Manitoba and we made the tough decision to postpone the show. Up until that point, we were […]
Meet The TEDxWinnipeg Volunteer: Todd Scott
TEDxWinnipeg is a full day of talks dedicated to new ideas, innovative concepts, and thought-provoking discussons about how to make our community a better place for everyone. It’s organized by a team of volunteers who donate their evenings, weekends, and many hours of sleep to make the day a reality, and we’d like to introduce […]
Everything You Need to Know for a Successful TEDxWinnipeg 2019
We’re less than a week away from TEDxWinnipeg 2019! The speakers have been hard at work on their talks, the Guest Services committee has been thinking up fun games for us to play, and we’ve all been pulling late nights and long days to make sure everything will be perfect when you arrive at the […]
Sponsor Highlight: Stefan Maynard of BOLD Commerce
As a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit, TEDxWinnipeg relies on the revenue we generate from ticket sales and generous donations from our sponsors in order to make our event not just success, but a reality each year! As a result, we wanted to sit down with some of our sponsors and ask them what they love about […]
Seven Questions With Dr. Leslea Walters
Dr. Leslea Walters is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, having trained as an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist. She sees patients in her downtown practice, delivers babies at the Women’s Hospital (Health Sciences Centre) and operates at various hospitals around Winnipeg. She’s quick to tell you that she ended up in medicine “by […]
Seven Questions With Celine Nadon
Celine Nadon (PhD) is the Chief of Enteric Diseases Surveillance, Outbreak Detection and Response at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory. She leads national surveillance programs for infectious diseases transmitted by food and water, and her laboratory continuously monitors for and investigates outbreaks of foodborne disease using cutting edge technology. She specializes in the practical application of science and technology to […]
Seven Questions With Aleethia Mackay
Aleethia Mackay is a full time Addictions Counsellor at an alternative high school in the Winnipeg School Division where she works one on one with teenagers who have experienced trauma, and who may be battling substance use and abuse. Aleethia has always had a passion for working with youth of all ages and will spend […]