TEDxPontiac 2026: Where Adversity Meets Innovation

TEDxPontiac is a community-driven event licensed by TED, created to spotlight innovative ideas, untold stories, and local voices that inspire positive change. This independently organized TEDx event brings together speakers, creatives, leaders, and doers to share ideas worth spreading through powerful TED-style talks and meaningful community engagement.

Attendees can expect a thoughtfully curated experience that sparks conversation, challenges perspectives, and connects people who care deeply about the future of our region.

TEDxPontiac is the only TEDx event exclusively focused on Pontiac and the broader Oakland County community. Unlike larger metro-area TEDx events, we are deeply rooted in local storytelling, community pride, and innovation across technology, education, entrepreneurship, social impact, and the arts.

Our mission is to elevate voices that are often overlooked and to highlight the resilience, creativity, and leadership shaping our region. TEDxPontiac is more than an event. It is a platform for ideas that drive progress locally and resonate globally.

Our team of professional photographers, videographers, and volunteers will be capturing the moments on stage, and select photos and clips will be shared with attendees so you can celebrate and share the experience with your networks.

Outside the auditorium, you will find activations and gathering spaces where phones are welcome and photos are encouraged.

x = independently organized event

In the spirit of discovering and spreading ideas, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. TED Talks videos and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection.

These local events are branded TEDx, where x indicates an independently organized TED event. While the TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, each TEDx event is independently organized by its local community.

TED is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to discovering, debating, and spreading ideas that spark conversation, deepen understanding, and drive meaningful change. TED is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder, and the pursuit of knowledge without an agenda.

TED welcomes people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and invites everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in their communities.

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