Event Series · ideas
TEDActive is an ideas-focused event that has convened audiences across multiple years, with tracked editions in 2014, 2024, 2025, and 2026. The speaker lineup reflects a diverse range of intellectual pursuits, drawing figures such as AJ Jacobs, a New York Times bestselling author known for immersive life experiments and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, and performance poet Rives, who specializes in innovative multimedia storytelling. The event showcases speakers who explore unconventional approaches to knowledge, creativity, and personal discovery through their work in writing, journalism, and experimental narrative forms.